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

That slips right up your spine, that stuff.

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

takin the train, takin the train

a straight repost from BrownBookElastic...

"Back in the whirlwindcalledseptember, we shot South African awesomes BLK JKS here in NYC and now Secretly Canadian has released the vid for your'n'all'eyes alike. but wait - lets backstory-backtrack!... Some time ago, the very talented Nadia Hallgren travelled to Soweto, South Africa to get some mindblowing shots of dudes surfing trains -- and eventually make the doc Sanza-Hanza.

When BLK JKS wanted to use the doc's footage for the project, they contacted Nadia -- who i then met, and we were off on the road to video. my heart is full of love and whelms for all the people who helped this project along the way: the steering, the enabling, the make-happen-ing, the sweating, the carrying, the whittling, the ALL-ing. thank you, thankyou... i'm so pleased.

BLK JKS - MOLALATADI from Jamie-James Medina on Vimeo.

BLK JKS - Molalatladi
director: chell stephen & nadia hallgren
producer: lisa diebner
Sanza Hanza D.P: nadia hallgren
NYC director of photography: gregg conde
editors: chell stephen & sam winter
glam: MH artistry"

Ground Breaking, Earth Shattering

Aaaaaah, I'd have claimed responsibility for the earthquake in Haiti to have been given a shot at doing this video for Theophilus London. Granted there are thousands of mofos living along the L, J, and G trains with the same skills, experience, and credibility as me; but whenever a favorite on-the-rise Brooklyn based musical artist releases a low to medium budget video without my involvement, I experience quite the irrational wave of wrathful jealousy. But when it turns out this good, I do hand claps (extra points for shooting at Winnie's in Chinatown).

I guess the greater point of this post should be that there's this BK dude Theophilus London making beautiful, brilliant genre-blending tunes. Crossover culture can't be stopped. The Medici Effect pummels all other models of innovation!

Baby Steps

pretty interesting stuff from Esquire in the land of print to digital evolution. Take a photo + copy item from the magazine and turn it into something called AUGMENTED REALITY.

Really could have brought it home if they hadn't short changed the audio. First, AUGMENTED REALITY. Second, TV quality audio. Baby steps.

well worn territory rendered more funny in animation

and sponsored by Samsung

again CurrentTV does something watchable.

just posting this so i'm reminded to watch it again and again

cuz i read my own blog like daily.

"must get to france so we can french kiss some french girls."

(whatever hulu, this is what i'm talking about