Gogol Bordello | New Years Eve Show

Gogol Bordello at Terminal 5 on New Years Eve was the best way to start 2012-dancing, singing, laughing & celebrating life!

Gogol Bordello— Wonderlust King from Nate Pommer on Vimeo.

“What we’re making isn’t folk music, but savage intellectualism. We speak a language of a new world community that understands cultures can relate. So people who still speak of nationalism and racism or what separates us, they are inadequate for this time. Evolution goes on.” - Eugene Hutz

Startup Candy | Content Tools

Startup Candy is a feature where I’d like to share news about startups, technology, and innovation.

During the Code Meet Print Meetup at the General Assembly in NYC we learned about 3 awesome startups: 

URTAK is a free embeddable application for finding out what people think. This tool can help increase audience engagement with your content and easily collect user feedback. 

FINDINGS makes it possible to import highlights from the books you are reading, collect text from the web, and share them with your friends. 

PROJEQT is a device-neutral platform for showing creative work. This is an elegant creative storytelling platform enabling people to display content in a slideshow style. Agency TBWA led the software development and the site is written completely in HTML5. I already used it to create a pitch for a client and are happy that it runs as well on iPads and iPhones as it does on the desktop.

projeqt \ how great stories are told from projeqt on Vimeo.

Grimes | Oblivion

Grimes (Claire Boucher) seduced me today with her synthpop beats, sweet voice, and DIY aesthetics. Her messy hair reminds me of Lisa, character played by Angelina Jolie in the 1999 movie Girl, Interrupted (based on Susanna Kaysen’s memoir) Grimes translates the feeling of anxiety by playing one note at the time-and in turn creates a mood of beautiful disorder.

I enjoyed the suspense and the visuals in her live session for In My Room presented by Yours Truly and MTV Hive.

Startup Candy | Social Travel

InBed.Me is a social booking site for travelers. This is a great platform that connects people and local businesses organically while growing global communities. 

I was at the InBed.me launch party yesterday hosted at the HI USA hostel in NYC. The energy in the room was awesome and founders Diego Saez-Gil and Alex Torrenegra were great hosts. 

Content Candy | Everything is a Remix

Kirby Ferguson is shaping the future of media by curating a holistic pre-digital era guide called Everything is a Remix. 

Everything is a Remix Part 1 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.

Some people have a natural ability for pattern recognition.

Content Candy | Etsy

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Etsy’s got a wonderous video campaign running. They’re producing individual indie films about craftspeople from across the world, like only an indie film maker could do. In the process, they’re promoting the love of hand made products and driving traffic to their site.

Telling stories works, and it’s easy to forget that sometimes the people just need great content. Sometimes it’s really that easy. From 22GL.

Idealist Dead at 22

Social networking site Diaspora co-founder and open web enthusiast Ilya Zhitomirskiy, passed away suddenly on Saturday night November 12, 2011.

Ilya poetically spoke code and was an idealist for the Digital Age. He was Free Culture warrior and inspiration for the Adjustment Generation that’s at the intersection of culture, technology and media.

We have the power to shape the future, start revolutions and communicate faster than ever before. Now that we have a powerful platform, how are the rest of us going to use our voice?

“The time will come when every change shall cease, this quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: no summer then shall glow, nor winter freeze; nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now shall ever last.” ~ Petrarch

Please visit Hans Koning’s Tribute for Ilya