VIDEO: Vimeo Awards Finalists

VIDEO: Vimeo Awards Finalists

NHQ is going to the first-ever Vimeo Festival & Awards, which take place this week (October 8-9) in NYC. The Festival features talks, panels, workshops, and screenings from a wide variety of highly accomplished creatives and media pioneers. The Awards celebrate the best in online video and are juried by the likes of David Lynch, MIA, Fred Seibert, and many, many more. I am totally excited to be attending, I totally was not expecting to until…

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COMING SOON: Man V. Candy Machine

COMING SOON: Man V. Candy Machine

New teaser trailer for our Interactive Internet Tele-Play MAN V. CANDY MACHINE, coming July 2010!

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COMING SOON: Man V. Candy Machine

COMING SOON: Man V. Candy Machine

We’re going to let you guys in on our secret next project that’s been in the works for a few years now. It’s MAN V. CANDY MACHINE, something we are calling an “Internet Tele-Play,” currently in development to be released later this spring. OK, so we may not have James Cameron’s Stereoscopic 3-D cameras or millions of dollars to throw into this production, but what we do have is a highly original and well-written screenplay, a top-notch production staff, and we damn well know how to use a green screen.

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VIDEO: The World Is Stone, I  Am Alone, But I Don’t Care!

VIDEO: The World Is Stone, I Am Alone, But I Don’t Care!

For those of you who have not yet been introduced to this dance muse, consider this your coming out party to the world of Carlson. She only exists for me in a few low-fi videos on youtube, but her dance stylings are so ferocious that she has propelled herself out of the two dimensional video world and landed among the mythic dance legends that are orbiting around us, constantly bringing the heat. Think Rosie Perez in the intro of Do The Right Thing mixed with Elizabeth Berkely in Showgirls.

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INTERVIEW: Rand Sevilla

INTERVIEW: Rand Sevilla

Rand Sevilla is a graphic artist and also a graphic musician. I don’t know how many bands he has (a dozen, perhaps) but one of them is this outfit called Club Sashay. Recently Rand was pimping a web snatch of his own design to Vicemag via Twitter. It’s called YYAAHHOOOO.COM. It won a prize. It’s an Internet nasty website mashup. Go there to see what it’s all about and then come back and read an interview I had with Rand about the Internet.

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Animal Collective Controversy on Kickstarter

Animal Collective Controversy on Kickstarter

Joshua Dibb, aka Deacon of Animal Collective, has been invited to perform at 2010′s Festival in the Desert. He’s using online funding platform Kickstarter to fund his project, which has been online for only 48 hours and has already managed to spark some serious controversy, both at Kickstarter and on other blogs and forums. Check out these excerpts from Deacon’s comments section on Kickstarter and then head on over and see for yourself what the hubub’s all about.

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Opportunities

Opportunities

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS is looking for young, talented professionals with whom to collaborate on upcoming projects. Projects include interactive videos, web applications, and commercial gigs in web design and video production. NHQ is a young company with big ideas and serious prospects. We’re looking for people who have their own vision, but also know the strength of collaboration in the creative process.

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