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We’re feeling blue over “Avatar”

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Films:

Avatar

Max and Anne finally got around to watching it! (Thanks Joel W!). It just came out on Blue Ray and DVD.

Food Inc on PBS

Makes you really think about where your food is coming from. How cooperate our food system has become. Anne is so proud of PBS showing this film.

LOCAL:

BFBL

Just posted the other day on the BFBL Group page: Lime Valley Mill - 1st local MEAT CSA. Check them out on Facebook

BFBL Film Seres: May Food on Film: THE GARDEN

Ryan getting robbed

Crazy – Ryan got a picture of the guy as he fled.

Max to appear on SIIYEH

Recording tomorrow night with Parker and Damian. (as their site claims: “A show about awesome”

TECH:

The iPad

So when will Max get his? What are the spec for the next generation? Will those buying them now be disappointed that they didn’t wait?

Israel Ends iPad Ban

They were limiting iPad imports to one per person.

SCARY – FAIL

From Mashable:

Blippy Users’ Credit Card Numbers Exposed in Google Search Results

ALSO SCARY – PA Tax Amnesty

Crazy Big Brother ad by the state. See it here

Also:

Creative House of Lancaster

CHL Brainstorming Session, some great ideas and interesting connections were made.

Where is CW going to be next?

May 1stPCA&D Senior ShowWe’ll be LIVE at 2:30PM – 3:30PM
“It’s the gallery event of the year: You don’t want to miss the Senior Show & Celebration!
PCA&D’s Senior Show & Celebration, May 1 from 3 – 6 p.m., is three hours of unbridled excitement, live music, friends, family — and 60,000 square feet of artwork by the Class of 2010.

Held one week prior to commencement ceremonies (May 8, 2010), this is the capstone event for Pennsylvania College of Art & Design’s graduating seniors. That’s because the event is free and open to the public, every floor of the College is covered in art and music, and the halls and common areas are filled with celebrating members of the PCA&D community and general public, many who consider this “the gallery event of the year!”

Senior Show details on Facebook
Online at their Web site

Anne will be speaking at Women’s Business Center Entrepreneurial Speaker Series at The Community 1st Fund

May 7th – First Friday: Community First Fund presents Women’s Business Center Entrepreneurial Speaker Series — Friday, May 07, 2010 — Lancaster, PA

Are you a woman interested in Social Media Marketing for your business or the business you work for? YES – well join us on Friday May 7th at the Community First Fund Women’s Business Center for a lively panel discussion on the subject. Joining me will be Kae Kohl of Kiwi Marketing Group and Kelly Watson of Wordwise Marketing. See link below to sign up – it’s FREE and you can hit all the 1st Friday events afterwards.

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We’re back!

Monday, April 19th, 2010

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Anne and Max are back together this week and have a lot to say about nothing.

Stuff Max found

Tags: haiti, Lancaster County Flower Show, Lancaster PA, Launch Music Conference, MCC, PCAD Senior Show, taxes
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Photos of North Queen building collapse

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

As reported by LancasterOnline.com this morning:

“The North Queen Street building that formerly housed Empire TV partially collapsed this morning and struck a Red Rose Transit Authority bus, police said.
None of the 10 people on the bus was seriously injured from the 7:39 collapse, city police Sgt. Mike Winters said. A few were treated for minor injuries.” [Read the rest of the story at LancasterOnline.com]

Max had an opportunity to witness the aftermath firsthand and get a few photos.

[View with PicLens]

Tags: Building Collapse, Lancaster, North Queen Street, pennsylvania
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Lancaster Buy Fresh Buy Local

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

The Challenge: Create awareness for a local non-profit

Lancaster PA has a thriving farm market culture and the phrase “buy fresh, buy local” has become almost ubiquitous in the County. Still the local chapter of Buy Fresh Buy Local struggled with an identity crisis, often hearing from the public “who are you?” or “what is it you do?” NBD helped BFBL reach a wider audience and tell the story that answers both of those questions.

from top left: documentary, "Guide to Local Foods" 2009 & 2010, "21 Day Challenge" social media campaign

We began our work with the Lancaster Chapter of Buy Fresh Buy Local back in 2008. While we brainstormed many concepts, when we hit on the idea of telling their story with video we knew we were on to something. We teamed up with local video studio Otaku Motion (now Postage VFX) and created a 30 minute documentary from the perspective of the farmer, the restaurateur and a local family. The film was released in 2008 and was premiered as part of Buy Fresh Buy Local week at Lancaster’s historic Eastern Market. The film won a Communicator Award in 2009, is used by BFBL as an educational and marketing tool at screenings around the county and is available for sale on their Web site.

We have continued to work with BFBL on various projects including their “21 Day Challenge” social media campaign, and “Guide to Local Foods” guides for 2009 and 2010.

Update:

The trailer for “Buy Fresh, Buy Local, By Lancaster” has been submitted to Current.tv. Go there now and give it the thumbs up!

Tags: BFBL, Earth, Eco, Ecology, Environment, Fresh, Green, Local, Not Bad Design, Postage, Seasonal
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Time to get your Dyngus on

Monday, April 5th, 2010

Where’s Anne? Where’s Max?

Like that elusive Waldo, Max & Anne have made a game of today’s podcast. Anne’s not here (boo) so Max has to go it alone. Max decided to broadcast from the wrong station so none of the live audience could find the video cast today. Major fail. But we did rebroadcast on the proper channel and, of course, you can always watch the archived video or listen to the audio version on iTunes.

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This past weekend was Easter, how was yours? Max celebrated with a bike ride.

A beautiful spring day, perfect for a ride. But Max needs to get a "big boy bike."

WHAT IS DYNGUS DAY?

from DyngusDayBuffalo.com

Historically a Polish-American tradition, Dyngus Day celebrates the end of the often restrictive observance of lent and the joy of Easter. Over the decades, Dyngus Day has become a wonderful holiday to celebrate Polish-American culture, heritage and traditions.

This is a yearly debate among Dyngus Day revelers. The tradition holds true that on Easter Monday boys would sprinkle the girls with water and tap them with pussywillows. On Easter Tuesday, the women would return the favorite. At modern Dyngus Day parties it is common practice that both men and women trade water and pussywillow equally.

WHY PUSSY WILLOWS?

Pussy willows playa (sic) big part in Buffalo’s Dyngus Day celebrations as men and women flirt with playful “taps.” Branches of the plant are used as the pussy willow is one of the first “budding” plants of spring. But how did the pussy willow get its name? According to Polish legend, many springs ago, baby kittens fell into a raging river while chasing butterflies. The mother car (sic) sadly wept at the river’s edge, pleading for help for her drowning kittens. The willows heard her mournful cries and swept their long graceful branches into the water. The kittens grabbed the branches, held on tightly and were safely brought to shore. Every spring, from that day on, the willows sprouted fur-like buds where the tiny kittens once clung.

Guest hosting The Lancast

Max filled in for Daniel Klotz this weekend on our sister podcast “The Lancast.” He and David talked about the iPad release on Saturday and look back on a year of podcasting and the creative scene in Lancaster.

Lancaster 4 Haiti recap

5 hours
8 Bands, including Steven Courtney and Band of Friends , Josh Albright Band , Movies With Heroes,  Ben Roth Band , The Mint , Slimfit,  The Swimmers  and The Slackwater News.
Over 500 people attended
Approximately $5,000 raised (not including online donations)
Creatively Wired covered the whole thing live and got exclusive interviews with the bands. You can watch the Archive video on our Ustream.tv channel. We were only able to capture the first 3 hours to Ustream, but we did record the whole thing locally and will be releasing that footage soon.
We can’t thank our sponsors enough, we never could have pulled this off without you! So many to thank, but topping the list is the Lancaster County Convention Center and Marriot Hotel, who donated the event space; Illusion Sound and Lighting, for a great job with lighting, sound and production; all of the many volunteers that helped set up, run the event and tear down; and WXPN our band sponsor. A complete list of sponsors and donors can be found on The Creative House of Lancaster facebook page.

Upcoming schedule

Launch Music Conference April 15-16, 2010. We’ll be broadcasting live on Friday and Saturday. Broadcast schedule to come soon.

PCA&D’s Senior Show & Celebration, May 1 from 3 – 6 p.m. Don’t miss our coverage from 2:30 – 3:30pm that day. And come on down to watch us live and join the fun.

Tags: Dyngus Day, Lancaster 4 Haiti, Lancaster PA, Launch Music Conference, PCA&D
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L4Haiti

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Creatively Wired covers the Lancaster 4 Haiti: Hearts in Harmony Benefit concert. See band performances and exclusive interviews with Steven Courtney and Band of Friends , Josh Albright Band , Movies With Heroes,  Ben Roth Band , The Mint , Slimfit,  The Swimmers  and The Slackwater News.

Make a donation to Lancaster 4 Haiti: Hearts in Harmony at the MCC donation page.

And For more information on the benefit concert, visit the Creative House of Lancaster Web site. If you can’t make it out to the concert be sure to watch live at ustream.tv/channel/creatively-wired! And look for Max’s mobile coverage throughout the day as the crew sets up for the event!

Live Coverage of Lancaster 4 Haiti

Thanks to Photole for taking such great photos!

Max dashes off to Podcast for his life at Lancaster 4 Haiti

Tags: Benefit Concert, Hearts in Harmony, Lancaster 4 Haiti, Lancaster PA, MCC, The CHL
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