Everything is Everything

When I can’t find a word I’m looking for, I like to make one up. It’s kind of like turning a stick into a simple tool. If a new word is truly needed, it allows for greater ease of thought and communication. If it’s a truly useful new idea, it can change the way people…

So it turns out the NSA has been spying on everything we do. Some people seem to be shocked by this. Perhaps it makes me an untrusting person, but I think that when there is a means to do something, and enough entities that have a motivation to do it, it’s pretty much a sure…

Cross-posted from Huffington Post and the Nametag Day blog: It’s coming on June 1, and I can’t wait. We’ve been talking for the past month to everybody who will listen about Nametag Day (and it’s been onCBS New York, Channel 12 News, and Gothamist.) Every time I discuss it, I remember our test run in February. Watching…

We’ve hit a major setback with shooting my short just now, in a production (like many low-budget short films) that has been punctuated by minor setbacks and resolutions. A typical response for me is to run through pieces of conventional wisdom. It’s a search to define myself and my situation, and glean from the zeitgeist…

And we’re live! We decided to put out the site right away without the capability to register, but you can sign up with your email list and when we get the registration stuff rolled out (within the week, I hope) we’ll send everyone an email letting them know. Yesterday I received the amazing news that…

Hey everyone, I’m so excited about this that I’m pre-empting my official announcement, forthcoming attempts to design a pretty webpage and think through how I want to get the word out, to tell you about it here on my blog. Shabbat Dinner is available on Seed & Spark, a wonderful video platform run by some…

Watch it and share it! C’mon, you know you want to! Many times I’ve looked down, hours after a conference or first-day meet-and-greet, and noticed that I was still wearing a nametag. I’ve always looked up right away, pretending that I forgot to take it off. I love nametags, and not only because I’m really…

I love what Amanda has to say about being an artist and having a direct relationship with her fans:

Inspiring for so many reasons: the message, her life story, and the opportunity to listen to someone brilliant speak clearly, in high and low concepts, without talking down in any way.