November 6, 2009 • 3:16 pm 1
Good morning,
Watch this. It’s hilarious. Don’t think about it too much about it though. Just laugh, and continue with your day.
Filed under: Marketing, Media, Video , Commercials, humour, italy., Race, Video
May 19, 2009 • 6:15 pm 4
Paul Lamere’s slide on how recommendation system are broken. From Mayhem
Right now the music biz is living somewhere between the Blade Runner future and the Kitty Hawk past. On one side we’re at the dawn of a new tech age and battles to determine the shape of what’s to come are being waged on all levels-from the indie foot soldiers pushing singles out the digitrunk (aka Myspace Music) to teams of academics, activists and lawyers bitch slapping congress to make sensible policy decisions. To paraphrase Mobb Deep-”There’s a war going on out there, no band’s safe from…”
On the other side we’re pulling a Wright Brothers-we know a new model is possible, we can taste it. But for all the planning and plotting, designing and discussion, we still can’t get this sonuvabitch to fly for more than a few feet. As for making that big jump off the “this is the new business model” cliff? Well, you leap first. We’ll watch and take notes.
Granted, this might be simplified just a bit and hyperbolized all to hell, this blend of optimism and tension was the major things I took away from yesterday’s San Francisco Music Tech Summit . That, and the realization that Justin Timberlake’s new Tennmen label really does not suck. And I think I have a soft spot for folk singing bears with guitars.
Filed under: Marketing, Media, Music , Brian Zisk, Business, Matt Morris, Music, San Francisco, San Francisco Music Tech, Technology
April 6, 2009 • 3:57 pm 0
When Mark Amerika created Grammatron 16 (?) years ago, who knew it would take the rest of the world so long to catch up?
Still, you have no idea how exited this article in the NYT makes me-enough to get me blogging again after umpteen months.
It’s always annoyed the hell out of me that writers were getting the short end of the stick in terms of cool digitools. The itunes, DIY, online community model works for the music biz, but it took (and to be honest this is all still very new stuff) the creation of a functional and practical e-book reader (the Kindle, and it’s soon coming knockoffs) to actually make to idea of books integrated with media a tangible reality.
According to the article, some enterprising capitalist types are finally seeing the light when it comes to the multimedia options available to authors. Read the rest of this entry »
October 31, 2007 • 11:23 pm 3
Anyone who knows me knows I’ve been preachin’ the relevance of regional dance music for years. From D.C. Go Go to Baltimore Club, Detroit Techno to Miami Bass each form had it’s genesis in the city’s urban core and gradually spread to a wider audience. These styles have at least some core elements of hip hop and it’s always interesting to see the ways various geographic flavors gets thrown in and effect the corresponding dance styles.
In our constant search for the next hot “it”, us media and marketing folks have given these styles some shine over the years, not always to the best ends-sometimes making the underground mainstream is a really bad idea-but it’s good to see folks getting some recognition and (ideally) eating off their craft.
Footworkin’ has been a Chicago staple since at least the late 90’s and grew out of the city’s fierce house and club scenes. The music is like House on meth:fast, neckbreaking stuff-and the footwork, well just check it:
Recently Samsung, in a move that kicked them up about 1 zillion notches on my “Marketers who are on their shit” list, rolled out the ad campaign for their new “Juke” phone, featuring real live jukin from Chicago’s FootworKINGz:
With the commercial nod, a recent article in Rolling Stone, a theater debut at this years “Hip Hop Dance Fest” and yes folks, a movie deal in consideration, looks like Footworkin’, or at least the FootworKINGz, are set to be repping the Windy city lovely for a minute. I really hope creators of these dances and musical styles have their business hats on, are smart about how much control they give away and make it a point to establish some form of ownership over their creations. I’m down for everybody groovin, but just make sure that green goes into the right hands at the end of the day.
I mean, I’m way too young for this, but I hear cats used to listen to Rock n Roll and do the Charleston in the hood. Now ain’t that some other ish…
Filed under: Art, Dance, Marketing, Media , Chicago, Dance, Jit, Juke, Krump, Samsung, Street Dance, Turf Dance
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