Category Archives: new media

We on award (european) tour!

Written by Brandon. Posted on May 13, 2011. No comments.
Ok, we know, we’ve been pretty quiet lately in the megaphone social broadcasting about ourselves sense that is. We’ve been hard at work on a new video series that’s set to launch with GOOD and Ford called “Reinventing the Outdoors” which we’re really proud of. It’s been a ton of work, and in [...]

Rupert Murdoch Launches The Daily

Written by Peter. Posted on February 3, 2011. No comments.
I remember explaining to my roommate back in college that reading the newspaper is kind of pointless. My argument: “Any news in that paper was already posted on the internet yesterday, so you’re actually reading old news this morning.” That really blew his mind. Honestly, I think it’s terrible that print media is collapsing so [...]

Daniel Tosh TV Show Starts A Blog

Written by Peter. Posted on January 24, 2011. No comments.
Whether you like him or not, Daniel Tosh is turning into a face for the YouTube generation. It’s all thanks to his show Tosh.0, which riffs on the dumbest viral and buzzworthy web videos out there. It’s the stuff we all watch because we don’t want to fall behind on our quick-changing pop culture references. [...]

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 [...]

@Audiodraft crowdsources original music

Written by jewel. Posted on October 1, 2010. No comments.
AudioDraft is hopping on the crowdsourcing bandwagon, leveraging a contest-model as a platform for helping musicians collaborate online.  Hailing from Finland, the founders of the company have developed a platform that allows businesses or individuals holding a composition-contest on their site.  They use open source technology as a way to help musicians collaborate online easily; [...]

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 [...]

YouTube ‘Life in a Day’ Interactive Gallery

Written by Peter. Posted on September 7, 2010. No comments.
On July 24th around 80,000 people participated in YouTube’s “Life in a Day” project. The idea was to get people to capture their day on video and upload the footage to a special YouTube channel to be worked into a feature film. At the helm is producer Ridley Scott and director Kevin MacDonald who are [...]

Arcade Fire’s Personalized Video with HTML5

Written by Moana. Posted on August 30, 2010. No comments.
Indie band Arcade of Fire released a music video for “We Used to Wait” from their new album “The Suburbs.” Writer/director Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin from Google teamed up to create an interactive, personalized and experimental video using Google Chrome and Google Maps to support the HTML5 database. The video was posted today on [...]

YouTube introspective

Written by Kasia. Posted on May 29, 2010. No comments.
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 kinds [...]

who is the @ebertchicago of video games?

Written by Henry Goldman. Posted on May 2, 2010. 1 Comment.
For those of you missed the ridiculoso internet hissy fit over Roger Ebert’s blog post last week about video games never meeting the criteria for art, allow me to paraphrase it for you: Roger Ebert made a sober, slightly disconnected argument about interactive games not fitting into the most basic criteria for art (in response to [...]