All Content Tagged With: "entertainment"

The Ohmies: Hop Hop Hop (Video)

The Ohmies: Hop Hop Hop (Video)

Want to learn how to stretch like a Grasshopper? Here’s how to do it…

XWave Mind Controlled iPhone App

XWave Mind Controlled iPhone App

XWave has joined emerging mind-controlled games and devices, but on the iPhone mobile platform. The iPhone headphone jack is used to connect a headset which allows users to control graphical images.

C-Dub Unveils Drama Slate

C-Dub Unveils Drama Slate

With successes like The Vampire Diaries as well as disappointments like the quickly canceled The Beautiful Life, The CW has announced its new drama development slate.

BCP Projects: Gossip Girl

BCP Projects: Gossip Girl

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I’ll Try Anything Once ON-AIR PROMO» Extreme Animal Remover – Rainbow Media

I’ll Try Anything Once ON-AIR PROMO» Extreme Animal Remover – Rainbow Media

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I’ll Try Anything Once, Episode 3: Extreme Animal Remover
Rats, bees, raccoons, hogs and snakes are just some of the creatures that wildlife remover Johnny Vincent deals with everyday in his Florida pest control business. While Johnny can certainly cut the mustard when it comes to removing such extreme prey, can Touré survive four days [...]

I’ll Try Anything Once ON-AIR PROMO» Rodeo Clown – Rainbow Media

I’ll Try Anything Once ON-AIR PROMO» Rodeo Clown – Rainbow Media

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I’ll Try Anything Once, Episode 2: Rodeo Clown
Touré enters the world of human bull bait in Cody, Wyoming, when he gambles life and limb to become a rodeo clown.  After a rough and tumble training with veteran bull dodging clown Timber Tuckness, Touré is left alone in the middle of the ring [...]

I’ll Try Anything Once ON-AIR PROMO» Demolition Derby – Rainbow Media

I’ll Try Anything Once ON-AIR PROMO» Demolition Derby – Rainbow Media

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I’ll Try Anything Once, Episode 1: Demolition Derby in Macy, Indiana
Die-hard New York subway rider Touré couldn’t be more out of his element when he travels 500 miles to rural Indiana, the heart of demolition derby country, to apprentice with 100-time crash and bash champion Larry Staats. The intrepid wordsmith has four short days to [...]

Touré BIOGRAPHY: Writer, Journalist, Critic and Television Host

Touré BIOGRAPHY: Writer, Journalist, Critic and Television Host

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One of America’s leading young African-American journalists and critics, Touré is the author of three books: the novel Soul City, a collection of short stories The Promised Land and Never Drank the Kool-Aid, a collection of his work for magazines including The New Yorker and Rolling Stone, where he has served as a contributing editor [...]

Reality Show: I’ll Try Anything Once – 13 x 30′

Reality Show: I’ll Try Anything Once – 13 x 30′

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I’ll Try Anything Once – 13 x 30′

An Electric Sky Production for Treasure HD One of the Voom Networks
This 13-episode half-hour weekly series follows Touré, one of the nation’s most quotable young authors and journalists, leaving his comfort zone to try his hand at a bevy of challenging pursuits that some call a livelihood and [...]

Treasure HD Channel – Voom Networks, Rainbow Media

Treasure HD Channel – Voom Networks, Rainbow Media

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TREASURE HD is the first high-definition channel dedicated to pursuing stories about people and their passions. Original, innovative, entertaining, it’s a high-definition look at what people treasure in life, from antiques to adventures. TREASURE HD explores those fascinating individuals who live their dreams and inspire the rest of us to find ourselves.
TREASURE HD is part [...]

VOOM HD Networks, Rainbow Media

VOOM HD Networks, Rainbow Media

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VOOM HD Networks comprise the world’s largest suite of high-definition channels for distribution through satellite and cable operators. Produced exclusively in true high-definition and 5.1 Dolby digital surround sound, VOOM HD Networks carry programming in categories as diverse as sports, movies, fashion, music and art. VOOM HD Networks’ 15 HDTV channels are available in [...]

Q&A: Design, Wit, and the Creative Act – Core77 Offsite Series

Q&A: Design, Wit, and the Creative Act – Core77 Offsite Series

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Video 6 of 6 Running Time 10 Minutes
We shot a ton of material during the question and answer portion of Core77′s Offsite event, Design, Wit, and the Creative Act, but we’ve put together a tasty sampler of some of the best.
We produced, shot and post-produced this series of standard-definition videos for Core77.com, the premiere [...]

We Did It: Core77′s Offsite Series – Design, Wit, and the Creative Act

We Did It: Core77′s Offsite Series – Design, Wit, and the Creative Act

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Business and design leaders are increasingly aware that some of the most successful goods and services are those that elicit emotion. Trading in this spectrum poses some unique challenges to the designer, however, since the creative process of generating this kind of work presumes a shared set of cultural experiences and some deft leaps of [...]

Core77

Core77

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Since 1995 Core77.com has served a devoted global audience of industrial designers ranging from students through seasoned professionals. Core77 publishes articles, discussion forums, an extensive event calendar, hosts portfolios, job listings, a database of design firms, schools, vendors and services. Core77 provides a gathering point for designers and enthusiasts alike by producing design competitions, lecture [...]

Steven Heller | Core77 Offsite Series: Design, Wit, and the Creative Act

Steven Heller | Core77 Offsite Series: Design, Wit, and the Creative Act

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Steven heller is a senior art director of the New York Times and the co-chair (with Lita Talarico) of the MFA Designer as Author Program at the School of Visual Arts. He recently co-founded (with Alice Twemlow) the MFA in Design Criticism at SVA. He is the editor of VOICE: The AIGA Journal of Design [...]

Paul Budnitz | Core77 Offsite Series: Design, Wit, and the Creative Act

Paul Budnitz | Core77 Offsite Series: Design, Wit, and the Creative Act

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Paul Budnitz, has always had one foot in art and the other in technology. The son of a nuclear physicist and a social worker, Budnitz grew up in Berkeley, California, and began programming computers at an early age. By the age of 17 he was writing code for both safety analysis programs for nuclear power [...]

Kelly Dobson | Core77 Offsite Series: Design, Wit, and the Creative Act

Kelly Dobson | Core77 Offsite Series: Design, Wit, and the Creative Act

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Kelly Dobson grew up in a junkyard. From the age of four she was doing odd jobs such as smashing windows and hauling machine parts from one area of the yard to another. Later, studying medicine and art, Dobson became focused on alternative approaches to machines ­ approaching them as relational and reflective objects. Working [...]

Tobias Wong | Core77 Offsite Series: Design, Wit, and the Creative Act

Tobias Wong | Core77 Offsite Series: Design, Wit, and the Creative Act

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Originally from Canada, Tobias Wong studied art at Cooper Union in New York City, where he graduated in sculpture. Veering across disciplines and materials, Wong has created an oeuvre that is immediately accessible, yet contentious. He pursues his own brand of conceptualism, the self-coined “Paraconceptual,” and “Post-interesting,” and uses design as a medium, as he [...]

We Did It: Gossip Girl Fashion – The CW Network

We Did It: Gossip Girl Fashion – The CW Network

Reitz Lange called us in to put together this union project shooting on the stages of Silvercup Studios in Long Island City, NYC. This eight-part series was sponsored by Victoria’s Secret and is geared toward viewers interested in out-fitting themselves with Gossip Girl flair and style. To do so, we were tasked with interviewing the man behind the style, Costume Designer Eric Daman, in the show’s fitting room.

We Did It: Gossip Girl CW Connect

We Did It: Gossip Girl CW Connect

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BigCityPix Did It
We shot the cast of Gossip Girl answering viewer questions as installments of the network’s web format CW Connect.
How BigCityPix Did It
We popped over the 59th Street Bridge to Silvercup Studios with a union crew in tow to wait it out between takes: when the going got good, we snagged Gossip Girl cast members one by one: Blake [...]