Mary Pilon contacted me a few weeks ago about a story for the Wall Street Journal on “yo-yos”. We did a quick interview, but I didn’t have my hopes up about making it in the paper. After all, I’ve been contacted 3 other times by the WSJ for various stories, but was never actually included.
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Yo-Yo’s in the Wall Street Journal
Dimensions
Erica and I went to Lafayette this weekend to visit her parents. During the trip, Kat (Erica’s mom), set up a make shift photo session in their living room. She took the shoots and, with a little help from photoshop, came up with this image.
Check out my hot band aid action.
die Über-Nerd
Elektrischer Reporter, which I assume is the most popular TV show in Germany, has created a new mini-documentary on “Nerd-Kultur“. This slickly produced video features various internet famous people discussing nerd culture. Being internationally known as an Über-Nerd, they had to include an interview with me in there too. Although the video also features some [...]
In the SF Examiner
The SF Examiner ran a cool piece in yesterdays issue as a promotion for the upcoming California State Yo-Yo Contest at the Exploratorium. It’s a cool little article about yours truly, and has the same old story you’ve probably heard a billion times, but I love the picture.
We Like Chess
cross posted from DrownRadio.com:
We Like Chess from Karim Amara on Vimeo.
A few weeks ago Irina, AllAboutGeorge, and myself recorded individual verses for the WuChess Rap Contest. Shortly after, George laid down a beat and we re-recorded our vocals. Then we headed down to the big chess scene on Market Street and shot the video. Between [...]
