During my brainstorming, I noticed a commercial on ESPN for their fantasy basketball game. The commercial depicted Jon Hedar (of Napoleon Dynamite fame) acting as a know-it-all fantasy sports super agent. He would call real life players out of nowhere, giving them advice and trying to get them to help his virtual team. I knew at that moment, what I needed to do. I needed to take on the twitter persona of Jake Stephens, fantasy basketball agent/expert/person who lacked touch with reality.

Within moments, the twitter account (@JakeStephensNBA) was created. I began to retweet NBA players across the twitterverse. I focused my efforts mostly on those who appeared in the ESPN commercials. My aim was to try and respond in someway directly to comments the players were making in their feeds. I wasn’t having much luck…

Then, Kevin Durant (at the time was @KDThunderup and can now be found as @KDTrey5) tweeted he had phone issues and needed the numbers of his friends and followers. This was my chance. Moments after he sent this request, I told him we needed to talk strategy. That was all I needed. Evidence can be seen in the photo of this post that Mr. Durant himself got the joke, and tweeted me promptly.

In less than 24 hours, I got one of the best players in the NBA to tweet me, with the use of a little simple humor and ingenuity.

The Public Health Accreditation Board worked with these and many other health departments around the country as they beta tested what would become the first national accreditation program for all public health departments. On October 16th, 2011 PHAB had a launch event for the program.

The initial result of our video shoots were on display at the event in the teaser video you see below. Soon longer videos on each program will also be coming out.

According to the MacArthur website: There are three criteria for selection of Fellows: exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment, and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work.

I had the opportunity to put together 3 videos with my coworker Patrick. For your viewing pleasure, here is what we came up with.

Francisco Núñez

Jacob Soll

Dafnis Prieto

“The State Scorecard on Child Health System Performance, 2011, examines states’ performance on 20 key indicators of children’s health care access, affordability of care, prevention and treatment, the potential to lead healthy lives, and health system equity. The analysis finds wide variation in performance across states. If all states achieved benchmark performance levels, 5 million more children would be insured, 10 million more would receive at least one medical and dental preventive care visit annually, and nearly 9 million more would have a medical home.”

The video I put together features, “Scorecard authors Cathy Schoen and Ed Schor discuss how lower-performing states can learn from the best states and meet achievable benchmarks.”

For more information go to http://www.commonwealthfund.org/

Here is my first story done for Georgetown Patch. Check out all the great coverage on the site by going to – http://georgetown.patch.com

This video report is about the Spice and Tea Exchange, a new shop in the heart of Georgetown. The store offers a wide array of options to add some flavor to your favorite dish or keep you warm during those cold winter nights.

The video is a short story of a young man looking for acceptance and valor. This abstract venture into film was a collaborative effort to experiment in the use of video as a moving canvass.

The band “Object” from New York was also kind enough to score the film.

Twinkee Da Kid from Bradley Glanzrock on Vimeo.

This short film was shot in one day with the help of many friends and supporters. It is the story of a young man trying to find himself and make a difference, while falling into some precarious, yet amusing, situations.

The silent film will be scored with live music by the band Object, hailing from New York.

In addition, artist J. Coleman will be having a solo art exhibition titled, “History Repeats.” The series of 13 oil paintings focus almost exclusively on the male figure outlined in black and set in relief against stark white backgrounds. Coleman’s new works are autobiographical and deeply psychological in nature, but strike out in a new direction stylistically.

At this evening we will also be celebrating the birthday of Bradley Glanzrock, who decided to return to the District from an early retirement in South Florida.

Please join us for these multiple exhibitions and celebrations.

The event will be held at Crea8space Studio Gallery at 1314 9th Street, NW in Washington, DC. The event will go from 7pm-11pm. For more information about the gallery, go to www.crea8spacestudiogallery-dc.com.

For more information about artist J. Coleman, please visit www.colemanartwork.com.

For more information on Bradley Glanzrock, please visit www.onbackground.com

For more information on Object, please visit http://www.myspace.com/object