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When we get to college, that may be the first time that we start reading texts by black authors.Tiffany, who is the co-founder of The Tribe and the Editor in Chief, she's from North Lawndale.

role so that's on my list every day you're redefining what that means for you that's it I was I was mentioning toTiffany that last night i' I've I've started reading with my daughter in the evenings because we just didn't havequite enough time to both do reading and talking and I realized if we both read so we're both fulfilling our passion for

Hi, everybody. HI.TIFFANY, I love you. I love you, too.All right, look at this. My therapy dog is here. Thank God.

So as this device is working, one assumes it's just literally trying to help encode.Tiffany. Welcome Tiffany. I should have asked.

So as this device is working, one assumes it's just literally trying to help encode.Tiffany has a little advantage in that Chris kind of was the real Guinea pig and didn't have

Is it OK? I Is it fine that we are watching porn?Tiffany. That's right. She's hilarious.

Is it OK? I Is it fine that we are watching porn?Tiffany's hilarious. That's my question.

By contrast, let's look at Tiffany.Tiffany will charge you 20% more for the exact same diamond that you can buy from Blue Nile or Zales or Helzbergor wherever you want.

A very interesting example is Tiffany stores.Tiffany is unique in that we think of it as a very expensive brand, but over 40% of their revenue comes from stuff that's sells for under $200.Weird, right? You wouldn't think about that.

OK, so far so good.Tiffany. No, I'm just kidding.OK. You did scare me.

My thing is, if it was Ground Hog's Day, that level of enthusiasm would have been fine.TIFFANY T'ZELLE: But? This is Black History Month.TIFFANY T'ZELLE: That's right.

TIFFANY T'ZELLE: But? This is Black History Month.TIFFANY T'ZELLE: That's right.So the sign is-- you're right.

The sign is right there.TIFFANY T'ZELLE: It says it all over the place.So I got to be real.

I wasn't feeling that.TIFFANY T'ZELLE: Me neither.The energy was 63.

The energy was 63.TIFFANY T'ZELLE: Not even.44. TIFFANY T'ZELLE: Something like that.

But this is Black History Month.TIFFANY T'ZELLE: That's right.So the sign is-- you're right.

I wasn't feeling that.TIFFANY T'ZELLE: Me either.The energy was 63.

The energy was 63.TIFFANY T'ZELLE: Not even.It was 44, about 44.

Tiffany Shlain: I'm really happy to be here on this gorgeous New York day.I was just, like, ah, I love New York.Um, anyways, we open on um, Friday at the Angelica Film Centerwe'll be there for a week.And we'll talk more about that later, we have all these speakers lined up, but.I'm really excited to share the film with you.And see a lot of laptops

This is Tiffany Shlain as you met in the beginning of the film.Tiffany: You now know more about me than you ever thought you would know.Female Interviewer: Exactly.I was going to start off with a bio but I figured that everyone already knows everything about your personal and professional life.So I don't

think we need to go there.Tiffany: Yeah, you don't need to go over my life, yeah.Female Interviewer: I was maybe going to share some, um, feedback that I've read about your film.In particular, from ah, Al Gore.Ah, he said "Tiffany Shlain demonstrates with

and morphed into an autoblog-ography.Tiffany: Yeah, yeah, this is my eighth film and I have never made a personal film.I don't know if I ever will again.But, um, I started out, the film took four years to make.And,um, I was just focusing at, we called it the idea portion of the movie.It's all about, just about the ideas I was interested, obviously you know my background.I was interested in

generation of kids, they, all they know is being connected.Their birth was probably announced immediately on Facebook and, you know, tweeted about andTiffany: Ours was, that was our birth announcement.Female Interviewer: Exactly. So what do you think it's like for those children, I mean, you could, when you were looking at

connectedness you could go back to a time when you remembered not being connected technology.I mean, I think that kids--.Tiffany: I mean it's a great question as I have a two year old and an eight year old and their whole way of processing information is different but the good news is my daughterstill loves to read.And we do technology Shabbats every Saturday.Very serious.And since we finished the film, so Friday night, sundown, we light the candles and we turn off all screens for

it now and feel like it's shifting where it's changing to adapt to how we need to use it.Tiffany: Yeah, and that's what a lot of you are doing here.That's exactly right.Female Interviewer: Yeah, so that's exciting.

Female Interviewer: Yeah, so that's exciting.Tiffany: And, um, I want, well, we can open it up, but I want to tell you the reason we do these preview screenings, like we're an independent documentary.You have to see it,I've opened in L.A. next to Brad Pitt's Moneyball.You can imagine.

I've opened in L.A. next to Brad Pitt's Moneyball.You can imagine.Tiffany: They have a lot of marketing money.I was like 'Oh my God'.There's like twenty billboards in L.A.And like our but, you know, our filmhas done really well through social networking.And, um, it's been very exciting.So if you liked the movie, we open at the Angelica on Friday.We've all these exciting speakers.Every night, kind

come opening weekend, it's all about opening weekend for independent docs.Tiffany: Bring your friends.And, or just spread the word, we'd be super, super grateful.Female Interviewer: And what else was on the little cards that you were handing out?

Female Interviewer: And what else was on the little cards that you were handing out?Tiffany: Um, the card was just kind of, you guys all know this, like spoon feeding, well can I just tell you I can't wait till you guys have a Google plus for films?'Cause you don't have that yet and we've been having a lot of fun with having extending the Q and A outside of the theater online.So we've been having in our Facebook page but

Female Interviewer: Okay.Great.Um, and then before we open up to questions do you want to show the short film?Tiffany: Do you guys want, ok, so I made this film it was very much with YouTube, so I thought it would be fun to show it.Do you guys want to see a little four minute crowdsource film we made?

Whole group: Interdependence.Tiffany: So that film kind of picked up where connected left off and it's gonna bea series of six short films or eight that kind of deal with interdependence, but it was really fun to, you know, we posted that and it's already been translated into fifty

Male Audience Member #1: Hi, uh my first question is where do we buy the tickets for Friday?Tiffany: I don't even know him!Male Audience Member #1: You do, but online.

Male Audience Member #1: You do, but online.Tiffany: Oh, awesome, uh, cool Tiffany: So tickets were supposed to go on sale today, like everyone's running and the Angelica's like not selling them tilltomorrow, um, so, if you go to connec-- I was gonna say it, I'm not gonna say your Facebook page, go to connectedthefilm.com and, um, tickets are gonna go on sale tomorrow.We hope

Female Interviewer: Yeah, where the pieces will fall.Tiffany: Well the other thing about smoking--Did anyone smoke in here, used to be a smoker?No one? Oh my God.

No one? Oh my God.Tiffany: Ok I'm not going to use my other -- none of you have ever smoked?Wow! See, we have evolved.Ok do you remember when you'd be smoking and while you were smoking you would think I want another cigarette while the cigarette was in your mouth.That's the

Female Interviewer: Yeah and you mentioned that too, even cell phones, like when we're kind of the guinea pigs.Right?Tiffany: Yeah, I do think about that.I really do use my earbuds, 'cause I think 'that much radiation against the brain' I don't think that's good.And you know, the reason I putthat scene in, you know when my daughter, they were, my dad was so against her getting an MRI.Because, you know, radiation it's like unclear on what that is doing.It's a lot of

Female Interviewer: Yeah, which is very hard to do, because every baby wants to play with your cell phone.Tiffany: I know, she asked me, she's like "Can I have some, can I have some phone?" like she was asking for a lollipop.Can I have some phone?I was like, oh my God, she was like, wanted it so badly.

You can make, you know, make these assumptions, make these connections between old footage and how interesting.Tiffany: To me, that's, you know, it actually came from at Berkley, UC Berkley where I went to school.There was no film production there.So I actually had to make movies by recuttingold movies and then it kind of informed my whole film making style.And now with the internet I used to have to actually search for shots and now I'm just like a kid in a candy store.I'm

sounding crazy.And I often do, so how do you, how do you pass along this message?Tiffany: Yeah, I mean, we're, the good news I can tell you is we've had premiers all over the country and people are ready to talk about it.You know I feel like I'm bringing up, eventhe way I start the movie and we've all done that right?

Male Audience Member #2: Thanks.Tiffany: Yeah, thank you.Female Interviewer: Then use technology in order to have that time when you're in the garden.Because you don't have to be at your desk, you can answer the email, done,

ok put it away, now go take a walk.Tiffany: Yeah, I mean being a woman is so, you know, great to be a woman today and I can pick up my kids from school and have all this freedom with technology to work in adifferent way, but we also, you know, we are distracted, from what's right, the people right in front of us.

and sharing your film.Tiffany: Thank you so much, you're a great audience.Thank you and thank you for the great questions.It was great.

David Lieber: Yeah. Rahm Emanuel: One is I do actually think what I talked about transportation's -- David Lieber: Um-hum.Tiffany: Hi. Okay, no pressure. So my names Tiffany and I was born and raised in Chicago up on the West Side in the Austin area, north Lawndale --

David Lieber: Yeah. Rahm Emanuel: One is I do actually think what I talked about transportation's -- David Lieber: Um-hum.Tiffany: because I was overseas and -- Rahm Emanuel: I thought you said what was my plan for the 100 days across the board

So I hope you really enjoy this talk.Tiffany Montague: Thank you Mario.My name's Tiffany Montague. I manage our Space Initiative. Some of you might know me by my moment title which is the Commander of the Universe.

on the book you have Singularity is near that'll be out uh later this year and uhTiffany did insist that I wear this tie and she saw me wear it the other night at the Grand Opening of SingularityUniversity so it's great to be back uh I was here uh actually on my book tour for

This is the-- I'm like, OK, I know the-- there come these people.And Tiffany said to me, listen.

Is it OK? I Is it fine that we are watching porn?More Tiffany. She's great.

But they really didn't know.When Tiffany and Kenneth questioned him about safety, Taylor spoke convincingly if bafflingly about time doses and distance intensities of inverse square lawsand roentgen submultiples. He explained the different types of radiation alpha, beta, gamma, x-ray, and how they dictated the amount and kind