Stand By Your Man

Yippee-ki-yay, motherFer.

Makes me think of Die Hard when John McClane says to Deputy Police Chief Dwayne Johnson, "I'm not the one who just got butt fucked on national television, Dwayne". Meanwhile Argyle is in the limo listening on the CB laughing it up.

By the way, CNN.com and ESPN.com are emphasizing video more than ever. Their recent redesigns put links to video and big players front and center. Click on a headline story and you often have a video accompanied by the written story below. Makes tons of sense because both CNN and ESPN were in the TV business before they peddled words in the online game. And in many cases the web content is more substantive than what might make it to a TV newscast. On TV, you'd only get a fraction of these highlights of Obama at the GOP retreat. Especially good is the last clip. Tell 'em where you came from, O! Tell 'em what time it is!

And bone to pick with ESPN...Sportscenter has become all former athletes talking analysis and meaningless predictions when I'd rather be seeing highlight reels. Alas, that is what the web is for!

I prayed and prayed, and DIME TV is what I got. Highlights from all the nights games followed by the best dunks of the night. Tastes great, less filling.

Speaking of Diddy

some shiz I edited for Vogue (shot by Barbara Leibovitz)

Creative Control

CURREN$Y - BREAKFAST from Creative Control on Vimeo.

The internet obliterated the music industry as we know it but something new begins to emerge. By launching Creative Control, Dame Dash shows he's at least paying attention to what's going on with music and online video.
4(cheap + potent) = something in that happy medium between the rawness of a quirky live/doc performance and the production value of a traditional music vid. For maximum effect, brand content and blast it as far and wide as the internet can take it. It's a little bit indie and a little bit Diddy.

LAMC Presents: Curren$y from Creative Control on Vimeo.

I'll slurp that!

Saw this Surfer Blood on http://iguessimfloating.blogspot.com/ and thought it pretty awesome tasting.

CNN actually teaming with VBS!?!?!?

Yesterday was yesterday, and today my last post feels startlingly prescient. CNN.com is actually teaming with VBS.tv! They've created a microsite called CNN Presents VBS.tv featuring docs like Vice Guide to Liberia, Obama's War (a report shot while embedded with US troops in Afghanistan), and a music/travel series created specifically for the CNN crossover called Indie Asia: On tour with Handsome Furs

Liberian Giiiiiiirl. You came and you changed my world...

Vice Guide to Travel: Liberia

I'm such a slobbering fan of VBS when it comes to their travel docs. On the whole, pretty thuggish ruggish. You could make the argument that it's mildly exploitative of another country's unfortunate condition, if you wanted to be that way. But it's not any different than this, I don't think.
Anderson Cooper pulls bloody child from looting mob