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British Media Maker Perry Stevens Wins Free Flip Cam
Perry Stevens, founder of London production company IMP Film Co., has been sent a complimentary Flip Video camera thanks to Urgent Content’s pure generosity and goodwill. Perry was selected at random from our mailing list for this historically monumental offering.
Congratulations, Perry!
Happy filming.
A Monument In Time
I've never been as enthralled by a website as I am by "A Moment in Time," a virtual venture by The New York Times Lens that is equal parts photo series, interactive art gallery, and crowdsource experiment. Everyone will find something to love in this treasure trove [...]
@Radarmusicvideo Online Music Video Marketplace
THIS is a good idea. Radar is an online marketplace where up-and-coming music video directors can connect with bands and labels looking to source creative for theit songs. I’m curious to hear if anyone out there has gotten work through this, because it doesn’t seem like they have a ton of successful videos so far. [...]
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 [...]
video of the day: @conanobrien @google
Kill the Pandora station this while you work this afternoon and listen to Conan’s Q & A at Google last week. Add to the list why of why he will be remembered as a media icon for our generation.
5 Video Contests You NEED to Be Entering
Whether you’re full-timing or freelancing, contests are a great way to keep your creative juices flowing.
They give you deadlines, they give you more work to add on your reel, and sometimes, they even pay off.
So grab your camera and get moving!
5. Cannes 2010: Coke Zero Video Contest
Coca Cola wants to reach out to [...]
@48hrmag: Innovation in Print!
I’m don’t subscribe to themediaisdying, anymore, because it isn’t. It’s changing. But the innovation needed to buoy it isn’t coming from print. For the most part. However, an exception to that sweeping generalization, I offer for your consideration 48 HR Magazine, a sort of collaborative, 48-hour-film festival for a print magazine. Each issue is conceived, [...]
who is the @ebertchicago of video games?
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 [...]
@chrisbosh crowdsources his future
Chris Bosh is one of the most promising young stars in the NBA. Trouble is, he has been toiling away in semi-obscurity in the NBA’s equivalent of the witness protection program, the Toronto Raptors. This summer, however, he is becoming an restricted free agent and will be able to sign wherever he wants, for [...]
In the Beginning, There Were Sims…
Will Wright, creator of The Sims (and, more importantly, SimCity), has leaked his next big project to IGN: a television show tentatively titled The Creation Project.
The series, a collaboration with producer Albie Hecht, former president of SpikeTV and Nickolodeon, plans to source its storylines from viewers through an American Idol-esque voting process. In addition, Wright [...]
free documentary idea: Internet Addiction Rehab
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 [...]
video of the day: Creativity is Derivative
Cool video by Nina Paley, who, if you don’t recognize the name, was the creative force behind (and main character of) the animated film Sita Sings the Blues, which got into trouble when it was unable to use 30s-era jazz songs which made up the majority of the score. Nina was able to find self-distribution [...]
Tech Crunch TV to drop soon
Whether or not it will be interesting remains to be seen. Though, Arrington and co have always been ahead of the curve, as they’ve turned their blog into full-blown corporation, I’m personally curious whether a 24-hour tech network will have any traction. Back in 2005, I worked for a streaming online tv network that flopped [...]
LinkTV Gets Creative with Global Devo
Finally, someone is bringing together open-source web platforms, social-issue media, and $20,000 in prize money.
Check out the LinkTV ViewChange Film Contest, which aims to support videos that raise awareness and inspire action in the effort to eliminate global poverty.
Even Danny Glover is on board (literally, as a member of LinkTV’s board of directors).
Academic Project: Hollywood Oral History Project
Media Decoder has the details of this USC project, trying to capture as many stories of the old days while they still can:
The new archive is designed to compile interviews with producers, agents, lawyers, executives and journalists who were involved with entertainment in an off-screen sort of way.
I’m a little skeptical of the need for [...]
business card title of the day: Hacker-Journalist
Urgensia aficianados will recall Kasia’s dope post about the challenges of new media types in giving themselves definitive titles on their networking collateral (read: business cards and resumes). Well, I was reminded of that post today when I read NY Times Interactive-News-Technologies-Editor Aron Pilhofer’s blog post about getting business cards for one of his reporters [...]
House the Latest Foot Soldier in DSLR Revolution
I took this opportunity to write a digital haiku:
House’s Greg Yaitanes
confirms via his Twitter:
A 5d finale.
That’s right! In case you didn’t “read between the lines,” director Greg Yaitanes has disclosed that the season finale of House was shot on the Canon Mark II 5d.
As the latest development in the DSLR revolution we’ve been covering, Yaitanes [...]
CreativeLIVE: Give FREE a Chance
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.
Pop Up Film Festival “Special Offer” in NY
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 [...]
@greenpeace crowdsources new logo for @BP_America