Posts Tagged ‘First’

FIRST LOOK: Obey The Giant – A Narrative Drama About Shepard Fairey

Posted on April 20th, 2012 • Filed under Look • No Comments

Here's a Kickstarter campaign that sure to peak the interest of street art fans.  Story goes that Shepard gave a RISD student named Julian Marshall the rights to make a dramatic film on the beginnings of the whole OBEY GIANT phenomenon.  The film is at a state where Kickstarter is being used to generate the remaining funds needed to complete the film.  To learn more about the project and contribute to its funding, click here. 

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First Live Daily Comedy Series to Premiere on YouTube

Posted on March 21st, 2012 • Filed under Learn • No Comments

Online entertainment studio My Damn Channel is planning to launch the first live, daily comedy channel in partnership with YouTube next week. It’s part of the Google-owned video network’s initiative to build out its catalog of original, cable TV-like programming.

The channel, called “My Damn Channel Live,” will be hosted by writer and comedian Beth Hoyt (see above) every weekday at 4 p.m. ET. Half-hour shows will run on Wednesdays, accompanied by 10-minute “blasts” the other four days of the workweek, My Damn Channel CEO Rob Barnett tells Mashable.

The format will follow the style of late-night talk shows, featuring a range of interviews with celebrity guests and premieres of videos from My Damn Channel’s other comedy series. Where the channel will differ is in its interactions with the audience: Comments left by viewers on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter will be tied into the content of the show.

“The single most important element of any live show is the audience,” says Barnett. “So we’ll have someone dedicated to monitoring all the social feeds, and the host and guests will be interacting with the audience live. We’re also going to create contests for people to engage with the show and win access to private events,” he adds.

As GigaOm points out, live, original programming is still a challenge for YouTube — and all web publishers, for that matter. The average American sits in front of a television set for more than five hours per day, but spends a mere nine minutes watching video from his or her desktop, according to Nielsen. YouTube, meanwhile, says the average visitor spends 15 to 25 minutes on the network each day. By prompting viewers to tune in for 10 to 30 minutes every afternoon, My Damn Channel and YouTube are attempting to alter the way audiences approach the network.

The last live comedy series hosted on YouTube was done as part of an advertising package with HP. Hewlett-Packard sponsored a week-long program during which actors from the Upright Citizens Bridgade Theater took skit ideas from the audience and performed them live on Google’s video-sharing site. Viewers were invited to send in ideas for skits by emailing their submissions to one of HP’s Internet-connected ePrint printers positioned on the stage.

This time, YouTube will be footing the bill. The site has allegedly invested $100 million in its premium content program for the year.

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FIRST LOOK:  Phil Frost On The Inspiration Of Bob Marley

Posted on March 15th, 2012 • Filed under Look • No Comments

FIRST LOOK: Phil Frost On The Inspiration Of Bob Marley from streetvirus on Vimeo.

In celebration of the upcoming release of MARLEY, Kevin Macdonald's epic feature length doc on the life of Bob Marley, artist Phil Frost (who's known to be incredibly reclusive) participated in an terrific short video in which he for the first time talks about how his work and life has been influenced Marley. MARLEY hits theaters and all the digital outlets (including Facebook) on 4/20 and includes never before seen footage and music.

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LG reportedly building first Boot2Gecko phone as Mozilla preps app store

Posted on February 24th, 2012 • Filed under Learn • No Comments



Mozilla’s Web-centric Boot2Gecko (B2G) mobile platform is maturing at a rapid pace. As we reported earlier this month, the operating system has already attracted hardware partners and will be demoed at the upcoming Mobile World Congress event. Mozilla is also planning to unveil its new application storefront, called the Mozilla Marketplace, which will allow third-party developers to sell applications that are built with standards-based Web technologies.

A new report from ExtremeTech cites anonymous sources who say that LG is one of Mozilla’s hardware partners. The company is said to be working towards the launch of a developer-focused smartphone that will ship with an early version of the B2G operating system.

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