Meow!

Yeah its been a while, I've been slipping with the blogs lol. School is getting more crazy so i have less time to dedicate to Hl, but i do all i can. And no one is friggin here now and its boring. Come on people get here earlier gosh!!!!.  Just kidding. Well most of my stories are up like the post election coverage and the pre election coverage. I want to go on more stories and write more stories, but there's nothing to do. I miss going out on them. Its kinda boring without doing that. I don't know what i wanna go on right now. Oh and i got my second piercing ^ ^. I want one or two more in my ears. Now i see how people get addicted to getting piercings. Sounds like a good story to me.... Well enough of that digression. 

Rich showed me some stuff that's going on that seems like good story ideas, like the tribute to Harriet Tubman tomorrow down the block. This is really early like 1:00, so if some of you guys want to leave school early or come here earlier its alright. Also there is this thing on Saturday where they are protesting the ban on gay marriage. I am deifinantly in there, because i hate people who hate on gays. Im all, 100% for gay rights. No I'm not a lesbian, like most of you people think, but i really hate homophobes and people putting down others because they are "different". Retards. Anyway being EIC(Editor in chief) is harder than i thought. Oh well i get to have a say in what goes up faster than others and tell some of the kids what to do. Yay.! 

And here is a really random boredom picture of me. I look weird but its ok.

one frame at a time

I believe in everyone at HarlemLIVE. I see how much work is being done and I know it will continue. Shem and I have to use a video service(vimeo) because there are so many videos. We all feel the momentum of the work being done; lets all be a force behind it. I commend all your efforts, but I know we can all do better. I'm going to step my game up and any of my students will too. I haven't tapped into the creativity that I know my web/video students possess. I don't think you guys(students) really get the pat on the back you deserve, but just know I think that you're all wicked awesome. Soon it will be a new year, a new president and now we need to set a new bar for greatness at HL. Get ready for content worthy of HL's name (one frame at a time)

Max and Barack for my Scrapbook

Barack Obama

Hey today I am working on a story about the reactions from the world, when newly elected Barack Obama became president. I would like to find people from different countries with different and ask about their opinion with Bacak Obama being elected. Amazingly more countries celebrated his victory than with any other president.

Class with Waarith

Today Waarith was teaching me some thing about video,today when i was at work. i learn how to crop videos and cut out thing. Today I learn more than 1 to 2 things. i feel that video can grow on me over time if i give it a chance. Over all i learn a little about video......

End of the Bowling Season

Bowling is probably the best sport ever! Im dead serious! I am on my schools bowling team. At first, I only signed up because I could get a pass from gym and get free periods! SWEET! But after the first week, I realized that I was pretty good a bowling, and that it was a lot of fun.

The season is unfortunately, very short and ended last week. i already miss it... even though the last game was last thursday! lol I love the girls on my team, and we worked very hard together. We were so close to the championship! If we had won one more game, we would had made it =( it was pretty disappointing because we worked so hard and really got along as a team. I going to miss my teammates and just having fun in the alley. On Thursday, i have individual bowling, so i am a little worried about not having my team to back me up, but I am sure i will be fine. my best game was last Wednesday, where i bowled a 137. I am proud at my accomplishments, and I can't wait for next season! 

Happy

This have been a great day today i finally got to wear my jacket after like two weeks of buying it. I am also very happy because my grandparents are coming in two weeks from now and i am so exited because i have a long time i don't see them and because my grandmother cooks so good and she understand me because she know what food i like and what i don't like. I am also happy because my parents are fixing my house and they are making it nice and pretty. Another thing that i am happy about is that my grandmother if leaving to D.R on December,4 and is not coming back until January,15 and because on the summer of 09 she is leaving to D.R forever and she is not coming back.(Thanks god). So yeah this are the thing that makes me happy.

Last Rainy Wednesday

It was wet, but that didn't stop us from making progress.

Stefanie and I worked on her Hostel story for a while, its coming along, Tammara and I worked on her new story and I got to meet Ashley for the first time. Ashely, Stefanie and I went to try to get a story out of the bike shop down the block, the owner was rude, but we will get a story out of him eventually. When we walked in he had some sort of death metal playing in the back round, and was explaining to some guy that he only makes money from labor, and sells parts at the whole sale price he gets the parts at. He told us to come back later, "he was with a customer". When I left Harlem Live later that night, the "customer" was still there talking to him, I don't think that he was a customer, in my opinion that guy was just rude.
Another great day at HLive, I hope your pasta came out good Ashely!
See you all later this week
David

The Run Down

Everyone was so happy this week. Everyone was a 'part of history.' Obama won... we still all have problems. I'm not nuts about the pigment in Obama's skin; I'm excited to see that he is a leader that will most likely take the country in a better direction. A lot of people play the race game, but to be in a progressive state of mind one must be able to see no difference between a person's appearance and beliefs. I glad to see Americans elect a great president, no more no less just a great president. Now with Obama out the way lets get into the run down.

Everyone in HarlemLIVE go add yourself to the new contact list!!!! CLICK HERE to get started.

The site is getting the content it deserves. We are using the bandwidth like no tomorrow. Shem and I will be working on a new video player next week to help the site let up on the heavy load of videos. All the students are giving us( Luisa, me: team Wiisa) lots of video for the show and site. Keep it up. The show is coming close to finished.

• African Day Parade (done)
• Halloween Parade (done)
• Scranton PA (done)
• HL reality (in progress)

We're all getting things done and I'm proud of everyone.

watched Obama Talk In Chicago

Today was a good day for me.. i woke up and i kiss m picture on my wall..then got to school early..then went to the museum of American history and had some good food thanks to my teacher Terri. then i come to hl and Selly let me know the first African American president will be speaking live in Chicago,Illinois so i went to CNN to see if they was covering the event since i became such a fan of them since this past summer due to Selly bringing me to CNN headquarters, i just be looking at there site more and everything.

so they have Obama speaking Live so i watched it and to be honest this was the first time i ever actually listen to what he was saying before and i felt bad seeing how i voted for him and only knew that he was black, wanted a change, wanted to make the economy back to its old self and i finally got the chance to just sit down and listen and watch our future and present president. it made me feel a type of way inside of me, it was like wow he really does sound like he will start to make life a little bit better for us Americans and make people understand all you have to do is work for what you want in life and to me that gives me motivation to succeed in life.


<----After i listened to what Obama i been thinking one day i can make m voice heard and make a difference when i get older. i have the goal to make my voice heard more, because i feel that my voice is not all that need to be put into action but i need to take a stand and get more involve which with harlemlive i will be able to.

What You All Have Been Missing These Past 4 Days

I know you guys at Harlem Live missed me sooooo much these past 4 days that I've been missing out in action. Unfortunately, due to certain circumstances I was unable to come to Harlem Live on Wednesday and Thursday due to my step team practice after school. I came there ready to learn this long as step that someone started teaching me and never finish, and I get there and these people want to be over hear teaching us a dance to do in our routine. I don't mind the whole dancing thing because I surely can dance and I like to pop it and drop it Lol, but the mixture of songs we are dancing to is hot and all but it's super fast. I'm so not used to doing a choreographed routines especially not to no fast ass song. I got the moves and stuff mostly down pact except for this one move but I'm working on it so watch out lol. The song is so fast it's like no room to mess up and try to catch yourself. You can't even try to count off the steps because you would be counting super fast. The dance and song is mad hot but just to fast. I can't wait until my school pep rally. The days leading up to the step team performance is going to be hectic but I know it's going to be mad sexy. Whatever we decide to put on I'm going to look mad hot hopefully the rest of the team does too lol. We are so going to rock the show. We are so much better than my school's whack ass cheerleaders and hopefully our performance shows that. Well, I'm over and out thats all I can think of writing for now. Until next time blogger.

This Is Charisma
And I Have Officially Blogged Out!
Lol. :-)

hello hehehehhe. today Rich was getting on my nerve. gonna kill him!!!!! He wants me to write more about I have no idea. so i'm liking harlem live soooo far. Hope to meet some cool people like ciara n beyonce to interview them..... kinda running out of things to say. 

Ash Kash is Outieee  

Thought this way funny

My view on the election and the triumph of Obama

Wow, we have a self-identifying black person that will be running our country. I hope that people don't think that by just casting this vote that we have made a big change in this country because to be honest we haven't. You have to be constantly involved in the ongoings of your country and community. By electing Obama doesn't mean that it ends here. When there are issues going on in your community such as police brutality and shady activity going on in the schools, you have to speak out about what's going on. You cannot be complacent with everything, you cannot say that in other countries it's worst, you cannot make lame excuses for less than stellar service. You have to be constantly speaking and making change don't think that just because you pulled down that lever this past Tuesday that you made such a large difference and that the road ends here because it haven't.

WE (Gen-We) did it!!!!

OUR Vote made it happen. WE made it happen. The YOUTH VOTE was record high, we put all the bullshyt aside and really became informed, involved, and went out and DID SOMETHING!!! This is just the beginning and I have never been more motivated and inspired to get connected and involved in and around the city, nation, and world...



Move out the way b/c here WE come!!!!

November 4, 2008

while at the Schoenberg museum i got the chance to meet congressman Rangel and his wife. that was an first personal experience that i had in a long time that made me so proud to be apart of Harlemlive because without them i would of never got the chance to speak to the congressman or even get to shake his hand.



A day in history that made a difference in my life.
yesterday i voted for the first time in my life and i felt like a made a difference like my voice was heard, my thought may come to the light. never had the feeling of making history and voting for Obama..i also went down to the Schoenberg Museum where they held an event in support of the 2008 elections. i was so proud to be in N.Y. last night because for the first time in my whole life i felt a change in everything. people on my block was going crazy..trowing things running around screaming OBAMA!!!! it just was an experience wish i had recorded it. now i and other African American have no reason to believe we can succeed cause if Obama can do it so can we.

we also went to 125Th street in front of the state building where they held their own event contain to the elections and got a chance to talk to some people and meet an CB11 reporter name Chris Glorioso and he gave us a first hand look at how the whole thing goes down when he does his interview and how long it takes to get it process and sent back to the studios. he also explain the equipment he had and how he did his voice over not even in an studio but, he wrote his lines out on his blackberry and then read them off as if he was at the studio onto an tape recorder and past his b role over his recordings.



Everywhere i went these past days I've seen nothing but Obama and Rangel posters or shirts and now to see that after all the talk about a black or colored man can not be president, to just see and be a witness of it makes me feel special and after i went to the state building my whole ride home all i heard about is "Obama the right man for the job" and "its time for a change in the white house" and in my head I'm like wow never knew it made people talk to each other so much and talk so positive, because usually when I'm on the train it either quiet or people arguing and last night it was peaceful and all for OBAMA.


Also today in school we have this thing in my school called "full group" and it where the whole school comes together for an hour and talk about things going on in life and in the school. and today a lot of kids screaming Obama and going wild because we have a new president and he African American and they was just all so happy to be aprat of history when in life as for as i know it people always doubt us to have an black president even 2pac doubt it--> "And although it seems heaven sent we ain't ready, to see a black president it ain't a secret don't conceal the fact the penitentiary's packed, and it's filled with blacks" so i feel if 2pac felt this way in 1995 seeing how Bill Clinton was the president at the time. Althou a lot of people called Bill Clinton the "black" president. so if 2pac was around now he would be proud just like all the millions of African American in the world are today.





The New President Of The United States Of America--->

OBAMA!!!

He did it, Obama is the president!
It is really interesting to me that Obama had 338 electoral votes, while McCain only had 140, but Obama only had 51% of the popular vote and McCain had 48% of the popular vote. This system does not make much sense to me, this would be a good story to investigate for Hlive, so we all understand it better.

Last week at HLive:
Last week Tammara and I worked on her article that covered HarlemLives trip to Scranton PA. We did a bunch of research into Scranton and into Pennsylvania and learned about the history of both. It seems like HLive had a good trip down there, and the interviews they conducted where interesting. Scranton seems like a very different kind of place from NYC. It must have been a shock for the students to experience that culture, or lack there of.

Today is another day at HLive, see you all later!

David McGregor

Voting

Holy crap, it took me like 15 minutes to cast my ballot. The lever that you have to pull was giving me a hard time. I would pull it, and the entire station would move. I had to hold the opposite wall and pull the lever ridiculously hard. When I finally got it, I was afraid that I had broke it. Then the little knobs gave me the same problems. Its like they did not want me to vote....

My first day at Harlem Live

My first day was different i had meet new people and i got to work right away. Working at Harlem Live so far has been a great. My second day was busy  and i was the first one there. This boy name dayday seem to be a great person. Waarith i think is going to be a great teacher, and going to teach me some new things. Shem seems to be straight foreword with everything and a little demanding but its ok sometimes i might forget things.  

My Voting Experience

So when I woke up this AM all I saw on the news were reports of the LONG lines of people at the polling sites. I knew I absolutely HAD to get some footage and make my mark in history by capturing a few bits and pieces of this HistoricElection (no matter who wins) What I didnt expect was to see the line in my Park Slope Neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY go around the corner!! It was 6:30Am and these folks were obviously trying to vote before they went in to work. The majority of them were in business attire, and either reading newspapers or drinking their morning coffee. Although the line stretched around the block, forming a complete C no one seemed to mind that they were in for atleast a 45 minute wait.



Yes, I am already aware the video is Shaking quite a bit. But hey, atleast Im giving you footage right?? Anyways, so after purchasing all the newspapers I could find (I want the before and afters of this day to record) I went home and had a light breakfast, thinking of my fellow Brooklynites (other New Yorkers and Americans too) and how inspired I felt to see such great numbers out to Vote, out to speak up and actually DO SOMETHING!! So I quickly got dressed and headed over to cast MY ballot, my voice and to leave my mark for the history books. (I hadnt planned to do so until later at around 11) When I went back I was suprised to see that the line had grew!!! But I was never more proud to stand on such a long line (and probably will never be again in my life! lol) Waiting on that line with everyone else was an exciting experience everyone knew we were all there for the same purpose, and we would all share quiet smiles with eachother trying to stop ourselves from jumping up and down and cheering for ourselves and the future. Alot more people than I expected were taking pictures, and a lady driving by honked her horn and pumped her arm as she drove by, excited to see so many people out to Vote. I took my spot on the line at 8:00Am and pulled the lever to the right at 9:00Am, and made history by putting my vote in for Obama..........small moment of silence to let it sink in........what it must mean for so many people around this nation (and the world) today, no matter what race you are, where you grew up, who you have voted for in the past, or where you are going in life, I am sure we all indulged in those few seconds of silence, of what was just made possible.

When leaving the Polling site I was even more amazed to see that the line had DOUBLED!!! I could only imagine what it will be like later after everyone gets out of work!