Author Archives: Henry Goldman

No Hyperbole: Vivian Maier is American Photography’s Van Gogh

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on January 5, 2011. No comments.

@pictory tweeted the link to this longish segment on recently-discovered-great-American-artist Vivian Maier. Long story short, Viv-Ma was a loner-nanny in Chicago, who spent all her free time taking pictures, most of which she never even developed. Then, a while back, an amateur historian/real estate agent came across 30,000 of her negatives, got sucked in by the [...]

How long until we have a creative class schooled entirely on the internet?

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on January 3, 2011. No comments.

Last month, like many of Urgensia’s readers, I received an invite from Vimeo to check out their online video school. I’ve tooled around their various video-lesson plans, and if I ever had the time, would consider attempting one of their challenges, in order to up my own skillset. What it got me thinking, in this [...]

10 things I learned about running a company in 2010

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on December 24, 2010. 1 Comment.

2010 was the first full year in Urgent Content’s existence, and as such, was an incredibly eventful year for myself, and everyone that worked with us. I feel like, in the past 12 months, I spent 2 years in business school, spent 2 years in film school and shortened my lifespan by 4 due to [...]

video of the day: @ofwgkta’s video for Earl Sweatshirt’s “Earl”

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on October 13, 2010. No comments.

This video, by a group of talented teenagers from LA, is exactly what good youth culture should be: angry, subversive and terrifying. It’s also invigorating. Seeing creative young kids do something that feels wholly of their era and wholly original. I could write your ear off on why this is awesome, but you should just [...]

video of the day: lumbroso’s trailer for mark warren jacque’s art show

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on October 5, 2010. No comments.

I acquired a previous video on Mark Warren Jacques Lumbroso made in a past life, when I was producing VC2 pods for Current™. In the intervening years, MWJ has apparently made a name for himself in the artworld. I’d like to think the exposure he received on Current was likely the main reason for [...]

@vimeo set to drop an iPhone app. fucking finally.

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on September 30, 2010. No comments.

I don’t really have anything else to say about that, but it’s something I’ve been want since I got my iPhone. Also, it looks as if UC will be headed out for the Vimeo fest. Who is coming with me? via NewTeeVee

Twitter is officially more creative than Google or Facebook

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on September 15, 2010. No comments.

First of all, look. I think the internet is gonna go a little apeshit over the Twitter redesign for a couple days. Jury’s out on whether people will use it more or differently, but credit where it’s due for basically making an overhaul when you could easily stand to coast. History shines on risktakers. But [...]

Choose Your Own Adventure Rap Video Almost Makes Canadian Rapper Seem Cool (Almost)

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on August 25, 2010. No comments.

I’ll admit, having lived in Canada for 4 years during my formative college days, I’ve always had an affinity for Canadian hip-hop. It’s like a local/regional scene that spans the whole country and, with the exception of Drake (and k-os/k’naan for the NPR set), get’s literally no love outside it’s borders. So, I’m always [...]

NSFW video of the day: King Fantastic

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on August 23, 2010. No comments.

This is via, the homey Jessbox360, who seriously needs to up his twitter game. I’m embarrassed for you, dog. But this is just a great example of a fun, funny video, that is somewhat exploitative, but mostly harmless, and was done on the CHEAP, clearly. I anticipate this has a decent degree of viral [...]

Quote of the day: Fareed Zakaria doesn’t care about the iPad

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on August 18, 2010. No comments.

Former International Editor of Newsweek, Fareed Zakaria on making the jump to Time Magazine, instead of becoming new Editor in Cheif of Newsweek. “I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world, rather than figuring out what the business model is for Newsweek on the iPad, [...]

Video of the Day: The Toxic Avenger’s real life face

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on August 12, 2010. 1 Comment.

The less said about this clip, the better. Still bumping french rap. -hg

video of the the day: hidden branded spot for reebok

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on August 2, 2010. No comments.

Funny or die has been killing it when it comes to branded content lately. Their access to namebrand celebrities (no matter how off the radar or washed up) all but guarantees their ability to produce clickable links. Cos while I may not think I care about Ralph Macchio, but when I see a link to [...]

VidCon was real

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on July 18, 2010. No comments.

We have been frighteningly busy with real work, but I’d be be remiss if I didn’t share this video about our experience at VidCon, which is a dual track conference, for both fans of famous YouTubers and for industry folks. I can safely say that myself, @the_bg and @faketv were astonished by how vibrant [...]

video of the day: coalition of the willing

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on July 15, 2010. No comments.

‘Coalition of the Willing’ is a collaborative animated film and web-based event about an online war against global warming in a ‘post Copenhagen’ world. ‘Coalition of the Willing’ has been Directed and produced by Knife Party, written by Tim Rayner and crafted by a network of 24 artists from around the world using varied and eclectic [...]

@BBGUNfilm is my favorite music video director right now

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on June 22, 2010. No comments.

The new J. Cole video absolutely sold me on dude and I’m mad curious what his rig looks like/what he shoots on. Check out the steadicam shots on both the J. Cole video and the Asher Roth video (i know, dude sucks, but the way they flip that old Lootpack LP is nice). And [...]

Video of the Day: Orbit branded video with Jason Bateman and Will Arnett

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on June 11, 2010. No comments.

In the future there will be no commercials. Only branded 4-minute web videos starring comedians you already like. I will stop posting these kinds of branded videos when they stop making funny ones. On the industry-side, this piece was developed out of a partnership between Bateman and Arnett and Electus, the new, somewhat stealthy IAC-backed [...]

video of the day: Diddy/Aziz Ansari smooth off

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on June 3, 2010. No comments.

This branded spot for Siroc pretty much speaks for itself.

@tvcarnage’s Let’s Work It Out is amazing, disturbing

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on June 1, 2010. No comments.

Derek Beckles might be the greatest videoartist of our time. His pilot for Adult Swim was deemed too weird/offensive. For Adult Swim. his Frankenstein amalgams of 80s/90s vhs pretty much created an entire scene of weirdos scouting flea markets and garages sales for hard to find VHS gems. And his latest opus, “Let’s Work It [...]

Video of the Day: Shutterbug by @therealbigboi

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on May 27, 2010. 1 Comment.

This album cannot drop soon enough.

GE crowdsources online marketing ideas

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on May 26, 2010. No comments.

GE has just announced that they will be tapping the minds of creatives and want-to-be creatives everywhere to help them “avoid the lame”. What I like about this is the fact that it’s not a Poptent(or Tongal, or Mofilm, or Filmmaka, et. al)- powered “make-us-a-viral-video campaign. It’s just an open call, from the social media department, [...]