ComStrat 476

  I have been a fan of documentaries for most of my life. One of the benefits of the plethora of streaming services are the variety of documentaries we are now offered across all categories. For this week’s assignment I randomly chose a new documentary and the selection was a new documentary on HBO Max: Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off. Although I was not a skateboarder growing up, as a kid who grew up loving sports in the 90s, I was well aware of who Tony Hawk is and to some extent the amount of success he had gained. What I was not aware of, was the amount of resilience, pain and ability that Tony Hawk had to display in order to get to the mountaintop. The major elements of the documentary are the upbringing of Tony Hawk, his rise to fame, and the demons he fought once we became successful.  The documentary sets a grim tone right from the beginning. The audience watches current day Tony Hawk attempting to perform skateboard tricks at the age of 53. You seem him a...

 With this assignment I have a few examples of companies that I shop at often, such as Adidas or Asos, that came to mind immediately. Rather than those I chose to focus on a brand that I have visited for the first time and was based on an immediate need for my new growing family.   Two weeks ago my wife delivered our baby boy Kashwin, who is our first child. As first time parents we have run thru the gamut of baby necessities but one we were not familiar with was babywearing clothing. The purpose of this type of clothing is to allow the wearer to have a pouch (which I refer to as the Kangaroo pouch), so that their child can safely and comfortably sit in.   With time being a more important commodity than ever before, our objective was to purchase a few of these shirts so that we could accomplish a few small tasks around the house while making sure the baby is calm.   This is when I stumbled upon Lalabu. Lalabu is a clothing small business that was created by a mom and...