Maya Penn: The Best Animated Shorts of 2011!

Maya Penn is a 21 year old award-winning eco-designer, artist, philanthropist, activist, entrepreneur, animated filmmaker, coder, illustrator, writer and author of You Got This! She has been featured in countless publications such as Forbes, Huffington Post, Seventeen Magazine, Cosmopolitan, The View, NPR,CNN, TIME, Essence Magazine, CBS This Morning with Gayle King, O Magazine, The Steve Harvey Show, Entrepreneur Magazine, Ebony, Black Enterprise, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, and many, many more. Maya has given three TEDTalks and her latest TEDWomen Talk has gone viral worldwide and with almost 2 million views and growing. She is known as the youngest female to do two back-to-back official TEDTalks. Maya has been chosen by Oprah Winfrey as one of her Supersoul 100 influencers. Google has partnered with Maya to speak to girls about coding and computer science at their Made With Code events. Magic Johnson chose Maya to be featured in his 32 Under 32 article series.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

The Best Animated Shorts of 2011!

This past Saturday I went to the ASIFA ATL's Best Animated Shorts of 2011, at the High Museum of Art. I saw lots of awesome animated shorts there, and I met the President of ASIFA ATL, Fatimah Abullah! Fatimah was so cool, and really nice, and she told me they were going to have a kids workshop next year and I'm so excited about it! I also met and was blown away and honored to meet co-creator and series executive producer of Captain Planet, Barbara Pyle! It was so cool to talk to her and she even let me wear her original power of Heart ring that she wore while working on the series! No one else had worn it but her, and I was so thrilled I felt the tingling power when I put it on! She's truly an amazing woman.

Me and Fatimah Abuallah

Me and Barbara Pyle

Me, Barbara, and the rest of the "Planeteers".

I had a great time, and I hope everyone else had a great Saturday as well.

-Maya =)

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8 O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

9 O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

The Best Animated Shorts of 2011!

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