At the end of May we got a phone call that the producers at the Katie Couric show were interested in featuring the documentary "Sleeping with Siri" that Marty made with his good friend, Michael Stusser. A little back story to fill in the gaps...Last August, while I was working for Marty trying to promote and sell his
Twisted Scholar videos, I had written to the Katie Couric show telling them about the recent video Marty had made called "The Digital Blackout" based on the social experiment that took place at the high school where I taught Spanish for 8 years-Shorecrest. They challenged their students and staff to go without their cell phones, texting, internet, Facebook, twitter, etc. for an entire week. Shortly after "The Digital Blackout" was released, Michael wrote an article for the Seattle Weekly called "
Sleeping with Siri" and while Michael was writing his article, Marty documented what transpired during Michael's first week- a digital gorge and then the second week when Michael went dark and without any social media, no computers, no cell phone. They worked endless hours on this film from September through the end of the year. By the beginning of 2013 they had already been accepted into several film festivals and were starting to promote the movie. Meanwhile throughout the entire school year I had been writing and talking with the producers at the Katie show and they kept saying they were interested and even gave us a few potential dates for their tech show but nothing came to fruition. Until that morning in late May when they said they would like to feature the documentary and could I arrange flights for the following week!! So Michael and Marty took off for what would end up being a whirlwind of a trip. Above is a photo of them in the green room at the Katie show. And below is a photo of... you guessed it, Michael and Katie.
Below is a link to the part of the show that featured the documentary. And although Marty didn't get to sit up on the couch with Katie he did get a very sweet shout out from her from the couch.
http://www.katiecouric.com/videos/could-technology-be-hurting-you/
At the end of May we got a phone call that the producers at the Katie Couric show were interested in featuring the documentary "Sleeping with Siri" that Marty made with his good friend, Michael Stusser. A little back story to fill in the gaps...Last August, while I was working for Marty trying to promote and sell his Twisted Scholar videos, I had written to the Katie Couric show telling them about the recent video Marty had made called "The Digital Blackout" based on the social experiment that took place at the high school where I taught Spanish for 8 years-Shorecrest. They challenged their students and staff to go without their cell phones, texting, internet, Facebook, twitter, etc. for an entire week. Shortly after "The Digital Blackout" was released, Michael wrote an article for the Seattle Weekly called "Sleeping with Siri" and while Michael was writing his article, Marty documented what transpired during Michael's first week- a digital gorge and then the second week when Michael went dark and without any social media, no computers, no cell phone. They worked endless hours on this film from September through the end of the year. By the beginning of 2013 they had already been accepted into several film festivals and were starting to promote the movie. Meanwhile throughout the entire school year I had been writing and talking with the producers at the Katie show and they kept saying they were interested and even gave us a few potential dates for their tech show but nothing came to fruition. Until that morning in late May when they said they would like to feature the documentary and could I arrange flights for the following week!! So Michael and Marty took off for what would end up being a whirlwind of a trip. Above is a photo of them in the green room at the Katie show. And below is a photo of... you guessed it, Michael and Katie. 
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