SXSWi 2011 Recap
Ten things that I took from SXSWi this year
My “á”
The importance of the properly punctuating my last name was driven into me as a young child by my mother. As she would take any opportunity to label all my possessions with from lunch boxes to pencil bags with a piece of masking tape reading “Benjamin Hernández”.
The Personal Brand: Why You Should Blog “Like A Boss”
For many people (myself included) there is a need to find an outlet to express yourself. You want a place to share you opinion about everything from politics to religion to the very details of your daily personal routine. I get it.
Finding Myself in 720×480
As long as I can remember I have loved movies and film. Really, all aspects of cinema from making it, to experiencing it. Recently I’ve found myself leaning heavily on the later. I’ve become purely a consumer of this media, and wondering how I’ve lost my way.
Is “Cool” Dead?
Recently I heard an interview on my local NPR station KERA with musician and author Ted Gioa who wrote a book called “The Birth (and death) of Cool“. He talked about trends in culture and the public’s mindset over the past few decades and how there has been a shift recently.
Top 20 Albums of the 2000′s
Come up with this list proved to a bit more difficult than you would think. For me the years between 2000 and 2009 proved to be quiet formative in regards to my musical appreciation. This is a list of music that for one reason or another had an impact or effected me . Here’s my twenty.
Top 10 Albums of 2009
As promised here’s my list of best albums of the year 2009 edition. Admittedly 2009 was a bit of a dry year for me music-wise, I’ve stayed pretty buys. But I did manage to find some time to work on this list.
In this economy…
I’m sure we’ve all heard it way too many times lately. The prevailing default reason for something being not-quite up to snuff by most standards. We say, “Well, in this economy have to try to fix things before buying a new one” and “In this economy you have to look for new ways to save.”
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