When I was young I had a Super 8 movie camera and a movieola film editing machine and for a time fancied myself a movie maker. As with many of my youthful fascinations, I did not follow through and my Hollywood aspirations were suspended.
Yes, when I grew up to be a lawyer, we represented New Line Cinema and my college roommate became head of Legal Affairs at Warner Brothers, but my dream was dormant.
Then Gotham materialized along with its magic wand and my creativity was reborn with few limits.
A little while back our firm needed a place for a series of presentations in Manhattan. I reached out to the loyal Gotham network and I was introduced to Ashley Jurgensen.
Ashley is the owner of a fantastic facility called Top of The Garden Event Space. While I assumed that the company name referred to its proximity, I didn't realize the true impact of the facility with which she had provided us.
I finished Defending Jacob at the end of the summer and then went straight to Once We Were Brothers (at Ben’s recommendation. Great book.).
I am currently in the middle of Unorthodox but I expect to be finished with that in a day or two.
I wrote this blog a few weeks ago and planned on posting it while I was away on vacation. But, after reading Don's blog yesterday, I thought it would be a perfect follow-up.
Einstein used the phrase, "spooky things at a distance", to describe the randomness of quantum mechanics, specifically when one particle instantaneously reacts to the effect of an observation of another particle very far away from it. He rejected that notion as it ran counter to his theory of special relativity. As he said, "God does not play dice." Anyway, I like the phrase, "spooky action at a distance."
In a couple of months, barring what happens with our government, Twitter will go public. For you investors out there it's the biggest IPO since Facebook. For us in social media, we get to look at Twitter "under the hood." To see how they really make money and other fun facts.
I have become a snap shot artist with the advent of my iPhone 5 which has a far better camera than my old Blackberry.
I fancy myself not so much an artist as a shutter bug. Someone who seizes the advantage of having the instant ability to see a picture in my mind's eye and take it "in the moment". A perfect everyday example is above.
What's more, with Facebook I have the ability to instantaneously broadcast it to my world and then view "Likes" and approving comments. It doesn't get much better than that!