Monday Memo #14: That's a Wrap, It's a WAP
Monday Memo #14: That's a Wrap, It's a WAP
Where You’ll Find Me
🎥 In front of the camera
Never happier to hear the words, It’s a wrap!
Just finished 5 intense days of 6-hour video shoots, as an instructor for the Parsons School’s Entrepreneur Academy, teaching a course on Digital Marketing 101, Fall 2020.
First time using a gear setup on this level: teleprompter, DSLR, three kinds of studio lights, and two live mics to record 8 hours of video content (30 hours of production time, not counting post-production).
It’s certainly easier than it looks when you see the finished results of an online video course, so I have much respect for the village it takes to produce high-quality content. Couldn’t have worked with a better crew at Parsons to make it all happen.
It’s a wrap! 🍾
👏🏾 Celebrating the 12 Fellows
The First 12 Fellows have been announced in our inaugural Cohort:One Fellowship for BIPOC/LGBTQIA+ talent in advertising! So excited for this collective. If you applied this round, please stay connected, as we’d love to invite you for future iterations of the fellowship or other ways to get involved in the movement.
🎾 Celebrating Naomi Osaka
All the applause for Osaka’s huge win at the U.S. Women’s Finals this year. She came back from behind in a first set that seemed doomed — and powered her way to a championship that wasn’t just about her, but every name on every mask she wore walking out onto the court during the tournament, and the Kobe jersey she rocked afterwards. At just 22, she’s the bright future for this sport, a road that Venus and Serena paved for more talented women of color in the game.
Reading
🌴A Pandemic, A Motel Without Power, and a Potentially Terrifying Glimpse of Orlando’s Future by Greg Jaffe for The Washington Post, September 2020. Another series of human stories and images that will shake you, if not surprise you, in the alternate reality of American lives.
🥄 America at Hunger’s Edge, by Brenda Ann Kenneally for NYT Magazine, September 2020. A stunning and sobering visual cross-country road trip from New York to California, documenting the routines of Americans struggling to live a food-insecure life, a burden that falls disproportionately on Black and Hispanic families. Contributors include Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of one of my favorite nonfiction sociology books ever, which I devoured the first time I landed in NYC 16 years ago — Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx.
✈️ Compost, Memory, a literary diagram from Filipina writer @softcoffin on coming of age in the Philippines and crash landing in the Bronx.
Watching
🧟♂️ #Alive, a Korean zombie thriller on Netflix, about surviving in your apartment while a deadly virus ravages the world outside. Sound familiar? This movie was a fun mashup of Black Mirror storytelling and Korean rom-coms.
Eating
🍜Warning: the aforementioned #Alive zombie flick will trigger intense ramen cravings. Something about dwindling apocalyptic supplies and the way the main character noisily slurps down the last packet of ramen made me break out my pantry noods:
Learning
📸 If you’re curious about going beyond your smartphone for photos and getting a DSLR — learn more about narrative-driven street photography and artsy creative DSLR camera effects from Atlanta-based cityscape and street photographer Lauren Holley’s YouTube channel: @graphiknation.
She geeks out about the Lumix S1, vintage glass, modern technology, and runs the Atlanta’s largest urban photo walking group. Her videos are so well done, creative, educational, and you couldn’t ask for a more knowledgable host who makes great photography and equipment accessible for noobs and enthusiasts.
Creativity/Productivity Hacks
☎️ After the Tone is a voicemail capsule where you can leave a message for your future self. What would you like to remember about this moment? What would you like yourself to hear in a year from now? (h/t @strtgst.co)
Dope Stuff For Your Desk
Deck of the Week
👅The unstoppable @jayemsey back at it again with another cultural tour de force:
*NSFW* i made a sequel to that tiktok deck, an exploration of sexuality and power dynamics in american music as it relates to cardi b and megan thee stallion's "wap": the contextual significance of explicitness in rap music, the history of the word “pussy” in pop culture, the notability of french aristocratic design and britney spears’ influence on the video’s aesthetic, and how “wap” represents the unapologetic reclamation of sexual agency and an alternate social hierarchy in which black women are the reigning class → https://bit.ly/3i4HKCB
Take care ‘til next week,
SP
From the Desk of Sharon Panelo: queer nerdy Filipina, strategist, and radical optimist.