Everything. All The Time.
Paying Attention. If you spend any time at all on Twitter, you quickly become amazed at the sheer speed and velocity of information that runs through the “Twittersphere”. Pick a topic to follow, and you find, inevitably, that Twitter delivers the news on that topic faster and from more different perspectives than any other media, social …
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“ALL YOU NEED FOR A MOVIE IS A GUN AND A GIRL….”
Risi Competizione has been featuring Rick Mayer’s pre-race commentary for almost a decade now. Rick is the Team Engineer for Risi Comp, and is responsible for setting up the car for the course and the conditions. He has a very unique perspective on the race track, our car and drivers, and the competition, and he …
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The Hunt For New Music. St. Paul and The Broken Bones are breaking out. The seven piece band from Birmingham, Alabama plays R&B and soul with an intensity and urgency seldom seen on stage. Fronted by singer Paul Janeway, who commands the stage with messianic presence and energy, the band of Janeway (vocals), guitarist Browan Lollar, bassist …
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Paying Attention. This is the big one: the trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. At the time of this posting, it had been viewed 30,000,000 plus times. Not only is the trailer itself very, very good (you’d expect as much from a J.J. Abrams film project) but the Force is still in the audience for …
Paying Attention. Movie trailers are among our highest media arts. We don’t tend to look at them quite that way–some would say they’re just commercials for a film and that is certainly their purpose, but in the right hands, with the right attitude, a movie trailer becomes an art form with an approximately two and one …
“The Spartans do not ask how many are the enemy but where they are..”
A compelling and very thoughtful essay by David Brooks from The New York Times, on the spirituality of life and correcting a few things that may need some polish before the earthly exit. Not as exciting as climbing Mt. Ranier and some other things you may have on your physical bucket list, but equally satisfying …
(Long Beach, California)….The Risi Competizione No. 62 Ferrari F458 Italia shook off a tough break right before qualifying and took on a host of factory teams at the Tudor United Sports Car Championship Tequila Patron Long Beach Grand Prix to finish second, just 2.9 seconds behind the winning factory BMW team. Giancarlo Fisichella and Pierre …
Ed Sheeran is not just a massive talent, he is a very kind, very human artist, of the type we simply do not see enough of these days. This concert was filmed lived in Dublin and was part of Ed’s Multiply tour (you knew the X on the album meant “multiply”, not “x”, of course) …