About
Brian Russell is a creative person who enjoys using technology to help people. Presently he’s in entrepreneur mode running a business called Carrboro Coworking. A shared office space for freelancers and telecommuters that has a cafe like atmosphere.
Brian is also the Founder and Chairman of Orange Networking, a nonprofit working to foster equal access to the Internet so that more people may benefit from the use of digital communication tools.
Since the early 1990’s Brian has been putting creative audio and video online. He’s done video from postage stamp quicktime to AVID feature film editing in Los Angles. In 2004 Brian was one of the first to Podcast at AudioActivism.org and organized PodcasterCon, a unconference about you guessed it, podcasting. Right now he creates citizen journalism video as a individual sharing what he sees and feels.
He has a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Sculpture and Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University. He lives and works in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, North Carolina with his wife Ruby Sinreich and two cats.
Resume :: Multimedia Portfolio.
AIM: yeshrussell
YIM: brianrussell
Site
I purchased the domain name Yesh.com in 1998. Its changed a lot. You can see how its changed over the years using the WaybackMachine from the Internet Archives.
Word
Yesh to me means, affirmative times a billion. I first heard it used by a friend as a term of coolness. (ex. Oh Yesh!) Since then I’ve found out that it means “there is” in Hebrew. I’ve read it used in the phrase “Yesh Yahweh” - (There is God) or “Yesh Gvul” - (There is a limit). Also in another context it can be used like ,Yesh lekha khatul (he has a cat) and Yesh lakh khatul (she has a cat). It’s wonderful to have such a positive word for a personal domain name.
Quotes
No bureaucracy likes an independent newspaperman. - I. F. Stone
There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas - every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. To shut off subversion is to shut off peaceful progress and to invite revolution and war. - I.F. Stone’s Weekly (March 15, 1954)
