Meaning,Media & Music

Creative Director - Part-time pirate and mystic.

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We did the math to calculate exactly how much money billionaires and celebrities like Jeff Bezos and Kylie Jenner make an hour

Some of America’s richest people make more money in one hour than others would ever see in their lifetime.

We calculated how much 16 of the richest billionaires and celebrities make an hour, and the results were illuminating.

Jeff Bezos makes more than $4 million an hour, and Kylie Jenner earns the median US salary in roughly 2 ½ hours.

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Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

- The Internet took capitalism an turbocharged it - The dot com crashed because we stopped leaning into the millennium and speculatin and started looking at what things were worth now - Technology gives more choice - The five syndromes of present shock - One, narrative collapse, can’t tell stories without time - Linear time is replaced by gaming, real time rewards - Two, digiphrenia, unmanageable multiple instances of self - Three, overwinding, compress huge timespans into one little moment - Black Friday -Industrial age money is money with time in it - Trying to find more time in our stock market we invented algorithms - Four, fractalnoia, can’t make sense of things so we draw arbitrary lines between things - The real skill to have in the digital age is pattern recognition - We can no longer parse cause and effect - Five, appocalypto, fear of the immediate future

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Every day billions of pictures are uploaded to the internet, more articles are published than you can read in a lifetime; we’re moving towards greater complexity, every day. That’s why our most important resources become time and focus - what do we chose to pay attention to and why? That’s the question we need to ask ourselves on a daily basis. By directing our focus, we shape our thinking which shapes our lives which collectively shape society and culture.

In this astute and powerful talk media theorist Douglas Rushkoff talks about the shift from industrial to a post-industrial society, and why we need to rethink the old imperialist models of expansion and growth to reclaim our time and ultimately our destiny. 

This is essential viewing for anyone who wants to understand the times we live in.

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“Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

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“Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the passing of time, digital time is always in the now, or in no time. It is still. Poised.”  ―  Douglas Rushkoff

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Glad to see Sting bringing us back another collection of new rock songs. #NowPlaying I Can't Stop Thinking About You by Sting

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#NowPlaying Horizon by Tauk

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Here’s a fun project I completed last week.

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Footage from a recent shoot in Bristol, Virginia at Studio Brew

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Working in a Poppy field near my home with Kelli, Grace and Anna.

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Tennessee Zen - Springtime in Kyle’s Ford, Tennessee

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Early work with Phantom 4 in Kingsport, TN - 

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Facebook is a growing and unstoppable digital graveyard

At some point, there will be more dead Facebook users than living ones – and for those left behind, it is transforming how we experience the death of those around us.

With more than 8,000 people dying a day on Facebook - social media is thwarting are ability to forget. Interesting perspective on what is becoming one of the largest digital cemeteries for humanity.

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Rest in Peace - Brian Andrews - As a musician, I never looked for anyone more from a local stage in Bristol, Kingsport or Johnson City. Brian Andrews was the patron saint of local music in East Tennessee for years. His ginger beard, pimpin’ style and genuine kindness will forever be hard to duplicate.