“Blogs, tweets, and apps for good causes, oh my!” In a twist on the ol’ "lions and tigers and bears" yellowbrick road adage, it’s amazing to see how some mother cubs are reaching out to help children reach the Emerald City of education far across the hemisphere, forever altering their life course in under 24 hours! In under a day, using Twitter journalism, Facebook, and the … [Read more...]
Clearly professor Michael Wesch of Kansas State University is no ‘one hit wonder’ in the web celeb arena of impactful student media and YouTube hits. The Wired Magazine Rave Awards already honored him once as "the explainer" for his fabulous Web 2.0 video which many teens used to enlighten parents everywhere. (I wrote about his 3 million hit sensation, … [Read more...]
Sometimes you just “click” with a “person, place or thing” that rocks your world in an ‘aha moment’ of “Where have you been all my life?” Such is the case with Shaping Youth meeting up with QuantumShiftTV which holds the promise and vision of so many things we’re trying to achieve here with our fledgling nonprofit. As … [Read more...]
The creative director in me absolutely LOVES the artistic execution of this “banned book” poster’s clean design and clever word play… The media maven in me is wincing at the notion that some child will log it into cogent memory in some form of accuracy, like “Kute Kids Kuts” or "Krispy Kreme." (since very few children I’ve … [Read more...]
“Here it comes” alright. I smell another Cannes win here for the Dove team’s short film/viral video efforts. “Onslaught,” a Dove film, conveys the pulsating “in your face” rapid-fire bombardment of beauty cues and media sexualization sent every nanosecond to little kids. Onslaught may do for girls what the “Evolution” … [Read more...]
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