sharky h. towers.com

I shoot film, tweak pixels and write songs. I live in California, near Santa Barbara. Climbing rocks. Surfing waves. I have a lot of odd cameras, old guitars and loud amps. Sometimes I throw up a mic and make some songs. The last project I released was called Jaws with friends of mine from Lagwagon, RKL and Bad Astronaut. Sometimes I sporadically post about the LA Lakers at another Tumblr called The Drunken Audible. I post images I capture at my flickr site.

Let’s Review: Politics

I’ll try and break this down since I am notoriously verbose:

The media shapes public opinion in political campaigns (especially Presidential campaigns).
The traditional media has been marginalized by the Internets (and is getting more and more marginalized).
Old narratives are therefore weaker, and candidates who truly represent change can rise up without playing into the tired gutters in which traditional media narratives tend to flow.
Barack Obama (and to a degree John McCain) is the first Presidential candidate to truly take advantage of this new paradigm.

Thanks Internets! You continue to make the world a better place.