Carrotmob!

What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the word Carrotmob?


Ok, that was pretty lame. I apologize (I found that here).

The Carrotmob I’m actually talking about is a non-profit started by Brent Schulkin. I’ve never met Brent, but I can tell you, anyone who posts this list of detailed personal values get an A+ in my book for honesty and openness. He also gets an A+ from TeamJaded for starting Carrotmob- a DIY do-er.

In an email forwarded to me, Brent says:

"If you didn't know, I'm trying to start a new non-profit called Carrotmob. This Saturday is the first campaign. If it is successful, the network will grow, I'll get funded and hire people, and I will have found a so-called "career", that elusive catch that we have all been seeking since we first learned what an "astronaut" was."

A sentiment regularly felt by those trying to Make It Happen. So TeamJaded urges you to support Brent and Carrotmob… Go do this:

“On Saturday, March 29th, at 1pm, come to K & D Market (on 16th St at Guerrero in San Francisco) and buy whatever you want. Buy a lot. We're going to be tracking everyone's purchases and then calculating how much revenue we brought to the store. K & D has committed to spending 22% of all the revenue we bring in on energy-saving measures identified by an SF Energy Watch audit, in order to make their store more environmentally friendly!”

Need more info? Go here. Got more Questions? Go here. It's pretty simple. Buy things you already buy. Help make the world a better place. Carrotmob made this lovely graphic to illustrate:


You still wondering what exactly IS Carrotmob?

From Carrotmob.org:
Our goal is to improve the world by helping companies embrace socially responsible choices. Our primary focus is the environment. We recognize that corporations must keep profit as their top priority. Historically, this fact has meant that the environment has suffered, since companies have made more money by harming the planet. We are going to put rewards in place that will make environmental responsibility the more profitable choice. Companies will do what we want, not because of negative pressure, or morality, or a boycott, or a petition...there are enough sticks out there. We need a big juicy carrot. They will do what we say because they won't be able to resist the profits.

And for those of you who hate reading, you probably didn't make it this far... but here you go:

Thanks to Rachel Strader for passing this info along.

Witness the Hub

This is another taste of Seesmic. I had the opportunity to cut Loic Lemeur's show yesterday. Loic is the company's founder and he also hosts a daily vlog called Seesmic Du Jour that details his experience launching Seesmic. The show is usually cut by Mr. Whit Scott, but he was busy playing Ultimate Frisbee in Italy.

The Reason that I'm sharing the show on TeamJaded is because Loic has an interesting guest. He talks to a guy named Sameer Padania who works for an organization called Witness. I'll let them explain what Witness is all about...


Oh, and notice the color in that video? So vibrant. That's our Canon A1, I love that camera.

World's Ends Meet

This is the view from down the street from our new digs in the Mishstro. The pic is totally borrowed from here. Thanks!

We’ve been back in San Fran for a couple of months now, and you’re all probably wondering what happened with the updates, vlogs, trailer, and well everything…

Have you heard of Maslo and his hierarchy of needs?


We’re stuck on survival at the moment. S.F. is one of the most expensive cities to live in, and if you’ll look to your right you might notice that we’ve been in the business of accepting donations since the get go… but this is not us asking for more money. The point is we just don’t have much cash flow; so making it in “the city” hasn’t been the easiest thing in the world.

We are making it though, for the moment. Jeremey is “freelancing” himself full-time to a dot com start-up called Seesmic and making just enough money to get by with no time to spare for anything else except eating and sleeping, and sometimes not that. Abby is actively on the hunt for work in the worst economy in our lifetime. Meanwhile, she’s also busy laying the groundwork for TeamJaded to ramp up production and more importantly post-production.

So expect new video content, it’s coming. We’re working on prioritizing our Post List and hopefully getting some time to dig in soon. Thanks for being patient with us.

In the meantime we gotta send shout-outs to some of our friends making it happen:

Roughneck, Decade of Aggression finally premiered last week, so expect it in a skate-shop near you at some point in the future.


Lowcard #22 is out and it’s bound.


Sisterz of the Underground just celebrated their 7-year anniversary. Happy anniversary ladies, we’re sure the party at Club 6 was a blow out.



And here is some random Seesmicness, Free Ingrid: