The Thrilla in Manila. At first glance you might think it’s the title of a second rate foreign comedy tv show, or maybe a roller coaster ride at Corney Island. But really it was possibly one of the best heavyweight boxing matches in history between two legends, Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali.
Career Day 2012: Being Better than You Believe Promo Video
This is a video that I edited for The Riverside Church’s 2012 Career Day: Being Better than You Believe. I also designed the website and flyer for the event. You can see both of these on my website here. Read more…
Social media regulations in sports
Social media is the new medium of this age. Actors, politicians, and even the random guy down street are all trying to maximize social media in order to better their brand and public-image. However, not everyone is able to truly maximize the potential social media offers. A prime example of this is in the realm of professional sports. Almost all of the different sports have their own social media policy that can either be very restricting, such as Major League Baseball and the Olympic games, or a wide open field, such as that of World Wrestling Entertainment’s. Read more…
Debate over the 2012 Olympics
When the International Olympic Committee announced that the 2012 Olympics would be in London many people were supportive of the decision. It would be a great boon to the city, and the local economy. That unhindered support, however, quickly changed. At the beginning it was just petty things like a terrible logo design that raised its fair share of crackpot conspiracy theories: its a modern form of the swastika, or that the the logo when read backwards reads Izzo, a nickname for the rapper Jay-Z. Most importantly is that things have started to turn political. Read more…
Israel 911
This is a documentary that I am currently working on with Dana Colihan about the Israeli and Palestinian Conflict. In America we often only get one side of the story. Almost all of the main stream media that we receive is pro-Israeli, it is rare to come across anything that is actually pro-Palestinian. The Palestinians are often portrayed as terrorists or as a sub-human group of people. Society refuses to look past the surface of the Palestinian people as whole, they don’t realize that the Palestinians are just like us, they go to school, play sports and watch tv, but yet we see them as terrorists. Perhaps because when you look at pictures of their living conditions all you see is destruction and decay. But whose fault is that. The Palestinians try to rebuild, but the Israeli government come and destroy whatever they try to build. They can never reach a foothold too launch a political movement to show people who they are. They cannot live as a free people because of the constant harrassment by soldiers, the checkpoints everywhere, and the fact that they always have to live in fear of what might happen to them. Read more…