Author Archives: Brandon

And the Award goes to… everybody with a camera and access

Written by . Posted on February 22, 2010. No comments.
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Interesting piece here about the prestigious journalism Polk Award going to an anonymous person who captured a startling video of a student’s death in Iran.  I remember how Time magazine’s person of the year last year or year before was “You” with a mirror like effect on the cover, (clever.).. and now awarding boards are [...]

You are not alone

Written by . Posted on February 11, 2010. No comments.
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This MOS video from Urgensia fam, Siddharth, on Indians’ pov on piracy is interesting from the standpoint that it confirms that consumers have a very universal view on media piracy.  There’s a nice accompanying article/interview as well.  What’s also of note, is how piracy helped fuel an IT economy and development in Banglore.  I just [...]

The nosefeROCKtu

Written by . Posted on February 6, 2010. No comments.
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We don’t know how the fuck you pronounce it, but we do know that this event looks to be fresh.  For all NYC based musicians and filmmakers, LooseWorld is producing what looks to be a very interesting event.  As they describe it:  “nosfeROCKtu is a creative competition that challenges artist to collaborate across mediums to [...]

Le Blogotheque in Africa

Written by . Posted on February 4, 2010. No comments.
We like it… Le Blogotheque has consistently brought good vids to the forefront.  Peep there new colab in Africa.  Really fresh.

Hyper Local YouTube Stars

Written by . Posted on February 2, 2010. No comments.
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As I stepped out of my home on Saturday to a beautiful day, I smiled at the USPS delivery lady who was approaching me with mail in hand.  My smile was topped by her shit eating grin, which was confounding, mail delivery people hadn’t been this nice since the 60′s. “You’re laughing at me, aren’t [...]

Grassroots Media Report from Haiti

Written by . Posted on January 20, 2010. No comments.
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We have to do our due diligence and get in touch with this org, Cine Institute, if/when things calm down there.  Moving coverage, challenging images.  Our hearts go out to Haiti.  Thank you to basho for submitting this link.

Shooting in Dubai from guest blogger: Josh Soskin

Written by . Posted on January 15, 2010. No comments.
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Dubizzling in Dubai. I recently went out to Dubai to visit a friend who runs dubizzle.com (basically the craigslist of the United Arab Emirates and a good resource for filmmakers if they are traveling in the region). We also made some good future connections out there for production work. Dubai is booming in every possible [...]

2010's Rubick's Cube… New Journalism

Written by . Posted on January 7, 2010. No comments.
We really like what Leonard (Len) Witt is doing in the space of “sustainable journalism” as the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University (phew!), he’s chief blogger at pjnet.org.  His interviews with academics and influencers in the space are off the cuff and worth checking out if you’re interested in [...]

Niche spoofs garner half-a-mill in hits?!?

Written by . Posted on November 27, 2009. No comments.
Ok, so this video gets you nostalgic for the film La Haine, or maybe that’s just my only exposure to the banlieu of France… beyond that the video is aight. The real interesting thing here is that a Justice (relatively niche franco-electro group) can make a video that spawns a spoof of it, which can [...]

Bron Bron

Written by . Posted on November 16, 2009. No comments.
Looks like plaid shirts haven’t missed any sort of hip enclave of culture… It’s ok, because the Clipse and Cam’ron could wear footie pj’s and still be the coolest dudes on the block. Nobody can really pull off the “we’re just on the block chillin’ and this video cost us only $7k” swagger like these [...]

UPS brand loyalty

Written by . Posted on October 30, 2009. No comments.
UPS Brand Loyalty from Urgent Content on Vimeo. Biking to work this AM I couldn’t miss the tat on the UPS man unloading his truck.. It was so bold, and striking. There had to be a story behind it, but alas, it was what henry referred to as “old school blue collar” mentality. Which I [...]

"The agony of war, victory, defeat"

Written by . Posted on October 29, 2009. No comments.
It’s that U-God of the Wu-Tang Clan’s line that comes to mind when I read the name of Jon Winsor’s newly announced agency “Victors and Spoils”. We’re very excited to see what this new venture will bring to the world of both advertising and crowdsourcing. We had the pleasure of connecting with John for a [...]

Treasure Island '09 – Sourcing the Crowd

Written by . Posted on October 21, 2009. No comments.
Treasure Island (Girl Talk Show) from Urgent Content on Vimeo. You know, we’ve been really busy.  Like real real busy that we (or I) have not had much opportunity to go out and see shows, wil’ out, etc… I did make it out to the Treasure Island Music fest in SF this past Saturday.  There [...]

part time beat maestros

Written by . Posted on October 2, 2009. No comments.
gotta give it up to this dude here for doing his self promotion proper like.  big ups to urgent content fam chris martz, who’s been doing some urgent motion graphics work in exchange for his flight out to sf and a floor to sleep on.  them SCAD alumni are grimey and talented with theirs.  apparently [...]

interns

Written by . Posted on September 28, 2009. No comments.
we need one.  and hank is opposed to having one come help us even though i think there’s a ton of experience and knowledge to be gained.  he must have some foul memories of intern days himself.  steve-tern, featured here, was the best intern i ever met. 

Urgent Has Landed

Written by . Posted on September 21, 2009. 4 Comments.
Holler at us.

1st SPAM comment on the blog! wo0t

Written by . Posted on September 1, 2009. No comments.
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will somebody please get to the bottome of this comment here… it’s origins in some clandestine clan of russian mafia nerds.

Ultimate brand enthusiast (i.e. nutso)

Written by . Posted on August 25, 2009. No comments.
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We’re down with brand evangelizing and all… but for real? Please email us if you have a tat of Greenpeace. Chris here has now been featured in the Audi owner newsletter, congratulations, he can now die a happy man.

Killa Cam

Written by . Posted on August 24, 2009. No comments.
Nice quick response by Kodak here. Even though they had a really crap name for a product that sounds to be alright, they “flipped” the script and got some good press out of a naming contest. Over 2000+ comments on the Kodak blog. I like “the zipper” although I may be high on cottage cheese [...]

Conversational Conversion

Written by . Posted on August 20, 2009. No comments.
Just peep how many video responses this has sparked. Molly will have a talk show, mark my words.