December 6, 2916

...out of smart?  Linda Holliday has some ideas about this. Plus a souldful performance by Justin Trawick and perhaps one of the 'creepiest' New Yorkers you might meet, Jason Wishnow.  Take a watch.



Linda Holliday

Linda Holliday has been at the forefront of digital media for 20 years as an entrepreneur and investor. She is now the founder and CEO of Citia, a Mobile-Era, card technology for multi-platform publishing. Citia has attracted clients as diverse as GE, Viacom, MasterCard, Fidelity, Estée Lauder and Snoop Dogg. She holds a BFA in Design and a Wharton MBA. Prior to Citia, she co-founded several businesses including Medical Broadcasting Company,  now Digitas Health, (part of Publicis Groupe) where she served as President. She lives in New York where she is an angel investor and teaches in the School of Visual Arts Masters of Design Entrepreneurship program.

Justin Trawick

Justin Trawick has been performing in the Washington DC Area and along the East Coast since 2006, citing musical influences like Bob Schneider, The Tallest Man on Earth, G. Love, Old Crow Medicine Show, and David Gray.  In June of 2015, Trawick released his first single with his band “Justin Trawick and the Common Good.” Written about the search for direction and belonging in a world that constantly feels one step ahead of you, “Goodbye” is available for download on iTunes along with a music video documenting the recording session available on YouTube.  The band has opened for over 30 national acts including Suzanne Vega, Brett Dennen, Blues Traveler, Bob Schneider, and Edwin McCain, and shared bills with Dr. Dogg and The Avett Brothers.  Founder of the nationally touring show “The 9 Songwriter Series” and co-founder of “The Circus Life Podcast" with guests such as Kevin Eubanks, Chris Thomas King, Ernie Halter, Yarn, and Snuffy Walden, Trawick has built a brand that extends beyond just being a musician local to DC.  In February of 2014, Trawick won “Song of the Year” at the Washington Area Music Awards for his song “All the Places That I’ve Been," which can be downloaded on iTunes as a single along with his five other solo records and EPs.




Jason Wishnow

Jason Wishnow is the filmmaker behind TED Talks, the Peabody Award winning video series watched over one billion times (even in outer space).  Wishnow works at the intersection of film and emerging technologies and has been called “no stranger to difficult shoots” (Wired UK, 2014), an “online-video virtuoso” (New York Times, 2009), the “enfant terrible of digital film” (The Guardian, 2000), and one of the ten most influential digital filmmakers of 1999 (RES Magazine).  Prior to joining TED, Wishnow founded one of the first film websites, The New Venue, in the mid-’90s, an entire decade before YouTube. In 2000, Wishnow organized the first handheld/mobile film festival, The Aggressively Boring Film Festival, named after the technical limitations of its time.  As a director, Wishnow’s short films and videos have played on television, in museums, and at over 100 film festivals worldwide including Telluride, Sundance, Seattle, São Paulo, and Hong Kong. Wishnow’s most recent is a controversial sci-fi film made in China: The Sand Storm (沙尘暴) starring the renowned, tortured artist Ai Weiwei.