Tag: ashley simon

  • DISconnected Premieres On MTV Tomorrow Night

    When the police showed up, they found more than a hundred teenagers logged on to the live stream on Abraham Biggs’ computer screen, all watching Abraham lying on his bed.  Dead. That was November 19, 2008; the 19-year-old Biggs had committed suicide while broadcasting on his Justin.tv channel.  Many of those watching had taunted and…

  • Ahh, Fridays…

    From the genius of Gaping Void Gallery, which Ashley once showed me.

  • Something Burning Presents Ashley Simon’s “What Is Branded Entertainment?” –Episode #2

    Again we sent our intrepid office mate out to find out what exactly we are supposed to be doing. Here’s Ashley Simon: Thought I’d try one more time to see if the general public could help me figure out wtf branded entertainment is. This time I ventured to my hometown in Grosse Pointe, Michigan in…

  • Ashley Just Showed Me This Incredible Designer

    Leave it to Ashley to find the most talented people on the planet.  She does it daily. Meet Juan Carlos Pagan. The piece below really speaks for itself, and for all the under-appreciated, all-star designers I’ve been fortunate enough to work with, who have made the stuff I’ve worked on look so much better, every…

  • Hillary Clinton Leaks mtvU Winners Via Twitter

    Awesome day for mtvU, as Secretary of State Clinton leaked the winners of this year’s Fulbright mtvU Fellowships via twitter.  Each year, mtvU asks some major artists (Wyclef Jean, Serj Tankian from System of a Down, Tunde Adebimpe from TV on the Radio and Karen O from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, to name a few) to help…

  • Something Burning Presents Ashley Simon’s “What is Branded Entertainment” Episode #1

    Because it’s fun to do until we get busted, welcome to the first installment by Something Burning’s special guest contributor, Ashley Simon, in which Ashley attempts to define what our department should be doing. Today, Ashley befriends the thoughtful pedestrians of Times Square, and they’re kind enough to try and help us understand what Branded…