brandon sheats
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Tweets
- @misterjt our ilk aren’t ready to take over. see what we did to Bravo?
- @misterjt yessir. i still don’t like.
- I'm pretty sure this Mountain Dew Kickstart is going to kill me with a single sip. It's like Jolt and Surge had a baby.Mar 28, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Ross, son.
- @TexMex657 how is that possible?
- Money protects money.
- Late night walk. https://t.co/x0eUdNGC81
- @webinista I have no bloody idea.
- RT @webinista: i support marriage equality and all, but, uh, how does changing my avatar help the cause?Mar 27, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @MrTeflonVaughan Where are you fleeing to?
- @mattsaintg Yep it is. Exactly what I needed for a project right now too. Thanks!
- So that’s what they were building on Rockwell Place. $600 studios in Brooklyn. // http://t.co/BDWlpKmX0l
- @dodgboy did you make something?
- RT @PicardTips: Picard management tip: Tolerate failure, not incompetence. Learn the difference.
- RT @nickbilton: Almost done with a list of the "1,000 Most Esoteric Lists Ever Created on the Web for Guaranteed Page Views by the Peopl ...
- Wow. Brackets everywhere weep.
- Cc @baratunde “@MusaTariq: Finding @NandosUK sauce on Amazon has probably made me the happiest man in America http://t.co/GhbxGf3ok9”
- The NRA can’t outspend him. // RT @nytimes: Breaking News: Bloomberg Plans $12 Million Ad Blitz on Gun Control http://t.co/lEZuks4YaC
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Posts
it always fucking boggles my mind when people grandstand about how much they hate the services or updates or staff of a website like tumblr, or get on them for having corporate partnerships or sponsored content or being sold to an enormous conglomerate
Pretty much. Tumblr was running out of money, Yahoo had lots of it.
Tyler Perry? We’re sorry about that, but yes.
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Oh, and barbecuistas should go to Fox Brothers BBQ, because you’re probably going to end up there anyway. Fat Matt’s is for peasants: avoid it.Sound advice on my hometown.
2013 Final Four: An out-of-towner’s field guide to Atlanta - SBNation.com
When times are good, you have fun. When times are bad, you put your head down and work.
Biden: Watching pontiffs like a boss.
(via Joe Biden Meets Pope Francis Handshake GIF — Daily Intelligencer)
Ladies and gentlemen, Dru Hill as the Three Musketeers.
Dru Hill - These Are The Times (by DruHillVEVO)
Beginning my study of 90s music videos.
La da dee la dee da.
Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (She’s Homeless) (by CrystalWatersVEVO)
And coupled with “’Harlem Shake’: The Making and Monetizing of Baauer’s Viral Hit,” a Billboard interview with many of the people involved with marketing “Harlem Shake,” it becomes apparent just how heavy YouTube monetizing is involved in this campaign. In short, every time someone throws up a video featuring Baauer’s “Harlem Shake,” the owners of the song, Mad Decent, can remove that video, or if they want, monetize it.
I don’t believe that creativity is a department. In most of the industry, they talk about the “creatives” and creative directors. I think that’s a really detrimental thing. I won’t put “creative” in anybody’s title. If you’re not creative, regardless of what your role is, you can’t work here, period. It’s cost of entry. And I think in general it should be the cost of entry. If we’re in an idea economy, if we’re in an information economy, then it seems like everybody needs to be creative.
Michael Lebowitz, Big Spaceship
Historical moments in shade throwing, Inauguration Edition 2013. Keep your eyes on FLOTUS’ reaction to what Boehner said to her and POTUS.
The full eye roll. Priceless.
[look of the hour]
- Artist Statement
Brandon Sheats (°198X, Atlanta, United States) makes photos, media art and films. By demonstrating the omnipresent lingering of a ‘corporate world’, his photos references post-colonial theory as well as the avant-garde or the post-modern and the left-wing democratic movement as a form of resistance against the logic of the capitalist market system.
His photos are given improper functions: significations are inversed and form and content merge. Shapes are dissociated from their original meaning, by which the system in which they normally function is exposed. Initially unambiguous meanings are shattered and disseminate endlessly. By contesting the division between the realm of memory and the realm of experience, he absorbs the tradition of remembrance art into daily practice. This personal follow-up and revival of a past tradition is important as an act of meditation.
His works demonstrate how life extends beyond its own subjective limits and often tells a story about the effects of global cultural interaction over the latter half of the twentieth century. It challenges the binaries we continually reconstruct between Self and Other, between our own ‘cannibal’ and ‘civilized’ selves. By putting the viewer on the wrong track, he tries to create works in which the actual event still has to take place or just has ended: moments evocative of atmosphere and suspense that are not part of a narrative thread. The drama unfolds elsewhere while the build-up of tension is frozen to become the memory of an event that will never take place.
His collected, altered and own works are being confronted as aesthetically resilient, thematically interrelated material for memory and projection. The possible seems true and the truth exists, but it has many faces, as Hanna Arendt cites from Franz Kafka. Brandon Sheats currently lives and works in Portland.
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Recent Tracks
- The Sum Of All Fears - The Mission by The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
- Izzo (H.O.V.A.) by Jay-Z
- Q.U.E.E.N. (feat. Erykah Badu) by Janelle Monáe
- Q.U.E.E.N. (feat. Erykah Badu) by Janelle Monáe
- Rigamortis by Kendrick Lamar
- Air Signs by Illa J
- In Your Area by Peanut Butter Wolf
- Work In Progress by Kev Brown
- The Man To Praise by Percee P
- Heavy by Oh No
QuasimodeJohn ColtraneJay-ZAnanda ProjectTortured SoulRobert GlasperD'Nell4heroBonoboA Tribe Called QuestMF DOOMJanelle MonáeIncognitoMark De Clive-LowePaul F. TompkinsJazzanovaMiles DavisT.I.DrakeGirl TalkZero 7Young JeezyHannibal BuressAmy WinehouseSki OakenfullCamp LoJay-Z & Kanye WestThe RuralsEsperanza SpaldingIdris AckamoorCorinne Bailey RaeJill Scottblue sixJaspectsThe Brand New HeaviesLondon ElektricityWu-Tang ClanMos DefKendrick LamarQ-TipGnarls BarkleyJoss StonePassion PitTimbalandDonnieLittle BrotherLupe FiascoLenny Fontana Presents Black SunSeekKanye West- 138 plays
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Info
- Experience
- Jan 2012 - PresentCopywriter in W+K 12 / Wieden + Kennedy
- May 2009 - Jan 2012Creative / National Black Arts Festival
I worked as part of the festival's artistic programming group merging digital creative with social, video, search, and experiential marketing.
Our work was being recognized the Nonprofit Finance Fund for our innovation in connecting technology and the arts.
- Built and managed multi-channel digital strategy, connecting psychographics, social analysis, analytics strategy, patron interviews, and landscape evaluation to write and present yearly and long-term strategy
- Collaborated with marketing team to monitor effectiveness of out of home with social campaigns and field research, and created new opportunities from these reports
- Overhauled website in 2010, bridging front-end CMS with custom-built CRM back-end. Led 2011 redesign.
- Liaised with external vendors to deliver iPhone app (a first for our sector) from concept to approval
- Designed assets for web and mobile
- Managed social media and digital event production team during festival
- Raised visibility of the organization's digital efforts though leadership and internal education - Jul 2009 - Jun 2010UI Designer/Developer / Appfrica Labs
Worked with a startup incubator based in Uganda, leading user experience and assisting with front-end development for two client projects:
- World Wants to Know: Worked with Uganda-based development team while in the United States to redesign a real-time display of questions being asked by people in rural villages and townships in Africa who don't have internet access. Presented at TED Global 2009.
- Ujima Project: Developed a simple, easy to read front-end for data that various aid organizations and governments keep on how African leaders spend aid money, critical disease rates, and weapons expenses. Developed in Python(Django), and optimized for slow satellite connections.
- Jul 2006 - Jun 2010Assistant Director of Debate / Henry W. Grady HS
Worked with this nationally recognized urban debate program teaching critical thinking, research strategies, logic, and philosophy to high school students. Coached the team at various tournaments around the country while doing so.
- Sept 2006 - Jan 2009Arthur Blank Fellow / National Debate Project
I work with the Atlanta and Milwaukee Urban Debate Leagues teaching rhetoric and argument to urban high school students, researching improvements to critical thinking and reading after students begin implementing these skills in everyday life.
Taught at the Marquette University Debate Institute and at the Atlanta Urban Debate Institute as part of this research, a joint effort with Emory, Georgia State, and Tennessee State Universities.
- Jun 2006 - Nov 2006Stage Management and Production/Marketing Intern / 7 Stages Theatre
- Worked with the Directors of Marketing and Audience Development to provide creative for their subscription promo and welcome kit.
- Worked with stage manager and tech manager to set up, take down, and run shows.
- Collaborated with others to produce a script and run each show. - Sept 2002 - Feb 2006Commentator, Morning Edition / NPR / Youth Radio
I worked with mentors from NPR and WABE to develop commentaries that were broadcast on NPR and the web via Youth Radio. Worked with brocast equipment, and learned the editorial process.
