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New KI! Vid! : Had Enough of Tired Old LOL-ing? What Can You Do To Make It Fresh Again?
Sep 1st
Most people have seen more than their fair share of generic “LOL’s” while chatting with someone on the internet, or reading facebook comments. LOL hasn’t been killin’ it for quite some time. But that doesn’t mean it can’t come back and kill it once again. You just have to work it a little, give it a change up, peel it, chill it, and kill it!
Marc Maron Kills it with a Keynote Address at Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival, plus a new KI! video: NAMING TRUCKS
Jul 30th
Wow, this is really a Killin’ it Keynote address from Montreal’s Just for Laughs Festival, written and delivered by none other than What The Fuck’er Marc Maron. For those that are killin’ it, I have a hunch this speech will move you with it’s thoughtfulness and sincerity. One of the messages I get from it is this: success and failure are doled out with a tyrannical logic. For the gatekeepers – those who might help you succeed – nurturing talent often takes a back seat to the philosophy “don’t smell it, sell it.” Those brave enough to take the gamble shouldn’t spend too much time stewing over an unfair shake. And when you find you’ve been waiting too long for anyone to shake your hand at all, you’ve been waiting too long in the same spot. Throw your arms around the people you believe in and keep climbing. If you have a moment to enrich your thoughts for killin’ it, click and read!
At Long Last a New KI! Vid: CLUTTER IS A FORM OF PAIN…Plus, Pom Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Apr 25th
Pom Wonderful Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold looks to be totally killin’ it. Film maker Morgan Spurlock–of Super-Size Me fame–funded the entire movie with product placements-placements which ended up comprising the entire movie, and essentially becoming the movie’s subject. Spurlock says the intent was to reveal how advertising permeates nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Though I have yet to see the movie, the big draw for me is the use of advertising itself AS art, and as the celebrated subject of the creation. Spurlock’s movie is the simple story of itself, an awesome example of showing and not telling. It’s definitely more refreshingly killin’ it for me than the common practice of using art in advertising to sell things. Freedom for artists doesn’t depend on getting away from capitalism or all-powerful corporations, especially since at this point the only way to get away from them completely is to maroon yourself on some tiny island. That’s not my idea of freedom! Freedom in this era can–indeed should–amount to finding brilliant ways of working with corporations to make your ideas happen. It may sound crazy, but we might need to make big business into a muse. That’s killin’ It big time!
Teen Fakes Pregnancy and Kills It
Apr 23rd
Check out this brave little social experiment by Gaby Rodriguez, a senior at a south-central Washington high school who faked being pregnancy for the past six months as her senior project, just to see how people would react.
Gaby Rodriguez’s planned lies seem pioneering kind of move in the realm of social consciousness. Is it real? Is it fake? Is it true? Gaby Rodriguez lied to show everybody else the truth of their own conditioned experiences. We are on high alert for liars, but this has led us to a polarizing and paralyzed place. When we think things must fit neatly into a category of “real” and “fake,” we cut ourselves off from some of the most important connections and insights. Perhaps it is time for a new moral on lying. Fabrications with the intention of revealing truth ought to be embraced and celebrated and honored–they are killin’ it in a very real way!
Winklevoss≠Ninckelvoss
Apr 12th
Yesterday a court ruled that Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss cannot sue Facebook for additional money over claims that company founder Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea. Fair ruling for sure, but if the judge were really killin’ it he’d have found a way to make the twins RETURN the original $65 million dollar settlement. Zuckerberg has always said that he’d done nothing wrong and that the Winklevoss claims were completely bogus. If ideas are a dime a dozen, a ni(n)ckel(voss) will get you six great “great” ideas – which, by the way, is as many as you’d need in six lifetimes. If you’re in the business of killin’ it, you take talent and ideas and make them into something tangible for people to benefit from. If you don’t have what it takes to make something out of a good idea, it’s perhaps better you never had it in the first place. I bet if Mark Zuckerberg had never started Facebook, Tyler and Cameron would be blaming someone else for their failed venture. Without the essential go-and-get-it juice, talent and ideas become curses that will be a thorn in your side. If your lamenting the fact that you can’t get anywhere with your tons of good ideas, then by all means lighten your load! Killin’ It!
Killin’ It With Opium
Apr 7th
What maybe best defines Killin’ It in contrast to what else is out there in the movement/philosophy/guidance arena, is that Killin’ It does not attempt to distill meaning. With Killin It you’re not trying to boil down its essence into repeatable parts and mass producing it. Killin it is a placeholder only-a reference to something mystical and transcendent that we can all feel individually, but which could not be owned or codified.
I often think of what we’re all up against in our quest to be Killin It. It’s not so much the personal stumbles and defeats that would diminish our mojo, but the gigantic external forces which would prevent us from even finding the path that we might best walk. This video gives a very specific snapshot of one such area: an un-pc first hand accounting of just what opium can be and what it can be turned into. Notice how absent this voice is from the massive debate on drugs that has swamped our culture for decades. Yet how not dismissable it is.






