Getting Closer

Well I'm almost done with restructuring www.life-digitized.com to incorporate the shopping area. Talked with Motorola's PR firm and we'll be getting the phones for DJ Armstead to review very soon..."Arm, hold tight man. We're about to do this!"

I still have to finish registering for the E3 conference. They run all the media trough hoops to get registered...fax business cards, send last published article, give DNA sample, all the formalities...AHHH!

On another note... It's Black History Month and Ossie Davis died on Feb. 4...What a trip. Alone in a hotel room in Miami, away from his wife of 56 years Ruby Dee, he passed.

Ossie Davis was an accomplished Broadway and film actor as well as civil rights activist made popular amongst us younger folk from his roles in several of Spike Lee's movies. He was good friends with Martin Luther King and he also gave the eulogy at Malcolm X's funeral.

Along with his wife Ruby Dee, they protested the killing in New York of a Guinean immigrant, brought lawsuits to federal court for black voting rights, as well as spoke out for citizen involvement in democracy and in support of sickle cell disease research. A true loss to this world. RIP.

Until next time. Think on that!

Still Hustlin'

Working on some new layouts for the website. It's been challenging balancing home, work, and the American dream. Gotta eat my vitamins... Received the ZVOX speaker that recreates surround sound, available for under $200 ($199). So far so good. Check the site for the full review in late Feb.

Still waiting on the phones from Motorola and the other items that need to get out to DJ Armstead in New York. Need to give him some time to play with the products before he starts reviewing items on www.djarmstead.com.

Sent over the copy for the Konsole Kingz piece. That should run soon... That reminds me; I need to get cracking on making a big impression at this years E3 conference in LA.

Gotta go! I'll holla soon.

The Big Payback!

It's 2005 Yall! It's been over 10 years since I started Informer Hip-Hop Magazine-my printed adventure into the hip-hop magazine world. I remember the only web design experience I had back then was creating a home page for Informer Magazine from my personal AOL account. I used the only WYSIWYG web design product out, Adobe PageMill! Who remembers that? I even had the nerve to print the url in the magazine too... "http://aol.member.com/informermag/index.html." Wow how far we have come...

Well things have changed and I've designed several websites since then and the one I'd like to vent on in this blog is www.life-digitized.com. That's the new 'Informer.' Not the same content but the same passion I had back in '93 when I was a young 21 year-old hip-hop loving graphic design student at California State University, Sacramento (Do the math! I'll be 33 this year and so WHAT!).

Anyways, I'll talk a little about myself and my adventures in the entertainment industry throughout my future posts. Hopefully I'll have something that I can scrap together one day and get published...that would be the lick! See ya soon.