Dakar Foundationcut its teeth in building a Los Angeles County-based Digital Media Academy during our five years as a vendor at Compton Unified School District, and through our network of public/private organizations, private foundation and film production and partnership with LAUSD, we’ve arrived at the doorsteps of Kevin Hart, and a proposed umbrella Hart Beat University. (Fab Lab Drive it) Summer STEM Camp Sponsored @BCSN_Erie. Can […]

We Don’t Need Another Fab Lab/Makers Space, We Need A Better One! Sourced By Marcelino Ford Levine for Dakar Foundation Related Material          Related Material Dakar Foundation believes that America’s underserved school districts need stronger STEAM AI/Machine learning programming, and Intel has provided a challenge for all concerned.  Our core goal is to make learning competitive and […]

This Blog is a mashup of the experiences that Dakar has participated over the last eight Digital Hollywoods in Los Angels and one in Las Vegas @ CES. We’d like to thank Victor Harwood, and Vanessa Athen for making our journey so enriching for the students, parents, and educator who have traveled the halls of the Ritz-Carlton in Marina Del […]

Reforming Mental Health Treatment in VR https://t.co/WOWNlkRKnk #VirtualReality — AR/VR Magazine (@arvrmag) May 22, 2017 VR/AR Production: Advances in Visualization & Experimentation in Cinematic – TV – Ads – Games David Traub, Co-Founder, Epiphany Film Fund, Moderator Edward Dawson-Taylor, co-founder, Edge Visual Studios (VFX, Jurassic World & Jungle Book) Brett Leonard, Virtual Reality Expert/Creator – ‎VIRTUOSITY VR (Director – The […]

The Power of VR-AR: A New Language of Artistry – A Unique Moment of Commercial Possibility and Marketplace Johannes Saam, Senior Creative Developer, Framestore Peter Akemann, President of Skydance Interactive Neil Mandt, founder, and CEO, Mandt Bros Productions & Mandt VR. Clay Weishaar, creative director at Tool of North America Cathy Twigg, Co-Founder/Chief Content and Production Officer, The Rogue Initiative […]

As usual, Simone Nelson provided the best experience for all of the instructors, students, and mentors who came to Digital Hollywood looking for a leg-up in the tech-entertainment industry. Below are excerpts of the panelist thoughts and reflections from this year’s CSUEA University Project feature panel. 360° "groupie" at our #DigitalHollywood panel!@gdmccourt @xoheathermarion @VargasGirl @DarleneTweets @movingwords https://t.co/MCb0Z5FWdr — Gregg Katano […]

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 […]