Great lineup and a new location for tomorrow’s meetup!

What: NY Video 2.0 August Meetup
When: Thursday, August 30th at 7:00pm
Where: For Your Imagination Studio, 22 West 27th Street, 6th Floor (Map)

** IMPORTANT: New Location! **
The group is now well over 1,000 members and they have been exploring new, more central locations to host the monthly meetups. The good people at For Your Imagination have generously offered to host tomorrow’s meetup at their midtown production studio. 

New – Cover Charge
They will need to rent chairs and a person to man the door, so there is a $5 charge at the event.

August Presenters:
1. Mogulus – Max Haot, Founder & CEO
2. DigitalSmiths – Ben Weinberger, Founder & CEO
3. Yuxt – Vitaly Leokumovich, Founder & CEO
4. Chic.TV – Rami Rinot, Founder & CEO

As usual, space is going to be very limited so please get there early and change your RSVP if you don’t plan to attend.  Special thanks to Yaron (www.nyvideo.org ) for organizing these very cool NY Video 2.0 events.

We were running around naked in the country, tripping on the music, the Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones bookending the wild experiences of psychedelia, love, death and war.

Harken back 35 years ago. August, 1972, the Dead played a benefit in Oregon for Ken Kesey’s brothers dairy farm. The video quality is poor but the feeling is ecstatic. China Cat Sunflower is one of my favorite Dead jams and captures the open possibilities of summer, youth, exploration, a world of peace and joy. (from the film “Sunshine Daydream”)

Below that is the video of the ravages of the Vietnam war, the weird beauty and horror of napalm and helicopters and soldiers on a mission to the beat of Gimme Shelter.

Warning: Nudity, death and destruction ahead. Flashbacks assured. The music endures. Turn it up.

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You will face a lot of pressure today. The boss. The client. Co-worker out to get you. Take heart. It’s Friday, summertime. Hold on to what’s inside, keep your balance. Dig the lyrics from a Joni Mitchell song coming out on her new album SHINE. The lyrics to “if” are based on Joni’s favorite poem by Rudyard Kipling.

if

If you can keep your head
While all about you
People are losing theirs and blaming you
If you can trust yourself
When everybody doubts you
And make allowance for their doubting too.

If you can wait
And not get tired of waiting
And when lied about
Stand tall
Don’t deal in lies
And when hated
Don’t give in to hating back
Don’t need to look so good
Don’t need to talk too wise.

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To a blogger, a real blogger, a blogger compelled and driven to reach for a higher truth or a new fantasy, what is the worst that can happen when you die? What are your final thoughts?

Who will update your blog? What will happen to your traffic? Does committing suicide mean you are also killing your blog?  What if your greatest public legacy is your blog? Is that beautiful or pathetic?  How will they remember you?

To read The Wit of the Staircase is to ponder those questions and more, including the strange cicumstances that led to the suicide of Theresa Duncan (left), 40, and then her longtime romantic partner, Jeremy Blake, 35.

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