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9 winning videos from the Vimeo Awards -NewYorkTimes.com
“Nine short films were selected for the first Vimeo Awards Saturday at the SVA Visual Arts Theater in Chelsea. The overall Best Video Award, which includes a $25,000 grant to create a new project, went to Eliot Rausch of Phos Pictures for the documentary ‘Last Minutes with ODEN.’”
This week in photos: Vimeo Festival + Awards - NewYorkPost.com
Video site Vimeo launches an awards show - CartoonBrew.com
“The eclectic group of nominees in the animation category is impressive, and made more notable by the fact that the nominees were chosen from the pool of films posted to the video hosting site. They strike me as being far more representative of the current state of short-form animation than this year’s Oscar nominees.”
National Book Award un-nominee Lauren Myracle, whose novel about an anti-gay hate crime was booted off the list after accidental inclusion. (via vanityfair
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Prince’s 1993 name change was more than just unpronounceable—it nearly spelled disaster for the artist’s partnership with his label, Warner Brothers. Biographer Ronin Ro reveals all in our excerpt.
Vanity Fair: The Little-Known 17th-Century Origins of Occupy Wall Street
Everyone knows that the Tea Party fancies itself an intellectual ancestor of the 1773 Boston Tea Party. But what many people do not realize is that America’s other prominent decentralized activist movement, Occupy Wall Street, also boasts historical cred—the revolutionary findings:
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The zombie comedian decks at RBBTS in Soho.
If anyone is finally going to make convergence happen, it could likely be Apple. A fine final act for Steve Jobs.
Get Paid for Taking Pictures with Your iPhone
Grab five to ten minutes here or there, at the right time and the right place, to complete a massive task no one person could do on his or her own. That’s exactly what a new startup called Gigwalk is trying to do, using the power of– you guessed it– the iPhone. You download the app, enter your PayPal information and get assigned entry level “gigs” or jobs that may take just a few minutes at a time, if you’re in the right location.
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