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Category Archives: things we're feeling
5 Online Resources You NEED To Be Using
The following websites are a curated selection based on hours of web time spent in ways not quite as useful.
In an evermore complicated internet landscape of blogs, vlogs, networks, and languages, these sites will actually simplify your life. Amen.
Check them out for yourself:
5. FreshDV
A nice cross-section of expert opinions, tutorials, tech news, etc.
4. IndieGoGo
A crowdfunding [...]
LOOSWORLD Presents… Noseferocktu
It’s actually happening… believe it. Urgent Content famlay, Looseworld is putting on a pretty uniquely sick event in NYC. They asked filmmakers to submit their work, and paired them with musicians to score the films and perform live. Should be a fun event, with the Street Carnage dudes hosting, and apparently Das Racist performing? Hmmm. [...]
Everyone says Das Racist is the new Ninjasonik
But they’re wrong. They’re the new Beastie Boys. Fuck it, I said it. They make ultra-intelligent, meta-modern, post-colonial electro-rap, disguised as stupid party jams. The fact that Fake TV was talking up their new mixtape, Shut Up, Dude, which is available for free download here, says a lot, because she listens to, like, no rap.
Also, [...]
Pictures in Motion: 3D Video Without the Multiplex
While most people associate 3D video with Hollywood blockbusters and $17 ticket stubs, in New York City over the weekend I was lucky enough to catch “Ouroboros: The History of the Universe,”–for free!–at the ISE Cultural Foundation in SoHo.
The installation is an awe-inspiring 3D video environment that showcases the more poetic side of the medium: [...]
surveillance, GPS and free stuff
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 [...]
Pasta, a brew, and some Chat Roulette
Ok, I’ll admit it, I’m obsessed with CR. Before we started Urgent Content, the Bonrz crew (@faketv, @henrygoldman, @bjstein, and yours truly @the_bg) were contemplating a potential dating site idea… We went so far as to review the thesis of and meet with the author of a major paper on online dating and then subject [...]
Le Blogotheque in Africa
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
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 you?” [...]
2010's Rubick's Cube… New Journalism
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 [...]
Henry's Favorite Hip Hop Albums of 2009
1. Ghostface Killah – The Wizard of Poetry (super-underated. if only Hov waited til ‘10 to dead autotune)
2. JPeriod & NNeka - The Madness
3. Zion I – The Takeover
4. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II
5. BlakRoc (likely candidate to be 2010’s Gnarls Barkley crossover equivalent, so enjoy it now, before it blows up [...]
Any Travel Channel Academy Alumns Out There? ≤crickets≥
I’m trying to decide how sarcastic I want to be about this. Part of me is like, cool Discovery Networks, get those New York Film Academy* dollars, running fantasy-journalist-camp, for every naive moron who thinks being a travel journalist is actually a feasibly to avenue to living out dreams of professional wanderlust. I mean, its [...]
Act Like You Know: Visual Blog Posts Are Next
This is a dope phenomenon. Mashable cites it as one the 10 trends to look for in new media in 2010. I can already see it happening on blogs large and small.
In fact, I don’t think it’s a question of if, but when, the default for blog templating includes a variable, rich-media interface, leaving the [...]
You Love Buzz Bands: Nneka
You know when you hear about a hot new artist before anybody does, and you convince yourself they are the next big thing and are gonna alter the musical landscape in the course of the next year? Well, it invariably leads to disappointment: either the debut album drops and flops, revealing that the weaknesses in [...]
Bron Bron
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 [...]
UPS brand loyalty
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. [...]
"The agony of war, victory, defeat"
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
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 were [...]
$tarbucks
Is it true that the coffee/protein bfast/smoothie/frappamachachino peddler got its name from the initial investors being celebs. Get it, Star… Bucks. I think Kenny G is one of the benefactors. Anyway, this is a pretty cool little program they’re running, getting ‘real’ people to give testimony on their (My) Starbucks Story. We like it, and [...]
part time beat maestros
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 [...]
A Monument In Time