About Russell C. Smith and Michael Foster

The writing team of Smith and Foster comes from an extensive background of new media content creation. They are both established professionals with careers in literature, design and fine arts each with unique generational perspectives on mass media and global culture.

Kindness: A New Documentary Is Spreading the Word

By |2018-01-27T22:29:10+00:00July 17th, 2013|Huffington Post|

<em>Good Virus: Kindness Is Contagious</em>, by documentary filmmaker, David Gaz explores the idea of kindness as an emotional contagion, and a force for good in the world.

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Digital Fire: Give Us This Day Our Daily Tech

By |2018-01-27T22:41:10+00:00June 19th, 2013|Huffington Post|

By Russell C. Smith and Michael Foster The Internet poses two questions to people every day: What are you wishing (searching) for right now? How much change (acceleration) can a culture endure in a short span of time? A familiar trope in Sci-fi movies has the visitor from the past stuck in front of a [...]

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Reinventing the Post-Punk Era: Why Savages Might Find Nirvana

By |2018-01-27T16:48:33+00:00June 12th, 2013|Huffington Post|

Punk music in its purest form projects an element of danger and disruption, rage and revolt. It is music with the power to jolt the listener awake. Maybe 2013 will be the year British post-punk wakes people up.

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Digital Fire: Northwest Voices in the Arts, Books, and Business on Reinvention

By |2018-01-27T19:52:09+00:00May 31st, 2013|Huffington Post|

We asked a few Northwest people in the arts and business communities what reinvention means to them.

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Reinvention and Authenticity: People, Companies, and Countries

By |2018-01-27T19:51:55+00:00May 29th, 2013|Huffington Post|

Being authentic means trusting your gut and moving ahead. It means that many times, your questions will be more important than your answers. On a personal level, it's where deeper truths are discovered.

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Reinventing the TV Rating System: How Community’s Fans Battled the Nielsen Rating System

By |2021-03-27T20:14:23+00:00May 8th, 2013|Huffington Post|

Once upon a time, the Nielsen rating system mattered. Not any longer. What matters now is fans and buzz. What matters in the digital age is is tribes and Twitter.

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The Boston Marathon and Social Media: What If a Terrorist Act Goes Against the Whole World?

By |2018-01-27T19:25:27+00:00April 25th, 2013|Huffington Post|

Has terrorism finally reached a tipping point? When a terrorist act goes against all of us, every country on Earth has a stake in stopping this type of insane violence against humanity.

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Can the Republican Party Be Reinvented? Talking Openly About the Elephant in the Room

By |2018-01-27T19:58:51+00:00April 16th, 2013|Huffington Post|

The aftermath of what many consider the worst presidency in our history has damaged the GOP, and party leaders choosing an entire roster of out-of-touch candidates in 2012 shows the damage is ongoing.

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The Reinvention Movement: Claim Your Uniqueness

By |2018-01-27T19:52:42+00:00April 3rd, 2013|Reinvention|

Every day people who never imagined themselves as inventors, business owners, culture shifters, and reinventors have begun exploring all those unexplored sides of who they are, and what they might become.

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