Kirsten Studio

I had the pleasure of seeing and listening to Karen Schmeer at New York’s 2009 Edit Fest.  An interesting speaker and incredible artist. I felt lucky to gain some access into Ms. Schmeer’s vision and approach to her work. Ms. Schmeer lost her life Friday night in a tragic turn of events.  She was Errol Morris’ [...]

I attended a screening of Defiance on Thursday night as part of the week long observance of the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust will focus on a central theme: “The Legacy of Survival” at the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan. The week’s focus is around “lessons that the survivors [...]

This multimedia fundraiser took place at Best Buy’s loft in Soho. Parsons New School of Design students created Afghan inspired art based on the video Heather Metcalfe produced and directed and I cut. We first took the video short (entitled Voices of Afghanistan) to the school for a screening and post panel talk back, then [...]

An Op-Ed article from the New York Times written by Nicholas Kristof was forwarded to me the other day. It’s a great read about giving and the immense rewards giving, well… gives. I very much buy into this as when people thank me for a gift or a kind gesture, I often think, and sometimes [...]

The 6th annual Making Your Media Matter is only a few short weeks away and this year I’m leaning toward making the trip down to D.C.  There is a promising line up and for the two day conference at the Center for Social Media at the School of Communication American University, the price isn’t too [...]

Considering that this evening was the final day of the Georgia O’Keefe exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art, it was probably not the best night to see the Omar Fast Nostalgia installation. I, however, was not only unaware that O’Keefe’s last day at the Whitney was January 15th, but that the occasion would [...]

It’s no news to most Roger Corman fans that this year Mr. Corman received a special Oscar. I think of this as a big step for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences as it represents a value acknowledgment. That value being that there are vastly different types of talent in cinema and Roger Corman [...]

I was reading on the subway the other day about energy conservation.  In particular about a guy by the name of Robert Caildini who, according to the writer Bonnie Tsui, a freelance writer who wrote the article Greening With Envy for The Atlantic, was one of the very first social psychologists to look at what motivates [...]