DESEDO FILMS

MHB was just invited to speak in Berlin at the upcoming Contemporary Muslim Consumer Cultures conference. He’ll being presenting his research about how American-Muslim identity politics are linked to advertising, pop and new media. $170B demo that’s still ignored by brands + agencies. Give a shout if you wanna learn more.

Dropsquad Desedo director Jordan Alport is now collaborating with classical composer Gerald Busby on a series of 3 original short films. They worked together to divine the theme of Impermanence, JA created some parameters, GBus wrote the music and now JA will direct in response. Like tango dancers, they are.

Gerald has worked with Robert Altman, Paul Taylor and often collaborates with writer/director Craig Lucas. And he described our Valentine’s Party as “very Kansas […]

We’re working on 2 projects for which we need workers.
If anyone knows anyone, give us a shout:

1)
Programmer for a web to SMS property.
Likely to be in PHP/MySQL or Ruby.

2)
Web Designer for the Interesting New York conference.

Whilst crushing hops and barley last night with our sage friend Michael Pollock, he noted that the Desedo Dropsquad had not posted News since summer. So let me upgrade ya.

Sony hired us in 07 to create twenty short docs about NYC bands. Love that. Rock a skeleton crew. Spend our days in the lives of musicians on the grustle. Here is one we did with The Smyrk

From Crackle: The Smyrk […]

Well. Now we just feel all warm and fuzzy.