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Killin’ It: Joe Sabia

Written by admin. Posted on February 24, 2011. No comments.

Joe Sabia is literally a viral machine, creative consultant at JoeSabia.co, he is responsible for multiple clips you’ve probably loved, like Google Wave Fiction and 7 Minute Sopranos. He’s also a super cool, down to earth to guy. Joe is, in every sense of the word, killing it. Name: Joe Sabia Job: Lead Creative at JoeSabia.co Favorite Food: [...]

video of the day: when Herzog met Phoenix

Written by admin. Posted on September 15, 2010. No comments.

I once impulse bought a book called “Digimodernism” from Amazon. I read about 4 pages of it to date, but I get it. It’s a cute way of combining “post-post-modernism” with internet things. Grad school, schmad school. Anyways, this video is Digimodern. It’s also dope. Enjoy.

@shivsingh drops knowledge on crowdsourcing

Written by admin. Posted on May 27, 2010. No comments.

Shiv Singh, the dude who literally wrote the book on social media, (that joke never gets old) just blogged his best practices for crowdsourcing on his Going Social Now blog. The note I found most insightful within his post was the idea that you should: “Build momentum by making the initiative part crowdsourcing, part education and [...]

video of the day: @david_lynch’s Branded Film for Dior

Written by admin. Posted on May 18, 2010. No comments.

Enough said. (via FakeTV)

video of the day: Creative Lives doc on Futura

Written by admin. Posted on April 12, 2010. No comments.

Ever since the summer when I read both Fortress of Solitude and Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop, I’ve wanted to become more of connoisseur of graffiti’s early era in 70s New York. It still hasn’t happened, but I’m always interested in finding out stories about what has happened to those early pioneers, who stayed in the [...]

Quote of the Day: Facebook does not own the future

Written by admin. Posted on April 6, 2010. No comments.

Canada’s Globe and Mail recently did an interview with everyone’s favorite futurist, Malcolm Gladwell, who had some pretty interesting things to say about why he mostly abstains from social media. The whole interview is worth a read. The problem is, we’re still in the experimental phase. The thing about Facebook is, it’s insanely new. This world [...]

Video of the Day: Trailer For New Banksy Film

Written by admin. Posted on April 6, 2010. No comments.

I feel like I’m a little too old/jaded/over Banksy to get excited about the prospect of his full-length feature doc. That being said, I’m pretty excited about the prospect of his feature film. I guess the undergrad cultural studies major in me dies hard. You can see more the film’s website.

The Future From The Past

Written by admin. Posted on April 4, 2010. No comments.

As a response to all the Ipad hysteria, FutureLab dug up a 30-year-old local news report about a different technology that was supposed to revolutionize the media. In two hours, at a cost of 10$, you could download the entire newspaper to your computer!

Link Dump – Wednesday, March 31st

Written by admin. Posted on March 31, 2010. No comments.

Here are some interesting internet things which have captured our imaginations today: BrandKarma is an open forum to tell brands what you think of them. via PSFK Universal Music Group is attempting to give music pirates (read: everyone and their moms) the piracy-kills-babies guilt treatment. via AgencySpy NY Times dropped a phenomenally interesting story about the changing [...]

we shot this: Celebrity ChatRoulette @SXSW 2010

Written by admin. Posted on March 20, 2010. No comments.

We followed Social Anthropologist, Linus Bergrum, on a four day adventure through SXSW Interactive, as he attempted to unveil the dark underbelly of social media, and wound up inventing a new version of chat roulette.

video of the day: stussy’s documentary on J Dilla

Written by admin. Posted on February 25, 2010. No comments.

Found here.

The Internet: “Doritos ‘UGC’ Contest Winners All Professionals!” Urgensia: “Yeah. Word. We Know.”

Written by admin. Posted on February 10, 2010. No comments.

Adverlab has a complete rundown of what agencies this years winners work at, and talks some lovely smack about a dumbheaded article about the spots in the NYTimes. But this shouldn’t be news to anyone that follows the UGC/ad industry. It just re-iterates a point we’ve been saying privately among ourselves. The only way to [...]

Another, cheaper DSLR rig

Written by admin. Posted on January 15, 2010. No comments.

Kirk Photo initially marketed this Action Grip strictly for photographers to mount flashes on, until a customer suggested they modify it to act as a shotgun mount. It’s not nearly as hardcore as one of these bad boys, but it’s also only as $150, as opposed to 2k. Again, if you’re a freelancer whose either rocking [...]

"crowdsourcing" the word of '09

Written by admin. Posted on December 29, 2009. 1 Comment.

…according to this awesome, visual representation of the decade.

This Is War

Written by admin. Posted on December 16, 2009. No comments.

We’re not necessarily taking sides on this, but it’s a pretty well-made video.

$tarbucks

Written by admin. Posted on October 9, 2009. No comments.

Is it true that the coffee/protein bfast/smoothie/frappamachachino peddler got its name from the initial investors being celebs. Get it, Star… Bucks. I think Kenny G is one of the benefactors. Anyway, this is a pretty cool little program they’re running, getting ‘real’ people to give testimony on their (My) Starbucks Story. We like it, and [...]

Interesting way to track bands popularity online

Written by admin. Posted on August 6, 2009. No comments.

So I recently got wise to a new school way to track the popularity of artists. Next Big Sound, a startup that allows you to track musicians popularity based on the amount of views, plays and comments their profiles/songs get on like MySpace,Twitter and Last.fm. I always wonder if the music I’m feeling is [...]