Let's Go.

This weekend was such a good one. The entire weekend my friends and I were saying, "Let's GOOOO!" ...with a very intense emphasis on the "GO."

I stayed home on Friday night despite all the events going on in the city, and managed to find some information on the New York T.V. Festival that had been going on the entire week. I found out that Andrew Jenks was talking at a free panel so I promised myself that I would go hear what the 24 year old had to say about his thriving career and his new MTV show.

Media makes life so easy. You can check out the entire NYTVF panel, streamed and recorded live, here:
http://www.livestream.com/nytvf
You may even see a little blonde ponytail bobbing in the audience. Let's GO!

I am so happy I went. He made his first movie at 19 years old, a documentary about assisted living homes inspired by his grandfather who was staying at a home similar to the one Andrew decided to live in for 8 days called Room 335. Later, Jenks created a series in collaboration with MTV where he gets to know and lives with people to reveal their true story. His show isn't your typical 30-minutes of reality that we usually see on the network, it is real and solid. You can tell that this guy really has the goal of wanting to understand these people and their lives.
Andrew wasn't the only person there to talk about his work, the producers, editors and even the camera man who witness all that Jenks goes through were present and casually placed their input in the discussion. The NY TV Festival was such a great thing for locals, especially film students to go to. I hope some of you made it out!

Check out a full episode of "World of Jenks" here. Inspiring.
http://www.mtv.com/shows/world_of_jenks/series.jhtml

ALSO, this weekend was FREE MUSEUM DAY IN NEW YORK! Agh, I wish I could have spread the word earlier. New Yorkers and tourists got the joy of celebrating the annual Smithsonian Museum Day where you could literally go to any of the 40 museums in NY, for free!

Mayham!