I’ve been watching commencement speeches on YouTube. Eric Schmidt of Google. Jodie Foster. Ellen DeGeneres. Stephen Colbert. Barack Obama. John Legend. What I realized is that the power of the individual, the determination, the reserve are beyond any education level or intelligence. Their speeches may be good (or not so good), but what differentiates them [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 20, 2009
Life After Graduation
Filed under just life
Tags: arizona state, barack obama, bill clinton, collaboration, commencement speeches, dao, dolly parton, elle degeneres, eric schmidt, future, george bush, gpa, information, interdependence, jodie foster, john legend, penn, social responsibility, socially conscious, soul, speeches, tony blair, truth, university of pennsylvania, yale, youtube
June 11, 2009
Gender and Race II
It’s hard to unknow what you already know. -I’m not entirely sure of the source So sad that after decades of declared feminism and the fact that women aren’t objects, we still see that well an alive in pop culture. Take Angels and Demons for example. Dan Brown clearly reinforces the stereotype of Robert Langdon, [...]
June 11, 2009
Gender and Race I
Recently, I read the series of essays in Outlaw Culture by Bell Hooks. It astonished me. Opened my mind, so to speak. My friend Joshua Hooper is a graphic artist. His work is pretty freaking sweet. But I noticed in one of his illustrations, that of a black girl (of if you prefer African American [...]
Tags: african american, bell hooks, black, fetish, gender, joshua hooper, lighting, madonna, outlaw culture, race, sex, sexuality, sociology, stereotypes, tyra, tyra banks
