Creator of the Super Soaker

HBO's The Black List: Keenen Ivory Wayans

"If I have a cushion that I know I can fall on, I'll allow myself to fall. But if I know that there is nothing but hard concrete, I am going to do my best to stay standing."
-Keenen Ivory Wayans

Follow your dreams.

S2T: Eau de Cartier Essence D'Orange

Walking through Nordstroms today, a salesperson offered me a sample of the new Cartier Orange cologne that definitely offers refreshing scent for the summer months.



Lively and luminous, this woody citrus fragrance draws its sparkle from a fruity citrus cocktail. Softly effervescent orange smiles alongside smooth floral notes, featuring lilting violet. A tender background is built with cedar notes accentuated by patchouli and amber.

Eau De Cartier Essence Dorange By Cartier Edt Spray For Men 6.75 oz

By the way 'S2T' stands for 'Something to Try,' and will be seen a lot more in the upcoming months and years.

Dedication: 50 Cent

Rapper 50 cent has lost over 50 pounds and removed most tattoos in efforts to portray a cancer patient in his upcoming movie, "Things Fall Apart." In the movie 50 Cent plays a football player diagnosed with the disease. He dropped from 214 pounds to an astonishing 160 with a liquid diet and three-hour-a-day treadmill walks for nine weeks. If this isn't dedication to a craft, then I don't know what is. Respect.

Stacey Dash & Creative Control

STACEY DASH brings sexy back... from Creative Control on Vimeo.

Absolutely sexy for an older woman.

It's Never Too Late

Nonagenarian graduates 77 years after Great Depression closed her school.

There was a bit more pomp and considerably more circumstance than usual at the Falkville High School graduation ceremonies Monday night. Marching alongside the fresh-faced Alabama seniors ready to make their way in the world was 95-year-old Earlene Harvey-Morris, whose own dreams of a diploma were snatched away from her 77 years ago.

“This is just something I never thought would happen,” Harvey-Morris told the Falkville class of 2010, who adopted her and made her an honorary class member. Her fellow graduates were making amends to a woman affected by the Great Depression in the 1930s. Faced with an insurmountable budget crunch, Falkville High School was shuttered just months before she was scheduled to graduate in May 1933.

Click Here to Continue
via msn.com

Someone I Would Like to Meet [Part III]

For more info on Jon Favreau
Click HE|RE

Smooth

"Regret is the Only True Failure" By Antwan McLean

It seems as if the moment you begin calling yourself a man you are bombarded with decisions to make. Once you truly become a man, you realize that today’s decisions produce your future life status. Each day we examine our lives and the millions of little decisions that have created it. Stop that. Constant scrutiny of hundreds of possible outcomes for every decision you make will drive you insane. It will certainly destroy your confidence and lead you to social ineptitude.

Give proper recognition to the importance of good decision-making. Your life is truly the sum of the decisions you make. However, it is most important to recognize that life is not as difficult as we often make it. All things basically come down to one basic decision between two choices. Of course there are many outcomes, but you cannot see the future. The only thing you are able to truly analyze is the present. The present consists of only two choices: yes or no.

That’s it. You must simply decide between action or inaction. Despite how convoluted the decision-making process can become, everything truly is just a yes or no question.

Buzz Lightyear Said it Best

The last few weeks have been absolutely crazy for me and I will tell you why, because I do not know what I will be doing and want to do tomorrow, hypothetically speaking of course. Let's just say, everything is unwritten from here on out. I just finished college and I feel myself starting a beautiful and bright chapter with some cloudy forecasts mixed in. Nebulous is the exact word to describe everything at the moment, cloud-like and confused. For years I have dreamed about moving to Los Angeles and starting a career, but now, New York City is popping up in my head more and more. Did I really have that great of a time living there last summer? Would it be a better fit for me socially and career wise or is it that NYC is fresher in my mind than LA? Who knows?

For about three years now, I have had desires to become an actor, but holy shit, what exactly have I been doing (other than college acting courses, networking and reading) to prepare and put myself in the best position for a possible acting career? Have I been going to casting calls? No. Have I been looking to other actors as mentors? No. So how exactly do I know that is what I want to be? Who knows?

I don't know if it's business school, fellowships and more traveling or starting a career and gaining practical experience that is on my radar. Maybe something will hit me in Hong Kong, like a shooting star, revealing my destiny. Laughing out loud, that sounds a bit incredulous but who knows, stuff like that happens to people all the time, right?...No? Well it has happened to me before and I remember it like it was yesterday:

Momma said, "What's happening? You're losing your confidence."

The day after I failed my third consecutive Chemistry test, I felt like a total failure and as lost as ever, so I took a walk down Nashville's West End looking for a quick get-away. See, at that time, I had dreams of becoming my uncle, a rich CEO who studied electrical engineering in college. So guess what I was also studying? Ding, ding, ding you are correct! The study of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. After a while, I began to realize I was not that good at it, but geez, all the Cs, Ds and Fs did not have to prove that to me? Or did they?

On that cool, cloudy day with my head down and pain in my heart, a guy just started walking close to me. Clearly, I thought this motherfucker was crazy and was either A) about to rob me or B) looking for directions or C) needed some money. But you know how it is when you feel so down that nothing seems like it can get any worse.

He began talking to me, "What's up man, how ya doing?" I told him that I was not feeling that great and was just going for a walk. He replied, "well, if you and some friends feel like doing something tonight, stop by Cafe Coco to see me play tonight. I'm sure you guys will enjoy it." I said okay and asked him, "are you a musician or something?" With a smile, he replied, "yes I am and I love it. I am doing exactly what I want to do right now. But enough about me, what are you studying, what do you like?" "I am studying engineering, but I really enjoy the arts. Unfortunately, I do not have too much time for it." With a final bid, he said, "but man, you gotta do what you enjoy and love in life. It will make you the happiest. At least, that's how I look at it."

You know what, he was right and I told him that. To this day, I consider whoever that guy was to be my guardian angel. He gave me a great push into the direction of my future and I started gaining my confidence back.

So what does this all mean?
It means that everything will work out. Sometimes, it's that simple.


One Life, You Decide™

Toyota Swagger Wagon: GENIUS Marketing

Toyota's new Sienna minivans comes with a genius marketing campaign.

"If I were you, I would be jealous of me in the swagger wagon. I got the pride in my ride."

For More Videos and Marketing
Click Here

Something to Watch

Era Uma Vez
Portuguese Film Directed by Breno Silveira
Trailer with Subtitles in Spanish

Someone I Would Like to Meet [Part II]

For more info on Will Smith
Click HE|RE

College Majors of Top CEOs via BW

Not every corporate chieftain studies business in college. Many of them major in history, psychology, or even philosophy. It may be one reason why they succeed

By Louis Lavelle

In this, the graduation season, the thoughts of college students naturally turn to the four years behind them, the lifetime ahead of them, and the connections between the two. For business students, especially those with the biggest of corporate ambitions, this is a particularly introspective time. Role models seem to be everywhere—whether it's the rags-to-riches story, the brilliant entrepreneur, or the middle manager turned MBA turned corporate leader.

It will come as absolutely no surprise to anyone that a lot of big-company chief executive officers studied business in college. After all, their numbers are legion, and include such household names as Cisco Systems' John Chambers (West Virginia University), Comcast's Brian Roberts (Wharton), and Office Depot's Steve Odland (Notre Dame). The list of CEOs who dropped out at some point during their academic careers likewise reads like a who's who of Corporate America: Microsoft's Bill Gates (Harvard), Oracle's Larry Ellison (University of Chicago), and, of course, Apple's Steve Jobs (Reed College).

Click Here to Continue

Bright Lights NYC

(c) AFG Creative Productions Group

Dominican Republic Spring 2010

Video to be Re-Posted Soon

Visit www.youtube.com/alexechols for all other videos

Dope Vid: Egypt Montage

by Khalid Mohtaseb

A Letter to the Class of 2010

Congratulations. Since I couldn’t be at every high school and college commencement this year, I wanted to send a message to all of the graduates in this country who are about to embark on the next chapter of your young and promising lives.

There are generations of Americans who came of age during periods of peace and prosperity. When they graduated from high school or college, they entered a world of comfort and stability where little was required of them beyond their obligations to themselves and their families.

That is not the world you are about to inherit. You are growing up in a time of great challenge and sweeping change. You will search for jobs in an economy that is still emerging from one of the worst recessions in history. You will seek a profession in an era where a high school diploma and a factory job are no longer sure paths to success. And you will raise your children in a world where threats like terrorism and a changing climate cannot be contained within a country’s borders.

At times like these, when the future seems unsettled and uncertain, it can be easy to lose heart. When you turn on the television or read newspapers or blogs, the voices of cynicism and pessimism always seem to be the loudest.

Don’t believe them.

Someone I Would Like to Meet [Part I]

For more info on David Banner
Click HERE

I am happy to say that every Tuesday I will be uploading new information and a new image for the 'Someone I Would Like to Meet' Series. All individuals will come from career fields that I am very interested in. Stay tuned and I hope everyone enjoys the series. Thanks.

Pixelate the World: Dope Video

To Risk

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out is to risk involvement,
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas and
dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return,
To live is to risk dying,
To hope is to risk despair,
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken because
the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing,
has nothing, is nothing.

– William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)

Before the World Wakes: DailyOM

May 4, 2010
DailyOM
Before the World Wakes
Morning Meditation
Just before the coming of the pale rays of dawn, Mother Nature exists in a state of flux. Earth's energy is stable, free of the disordered vibrations that are a by-product of humanity's comings and goings. In these first moments of day, when the sun's golden light is only just peeking over the horizon, our animal mind remains in the land of slumber though we ourselves are awake. Deep sleep has washed away the impurities of existence that accumulated within us, so our mental, physical, and emotional potential is heightened. To meditate in this peaceful yet energetically charged in-between time is to connect with the divine in an extremely intimate fashion. We discover a new kinship with the universal life force during morning meditations because our awareness becomes a mirror for earthly consciousness—we wake as the world wakes, quietly embracing the joy of being and setting the tone for a serene, fulfilling day.

In the first glorious glow of morning, the light, air, and energy flowing around us speak in hushed tones of the activity to come. While we recognize that another day of being means becoming once again immersed in the challenges of action and reaction, we also understand that we can draw upon the unique energetic qualities of daybreak for comfort, creativity, and vigor. There is bliss in the simple knowledge that we have been given the gift of another day of existence. We are inspired by sights and sounds of the sun's gentle ascension. Birds serenade the luminosity, which grows richer by the minute. And though we may feel a residual lethargy, our vitality returns as our meditation helps us to become one with the stirring of other beings rubbing the sleep from their eyes. At the start of each day, our destiny has not yet been written, and so there is nothing we cannot do.

How we choose to meditate is less important than our choice to attune ourselves to the spirit of wakefulness that travels round the world each and every day. Even the briefest moment of quiet contemplation in the muted light of the sun can put all that is yet to come into perspective. As a consequence of our daybreak reflections, our lives are imbued with the same stability, tranquility, and increased awareness that humanity has long associated with the stillness of early morning.
via DailyOM

Interesting Marketing Efforts by Reebok

Click Here for Other Marketing Efforts

Dinner Underwater, Anyone?

Dine 16-feet below sea level at Ithaa, the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island’s unique undersea restaurant. Marvel at 180° views of reef and marine life, sip champagne cocktails and sample Maldivian-Western fusion cuisine at this spectacular Maldives venue the world’s first all glass, undersea restaurant.

BTW, Advance reservations are recommended. :)
via ArchitectureDesign.com

Must-See Vid About Avatar

Cherishing Your Childhood (& Beyond)

AFG Creative Group(c)

Returning from worldwide adventures only to see the words "RIP Cody" on the yellow colored house at the end of the alley definitely hit me hard. Is this what they call returning to reality?

Within the last few days, many realizations have begun to reset themselves in my life. Seeing younger cousins after a year abroad can really shock you, especially when puberty has set in. I was blown away when I realized, the children I once saw during their births, were now teenagers. Where does the time go? On the contrary, I have also been around a 95 year-old grandma who is losing her sight due to old age and complications. Being with them (young and older) has not only forced me to accept the reality of growing up (especially because I am now done with college and need employment soon), but it has also blessed me with the realization that I am in the perfect moment. Never again will I be as young as I am today. One day (hopefully) I will reach the age of my grandma and will not be able to do the things I am able to do today. So what does that mean? It means that I am going to continue journeying forward and learning something new everyday. It means that I will not give up simply because I have failed once, twice or maybe four times. It means that I will persevere and instill in my own children the same lessons that my parents have taught me: CHERISH YOUR YOUTH, because we all know that nothing lasts forever.

Now go enjoy a day at the park.

The Difference Between Me and You

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Have no fear of perfection-you’ll never reach it. Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was a poet; the first to repeat it was an idiot.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

At the age of six years I wanted to be a chef. At the age of seven I wanted to be Napoleon. My ambitions have continued to grow at the same rate ever since. Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali. There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.
by Salvador Dali

Drake's Sprite Commercial - Sci-fi Dopeness

You Cut Me Off? Hilarious Video

Lupe Fiasco: I'm Beamin