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I just watched a great TED video, while doing some advertising research for work, and thought you all might find it very interesting.

Intro to vid:
" I talk about an emergent 'culture of availability' - a culture that doesn't just allow or enable always-on connectivity, it expects it. The more connected we CAN be, I argue, the higher the obligation/expectation to reciprocate when someone seeks to connect with us.

Consider the "acceptable lag" between receiving a voicemail and returning a call, receiving an email and replying, receiving a text message and replying or receiving a direct tweet and replying.

With all this connection comes the danger that in our mad rush to be everywhere, we end up nowhere. That the technology we use to connect, actually separates and isolates.

I've been meaning to post that presentation and the commentary behind it, but TED.com beat me to the punch and put the talk up today."



I would love to hear what you all think about this.. I found it to be very true! Are we enjoying the moment or capturing it just to tell a story in the future.. Is this who we really are, or are we creating alterior personas via technology. Are we building real relationships or becoming further isolated?

Oprah rescued Chi Town and they will be appearing live on her show today. The above is a musical that they did in front of the studio!!

to find out more about the event: http://nightof.therescue.invisiblechildren.com/

For those of you who are wondering how it went :) Here is a little video that was made of the event



Also, here is a link to some pics that were taken

http://blog.seattlepi.com/spied/photographer.asp?userID=150015

And there are still 2 cities waiting to be rescued, to get up to date info on them, check out this site: http://nightof.therescue.invisiblechildren.com/

But Will It Work? from Behind the Scenes on Vimeo.

This morning as I was driving into work, NPR told me about the tornado that had popped up in Mena, Arkansas last night out of the blue. I was thinking wow I have family in Mena, I really hope that they are ok. Then you know what thought came next? Wow! I am so thankful that I do not live in Arkansas anymore... then I remember I have traded tornadoes for volcanoes and possible earthquakes.

which would you rather?

OMG its been way too long since I have written a blog. I have been up to lots of stuff, perhaps just a smidge over committed as of late.. here are some pics of what I have been doing, in no specific order:





Yes much to my dread, I will be re-taking the ACT test in June. So I am currently reading through the Kaplan prep book & will be taking a course in May through Kaplan to more thoroughly prepare. As many of you know my dream is to go to The Kings College in NY. Fingers crossed for Fall 2010.




Hard at work with Novalis we just posted Satellites to their Facebook page from their upcoming EP. We have been in the studio quite a bit as of late recording, comping vocals, etc. Its a really exciting time as they have just secured a gig at the Q Cafe in June, and will be doing a music video shoot soon with Vince. I am working to secure them some more local gigs, so if you guys have suggestions feel free to shoot them my way :)



Wedding planning for Jen & Mark. Its going to be such a great garden wedding!



I'm helping do some PR outreach for the upcoming Invisible Children- The Rescue in Seattle. If you have not heard of this event, I highly recommend you go check it out.
The event will be taking place in 10 countries and over 100 cities across the US. To help raise awareness on the Child Soldiers of the Congo.




And for a little bit of my artsy side- I'm creating really cute headpieces for the dancers to wear for Easter & the upcoming Womens Conference. As well as doing their makeup.

PS- this is all in addition to my 40 hr week job as a Marketing Manager for AudienceScience.