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Social Media Weekend in NYC with Sree Sreenivasan
Liza recently was invited by Sree Sreenivasan to attend his Social Media Weekend in New York, held at CUNY School of Journalism. Over the course of a fascinating two days full of information and conversation, Liza drew the panelists and speakers, as she tried to learn all the wealth of material being presented. Here are her drawings of some of the speakers and panelists.
Emmy Drawings
With every national “entertainment” event on television—be it the Grammys, the Oscars, the Tonys, the Olympics, a last or first episode of a very popular TV show like Mad Men, the State Of The Union Address, or the Emmys, I am compelled to live-tweet draw my impressions of what I see. Recently, I have been hired to do so for various sites: NewYorker.com, Medium.com’s The Nib, BET.com, TheaterMania.com. It’s a lot of fun, and its a way to communicate with my audience– a way to share in the event that is not just words (although I do use words sometimes in the drawing, and in the tweets). I love this, and hope to continue to do them. The Vine recently wrote and called my Emmy sketches “beautiful,” and Jezebel wrote about my Olympic drawings for The New Yorker.
If you would like to see all of my drawings that I did last night for the Emmys, go to The NIb, link here. Enjoy!
Balloons, Social Media and Conventions
In this article, I examine how we can perhaps watch the conventions in the future, maybe make them more fun, and what some media outlets are doing now to make changes to our viewing experience: http://www.forbes.com/sites/lizadonnelly/2012/09/06/more-balloons-social-media-and-other-ways-to-make-politics-more-fun/
Twitter and The Republican National Convention
I love watching the conventions. Last night of the Republican National Convention was particularly wacky because of the strange performance of Clint Eastwood, talking to an empty chair. But there were a lot of other fun things, and I made a list which you can see here. Condi, Christie, Paulie, Annie and Mittie, all were there. It was quite a party. Follow me on twitter for the fun of next weeks’ convention with the Democrats! @lizadonnelly
Those of us born before 1990 work hard to keep up with technology, we weren’t born into it. I love twitter, tumblr, email, FB, and I was born well before then. But it will be interesting to see how the upcoming generations will be different because of the Internet. Will they physically be different from bending over phones? Will their brains work in new, as-yet- to-be-understood ways? Will their handling of cyber-etiquette be so ingrained as to further distance us from them? Just when we were able to trash the music divide that existed with parents when I was young–my children and I share music tastes– along comes the Internet. I text with my daughters frequently, but I am not able to email my computer-less father. The Internet is not only changing us in both good in bad ways, it is changing how the generations co-exist.
I guess there’s always something.