Tag: mtvU

  • RECORD COLLECTING FOR GIRLS, By Courtney Smith

    Former MTV music snob (in a good way), Courtney Smith’s new book, RECORD COLLECTING FOR GIRLS, comes out today. Why buy it?  For starters, Courtney knows her shit.  Girl’s got a music library (bigger than your ipod’s) in her head and in her heart, and a trigger finger so intuitive it just knows when to push…

  • The 2011 Woodie Awards At #SXSW With Foo Fighters, Wiz Khalifa, Sleigh Bells, Two Door Cinema Club and Odd Future, Hosted By Donald Glover

    The first time we did the Woodie Awards, it was an awards show without, uh, the “show.” It was 2004. We didn’t have time to make one. College kids voted on who would win, students at The School of Visual Arts designed the “trophy” from a chunk of tree, and we literally ambushed bands who…

  • Where’s The 2011 Woodie Awards?

    To all those who’ve been asking me for tickets to everybody’s favorite, the Woodie Awards: The breaking news is that we’re doing the show in March, now. Not in the fall. Not because it interfered with my anniversary for five straight years and my wife was fed up with that — because in truth she…

  • The High Life: “We Came To Rock” (AR Classic Records)

    Rebecca Gwynne — a really good young editor — sent me this new video from some hip hop artists I didn’t know before. The artists are The High Life and they seem like they’re really psyched to be doing this video, so it put me in a good mood. The video’s directed by Toshiki Yoshiro.…

  • Monday Night’s Dinner

    Two things happened at dinner Monday night at Blue Ribbon. 1) The theme of our dinner was “Exploit”… Not the pejorative definition, the other one. And it featured an inspiring table of people who run platforms that empower young people to do amazing shit: The National Endowment For The Arts, TED Conference For Youth, Behance.net,…

  • The Pepsi Refresh Project On MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, Teen Nick, Spike TV & More

    Nice interview with our girl SuChin Pak today on the Pepsi Refresh website. SuChin’s about to hit the road again for the second leg of her cross-country trip, in which we tell the stories of incredible young people whose ideas and passion are coming to life before our very eyes. It’s the kind of project…

  • Our “Indebted” Campaign For Fiscal Responsibility Just Got Nominated For An Emmy Award

    Congratulations to everyone who worked on our “Indebted” campaign, launched in association with the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, which was just nominated for an Emmy Award. Here’s some work from the campaign…

  • Guest Lectured This Week At NYU

    I guest lectured an NYU class on the future of media and entertainment on Wednesday. The class was about 50 students from NYU’s Tisch (film/tv/media), Stern (business) and Gallatin (individualized study) schools. Here’s my profile on RateMyProfessors, with 2 ratings so far. Posting this comment from a student for my mom to see: Enjoyed listening…

  • Iran Seizes mtvU Poet Laureate Simin Behbahani

    Simin Behbahani is the Poet Laureate of MTV’s college network, mtvU. Last week, she was placed under house arrest by the Iranian government. Here’s the latest from NPR: March 19, 2010 Tehran Halts Travel By Poet Called ‘Lioness Of Iran’ The authorities in Iran continue to block the travel of the nation’s most prominent poet.…

  • The New “RATE MY PROFESSORS” iPhone App

    So psyched for these guys, especially Paul DeGeorges & Steve Schutzman. RateMyProfessors.com is already mad popular (I see their traffic numbers every day and they’re astounding). Now they bust out with a superfun app that’s the perfect utility, in response to user demand. Big ups to the impressive RateMyProfesors team.