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    Shay Carl | YouTube Personality

    Tuesday, May 15, 2012

    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 [...]

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    Ben Parr | Journalist and Entrepreneur

    Tuesday, May 8, 2012

    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 [...]

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    DeStorm Power | New Media Entertainer

    Tuesday, May 1, 2012

    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 [...]

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    Magic Hugs | New Media Comedians

    Tuesday, April 24, 2012

    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 [...]

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    Ross Ching | New Media Director

    Tuesday, April 17, 2012

    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 [...]

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    Simple Pickup | New Media Cassanovas

    Tuesday, April 10, 2012

    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 [...]

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    Smosh | New Media Personalities

    Tuesday, April 3, 2012

    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 [...]

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    Daniel Cloud Campos | New Media Dancer & Filmmaker

    Tuesday, March 27, 2012

    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 [...]

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    Mike Diva | New Media Renaissance Man

    Tuesday, March 20, 2012

    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 [...]

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    Barats and Bereta | YouTube Personalities

    Tuesday, March 13, 2012

    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 [...]

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How Can New Media Artists Use Google Drive?

Like its previous endeavors Gmail and Google+, the latest Google project is having a slow rollout. You may ask: What could Google possibly think of next? Well, Google joined the cloud game yesterday by introducing Google Drive, which not only lets you access your files from any computer but has overhauled a few of your [...]

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10 Funny Tumblrs You Should Follow REDUX

Because I’ve been completely inundated with requests for a sequel to the wildly popular “10 Funny Tumblrs You Should Follow,” I’ve collected ten more in order to present the masterpiece follow-up you now gaze upon. So stop with the tweets, the emails, and the yelling in the streets (I rhymed o.o), because your hunger for [...]

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The 5 Most Overrated Fonts

In the new media world, nothing brings greater importance than the font you’re using. I know what you’re thinking—what do fonts have to do with new media? It’s a big deal, really. Whether it’s sending out a press release or creating an infographic animation, we select fonts that represent our creativity and our character. Unfortunately, [...]

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3 Music Genres Propelled by Social Media

1. K-Pop Although K-Pop has been a popular genre to the Asian audience since the late 1990’s, it really didn’t have such heavy influence on western audiences until the last few years. With the emergence of social media channels, K-Pop’s popularity skyrocketed as music videos were easily found through YouTube, and fans were able to [...]

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4 Ways We’re Becoming Digital Hoarders

Have you ever seen the show “Hoarders”? You know, that program on A&E where they profile people who have compulsive hoarding tendencies? Yes, they’ve featured people who have shopping addiction, but some of those featured have gone to extremes like hoarding rabbits or garbage. Yuck. How does this relate to new media? Well, for one [...]

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5 Things To Consider Before Starting A Career In New Media

This past week, I have been conducting interviews for NMR with a variety of new media artists and entrepreneurs. Each person that I interviewed had completely different personalities from one another, yet all had the same response when asked to give advice to aspiring creators. Be authentic. I know what you are thinking. Be authentic, [...]

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