Blog Feed: The Authentic Seattleite

The Gaga Phenomenon

Published on 2011-05-30 02:01:00

Upon starting this blog, I never would have imagined that I would be writing a post about Lady Gaga. But last week, something struck me as needing some investigation: Lady Gaga was rated as the most influential person of 2010 in the Time 100 poll.I'v > read more

Vive Le Football Libre

Published on 2011-04-11 22:23:00

Nike is now the current sponsor for the French National Soccer team after earning the franchise for almost $400 million dollars, according to The New York Times. While I was in Europe, all the Niketown stores, present in every major city, had display > read more

FORZA ROMA

Published on 2011-01-23 21:58:00

One of the things I was looking forward to the most about studying abroad in Italy was being able to finally attend a European soccer match. Being in Europe a few times before, I had always came during the off-season when no games were being played. > read more

Veni, Vidi... Vici?

Published on 2011-01-23 15:18:00

While abroad in Europe, I will be keeping a separate blog about what's going on with me. Check it out here! > read more

Recognize, America

Published on 2011-01-18 16:40:00

One of the best blogs I've read in a long, long time. (Thanks to my fellow travel abroad-er, Lauren Ginnever, for sending this my way). While reading this, I couldn't stop nodding my head, "yes," while laughing. Yet at the same time, I couldn't help > read more

"My City's Filthy"

Published on 2011-01-10 15:01:25

Though I don't follow as closely as I did back in high school, I've always tried to keep up with Seattle's music scene. It’s been a couple years since I’ve even been to a show, actually, but I still make sure to buy the albums and support these l > read more

My Oh My

Published on 2011-01-10 14:41:00

As most of you know, Dave Niehaus, the voice of the Seattle Mariners, passed away a couple months ago. Macklemore, a Seattle musician who I've mentioned previously on here, created an epic tribute.When I thought it would be impossible for someone to > read more

Madison Avenue Today

Published on 2011-01-09 09:52:00

For Fall quarter, I was fortunate to do some independent research as one of my classes. With professor sponsorship/advising, I studied how the internet is shaping today's advertising industry. My final product was a twenty page paper which I posted o > read more

Hello, Mr. President

Published on 2010-10-26 00:17:00

To this day, it astounds me how much power a school like the University of Washington has. Next Tuesday, November 2nd, are the primary elections. President Barack Obama made it a point to come to our UW campus to rally votes for the incumbent democra > read more

Mini's huge mobile splash

Published on 2010-10-20 22:58:00

When I think back on my childhood, some of my most fond memories were playing games, of course. Being an outdoorsy kid, I played a lot on the playground during recess. Tag was my game. Now, as a young adult, I can't remember the last time I got to pl > read more

55th and Brooklyn

Published on 2010-10-18 20:03:00

As I've discussed in previous posts, blogging/social media is a great way for aspiring musicians to be heard, discovered, or just share their music with the world. More and more artists are being "found" online by random producers- in fact, MySpace o > read more

New York, Take Four

Published on 2010-09-27 19:55:00

I recently returned from a short trip to New York City. This trip had a much different motive than any of my other visits to the Big Apple. Sure, I had some fun on the side, but the main point of this trip was to meet with advertising professionals t > read more

A Wunderful Summer

Published on 2010-09-12 22:43:00

My last entry was titled “My apologies…” jokingly in regards to how I anticipated the World Cup taking over the topics of the following blog entries. What I did not anticipate, however, was how busy I would be this summer. If you look at the da > read more

My apologies...

Published on 2010-06-02 00:09:00

But this is going to have to turn into a World Cup blog for the next month or so whether you like it or not. But come on- I'm sure you've already seen the trend leading up to the Cup. Now please don't get too upset. It will still be focused on market > read more