Category Archives: documentary

BBC’s Next Big Nature Series: Human Planet

Written by . Posted on January 14, 2011. No comments.
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BBC just released a trailer and short clips on their YouTube channel to hype their latest nature series, following the success of Planet Earth and Life. This time Human Planet points the cameras in the mirror so to speak – just not literally back at ourselves. You know BBC went out and found the most [...]

Have you seen this yet? Intel Visual Life “The Sartorialist”

Written by . Posted on January 10, 2011. No comments.
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Urgent team member Kasia posted this video on her blog fake tv the other day. It’s a short doc about fashion blogger Scott Schumann of The Sartorialist made for Intel’s new Visual Life campaign. It’s nice to see intellectual and influential bloggers getting more mainstream love by collaborating with brands. With 70k hits a day, [...]

Seeing History in NY’s Subway Tunnels and Sewers

Written by . Posted on January 6, 2011. No comments.
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Adventurer Steve Duncan (above) recently took filmmaker Andrew Wonder though the bowels of New York City on a special tour of the city’s hidden history. No, this isn’t the latest Discovery Channel special. It’s a fascinating homemade, 30-minute doc on Vimeo that answers any questions you might ask yourself about what it’s like to explore [...]

Get Him to the Shiek

Written by . Posted on December 6, 2010. 3 Comments.
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Ok that’s a really far stretch for a post title. Hear me out though… I recently had privilege of shooting with Puff aka Diddy for our series of Celeb Flip spots on his video shoot for “Coming Home” which took place on a salt flat in the middle of the desert. It wasn’t just the [...]

Vimeo Awards Resnap

Written by . Posted on October 11, 2010. No comments.
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This past weekend I attended the inaugural Vimeo Awards . As a bona fide video nerd, I have to say it was pretty cool.  Lots of camera geeks, filmmakers, plaid shirts, beards, plaid shirts, and booze.  Hightlights included the awards ceremony, which I was lucky enough to snag a ticket to, but was bummed and [...]

YouTube introspective

Written by . Posted on May 29, 2010. No comments.
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Remember LonelyGirl15? YouTube’s 5th birthday was last week and I’ve finally gotten around to watching the “YouTube Stories” series they produced– 2 minute interviews with select creators about their successes with the medium. The stories, and this interview with the director, contain interesting little insights about creating for YouTube that are worth checking out– What [...]

free documentary idea: Internet Addiction Rehab

Written by . Posted on April 27, 2010. No comments.
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Caught this story via PSFK about how a study where researchers took away students access to all forms of internet media a reported that “after 24 hours, several students showed signs of withdrawal, craving and anxiety, and were unable to function well without their media.” They also cite this rehab clinic, which is so obviously [...]

Pop Up Film Festival “Special Offer” in NY

Written by . Posted on April 20, 2010. No comments.
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Stop… drop… open up a film festival.  We haven’t heard enough about Damon aka Dame Dash’s Creative Control TV… how is that possible?  Dame typically bangs his self-promo drum pretty loudly.  CreativeControl.tv is his latest (as far as we know) spinoff post HOVA split.  It’s difficult to figure out exactly what it is, but it [...]

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 [...]

surveillance, GPS and free stuff

Written by . Posted on April 5, 2010. No comments.
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There are so many cool elements to this campaign for Blu Dot’s high end “Real Good” chairs, it’s hard to know where to start. The basic premise is simple, Blu Dot and ad agency Mono planted 25 “Real Good” chairs ($129 each) around NY, covered by video surveillance and GPS/Twitter tracking. The chairs were free [...]

A Convo w/ Sundance Nominated Max Joseph

Written by . Posted on March 1, 2010. No comments.
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Max is a great example of a creator who’s taken his skills and creativity and leveraged it in the web video space to gain serious recognition as a filmmaker. In a web video less world, Max’s vision would not have had the multimillion view exposure that it has, and he’s managed to take the medium [...]

kicking down the fourth wall: interview with cullen hoback

Written by . Posted on February 23, 2010. No comments.
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We met Cullen Hoback in 2007 at the Cucalorus Festival, a quirky little indie film fest in North Carolina. We drank more than a few toasts to independent filmmaking, and saw his documentary feature, Monster Camp, the next morning. A window into the humble souls of a handful of devoted LARPers (Google it, or better [...]