Virtual and Augmented Reality: The Technology that will Change Everything: Cinematic, Games, Advertising, TV and Social Media Wednesday May 23, was arguably the sweet spot of Digital Hollywood. We attended 5 panels in one day, and this panel moderated by Shawn Gold was not only informative but gave us a look into best practices and the business of the business […]

As Digital Hollywood ended, we caught up with one some of the driving forces behind Digital Hollywood this year, Vanessa Athens and Simone Nelson.This summer we’ll be talking to them about next steps in blending harmonies around building a strategy for prepping the digital media workforce for 2020 and beyond. Our friend and new collaborative spirit, Vanessa Athens introduced Dakar […]

Representatives of Hart Beat University want to thank Donovan Green for the invite and the hospitality shown at the fifth annual AABLI Awards Reception at The City Club, Downtown Los Angeles. “It was pure joy to be in the company of Black Leaders,” said ” Ted Milner, Executive Temps and part of the Hart Beat contingency.  We shared seats at Donovan’s […]

Shout out to Anthony D. Mays for showcasing his MC skills @ Google I/O Extended. Great event, thanks for adding soul & spirit in the event! pic.twitter.com/7GKB8RYpVN — Kevin Clark (@Homageusa) May 18, 2017 I Attended Google I/O, and was pleasantly surprised to see the welcome for satellite venue at Google Venice was be given by African American representative, Anthony […]

The JFK Cougars took over The Sony Digital Motion Picture Studio, Studio Soundstage7 in Culver City, Wednesday, May 3rd, and the experience will never be forgotten for all involved. The 5-hour feild trip will culminate in a published sizzle reel assignment that may make the cut as a possible segment for a student-generated pilot on the new AT&T/DirecTV’s online channel. […]

Dakar Interactive was front and center at the 3rd annual CTE Symposium.  Our high school students from the JFK Magnet will be briefed on all of the great news coming out of the symposium this upcoming week. Dr. Alex Dean Davis welcomed the distinguished room of trustees, chancellors, deans, instructors, and students from the Los Angeles County Districts of Southern […]

STEAM Workforce Development: The Next Generation The most successful workforce development efforts are teaming with education resources to develop job-specific vocational studies in high schools, community colleges and universities……

Explaining what’s behind these walls is our mission as a consortium to “Change Their World”.  On Wednesday, March 29th the consortium comprised of business professionals in technology, education, and entertainment met with Pentagon and research leaders to discuss how to share their nexus that will better prepare students, teacher and parents for workforce 2020-2025.  Our mission was operation USC ICT […]

Kevin Clark-Dakar SONY STUDIOS-CULVER CITY, CA   There’s only word for the Sony Digital Motion Picture Center, AWESOME Coming soon to a field trip near you. pic.twitter.com/CyFfN8QWjn — Mr Lemos (@JFKFilmmaking) March 24, 2017 An invited group of high school educators and workforce development executives witnessed the convergence of theatrical marketing with state of the art Career Technical Education inside […]