Category Archives: DIY Everything

YouChef

Written by . Posted on March 7, 2012. No comments.
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As YouTube continues to encourage creators across genres to continue honing their craft, it seems as though the homegrown cooking star genre is very ripe in fact it’s really heating up for some break out stars… (Please no tomato hurling.) We’ve seen cover song artists, vloggers of course, and make up tutors really pop in terms [...]

Ballsy DIY TV Pilot

Written by . Posted on February 16, 2012. No comments.
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I first met our friend and one-time collaborator, Nathan Marshall, at an independent TV conference when web video was really just budding.  Fast forward 4 or so years, and Nathan has co-written and directed an ambitious TV 1/2 hour pilot, “about a couple in LA who are so underwater on their mortgage that they can’t [...]

THE SEARCH FOR AMERICA’S NEWEST COMEDY WRITER

Written by . Posted on October 12, 2011. No comments.
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As content creators ourselves, we understand what a long journey it can be to develop your own original ideas into successful projects. And we know how important it is to have the right forms of support along the way. There are not many organizations out there who are dedicated to helping emerging artists. The Alliance [...]

CreativeLIVE: Give FREE a Chance

Written by . Posted on April 21, 2010. No comments.
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Remember all those times you thought and/or said, "if art school wasn't so expensive, I would totally be the next (insert famous artist here)?" Well, you officially have no more excuses.

Appearance releases via iPhone in the field!

Written by . Posted on April 6, 2010. No comments.
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Whoa… admitedly, I’ve been holding out on the iphone related stuff, I’m a BBerry guy, but recently I was able to trade my little sister (14 years old) an Urban Outfitters gift card to have her ipod touch on loan.  I’m getting into it, and Urgent Content is developing a mobile ap, so figured I [...]

what’s on your business card?

Written by . Posted on February 16, 2010. 1 Comment.
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As any freelance/self-employed creative multi-hyphenate director-producer-designer-writer-new media artist-photographer-blogger knows, making business cards is a hassle. What title to use? Keep it simple, and it won’t cover everything you do. Get descriptive, and you’ll sound pretentious and probably run out of space. Are business cards just for people over 40 anyway? At least designing a card [...]

win a trip to SXSW from Open Video Alliance

Written by . Posted on February 5, 2010. No comments.
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If you aren’t down with the Open Video Alliance and do anything related to video, you’re missing out on the major struggle of content to creators to use video as a free and open platform for creation, distribution, and fair use/remixing of existing video. Learn more about it here, but long story short, the issue [...]

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 [...]

If You’re Best Song Doesn’t Play on Rock Band, Your Band Is Going to Fail

Written by . Posted on January 20, 2010. No comments.
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Sorry to harsh your mellow so bluntly, indie bands, but the future is now. Record sales are make believe. Licensing revenue only happens if your older cousin works at some ad agency. Touring is the worst thing ever. If you’re going to make it, you’re going to make by scratching and scraping for every single [...]