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Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva present a look at life in France as usually experienced only by locals and adventurous travelers. In Part 7 we learn about the public bicycle system in Paris, known as "Velib."Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva present a look at life in France as usually... more
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Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva present a look at life in France as usually experienced only by locals and adventurous travelers. Stories include how vacationers can find free lodging around the French countryside, a unique outdoor dining experience in Paris where the invitations are sent via text at the last minute, and cavers clean up an environmental hazard in south-central France.Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva present a look at life in France as usually... more
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Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva present a look at life in France as usually experienced only by locals and adventurous travelers. Part 2 takes us to one of the roughest suburbs of Paris for a lesson in Parkour, the art of movement.Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva present a look at life in France as usually... more
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Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva present a look at life in France as usually experienced only by locals and adventurous travelers. In Part 3, we go underneath the City of Lights to explore a vast system of creepy tunnels.Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva present a look at life in France as usually... more
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Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva present a look at life in France as usually experienced only by locals and adventurous travelers like Georgia and Penny, who couch surf their way through France's west coast.Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva present a look at life in France as usually... more
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Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva present a look at life in France as usually experienced only by locals and adventurous travelers. In Part 5 we do some browsing at Shakespeare and Company -- a Paris bookstore that's popular among expats and was featured in the Richard Linklater film "Before Sunset."Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva present a look at life in France as usually... more
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A countdown of strange foods and unique ways to eat. In Part 3, Current's Max & Jason feed bugs to a friend who finds them rather tasty.A countdown of strange foods and unique ways to eat. In Part 3, Current's Max... more
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Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva explore Spanish life in a way usually experienced only by locals and the most adventurous travelers. Men and women discuss the culture of "machismo" and how it effects relationships, an epic food fight leaves the streets of one city running red, and a community readies itself to become the world's first energy self-sufficient island.Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva explore Spanish life in a way usually experienced... more
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Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva explore Spanish life in a way usually experienced only by locals and the most adventurous travelers. Part 2 starts with a quick look at Pamplona's famous Running of the Bulls, then onto Buñol for La Tomatina - a food fight of epic proportions!Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva explore Spanish life in a way usually experienced... more
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Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva explore Spanish life in a way usually experienced only by locals and the most adventurous travelers. Part 3 introduces us to dancer Selena Munoz -- half Spanish, half Danish, all Flamenco!Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva explore Spanish life in a way usually experienced... more
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Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva explore Spanish life in a way usually experienced only by locals and the most adventurous travelers. Part 4 examines machismo in Spanish society, and how it affects relationships between men and women.Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva explore Spanish life in a way usually experienced... more
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Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva explore Spanish life in a way usually experienced only by locals and the most adventurous travelers. Part 5 puts us squarely in Barcelona for a survey of the street fashion and a look at street performers on Las Ramblas.Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva explore Spanish life in a way usually experienced... more
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Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva explore Spanish life in a way usually experienced only by locals and the most adventurous travelers. Spotlights El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands and the world's first energy self-sufficient island.Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva explore Spanish life in a way usually experienced... more
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Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva explore Spanish life in a way usually experienced only by locals and the most adventurous travelers. In Part 7 we go to Catalonia to witness an unusual cultural event -- the building of human castles.Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva explore Spanish life in a way usually experienced... more
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Just read an interesting article in Newsweek about Ray Kurzweil and here is in essence how he justifies his amazing claims about the future (quoting below):
"Kurzweil makes predictions based on a notion that he calls "the law of accelerating returns," which holds that technology does not advance in a linear fashion but rather at an exponential rate. It's the difference between 1-2-3-4-5 and 1-2-4-8-16. Go out 10 steps and the linear string has reached 10, while the exponential string is hitting 512. With an exponential progression, at first, when the numbers are small, the progress doesn't look like much. But each new breakthrough enables the next breakthrough to occur more quickly, so the rate of change accelerates. Represented on a graph, the line of progress looks like a hockey stick—it's flat for some years, and then there's a sudden rise, which gets misinterpreted as a sudden breakthrough when really it's just the continuation of an exponential progression, Kurzweil says.
He cites as an example the work of the Human Genome Project. In 1990 scientists had managed to transcribe only one ten-thousandth of the genome over an entire year. Yet their goal was to sequence the entire genome in 15 years. After seven years, only 1 percent had been sequenced. But, in fact, the project was on track. The rate of progress was doubling every year, which meant that when researchers finished 1 percent they were only seven steps away from reaching 100 percent. Indeed, the project was completed in 2003. "People thought it would take centuries," Kurzweil says, because they foolishly believed that technology could advance only in a linear fashion.
That same kind of linear thinking fuels the current hysteria about global warming. "People are assuming that nothing will change in the next few decades. They're ignoring the progression in renewable energy," Kurzweil says. After studying the subject, he and Google's Larry Page concluded that the nanotechnologies needed to collect the energy of the sun are advancing at such a pace that in 20 years, solar power will be able to provide 100 percent of the earth's energy needs.
What happens then? Once computers are a billion times more powerful than today—and we're all a bunch of cyborgs with brains like supercomputers and bodies that can't be killed by disease? For one thing, stuff starts progressing really, really fast. Imagine a thousand scientists, each a thousand times smarter than they are today, operating a thousand times faster. First thing these smarty-pants cyborgs will do, Kurzweil reckons, is make themselves even smarter, and then smarter still, until intelligence is sprouting all over the place like some kind of crazy out-of-control IQ kudzu. Eventually you've got scientists who are a million times smarter and a million times faster than they are today. Breakthroughs should be popping up all over. "An hour would result in a century of progress [in today's terms]," Kurzweil claims in The Singularity Is Near. Eventually, we leap beyond the boundaries of our planet, and every bit of matter in the entire universe becomes intelligent. "This," Kurzweil concludes, "is the destiny of the universe."" - From Newsweek.
This guy is a genius!
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My blog is a day late because yesterday we moved our offices from Hollywood to a production facility across the 110 Freeway from downtown Los Angeles. Conveniently, at lunchtime, when Tania Rashid and I were looking to shoot some test footage, we drove over to Skid Row, now less than half a mile away. If you saw that 2005 piece that Max and Jason did with Tracey Chang and me, you’d know that LA’s Skid Row traditionally has been the largest in the US, a teeming, tumultuous locale.
When Tania and went down there a couple of hours ago, we were expecting that it would be even more packed, given that California is the one of the states hardest hit by America’s economic hard times, and here in southern California we’ve been hit particularly hard. But when we got there, the place looked much less populated than in years past. Maybe everyone was at a matinee of New Moon---mid-day last Friday, Grace Baek and I pulled into a small town up in the series for a shoot and saw a huge line outside the local movie theater, not something that you usually see in that environment. But more likely, they were somewhere else. The question is where? Since we were just shooting a test, we didn’t do a follow up investigation.
But there’s a question. Homelessness seems like something that increases with hard times. But searching on-line just now, I found an editorial from today’s Los Angeles Times that says that the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority reports that homelessness in LA County is down 38% from 2007—when economic hard times began.
So here seems to be another example of why sometimes journalists are needed to investigate: There doesn’t seem to be a readily obvious explanation.
Recently on the Vanguard Blog:
- There goes the neighborhood - Mitch Koss
- Eating on the run with Vanguard - Joanne Shen
- What Came Through the Wall - Mitch Koss
- Does porn have the answer? - Christof Putzel
- What world have we entered? - Mitch Koss
- Hey Electronic Arts, when you going to do a pirate video game? - Kaj LarsenMy blog is a day late because yesterday we moved our offices from Hollywood to a... more
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I've been reading through some of the #fiestamovement tweets and blog posts from the agents, and @karakay's recent post, "End of Fiesta, Back to the Music" struck a chord (pardon the pun).
Many people supported my doing this contest, but many others weren't so excited about it. A few comments came my way stating, "this car promotion was distracting me from my music & a waste of time." While I understand how it could be seen that way I must say I think I gained quite a bit of knowledge in other areas of social media marketing that are going to help me as an independent artist. Things I had not much experience in, now I do. (Such as video editing.)
It's been a fun 6 months. Lots of inspiring events happened over the road that will be resulting in some new songs by this spring :) I did get to travel to a couple festivals and performed some shows this summer.
Six months is a long time to spend with a car while documenting the various adventures one might find themselves getting into. So I wonder, what else did these 100 agents learn while on the road? If you are an agent, send me a tweet @current, or leave a comment below. I'm curious to hear your perspective.
For those of you interested, take a look at some of the Fiesta Agents' profiles and vote for your favorite agent. The awards ceremony is on 12/1, so help your favorite agent get ahead of the pack.
Hey Fiesta Agents, do you want to be on TV?
Max and Jason will be covering the Fiesta Event at the LA Auto Show live on 12/1 (for info check out this post), and they'll be looking to capture the scene from the perspective of the agents in attendance. So agents, be on the lookout for our cameras, and tweet @current, @maxandjason, or using #current while you're at the Fiesta Event. Who knows, you might find yourself on TV!I've been reading through some of the #fiestamovement tweets and blog posts from... more
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As a part of their Fiesta Movement we're partnering with Ford to have Max and Jason bring you the Fiesta Movement Celebration on December 2nd at 11:30/10:30c on Current TV. Before we dive into the details, here's some background information to give you a little context.
To kickoff the Fiesta Movement, Ford challenged bloggers, technologists, and any other social media enthusiasts to spend six months participating in a campaign called the Fiesta Movement. They received over 4,000 applicants, but only 100 were chosen to be "Agents of the Fiesta Movement." These agents spent the next six months behind the wheel of a Ford Fiesta while traveling around the country completing 600 monthly themed missions ranging from Travel, Adventure, Social Activism, Technology, Style & Design, and Entertainment.
Each of these missions were documented using social media sites like YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, 12seconds, and just about any other social media site out there. If your interested check out some of the missions, or if you're interested in what some of the agents are doing as their six month stint winds down take a look at the #fiestamovement hashtag on Twitter.
So, what are Max and Jason up to?
Here's the full rundown of what you can expect. On 12/1, the guys will be filming live at the Ford Fiesta Movement Celebration at the Palladium in LA between 11pm-2am E / 8pm-11pm P. They'll be spending the evening soaking up the event, and using Current cameras to get the unique perspective of the Fiesta Agents in attendance. Portions of their coverage will be streamed on the Max and Jason: Still Up page on Current.com, and live updates will also air on Current TV throughout the night.
Then on 12/2 Max and Jason will return to the Current airwaves to host the Fiesta Movement Celebration at 11:30/10:30c.
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Divorce has been in the news lately, specifically following the arrest of an divorced American father who was jailed while attempting to "rescue his children" from his estranged wife in Japan. I put that in quotes only because the concept of right vs. wrong is still very much in question here.
The father, Christopher Savoie, snatched his children while they walked to school with their mother in Japan. He is now in prison for kidnapping, and this is where it gets interesting. In an interview with CNN he states that his ex-wife Norika is actually the real kidnapper.
The issue here is that Japanese law states that custody in divorce cases should be granted to a single parent. Culturally, this typically falls to the mother, and while Christopher's case might be getting press in the US, it's coverage in Japan is actually indicative of the norm -- divorced Japanese fathers typically must fight for the ability to see their children.
"In Japan, nobody thinks it's a problem if a mother takes away her children without consent," said Hideki Tani, a lawyer who has taken on cases of fathers seeking access to their children. "Here, it's common for either parent to completely lose contact with children, but people outside Japan find it outrageous."
Masahiro Yoshida, a 58-year-old musician, is actively fighting to get custody in Japan. His ex-wife, Akemi Kurahashi, is open to granting Yoshida visitation rights, but with some hesitation.
"I will swallow my own feelings if my daughter is happy seeing her dad," she said. "But I still fear he may end up hurting me or her someday."
Today the good folks over at Current Exposed passed me their latest interview with Max and Jason. In the interview, the guys discuss issues of divorce in the US with Douglas Caballero. There are certainly stark contrasts in the way Japan handles custody in divorce cases. Max and Jason's insights reflect some of the thoughts and feelings of children of divorced families in the US, and it added a level of context missing from the Japanese divorce stories. While the cultural decision of granting sole custody to the Mother may be well intentioned, it misses one very crucial aspect -- the wants and needs of the children involved.Divorce has been in the news lately, specifically following the arrest of an divorced... more
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