A run down of how E4 Youth is creating a community of practice around immersive media via its Storytelling wi 360 Video Workshop. Shot and edited by Damian Flores.
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Net Neutrality and What I learned at Mozilla Festival This video does a decent job of explaining Net Neutrality. It’s been just over a month since I returned from London and MozFest, the world’s leading festival for the open Internet movement. Just before I left, I wrote a #CarlGoneLearnVR blog post about my learning goals for […]
I seldom worked with any people of color in my first 15 years in the business. If you’re an advertising or marketing person from my generation, I’m willing to bet you have a similar story. “Oh, and we’ve assigned you to write the ‘Urban’ radio for this Pepsi promotion, because you’re the youngest writer on […]
Finding Allies As We Diversify the Creative Workforce Yesterday morning, I had coffee with Austin copywriter Brian Thompson and at the end of our convo, he handed me a generous donation. Brian had heard about E4 Youth through Creative Mornings Austin talk by local comedian, ad guy and E4 volunteer Carlton Wilcoxson. After reflecting on […]
#CarlGoneLearnVR @ MozillaFest Remember when this was the way we got on the web? Well, in about 24 hours, I’ll be headed to the airport and off to Ravensbourne, London to nerd out at Mozilla Festival on everything digital. For my non nerd friends, the Mozilla Foundation is the non-profit arm of @Mozilla, makers of the […]
E4 Youth is Headed to London! Mozilla Foundation has invited E4 Youth to Ravensbourne London as a part of MozFest 2017. For the past 9 years, E4 Youth has worked with industry leaders in the creative sector to provide training, mentoring, job shadowing and employment opportunities to underserved creative youth in Austin Texas. Mozilla Foundation has invited […]
Social Entrepreneurs: Creating Our Own Paths Members of E4 Youth program Legacy ATX on the set of their 360 music video Onto Somethin’ The most important thing is to get started… It’s been almost ten years since I first started volunteering with a local high school audio video production class at John B. Connally high school […]
E4 Youth’s newest enrichment program, the Get Creative Media Club, is nearing the end of its first semester. Meeting Thursday nights at Austin Public studios, the purpose of the program is to give Central Texas students the opportunity to hone their production, promotion, and entrepreneurial skills by working as the marketing team for a […]
Opportunity Youth: Left Out of the Creative Class “Opportunity youth” — ages 16–24 considered under educated and under-employed. Great example of how to reach opportunity youth. YouthBuild Over the past few years, I have seen a lot of momentum gathering around the idea of remedying systematic inequalities across the U.S.. Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter have […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 19, 2016 Contact Person: Carl Settles 512-917-2551, carl@e4youth.org Legacy ATX Performs at A Night with E4 Youth What: Youth all-star group releases EP When: May 19, 2016, 6 – 9PM Where: McGarrah Jessee Ad Agency (121 W.6th St., Austin, TX 78701) Youth All-Star Group Performs with Grammy Award Winning Musicians Listen […]