Blog / Movies / Non-Fiction / Panama Tourist Guide / Video
Tags: aparicio, butter battle book, ciudad de dios, constant struggle, danger man, el chorrillo, facebook, Halo-3, hyper reality, lemon twist, multiple times, news last week, old songs, Panama, parades, playing soccer, raccoon, ramses, remixes, terry gilliam, tupac shakur, turf war, warring factions, watching the news
March 13, 2008
This is not much an article or essay as it is commentary on the type of world we live in today, one where at times I feel like I’ve stepped into some bizarre Terry Gilliam-inspired hyper reality of the absurd and I can’t, for the life of me, get out. I was watching the news [...]
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Music / Panama Tourist Guide
Tags: berklee college of music, college of music, commemorative cd, compositions, creative freedom, danilo pérez, endeavour, facebook, folkloric elements, geographical borders, herron, human species, jazz festival, lucky stars, movement composition, mp3, Music, musical institutions, new england, new england conservatory, panama jazz festival, Panama Suite, panamanian music, truth and justice
February 7, 2008
One of the big announcements that took place during the Panama Jazz Festival was the release of a commemorative CD celebrating five years of Jazz in Panama; a nifty album performed by the Danilo Pérez Big Band and produced by Billy Herron and the Berklee College of Music called “The Panama Suite.” The name fits [...]
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Blog / Panama Tourist Guide / Porto Diao and Friends
Tags: Blog, charming_man, current_marketing, facebook, girls, juan-carlos-navarro, landslide_victory, man_of_mystery, Panama, Panama Tourist Guide, panamanian, politics, Porto Diao and Friends, ricardo_martinelli, supermarket_chains, zombie-walk, zombie_walk
October 19, 2007
As an aside to this piece, I feel compelled to share this tidbit with you: I got to work this morning and after settling in and the like, I decided to peruse Facebook. The social netwroking website has been vital to Porto Diao’s current marketing ventures, especifically talking about the Zombie Walk and I’m the [...]
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Articles / Panama Tourist Guide / Rants
Tags: amazon, Articles, blood_boil, caca, candy_land, chuck_taylor, consumerism, department_store, eBay, facebook, food_court, guillotine, halo_3, Jean-Caca, juega-vivo, manhood, niches, Panama, Panama Tourist Guide, panama-city, PayPal, pondering, rabbit_hole, Rants, shoe_store, specialty_stores, sweet_candy, thesis, video_game_store, youtube
October 19, 2007
Let me begin by saying that I am not an economist and the rabbit hole goes much deeper than I’ve managed to crawl myself into regarding the following, and this thesis is open for discussion in and out of my chunk of the internet. Having said that, I was having lunch writing down facts to [...]
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Articles / Panama Tourist Guide / Porto Diao and Friends
Tags: american_forces, Articles, broken_hips, casual_reader, clueless, extracurricular_activities, facebook, flag_football, gems_of_wisdom, lowdown, mangled, nfl_players, Panama Tourist Guide, panama_flag, peruse, playing_field, porto, Porto Diao and Friends, raisin, shapes_sizes, social_networking, vets
October 3, 2007
Since both Porto Diao and myself peruse Facebook daily for both pertinent and extracurricular activities, I get a lot of invites to events of all shapes, sizes and topics. As great a tool as the social networking site is, sometimes it can become quite overwhelming and douched in its own particular brand of bullshit that, [...]
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Blog / Panama Tourist Guide / Porto Diao and Friends / Video
Tags: alternate-reality-game, Blog, butterfest, events, facebook, flip, Matador, NBK, Panama, Panama Tourist Guide, Porto Diao and Friends, Rob-Rivera, Video, youtube
June 12, 2007
Rejoice, dear fellows! Though fashionably late, Butter, Flip and other fine collaborators have finally finished what is the greatest video creation we’ve done yet: the video tutorial for PortoDiao.com’s MATADOR!: An alternate reality game created to make its participants soldiers of fortune, all of them set loose in the concrete jungle to hunt and [...]
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Articles / Blog / Panama Tourist Guide / Porto Diao and Friends
Tags: alternate-reality-game, Articles, Blog, facebook, Matador, Panama, Panama Tourist Guide, Porto Diao and Friends, Rob-Rivera, society, youtube
May 21, 2007
Porto Diao is proud to present its latest mega event, in tune with the guerrilla approach we’ve become known for in order to change the face of culture in Panama in different, never-before-seen ways. This new event, which I talked about some months ago here, is the latest and greatest from the Porto Diao creative [...]
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Blog / Memoirs / Panama Tourist Guide / Rants
Tags: bamboozled, bandwagon, Blog, cybersex, facebook, fad, first_experience, fuzz, guess, Hi5, hook_up, icq, kazaa, keyboard, limewire, lovey_dovey, Memoirs, myspace, nae, nonsense, Panama, Panama Tourist Guide, pushes, Rants, Rob-Rivera, RSS, social-networking, social_networking_sites, wee_bit
April 18, 2007
For someone who’s really into what he likes, I usually tend to jump on the internet fad bandwagon a wee bit late, instead opting to use sites and resources that are actually worth a damn. But for every Kazaa, ICQ and LimeWire that comes around every other month, one can’t help but try them out [...]
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