Category: Social Media


New Work: Snowbird Pow Day

February 21st, 2011 — 4:43pm

This is a new video that I created for Snowbird Ski Resort. I created this campaign called “so many reasons” to help with their social media marketing strategy. Hope you enjoy watching it as I had making it!

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Egypt: A Nation Forced Offline

January 28th, 2011 — 10:51am

The Egyptian government has taken an unprecedented action, shutting down nearly all Internet and cellular access into an out of the country. Egypt did not just put up a firewall for its 80 million citizens. It has forced networks completely offline. The only Internet activity remaining is that of the Egyptian stock exchange and some government departments.

Written by: Brittany Darwell
Animation and Music by: Michael Marantz

Learn more.

Watch live coverage:
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/?foo=bar

Excellent background information:
Mother Jones: What’s Happening in Egypt
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/01/whats-happening-egypt-explained

More details about the communications shutdown:
Egypt Leaves the Internet
http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml
WSJ: Egypt Shuts Down Internet, Cellphone Services
http://on.wsj.com/eMeukH

More about democracy and freedom in Egypt:
Egypt Global Integrity Report
http://report.globalintegrity.org/Egypt/2008
Forbes: Opposition Claims Massive Fraud in Egypt Electoral Poll
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/afx/2005/09/08/afx2212162.html
Huffington Post: Egypt Targeting Reporters: Press Freedom Group
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/26/egypt-targeting-reporters_n_814521.html

Updates from Cairo:
The Arabist
http://twitter.com/arabist
CNN’s Ben Wedeman
http://twitter.com/bencnn

Other helpful sources for making this video:
Bloomberg: Egypt Internet Down, Police Counterterror Unit Up
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-27/egypt-s-protests-pose-threat-for-regime.html
Reuters: Egypt Unrest Rages on, Biggest Protests Planned
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70O3UW20110128?pageNumber=2
CNN: Egypt’s Mubarak Faces Toughest Challenge Yet
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/27/egypt.mubarak/

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Double Rainbow

September 1st, 2010 — 2:45am

I love this video, it is a start of a new trend of really funny and creative people ripping off exciting popular youtube videos and making them even more popular. I say, keep it up!

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