Shay Carl | YouTube Personality
Shay Carl Butler. The man, the myth, the YouTube legend. His Shaycarl and Shaytards channels have around 1 million subscribers each, he’s one of the founders of a thriving Maker Studios, and he’s lost over 100 pounds since beginning ShayLoss in 2009. What can’t he do? NMR met up with streamlined Shay Carl at Lemonade [...]
Ben Parr | Journalist and Entrepreneur
NMR sat down to chat with technology journalist and entrepreneur Ben Parr at La Boulange Bakery in the historic Chinatown of beautiful San Francisco, California. Former editor-at-large at Mashable, Parr now writes weekly columns for CNET, and is a co-founder of The Peep Project, a mysterious new venture that’s sure to draw attention once officially [...]
DeStorm Power | New Media Entertainer
DeStorm Power: YouTube rapper, singer, trainer, personality, guru, comedian, host. DeStorm has all the powers of a YouTube superhero group combined, and he’s not afraid to use them. We got to see DeStorm’s colors shine over sandwiches and pastries at Porto’s Bakery in Burbank, where he helped our nearsighted cameraperson read the menu, marveled at [...]
Magic Hugs | New Media Comedians
Over rice and noodle bowls at an Americanized Japanese restaurant, NMR sat down to chow, chat, and laugh with Magic Hugs, the hilarious sketch comedy duo of Tim Wilkerson and Scott Blair. They began their channel on YouTube three years ago, and since then their popular videos have been featured in equally funny places like [...]
Ross Ching | New Media Director
We met up with new media director Ross Ching at Urth Caffè in Little Tokyo, downtown Los Angeles. The cafe is quaint and flanked by unremarkable buildings, but there is a bustle of people there that spills outside, and the cacophony of silverware clinking, coffee sipping, and the collective chattering of Angelenos–a crowd as diverse as [...]
Simple Pickup | New Media Cassanovas
NMR likes long walks on the beach, piña coladas, and getting caught in the rain. But most of all, we love new media artists that push their medium in new directions, which is why we love Simple Pickup. Their YouTube channel is infotainment at its finest – viewers will laugh, but they’ll also learn how [...]
Smosh | New Media Personalities
What do you get when NMR makes a tumultuous 8-hour drive up the California I-5 to have lunch with the online geniuses that power Smosh? A hilarious tag-team conversation over Vietnamese takeout at their studio/house, followed by a wacky photo shoot with duct tape and plastic pink flamingos! If you fell in love with the [...]
Daniel Cloud Campos | New Media Dancer & Filmmaker
As part of our goal over here at NewMediaRockstars, we seek to inspire others by featuring some of the most talented individuals doing their thing across the new media platform. This week we bring you the incredibly multi-talented Daniel Cloud Campos. He ventured into dancing at the age of 15 and from there became of [...]
Mike Diva | New Media Renaissance Man
Inside a home in Covina once owned by Al Pacino’s father lives the zaniest, ADD’ed new media artist out there. You may remember him as the man who spawned the infamous “Sexy Sax Man” viral video, but Mike Diva does everything from music videos to filming skits and commcercials. It also helped that he’s been [...]
Barats and Bereta | YouTube Personalities
Joe and Luke aka “Barats and Bereta” are a comedy duo who adopted YouTube early on as an online channel for their comedy. The camaraderie between the two is so in sync, it’s scary. During our conversation and photo session Joe and Luke were bouncing jokes, insults and ideas back and forth as if they [...]
