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Soul By The Pound – California Winter mix

// January 23rd, 2010 // Comments Off // Uncategorized

A “Slow Food” lecture everyone should take a listen too!

// January 20th, 2010 // Comments Off // health and fitness

I found this clip on FORA.tv and thought it would be good to share. If you don’t support the company be sure to steer clear of clicking around when the commercial is on. This is a lengthy one so be sure to check comfy.

Dream hunting season!

// December 1st, 2009 // Comments Off // Leadership / Productivity

Boy you really do have to get smacked in the face more then once to get some messages. After doing alot of searching over the past couple of years and figuring out the things I like, the things I’m good at, the things I’m good at I don’t like, the things that I like I’m not so good at and so on, I think I’ve found a good box for myself. If you know me, you’ll immediately be thinking “why would you want to be in a box”? (i suppose you’d be thinking that even if you didn’t know.

Well, here’s your answer. I’ve had the hardest time trying to figure out my place in this world. Every time I think I have it figured out, a curve ball is thrown or I say “naaaa maybe not”. While I have had moments of real clarity, the one major thing I was missing was hunger and confidence. I’ve learned that when it comes to my happiness…I have to go after the really hard daunting things your average person wouldn’t. It’s not enough for me to just do it, I have to do it well and make sure everyone knows that I busted my ass and that’s why it’s better others. The reason that last part is important (people knowing I busted my but that is) is because I love to inspire and teach. If you can’t illustrate to others how / why you did something you make what you did out of their grasp.

I believe this is why stories are so inspiring to people but I digress. I was driving to the computer to write what was on my mind at 4am and it is simply that I’m am the man I’ve seen in my dreams today. I have finally become the Indieguy, the media mogal, the deejay who only plays in his spare time but people love as much as a full time deejay, the artist, the businessman and most importantly a man who loves his family for who they are and will never judge them for it ever again.

I am Rai-mon Nemar Barnes…Rai-mon Nemar for short and dreams I’m coming for you full steam. It’s dream making season and have been sharping my aim for years getting ready for this moment.

Oakland and me!

// November 23rd, 2009 // Comments Off // Uncategorized

I used to have a love hate relationship with Oakland. You see my formative years (birth through elementary) were all in Oakland. All the family I know, even if they weren’t from there I met in Oakland. We didnt’ move around too much and like alot of other kids who didn’t live in the best neighborhoods I spent alot of time and Grandmoms so I could go to a better school. While I experienced death early in my childhood it wasn’t because of gun shots and it had nothing to do with drugs. I never say anything too bad during my childhood and the worst thing to ever happen to me was having my bike stolen on Christmas Day.
See the video and keep reading after the jump…
Once I moved away to Stockton, where I would stay until after high school I found out what other people thought of Oakland. It always seemed like people were describing a different place then the one that taught me so much as a kid. As an adult and seeing what the city did do to my siblings who didn’t get out of the city at a young age or at all, I learned what some of the streets of Oakland can do.

Over time though, I’ve also learned what Oakland was and I’m able to contrast that with what it’s becoming and having been able to live there as an adult, how that city along with most of the bay area will always be home for me. This is but a piece of my story and I share it with others in the hope that Oakland does not continue to conjure up feelings of fear for others, but love as it does for me.

Your network is your net-worth! (Just ask Paloma)

// October 24th, 2009 // Comments Off // Leadership / Productivity, My Team

I’ll be the first one to admit it’s easy to get caught up in the hype, believing you’re all that people say you are, especially when you’re confident in your skills.

The problem comes because we have to think independently and figure out how we might like to do things vs the rest of the planet but once it’s time to act, independence is not the way of the world, INTERDEPENDENCE rules all things. With that said I would like to thank everyone who was, is, and shall be in my life.

My current group of friends has grown from people I’ve met only this week (Annalee Penny, Chris Macias, Jon Affonso) to people I’ve known for months and years that I’ve just never gotten close to until more recently (Ben A., Anand, Estella, Kirk, Britt) the list goes on and on and this doesn’t even count the endless list of people whom have supported me through my life.

People float in and out….sometimes they only around for a season never to enter your life again….while others have always been there even when you didn’t think they were. There are still others are friends for years and stay solid while others come in and out of your life a dozen or more times. Never the less they are all important to your success and should never be taken for granted.

I have alot to accomplish but I want to say that NO ONE gets there alone. If you haven’t learned to give to the people around you and do it willingly and without regret how can you plan on receive from hundreds or thousands or millions without being seen as faking it.

Thanks to everyone in my life past, present and future for giving me the strength and confidence to take big risks in the hopes for greater rewards. Keep in touch…. there WILL BE more deposits in your friendship account soon.

The day I became a writer!

// October 16th, 2009 // Comments Off // Uncategorized

If you don’t know me that well but know I have a magazine you’d just assume I am a writer by trade. You might imagine that I’ve written for tons of other publications and that’s what steered me into having my own magazine.

That couldn’t be farther from the truth. I had never worked at a publication or written much at all after college. I mean I still remember getting praise in my freshmen English class in high school and being told I wrote one of the best papers ever in my English 1B class in college but since my focus was never on being a writer I paid it NO attention.

No I went to school for advertising and music and I have been in marketing or sales jobs my entire life. I done everything from being a Redbull promo team member to being a Marketing Director at a high end Spa, Boutique, Hotel. While writing is something everyone has to do, non of these jobs required much of it and when I started the magazine I wrote because, i was the only writer on staff.

Thing is that people have been implying to me that I’m not much of a writer for a long time. People close to me and those who aren’t but NEVER someone that was a reader (very telling). Those who said what they said was mostly because of my typos and grammer issues. When I’m in a rush or feeling lazy it’s hard to even get through a sentence let alone a whole piece. However, over time I’ve learned this is the case for lots of writers and is the very reason Editors have a job.

What really struck me today was that another writer whom I admire said I had a strong writing style and would love it if I was a contributor to his magazine. This blew me away as most of what I’ve heard has been criticism and not praise (or is it most of what I’ve held on to). So I decided go back and read one of the pieces I had sent him myself and guess what…I was really impressed!

I read a piece that was insightful, dug deeper then most other writers who have interviewed the same person, and was actually a good read. What this day has taught me is summed up best by thinking about rules that apply to one of my other trades, marketing.

Remember your audience, some people may think my writing is awesome while others my hate it. The most important audience is me!

WINE & BEATS – Manifested from my mind!

// September 28th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Uncategorized

Something I’m really passionate about is making wine more accessible to people. Alot of people are intimadated by wine, wine events, pairing with food ect. Whether it’s because I feel furtunate to have been introduced the way I was or because I just love wine alot I’ve never been able to tell. What I do know is pairing together wine with music that I know people actually listen to is something I want to continue. This is the first installment of many more to come. Stay tuned.

Swine flu is not the swine flu!

// September 13th, 2009 // Comments Off // Uncategorized

This just in from an independent source, Edward Salaguinto, Doctor of Pharmacy, Pharmacy. And always remember to do the research, everything you read or hear from your news source IS NOT necessarily the way it is. After watching the following video I asked Ed if this “new” swine flu was really and old swine flu?…his answer after the jump.

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The Foreign Exchange @ Yoshis SF September 12th

// September 5th, 2009 // Comments Off // Uncategorized, raimonnemar

Ok so I’ve been slackin’ on my mackin’ in regards to posting music and that’s especially true with my favorites FE so here you go, a little catchup!

‘CITY LIGHTS VOL. 2: SHIBUYA’ SAMPLER
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The sampler includes snippets of the following tracks::
01 Shibuya Station
02 Crossing
03 Omotesando
04 Meiji Shrine
05 Shadow Dancing
06 Bullet Train
07 Saturday Night feat. Carlitta Durand

The Foreign Exchange feat. Muhsinah – “House Of Cards” from The Foreign Exchange on Vimeo.

IKEA Heights from DaveAOK on Vimeo.

IKEA HEIGHTS – Now this is living!

// September 4th, 2009 // Comments Off // Uncategorized

IKEA Heights from DaveAOK on Vimeo.