Just getting to Utah. And then to Sundance which is in Park City (airport is Salt Lake City). We tried to submit the short Asylum in 2007. That was the last time I was here. No film this time, though no shortage of ideas. Little time for film with Voyage.tv which has been a whirlwind of production both on the web and in terms of the programming we’ve shot over the past year.

I’m sure we’re coming up on 400 segments between the mini-doc’s we make in-destination and the hotel shoots. Learning has been kinda priceless. But following in footsteps on some of mentors, we press to create more, push to find new opportunity born out of what’s been established. Voyage still has lots of growing to do, and really looking forward to the new design we get up in February (see below), but for now happy to be in Utah. Again.

Did a quick Q/A with BlackWeb2.0 founder Angela Benton for my FastCompany Blog. I’ve always thought the site had an interesting and wide perspective of what’s going on, and has an interesting edit focus that’s a cross between tech and culture.

There are more interesting sites than can be mentioned in any story — so the site itself acts like a reference for what’s going on. The bigger question is which sites can become truly financial viable, can the successful sites already up stay up, and will we see some evolution out of content and more into applications. Certainly there are many Black app developers and interesting businesses such as Sheldon Gilbert’s Proclivity, but would be great to see more.

Black Enterprise gave me and my then partner Eddison Bramble some of our first press more than a decade ago when we had launched New Image Media, “A Hair Rasing Success.” Recently they came thru with piece on Voyage.tv.  It’s in the December issue, but errr don’t see it on their site. Here is a PDF.

Wow. What a turnout for a rainy Wednesday (12.2.2009). Hosted an event with my friends from LastExit.tv (Paul, Nuri and Willie) in an attempt to share connectivity all at once as opposed to one e-troduction at a time. Worked! Thanks to John McDonald at the Merc Bar for the perfect space down in Soho (my full attendee list below).

Willie Mack from LastExit and I have traded many, many contacts and what started out as an idea for a dinner turned into something much larger. Merc Bar has a bunch of memories — my first business in NYC Oneworld had an office at 73 Spring Street — was a fav haunt of then partner/ad director Bill Gibson.

LastExit’s list below is followed by mine (with live links where possible):

LAST EXIT‘S LIST:

Adam Bell, Branding Agent

Adam Shore, Owner the Daily Swarm

Amy Kolker, Owner Jane Street Projects

Ann Ogunsulire, LVMH/Belvedere Global Brand Manager

April Guidone, Senior Events/Projects Glamour Magazine

Catherine Lillie, Exec Producer McCann Erickson

Catherine Patterson, Exec Producer McCann Erickson

Chris Drago, Parter Neo @ Ogilvy Worldwide

Dan Barasch, Director of Partner Engagement/Media Start at Pop!Tech

Gil Linton, Partner at The Joneses

Guia Golden, Presence Marketing Director at Diesel

Mike Eastwood, Director/Producer

Nigel Marcenssem, Engineer/Architect

Rafa, Jewlery Designer Brazil

Ranfi Rivera, Exec Dir Business Dev & Institional Dev at WNET.org

Richard Coughlin

Shawn Gold, CEO Cocodot

Thomas Bunn, President Mission Media

Tommy Everett, Product Designer at Bureau

Warren Seubel, TV Producer/Hedge Fund

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JOHN PASMORE’s LIST FOLLOWS (Voyage.tv):

Adam Bauman, co-founder, STI Management

Adriana Kaegi, president at dearaddy

Alexandra Akira, Cushman & Wakefield Real Estate

Alexis Stember, Producer at Berlin Cameron United

Ari Horowitz, CEO at BlackBook Media

Ariane Marder, Voyage.tv

Barney Monte, Vice President at Rodman & Renshaw, LCC

Bob Ennis, Managing Director at Petsky Prunier LLC

Brent Zachery, Model

Brett Barndt, New Product Development and Change Management

Charles Damato, Partner, Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP

Chioma Nnadi, Style Editor Fader Magazine

Chris Becker, CEO Filemobile.com,Twitter: beckercs

Chuck Baker, CEO Fileblaze.net

Darman Lopez, CEO, Axon Ventures LLC

David Blend, Editor at Thrillist,

David Gallimore, EVP of Sales & Marketing Encore Marketing

Dominique Debay, CEO Dominique Debay Hotel & Resort Marketing

Eddison Bramble, Real Estate Developer

Evan Schreiber, Sr. Director, Business Development 5min.com

Guy Alveraz, CEO, Premium Lifestyle Croup

Henry Watkins, Voyage.tv

J. Mathew Yohanon, Portfolio Manager: TMT at Balyasny Asset Management, L.P.

Jason King, Artistic Director at NYU’s Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music, CEO of Superlatude Music Group, Inc.

Jayson Jackson, Founder, Seven Days Entertainment

Jeff Kolton, Principal, Franchise Market Ventures, LLC

Jesse Kirshbaum, CEO/Talent Agent at NUE Agency & Co-Founder of SoundCtrl

Jessica Robinson, OWNER at JESSICA ROBINSON JEWELRY

Juan Carlos Anglero, Founder & CEO Evenagamba

Kobi Wu-Pasmore, Adjunct Professor at New York University

Madhu Puri, Journalist

Michael Green, CEO Brooklyn Surfer

Michael Scott, Partner/C.V.O

Mindy Wyatt, Owner, Rafikvideo.com

Mobolaji Dawodu, Stylist, Fader Magazine & Freelance

Moni Reyes, Model/Filmmaker

Nick Hetherington, Managing Director at NY Living Solutions

Nitro, Nightlife Entrepreneur

Norine Fishman, Premium Lifestyle Croup

Renita Bernard, Manager II at PricewaterhouseCoopers

Roy Edmondson,Partner/SVP Brand Practice/Global Account Director at Ketchum

Sheldon Gilbert, Founder & CEO of Proclivity Systems

Sil-lai Abrams, Owner at Sepia LLC

Sun Kang, Analyst at Merrill Lynch Private Banking & Investment Group

Terry Singh, Internet Entrepreneur

Valerie Idehan, Founder, ValStyle, Twitter: ValStyle

Willie Mack, Exec Dir of Engagement at Last Exit LLC

thanks again…look forward to the next one…! Apologies to anyone I forgot (drop me a note).

Perhaps I should watch the end of the movie before writing, but have loved Erik Enocksson’s soundtrack since I first heard it. The soundtrack led me to the movie (DVD) which is quite a challenge to get.  Farväl Falkenberg is a Swedish film that will take you back (maybe) or perhaps mirror where you’re at. Depending on your age. The film’s stars are in their twenties. And adrift.

In our society — most societies — being adrift is not a positive. There was a time maybe in the ’60s when that spirit characterized the Nation, at least in the media, if not the lives of most. But driftiness has never gone away really. Facebook, Twitter, and tethering gadgetry seem to run counter to being adrift, but can super-size one’s sense of being apart by holding up a relentless yardstick of connectivity, or lack of. Either way, sometimes you just want to turn it all off.

The other aspect of the movie that more than resonates are its ties to the central characters early childhoods — as flashed back in grainy home films.  My son is two and I miss his being two even before he’s three. In another reflection, we all get to have an intimate glimpse of who we once were through our children and that innocence seems a bit distant though the reminder is more than welcome.

More later — will adjust this post as I find time for the middle and end of Falkenberg…but watch it if you can…

Should everyone have their own magazine? Probably not. But if you want an easy way to prototype one check out MagCloud. I love magazines, and there is a certain honesty, if not finely honed execution in the early issues of magazines. I still have the first issue of Vibe, which is better than anything in years you’ve seen from them.

I have an 80’s issue of Details that will have you wax nostalgic for a bygone era where Rudolph manned the door at Danceteria. If nostalgia is your thing. If not, check out some of the talent at MagCloud, or better for them, load one up. I’m sure there’s a future errr…magazine we love….hmmm…future hipper Vanity Fair out there somewhere.

Pictured is a spread from W25 Magazine.

WIRED Magazine chose to push some green buttons. Their cover story provoked usually staid and scientific Real Climate to post a response, “Wired Magazine’s Incoherent Truths“.

Essentially the WIRED piece cuts to the chase of some long held beliefs that it feels will have to be sacrificed at the alter of reality. Doable change as opposed to things we should do (and never accomplish). They include heartstoppers like giving up on organic food, carbon trading doesn’t work and prepare to accept genetic engineering.

In looking at the two articles, one from the aggressively non-designed and mostly scientific website (Real Climate) and one from a publication which cuts down trees, takes money from auto manufactures and generally must earn a profit from the support of some of the countries biggest commercial enterprises I think I would go with the former, Real Climate, as a more trusted source of info to live by. Sorry Wired, but I really do like the gadget section! Always have.

There you have it, Wired is entertaining, and Real Climate has the truth.