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Red Carpet
Monday, August 27, 2007. Red Carpet Premiere of " Bourne Ultimatum. Red Carpet at Potsdamer Platz, Berlin). Century Limited - an express passenger train for the upper class and business travelers heading from NYC to Chicago in 1902 to 1967. Known for its speed and style, the elite guests were invited to board on their swift journey by way of a plush, crimson carpet. So began the red carpet trend, and so it continues. My question: Can the paparazzi free walk the walk? In my mind, they are the real show.
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Refugees
Saturday, July 21, 2007. Can I change a culture? Can I change a past? She stands five feet strong. Birth’s bulge protrudes from her teenage frame. A tongue forming Russian and curling Turkish salivates for English. Her eyes osculate towards the Southern light while dilating as she invites me into the hazel. The brown, shaded by darkness, opens her skin to the stateless persecution. Searching for her motherland she culminates across the tidal surge, landing in a foreign drawl of permanency.
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Resume
Saturday, July 21, 2007. June 2008 - August 2008 Ausra. Alto, CA - Communications Specialist. Helped market, plan, and execute the opening of Ausra's. First of its kind manufacturing and distribution center in Las Vegas. It produces reflector lines, absorber tubes, and other key components for the company's solar thermal power plants. Assisted in web updates, video editing, and upcoming conference planning. May 2007- April 2008 CNN. Atlanta, GA - Political Assignment Editor. Write wires for CNN's. Interv...
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Reuters TV
Sunday, August 12, 2007. Reuters TV located along the River Spree). Daily at Reuters TV in Berlin each employee competes in a triathlon. The race is to get the story and footage in time for the 12:30p and or 4:45p German and World feeds. But now, after an intense Avid editing class, this is my week to finish the swim, bike, and run on my own two feet. We immediately dive into the stories vast waters and attempt to cut a straight course. My route has been a little zig-zaggy as my German grammar errors...
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Sans Souci
Monday, September 3, 2007. Me and my trusty bike). The entire 100 mile Berlin Wall - outlined in green). Remnants of the Wall found along the way). My saving grace - Bratwurst wrapped in bacon discovered in Rudow). Biking through the tunnels of green). Sunset at Heiliger See in Potsdam). Castle Cecilienhof - no rooms available). Hotel Voltaire found me). The royal crown atop the Brandenburg Tor in Potsdam). Albert Einstein at his summer house in Caputh). Sans souci (meaning "no worries" in French). Yes, ...
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Silent Dialogue
Monday, August 27, 2007. Silent Film Pianist, Yvo Verschoor). Setting for the silent film - Bed and Sofa). Silence. I left vocalizing. As many of you know, I am not a movie buff. Anytime I walk into a theater or hit the play button at home, it takes me no more than 15 minutes to lose interest, brainstorm other things I should be doing, and then react either by getting up or falling asleep. Tonight though, I was infatuated. Simple was the setting, complicated was the topic, and engaged was the mind. A wom...
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BZFO
Tuesday, August 14, 2007. Berlin Center for Torture Survivors. It was a misty bike ride, and I was filled with uncertain thoughts. I was heading to a torture treatment center and meeting with a woman that showed no warmth in her emails. Oddly, her short, deterring responses did not stop me. I was intrigued and craving to volunteer and work with some of these survivors while in Berlin. Out of the office asking with such sternness - "Was suchen. What are you searching for? I told her BZFO. Founded in 1992,...
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Travel
Freitag, 17. August 2007. I am most alive when I am a nobody, on the side of an unknown road, invigorated by the thrill of the adventure ahead. Sticking out my thumb, inviting in a stranger and their city, and hitchhiking ideas, beliefs, and cultures, I am rediscovered. Germany (August and September 2007). Posted by Marissa @ 05:33.
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Meskhetian Turk Refugees
Monday, August 6, 2007. After transferring down to CNN World Headquarters in Atlanta, GA in 2005, I realized that though I was walking alone into an unknown city, I was not a foreigner. I desired to see this city and the South with fresh eyes. So, I began volunteering with the International Rescue Committee ( http:/ www.theirc.org/. And in turn discovered the beauty of America through the eyes of refugees. In November 1944, under orders from Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, nearly 120,00 Meskhetians were r...
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Video
Monday, August 13, 2007. Posted by Marissa @ 7:16 AM.
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Waterless Swimming
Montag, 10. September 2007. It is waterless swimming that lets me open the flood gates to the weeks routine. Once immersed, the water recognizes my flutter. The familiarity of the average temperatures and the 16 stroke distance to the other end propels me into a consistent rhythm. I can then tackle the unexpected cold pocket, choppy waters, or chlorine boost. The course is a known blueprint. My shower mat remains imprint free, my one piece takes the shape of the towel rack, and my goggles hibernate.
