countdown to nyc: 16 days to go

and so finally we get to announce to the world that we are part of the xXx team. that really dragged on. waiting. didnt care for the contract, but contracts stress me out. because they always say the same thing when you are the little guy. they say “we have all the rights, you have none, [...]

Posted at 1:37 pm on December 22, 2007 | leave a comment | Filed Under: the new gig, the new storytellers | read on

stop talking and shoot

as i wrote in other places here, we live in an era now where a camera is more dangerous than a gun. and many do see us that way. and those of us carrying cameras into places often unobserved need to be aware of this. a person with a camera is a node that connects [...]

Posted at 2:40 am on December 12, 2007 | leave a comment | Filed Under: the new storytellers | Tagged: , , , | read on

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the citizen journalist is the last hope we have left when it comes to understanding our world and what is happening to the people, by the people, or for the people. in this time, when any person on the street can and often does have a camera on them at all times, corporations, criminals, the cruel and the corrupt understand that any individual, combined with the massive networking potential of the internet, is a focal point for truth being relayed back to the people—unfiltered by the many institutional agents now in place. if only one person captures a corporate crime, a police abuse, or a crooked politician on tape, in just minutes, millions of people can know and talk about it. it is an exciting time. the people reclaim ancient collective powers: the powers of storytelling and of resistance to encroaching tyrannies. the current powers-that-be, fearing truth, continue to position themselves as the people’s enemy.

today, a camera is more dangerous than a gun. i move about always locked and loaded, but i wield my weapon with love.

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