This Friday my close teacher/friend and I will be traveling to the New York Federal Reserve Bank in New York City with a very carefully selected group of students. Carefully selected because everybody don’t know how to act. But, it’s not their fault. Check the cartoon for how some folks have portrayed black and brown peoples for years.

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I sort of wish this is what everyone had said. I don’t really know who or what John Mayer is, but if he’s like most other celebrities, he’s probably just more self-assured than is strictly healthy for a person to be, and doesn’t filter his outrageous statements as well as he might. Who cares? He makes music or something? Listen to someone else.

They Always Do from Benjamin Ahr Harrison on Vimeo.

Director Benjamin Ahr Harrison returns from a West Coast stint with some new content for y’all. Check out this live video of Heath Brandon performing his song “They Always Do”. Filmed at Bravo Studio. Directed by BAH. Shot by Max Nova. Recorded by Dave Liang.

Neil Degrasse Tyson is one of my heros. Take fun little virtual tour of his office from Seed Magazine HERE.

This kid has $50k from investing in stock. Bananas.

Stephen Colbert rapping? Come on, son.

TURBO from Jarrett Lee Conaway on Vimeo.

Shouts to Ray Muhammad for putting this on our radar. We may just have to bring these guys on the Double Down Film Show. Conaway is a USC student raising $400K for his film, using techniques learned in a class taught by Robert Zemeckis.

Read more about the project HERE.

I may not like all of his movies but he is one creative cat. Plus, I think (and welcome any correction) that he is married to Helena Bonham Carter (or was) and she was dope in Fight Club and all of her other movies. If I gotta pick a fave, I’ll go with Big Fish for Burton though…he is great with humanizing the so called “outcast” in all of his films.

A lot of folks think this here is the best rapper alive. You’ll find no concurment here, if that’s even a word, but I figure folks are into Weezy and this vid might get some hits. All seriousness, check out the 10 minute preview above to the doc (which was at Sundance?) and let us know your thoughts. If I’m hating, it’s cool — just prove to me why these lyrics should be bowed down to.

In this edition of “How-To Tuesdays” we tackle success. It’s all how you define it. Listen to Alain de Botton as he examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work. These remarks were made at the TED Conference.