Monday, December 28, 2009

VCU Brandcenter prof makes a mark on students | Richmond Times-Dispatch

VCU Brandcenter prof makes a mark on students | Richmond Times-Dispatch

This is an awesome article. A homage to one of the toughest and one of the best professors/teachers I've ever had in my life: Donald Ray Just. One of the more memorable quotes from the article which perfectly epitomizes the expectations of Don Just of his students in his Business of Branding class at the Brandcenter was from another of my fave professors at the Brandcenter Kelly O'Keefe who said, "Don Just was a formidable competitor who didn't just intend to win, he wanted to crush you,".

Read up my imaginary followers. Read up.....

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

It's been a while.....

and I'm still recovering from the semester. This semester was brutal. I definitely learned a lot which is always good but sleep was hard to come by. Now I know I said I was going to post something at least once a month and my last post was in Septmeber but I was definitely blind sided by all that has happened this semester. I did an opportunity to showcase my acting skills. First as the headliner in the modern day blaxploitation film, Delicious Aloicious which can be viewed here:


I shaved shirtless for a Gillette Foamy spot for a couple of my classmates which got rave reviews from the ladies. Then most recently I got to be the dude from the Cracker Barrel logo, which my group and I decided to name Rockin Willie. I acted out the dialogue, actions, and mannerisms of Rockin Willie in our final presentations for our brand revival project which was a lot of fun and actually got Rick Boyko, the head man at the Brandcenter, to notice me.


Yeah I found out a lot about myself this pass semester and my ability to be a pretty decent actor was definitely a surprise to me.

Well till next time my imaginary followers....