Twitter? No. Not yet. I won’t. That’s like dangling a neat little package of cocaine in front of George Jung.
A couple months back I put together a Soundslides package for a band that sings about unemployment. I could not have asked for a better environment, or better people to put it together. I was limited in time, technology (the camera I used was certainly not suitable for the low light I was shooting in), and, well, time. I had to turn it around in a matter of hours, and those familiar with video/image/audio editing know that is a lot to ask. Still, a journalists nowadays need to be professionally capable in a variety of platforms–so not bad for my first crack at it.
My father has worked around diesel and gas engines alike for most of his life. Now he is in warranty administration. He knows a thing or two about how recalls and safety protocol is carried out. He noted something unusual about the way the Toyota recall has unfolded: it went too fast. Usually, recall events of this magnitude take longer (much longer) to get to the point where actual fiscal damage is done and image is tarnished.
Reasoning? The Obama administration undercut Toyota to boost sales of domestic US automobile manufacture. We both laughed at how inept the government is to begin with, and how silly something like this would be for an administration to pursue in the light of the laundry list of things that need to be done. Not to mention how impossible it would be to keep the lid on leaks. Then we both sighed. Then there was silence.
Then we got scared and moved onto another topic.
You know what? Even if Apple did steal the design, I don’t care. China’s stance on US intellectual property piracy is absurd. In fact, I’ve already begun laying the groundwork to steal the entire island of Taiwan.
