What factors do you consider when it comes to buying a new phone? Price? Functionality? Battery life? Well, here’s one more thing to consider on your next purchase – how responsibly produced it was. Thanks to Greenpeace, we now have a simple, colorful chart to determine just that!
Want more details? They’ve also compiled a great report giving scores to each company in things like ‘Amounts of renewable energy used’, ‘chemicals management’ and ‘energy efficiency of new models’. Read the full report in theirguide-to-greener-electronics-14-edition.
Watching Lemonade was one of the most uplifting 35 minutes I’ve spent in a while. It’s an example of how media can truly be used to bring hope into our lives and be a shining beacon in life’s darkest moments. A timely movie for the current state of the economy and a great tool to help us see obstacles in our lives in a completely different light. The story was engaging and the shots looked beautiful. It’s definitely going to have an influence on the movies I make in the future.
I’m excited that filmmaker Eric Proulx will be talking to us and answering our questions at a free Chicago screening this Tuesday.Join mefor the 6pm session or rsvp for the 8pm session. Otherwise, catch the movieon Hulu. :)
Michael, Melissa, Reggie, Brittany and Karl share a laugh during snack break.
One of the best feelings in the world comes when your students are able to explain a concept that you taught them a week ago, in their own words. There I sat, glowing like a proud mama, as I listened to Brittany and Reggie explain to the entire group why they made the decision to fade off the audio while allowing the video to play on in the final edit.
It’s difficult to tell when your students fully comprehend what you’re trying to teach. They don’t always ask questions if they’re unsure of something, and they often get distracted by their cellphones or each other. That’s why I’m so glad things went the way they did at tonight’s session with the Cabrini Connections Video and Filmmakers Club. We screened the different edits each of the 3 groups did with the same footage we shot a month ago and followed up with discussion and critique of each one. They had intelligent insights on why certain editing decisions were made and asked each other great questions. You can tell the students feel a sense of achievement when they have their work screened for others to watch.
Well, they’ve got something even bigger to look forward to. Come April, the Art Club’s gonna have a showcase of their work in a gallery and they’ve invited us at the Film Club to show some of our work there too. The showcase has traditionally been a crowd pleaser and a successful fundraising event for Cabrini Connections. A brainstorming session had all our film club kids throwing out all sorts of exciting ideas.
A comedy act! A cartoon of ourselves! A news report! A documentary of the prep work leading up to the event! The energy they had in the discussion showed just how eager they were to do this.
Young minds with big ambitions. It’ll be up to Michael, Karl and I to help them get there. It’s going to be an exciting road ahead!
I’ve always seenCreative COWas a hugely popular information source and discussion venue for all things film and media. Apart from it being reliable, it’s always had a vibrant community. Now there’s 1 reason to like them even more – The Creative COW Foundation.
Launching this April, the Creative COW Foundation will be helping deserving film and media students cover the costs of their educations, not just in the US, but around the world. Fantastic. (see full article on their newsletter)
As a scholarship recipient myself, I know how much of an impact they make on a student’s life. These opportunities open HUGE doors. I remember receiving an email a year ago about Grace Teng, a Singaporean girl who was so determined to study film in NYU, she started her own fundraising campaign and website to raise money. Through her sitecalled ‘Dreaming Big’ she introduced herself as an “amatuer filmmaker and future NYU undergraduate film student”. She knew she was going to make it happen. The money, she hoped, would come from selling her short films on DVDs and appealing for donations.
I don’t know how her campaign’s going today, but I remember being moved by her fierce determination. Not many youths know deep in their guts exactly what they want to do, let alone work so hard to pursue it. Those who do deserve a shot at it. There is no way I would have been able to get the solid education I did at Northwestern if it weren’t for Ngee Ann Kongsi and the Media Development Authority of Singapore. Seeing Grace’s story, I understood the need for funds and I understood that burning passion. So it was really frustrating for me that there was little I could do to help her out at that time.
That’s why I’m so excited for this. Here’s to more foundations funding education like this. I’d love to see more students, like Grace, being enabled to get that education they so deserve and desire.
Conscious Planet Media has just released the first of its monthly conference speaker series. Taped at the Social Venture Network Conference in Fall 2009 where Arianna Huffington was the keynote speaker. I was tremendously inspired by her insights and have grown to really respect her as one of the most important thought leaders of our time.
Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of twelve books. Click here to watch more videos by Conscious Planet Media.
Working to bring my two passions of documentary filmmaking and social entrepreneurship together to create positive social change.
Radio/Television/Film grad from Northwestern University currently working at Kartemquin Films and Conscious Planet Media, and teaching at Cabrini Connections.
