WHAT IS ROSS MARTIN

World Champion Ross Martin is Senior Vice President of MTV360 Development & Production. His team drives programming innovation through new formats and partnerships, including branded entertainment, original long and short form content and music-related programming for MTV, MTV2 and mtvU. He also oversees all programming for MTV's Emmy and Peabody Award winning college network, mtvU. (I grabbed some amazing people and we are starting some new shit.)

Prior to MTV, Ross founded Plant Film, a Los Angeles based production company partnered with Fox, VH1 and Dimension Films; was a development executive for Spike Lee's 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks; and taught poetry at Washington University, the Rhode Island School of Design and The New School. He advises the U.S Department of State, The Williamstown Film Festival and Impact Games.    His writing appears in The Kenyon Review, The Harvard Review, McSweeney's, Denver Quarterly, BOMB Magazine and multiple anthologies.  Once, he wrote a book. He lives in Brooklyn.

WHAT IS SOMETHINGBURNING.COM

This is, like, a thing I swear I don't do when I'm stuck on boring conference calls. None of my conference calls are boring. Or are they. You tell me. Also, this is completely not affiliated with MTV Networks or Viacom. I mostly do somethingburning during bathroom breaks or times when I would otherwise be blowing my nose or coughing. For serious. Anyway, this article explains what I'm trying to do better than I can.

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