Benjamin Ahr Harrison lives in Brooklyn. He directs music videos and comedies. He writes screenplays and prose, and occasionally blogs. He takes the occasional photograph and cooks the occasional meal. He never talks about himself in the third person. His production company is called Machine Man Inc.
My production company, Machine Man Inc, has just established a foothold on the internet. The company has really been growing lately, and we have a lot of exciting projects coming up! I designed the website myself, and while it’s a work in progress, it’s something I’m pretty proud of, as is the company.
Posted: August 6th, 2008 under Film and Video, Projects.
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I am one of the directors that works with Double 7 Films, the production company that Pete Chatmon created. Double 7 has just introduced a relaunch of their main page (not to be confused with Double 7 World, the company’s arts and trendspotting blog) as part of a big push by the company to move into its next phase as a major production house. Capital is being raised for the next three features and new client relationships are being formed. I couldn’t possibly be more excited to be involved.
Posted: July 31st, 2008 under Film and Video.
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I’ve been working on cutting a reel together for myself and this is what I came up with. I even got a little saucy and threw in some footage from one of my yet-to-be released music video projects. Tell me what you think! (It’s a work in progress…)
Posted: July 23rd, 2008 under Film and Video.
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The Consumerist has a piece about an indie filmmaker who discovered that Viacom was fraudulently claiming ownership of clips of her movie that she posted on YouTube. This is bonkers as it gives Viacom access to user information related to the content in question even though they have nothing to do with it, thereby totally validating fears people had about Viacom getting access to user information at all.
I have a friend who has been working for Viacom in their effort to identify which content is theirs on YouTube. Essentially, they have people on the payroll whose job it is to surf YouTube all day and log clips that are owned by Viacom. See where the potential for error comes into play? This kind of thing is basically a foregone conclusion.
Meanwhile, Lion’s Gate, unlike Viacom, is clearly not run by morons.
Posted: July 22nd, 2008 under Film and Video, Politics.
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Posted: July 17th, 2008 under Film and Video.
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Ze Frank on The Sound of Young America
The last of the TSOYA live videos! Hope you enjoy. Check out maximumfun.org for some of my favorite radio in the world.
Posted: July 17th, 2008 under Comedy, Film and Video, Internet Video.
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Jay Smooth on The Sound of Young America
I post stuff from Jay Smooth on here all the time. He’s the best video blogger I’ve ever encountered. This is yet another clip from the TSOYA Live! show that I filmed. I totally could have gone up and talked to him, but I was kinda starstruck…damn.
Posted: July 16th, 2008 under Film and Video, Internet Video.
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The Sound of Young America is one of my favorite radio shows, and they recently came to New York to tape a live show. Eddie and I filmed the proceedings, which took place at the UCB theater. Jesse Thorn, the host, just posted the first round of videos from the show.
I’ve not done much filming of live events before, so I definitely made plenty of mistakes with this one, but it seems to have come out reasonably well considering. Here’s a video of Pangea 3000 doing their hilarious spelling bee sketch. The rest of the videos can be found on maximumfun.org
Posted: July 12th, 2008 under Comedy, Film and Video, Internet Video.
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Do not pass Go. Do not miss The Wackness.
Posted: June 23rd, 2008 under Comedy, Film and Video.
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To be honest, the only documentary about life in the bay that I give a fuck about is Bay Life, but there’s another new one coming out, I guess. (via)
Posted: June 20th, 2008 under Film and Video, Internet Video.
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