Tag: mtvU
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Building The Set For Last Night’s Woodie Awards
Tom Lenz’s set design for this year’s Woodie Awards was more ambitious than we’d ever attempted. And it turned out to be my favorite he’s ever done for us. The build was kinda intense. Once we are done cutting the show (it airs at 10pm December 4th on MTV, MTV2, mtvU and Palladia, we’ll really…
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Just Left Matt & Kim Woodie Awards Rehearsal
Tough to figure out lighting and what happens visually in the song’s bridge and climax, but lighting designer Chris Lande, Set Designer Tom Lenz, and the rest of the Woodies production team just nailed a really powerful way to kick off the show, which is at Roseland Ballroom in about 20 hours. We are putting…
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Matt & Kim Performance Will Kick Ass Next Wednesday
When we saw Matt & Kim open for Friendly Fires, and then they came and shredded our office to bits, we just had to make sure we locked the Brooklyn duo to perform at the Woodies next Wednesday at Roseland Ballroom. If you’ve never seen these two play live, you gotta. We’ve been working with…
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Just Took A Picture Of My Woodie
Damn, I swore to never write a headline like that. Shit. Anyway, the Woodie Awards are 8 days away (November 18th at Roseland Ballroom in NYC) and I can finally see the show in my head. We shoot it next Wednesday, then we edit to air on MTV, MTV2, mtvU and hi-def channel Palladia on…
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HarperCollins Launches “inkpop” Today
HarperCollins came to visit yesterday. Their new interactive platform for teens, “inkpop,” goes live today. I know, you’re like: “A social networking site from a book publisher?” Well, if cleaning supplies, chewing gum and cosmetics can have social networking sites, why not a publisher? I’m not saying it will work, but I also wasn’t…
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“Professors Strike Back” — The Top 8 From ratemyprofessors.com
If you ask me, RateMyProfessors.com is nearly a perfect site. Why? Because it combines quick, hilarious entertainment with the value of a simple, reliable utility. Today, any college kid who ends up in a class with a shitty professor…has no one to blame but himself. There’s literally no reason to ever register for a college…
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The Wall Street Journal Reports Iranian Simin Behbahani Will Follow John Ashbery As mtvU’s Next Poet Laureate
Tonight, The Wall Street Journal broke the news that we’ve named mtvU’s new Poet Laureate. As the Journal’s Kamau High reports, it’s 82 year-old Iranian poet Simin Behbahani. Beginning Monday, mtvU will broadcast 19 short films featuring Behbahani’s poems, translated by Farzaneh Milani and Kaveh Safa, and produced by Sophia Cranshaw. mtvU will also be…
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Design The Graphics For This Year’s Woodie Awards On MTV, MTV2 & mtvU
The Woodie Awards are at Roseland Ballroom in NYC on November 18th. It’s a show for college kids, by college kids. They pick the nominees, they pick the winners, and they put the artists they love most on stage that night to perform. It’s a huge party and a huge moment for indie music, six…
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MTV Announces mtvU Woodie Awards Nominees!
Finally I can post this. Been waiting all day so other blogs could trump me. We just announced the nominees for the 6th annual mtvU Woodie Awards, as chosen by college students nationwide. It’s the best college music of the yea, and it’s an incredible (and incredibly diverse) list of nominees this year. Over the…
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The Best College Radio Station In America?
My group just told me how many college kids have already voted for the best college radio station in America. It’s in the millions! Not sure why I am surprised, when you think about how kickass these stations are, and how nonexistent most other stations on American radio have become. Yeah, suckas — college kids fuckin keepin’ radio…