Archive for September, 2009
(Note: This video shows the mob chase after Alderman Shiller gave a brief press conference. See her full press conference at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryHfPTv26CA ) What you see her is an angry mob of Uptowners chasing 46th Ward Ald. Helen Shiller (“progressive” Democrat”) from a 2016 chicago olympics meeting with residents of the Uptown neighborhood. The Olympics story, however, takes the back burner to the Shiller story. The vast majority of the signs in front of the meeting facility had nothing to do with the Olympics. Instead, most of those in attendance were protesting Shiller’s alleged disinterest in cleaning up crime in one of the north side’s most violent neighborhoods. This rivals many of the recent rowdy town hall meetings held by members of Congress in August, 2009.
Duration : 0:9:7
www.reillyforchicago.com — Chicago aldermanic candidate Brendan Reilly takes Alderman Natarus and the chicago city council to task for their misplaced priorities.
Duration : 0:0:32
This incident rivals many of the recent rowdy town hall meetings held by members of Congress in August, 2009. This full-length version shows the entire press conference of Chicago Alderman Helen Shiller PLUS the full, subsequent chase by angry constituents. Shiller (Democrat, 46th Ward) was at a 2016 chicago olympics meeting at Truman College, along with residents of the Uptown neighborhood. While some of the 150 or so of her constituents were protesting the 2016 Olympics, most were there to protest Shiller for allegedly not taking enough action against the high rate of violent crime in her ward. The Olympics meeting was ho-hum and really not notable. Shiller’s press conference, however, and the amazing scene afterwards of angry voters chasing her from the building eclipses the Olympics meeting.
Video credits:
Emmanuel Tsikoudakis: Video segment of Shiller’s press conference
Tom Mannis: Video segment of Shiller being chased to her car; still photographs, titles, editing
Duration : 0:10:1
This was the opening song for Nirvana’s concert at the Cabaret Metro, on September 30th, 1989. I’ve seen many shows there. Wish I would’ve been there for this one! At least I got to see them at the Aragon Ballroom in 93.
Duration : 0:3:2
Katy Younglove, a.k.a. Ms. Goodwrench, the first ever female to compete in the Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills Competition in Warren, along with her teammate, came in third in the auto repair contest. Her partner on the team was classmate Craig Suydam who is also a senior at Monroe High School.
“I was really excited when I found out I was going to be the first female to ever be in the contest,” she said. “I really wanted to show everyone what I can do.” Even if Younglove did not win the auto repair contest competition, she will still make history.
Younglove is the first female to qualify for the Michigan state finals in the competition’s 14-year history. “Coop told me I was the only girl in the competition,” she said, referring to her automotive instructor Ronald Cooper. “I didn’t know I was the first female ever, that’s kind of crazy.” Not only does the team boast the first female competitor, this is the first time that the MHS has had a team qualify for the state finals.
Younglove, 18, and Suydam, 17, both took the introduction to automotive technology class their sophomore years. âMs. Goodwrenchâ grew up around cars and knew since her seventh grade year that she wanted a career in the automotive industry. “I wanted to get into auto shop my freshman year,” she said. “I like the program because it’s not only book work but hands on, although intro was a lot of book work.”
To prepare for the competition, the students were given manuals from AAA to review. Momentum Lincoln Mercury donated a 2007 Grand Marquis, a similar model to the one used on the day of competition, to assist in the preparation.
Cooper, the studentsâ instructor, said that he was pleasantly surprised when he learned that his students qualified for the state finals. “I knew they were capable and prepared. This is one of the finest groups of students I’ve had in my 31 years of teaching.” Cooper intimated that he is proud of his students. “It’s a tremendous accomplishment. They are among the best of the best of high school students in Michigan.”
Younglove said she is excited, but thinks someone else close to her is even more excited than her. “My dad is more excited about this than I am,” she said. “He is taking me out and working on the manuals with me all week and I learned quite a bit.â
Younglove is no longer new to the Lexus cold air intake, Ford engines, and to Toyota technology. âMy family’s always been into cars,” she added. “I started helping my dad work on them when I was six or seven.”
Both students said that they are prepared for the competition, primarily because of the structure of their high school program. “I love this program and it’s one of the best in the state,” Craig said. “It’s ridiculous how much time Cooper puts into this program and I have learned to apply the things I’ve learned in here in other classes.”
Robert Kaczor, the assistant vice president of automotive services for the AAA Michigan and the AAA Chicago, said Younglove’s participation in the contest will hopefully start a trend. “You don’t find too many women in the auto repair and service field,” he said. “But it’s nice to see Katy here. I think that this provides an opportunity to bring more diversity into the auto service industry.” The event was held last Wednesday at the Macomb Community College Sports & Expo Center in Warren.
Twenty students from nine Michigan high schools and tech centers vied for top honors in the contest, which pitted two-person teams against each other in a race to correctly diagnose and repair engine problems on identical vehicles. Younglove said that she has always been a gear head.
She also said she was a little surprised at how well her team did. “We were second to the last team to finish – the ninth car to go through the check,” Younglove said. “We were worried about our time, but we just pulled together and took our time and didn’t freak out.”
Alex Dobroy of Clinton and Zachary Hastings of Milan, the team from Saline High School, came in first place with a time of 49 minutes and 50 seconds. Second place went to the team of Joshua Hoeskstra of Hastings and Jeremy Winget of Grand Rapids, which represented the Kent Career Tech Center.
The winners will receive more than $45,000 in scholarships and prizes. They will also represent the state in the national finals, scheduled for June 26 at Fordâs headquarters in Dearborn.
Lauren Woods
http://www.articlesbase.com/automotive-articles/ms-goodwrench-shakes-up-warrens-national-auto-repair-contest-138972.html
soundtrack from chicago by anastacia
Three words… I LOVE WELLINGTON.
This is the product of an idea thats been churning away in my mind for over a year now, and I have finally had the opportunity to bring it to light. I heard “Reset” once, and I knew for certain that I would make a video which discovers the city I love.
You are welcome to view this in high definition at: http://www.vimeo.com/902059
This was created as part of our individual music video projects for The Film School in Newtown, Wellington. The aim of the exercise was to discover, plan, shoot and manipulate ways in which music can be put with visual media to produce something that explores and idea, or tells a short story.
I have always been intruiged by the nightlife of Wellington City, and my appreciation for it has grown mostly within the last year, after basing my NCEA L3 Photography portfolio on a static/still version of this music video. It has definitely been a very, very fun project to delve into, as many nights have been spent shooting and editing. I’ve learnt so much about the Canon XH-A1, and like I say in the video log at the end, I am amazed at its low-light capabilities. Likewise, I have learnt a lot more about the Adobe After Effects editing system for compositing. AE is something that I would like to get to use more often. Thank-you to Andrew Kramer, video tutorialist from: http://www.videocopilot.net
Your tutorials have helped me learn the basics of AE incredibly quickly.
As mentioned in my vlog at the end as well, Mike Krumlauf, a young lad with a passion for art-film, from Chicago IL, has inspired many features of my work in this video. I would encourage you check out his work for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/michaelkrumlauf
Thank-you Mike, your work is brilliant and I have always enjoyed your continually inspiring short/experimental films.
Thank-you to the partnership between YouTube and Warner Bros, which allows me to use this track, “Reset” by Mute Math, legally on YouTube. I became familiar with Mute Math more than 2 years ago, and I love their music. They are amazing, and different, and I’d push for making more music videos using their craft: http://www.myspace.com/mutemath
This video may also double as an advertising piece for the “Have A Love Affair With Wellington” Wellington City Council website. Thank-you WCC for your continual work to help keep Wellington exciting, new and an awesome place to live:
http://www.WellingtonNZ.co.nz
Anyway, I truely hope you’ve enjoyed this, I sure did, and hopefully it has come to serve as inspiration for other film-makers, as advertising for WCC, and as a showreel for the capabilities of the Canon XH-A1.
Cheers,
Andrew
http://www.bebo.com/aspiringphotographer
Duration : 0:8:47
The Talk: Marketing and brand strategy of the bid for the Chicago 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Mark Mitten, Chief Brand Officer from Chicago 2016
Bill Bulman, User Experience Director from OgilvyOne
Jim Marcus, Interactive Creative Director from OgilvyOne
Senior vice president of Marketing and Legacy for Chicago 2016.
In this role Mark Mitten oversees the marketing and brand strategy of the bid, including creating and producing all the videos. Mark has been a member of the 2016 team since the bids inception in 2006.
Prior to joining Chicago 2016, Mitten was a producer for Mark Burnett Productions and in this capacity produced episodes and structured integration deals for NBCs hit television series, The Apprentice, during seasons two and three. Mark worked directly with clients such as P&G, Pepsi and Pontiac, among others.
In 2000 Mark joined McKinsey & Company as a principal in the Chicago office, where he was one the leaders of its North American marketing practice. There he developed business strategies with a focus on driving growth for CEOs of leading Fortune 100 consumer-package-goods, retail, technology and media companies.
Before joining McKinsey, Mark cofounded Envision, a brand strategy consultancy, in 1994. He worked with clients including Nike, Microsoft, the United States Olympic Committee, The Weather Channel, Gateway Computers, FOX, Discovery Channel, Allstate, Gatorade and Kinkos. McKinsey & Company acquired Envision in 2000.
Mark started his marketing career at J. Walter Thompson after earning his masters from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a BA from Miami University of Ohio. In addition, Mark created a not-for-profit movement called Aspire. Inspire.TM (www.AspireInspire.com). The project was awarded the USOCs first Youth Values Award at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games.
Mark was also a lead contributor to Blueprint to a Billion, a 2006 best-selling book revealing the strategic essentials for maximizing business growth.
Additional Olympic experience includes working on the USOC brand strategy, providing strategic branding direction for the NYC2012 bid and creating the original Chicago 2016 strategic presentation.
Duration : 0:18:46
Milton Friedman on education.OK. A little late here. Sorry.
How about the wonderful apology from Mayor Daley for the utterly ridiculous parking meter debacle? How much pressure do you think it took to get Hiz Honor Jr. to do this? Usually it goes like this. “I am not talking about that today.” And unbelievably, we take it. This is where I ponder our Mayor and our city government. Who else could get away this business? Who else could just push through anything he wants without a care as to what the people want. I am thinking that all of our polititians are thinking that they are our Rulers and not our Representatives.
Once again, the apology was not so much of an apology as a liteny of excuses for a horrendously bad decision. “Well, I sort of, should have, maybe I could have, but I didn’t, and see, we really needed the money anyway, so really, it is a good thing, see I really know what is best for you people, you know? I mean, where would we be at this point, we would be without money, couldn’t pay the bills, so maybe we could have looked a little longer…….”
Have we heard any apologies from our City Council for their lack of spine? Do you think they all have to be buckled into their chairs in Council Chambers to keep from slipping onto the floor? Maybe their apology could come in the form of a group apology. Dear Citizens of Chicago: We are truly sorry that we did not read this piece of trash deal that we voted for. We were told to do it, and we did. Really, that is our job. We buckle ourselves into our chairs, listen to the mayors “mouths” and do what they say. That is our job, right?
Of course, this apology does not address the business community and the losses that they are feeling because of this BAD decision. It does not address what will happen now or if there is anyway to get out of the deal. It does not address the addition of new meters at the lake front. Now I guess we Chicago beach dwellers will be paying top dollar to enjoy our beaches. So, grab your sunscreen, your beach chair, and your 40 pounds of quarters to enjoy a few hours at the beach. Once again, we are pricing our own citizens out of the City we love.