I will not be outworked PERIOD.
-Will Smith
Archive for April, 2009
Will Smith: Ready to Die
[Interview]Gee Lock: Brooklyn Celebrated & Emmy Nominated
Last night I was getting my Sunday inspiration in at Barnes & Noble. I was halfway through the Cigar Aficionado story on Jay-Z when something said that I’ve read enough and it was time to go. That was strange because I usually stay until they have to come and kick me out. Nevertheless I packed it up and headed back to Bed-Stuy. And no sooner than I hit Stuyvesant Avenue who’s standing on the corner but Alastair “Gee Lock” Christopher, with his trademarked larger than life smile . He’d just rolled into town from Boston and we were serendipitously crossing paths.
Gee Lock is a filmmaker known for his 2004 documentary “Through the Fire” which chronicled the journey of New York basketball pheom Sebastian Telfair from high School to the NBA. As we talked on the corner in front of the Bodega Gee was telling me he was in town for the Sports Emmy’s where he is nominated for his work as Director of Photography on “Streak”, a documentary about a high school wrestling team that holds the longest winning streak in high sports period. Whoa!! That’s big news. So of course we had to interview him and share it with the rest of the Hustle community. interview after the jump.
When You Get Fired…from your own company!
In this economic climate, Its not only the people in the cubes getting fired these days, corporate structures are all about the money. Today the founders of Myspace have been forced out of running the company they started, then sold to Rupert Murdoch. Though, we all know, once you sell your company you become another employee, its still a hard pill to swallow. Just ask David Neeleman, Dame Dash, Steve Jobs etc.
The founders of MySpace are leaving the helm of the pioneering Web site that made social-networking a mainstream phenomenon, as owner News Corp. seeks to reinvigorate the once-hot property it scooped up four years ago.
The stepping aside of Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson, whose contracts weren’t due to expire until October, represents a pivotal test for the viability of social-networking sites. While social-networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook have exploded in popularity in recent years, they have struggled to generate the kind of revenue and earnings prospects that can sustain them as businesses over the long haul.
Don’t cry though they sold out out for plenty money.
Fresh Bread Daily:No Limit
“Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead. A sort of
indomitable obsessive dedication and the realization that there is
no end or limit to this because life is simply an ever-growing process,
an ever-renewing process.”
-Bruce Lee via Be. Moore (Bruce Leroy)