Something Burning

Month: March 2012

  • Amy Chozick’s New York Times Story On General Motors & Scratch

    Fabrizio Costantini for The New York Times Ross Martin, left, of Viacom’s creative strategy unit, is working with General Motors to help revive interest in cars among young consumers. Mr. Martin and John McFarland of Chevrolet are shown in G.M.’s headquarters in Detroit. As Young Lose Interest in Cars, G.M. Turns to MTV for Help…

  • Viacom Launched A Blog, Yo

    In a blatant ripoff of SomethingBurning.com (kidding, Mark), Viacom launched a blog this week.  Surprise — it’s actually freakin’ good.  I work here, yes, but it’s true.  Look at the blogs of other corporate monoliths — they blow! Viacom’s blog is already posting some fantastic stuff from the likes of MTV & VH1’s Van Toffler, Viacom International’s Bob…

  • Kvell, Mom, Kvell

    Last month, I tried to impress the shit out of my parents by hooking our family up with a sweet bungalo (thank you, Pam Kaufman!) at the Nickelodeon Hotel in Orlando.  I stacked the room with fresh fruit and other treats, and even had my mom’s favorite cocktail, a (virgin) pina colada, waiting for her when she…

  • Blasting The New Album By “Fore” This Morning

     It’s Tuesday morning, I’m in the office blasting tracks 25 year-old Mutaurwa Mapondera, a.k.a. “Fore” (formerly “Foretold”), just sent me from his underground debut called GOING BACK IS NOT THE SAME AS STAYING. Fore, born in Zimbabwe, describes it as “an album about Distance. Distance from the people and places you love, and Distance from the life you feel you should be…

  • “Fresh Guacamole”: A New Stop Motion Short from PES

    Stop-motion slight of hand’s not new, but in the hands of PES, every cut’s a surprise… From Colassal: In his first stop motion short in over a year, animator PES (previously) has just released this brilliant companion piece to his groundbreaking 2008 cooking video Western Spaghetti. I’m happy to report this new clip is every bit…

  • “Just In Case You Were Planning To Plug In Your Laptop At Our Cafe”

  • Brooklyn’s Jose Parla

    Loving Jose Parla.  The enigmatic Brooklyn painter has been called a “raconteur,” a conceptual documentarian, a “transcriber.”  Parla’s work, which I wish we had on our walls and hopefully, one day, will, uses markings and layers of distress to chronicle the passing of time and neglect across their surfaces.  The work is beautiful, cerebral, emotional.  Like, say, Cy Twombly, it feels…

  • Dash (9) Explains Why He’s A Better Writer Than I Was At His Age