Mic Neumann

Mic Neumann

Cultural Engineer

Location
Greater New York City Area
Industry
Entertainment

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Mic Neumann's Overview

Current
  • Creator at Kung Faux
  • Curator at Motion Pitcher
  • Conveyor at Mine Projekts
  • Cultivator at Habana Works
  • Founder at Dubtitled Entertainment
  • Founder/Producer/Director at Kung Faux Television Series
  • Co-Founder at Tommy Boy Films LLC
  • Founder at Popdetail Incorporated
Past
  • Collaborator at Ace Hotel Group
  • Co-Founder at NYLON Magazine
  • Consultant at Rockstar Games
  • Consultant at Downtown Records Group
  • Consultant at Christie's International Art
  • Creator/Curator at BentoBox.TV Media
  • Consultant at The Standard Hotels
  • Consultant at PAPER Magazine
Education
  • University of Washington
Connections

500+ connections

Mic Neumann's Summary

Mic Neumann Email Info: ( mine@popdetail.com )

Mic Neumann IMDb Bio: ( http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1891678/bio )

Mic Neumann is a Postmodern Revisionist whose work is worthy of the canon that includes such cultural disruptors as Jean-Luc Godard and creative boundary busters like Luis Bunuel.
-Alanee Smith, ( The Daily Omnivore )

Mic Neumann produces programming with a unique global appeal and a distinctive style needed to allow it to stand out as a very lucrative brand.
-Sarah Tong, ( Virgin Media Television Group )

Mic Neumann has a proven ability to very early on identify, collect, and connect with important influential artistic talent worldwide.
-Sandra Gering, ( Gering & Lopez Gallery )

Mic Neumann is an excellent resource for tips on photographers, musicians, and filmmakers.
-Andrew Apostola, ( Portable.TV Co-Founder )

Mic Neumann always knows exactly what to do & say to just make things work, and I could not have successfully launched our magazine without his wide range of expertise, great ideas, and extensive list of talented contacts.
-Helena Christensen, ( Supermodel & NYLON Magazine Co-Founder )

We don't believe in Consultants, but we use Consultants like Mic Neumann.
-Rex Sorgatz, ( Kinda Sorta Media Founder )

Mic Neumman has an uncanny ability to find all of the common denominators needed to create a successful branded product solution.
-Andre Balazs, ( Andre Balazs Hotel Properties )

Mic Neumann is an expert when it comes to committing personally to emerging pop culture phenomena and the patronage of future art stars light years before they become important to collectors and the world at large.
-Simeon Lipman, ( Department Head, Pop Culture, Christie's )

Compendium: ( http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cultural-Engineers-Report/198259390211964 )

Mic Neumann's Experience

Creator

Kung Faux

2012Present (1 year)

"Cultural Engineer" for Kung Faux Art & Assets @ ( www.kungfaux.com )

Curator

Motion Pitcher

2011Present (2 years)

"Cultural Engineer" for Motion Pitcher @ ( www.motionpitcher.com )

Conveyor

Mine Projekts

2010Present (3 years)

"Cultural Engineer" for Mine Projekts @ ( www.micneumann.com )

Cultivator

Habana Works

2009Present (4 years)

"Cultural Engineer" for Habana Works @ ( www.habanaworks.org )

Founder

Dubtitled Entertainment

1999Present (14 years)

( http://www.dubtitled.com/ )
( http://dubtitled.com/print.aspx )
( http://www.youtu.be/y6xhIBbXnE8 )
( http://www.youtu.be/aKiwA9Ybm2I )
( http://www.thefullwiki.org/Kung_Faux )
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Faux )

Mic Neumann is the founder of the influential voice-over dubbing and soundtrack producing company, Dubtitled Entertainment, which created the international television series and audio visual art assemblage titled Kung Faux seen in over 150+ countries around the world. Dubtitled Entertainment has worked with such seminal companies as the Grammy Award winning record labels Tommy Boy Records and Downtown Records, as well as the phenomenally successful Rockstar Games, best known for creating the Grand Theft Auto video games & soundtracks.

Hear Mic Neumann being interviewed by Germany's Razorfish/Neue-Digitale @
( www.neue-digitale.com/#/Press/2005/NEUE-DIGITALE-starts-podcasting/page/15/ )

"State of Emergency" aka ( S.O.E.) is a controversial action and adventure video game that won the prize for 'Best Video Game' at the Electronic Entertainment Expo aka ( E3 ) after being initially developed by the Scottish firm VIS Entertainment & released by Rockstar Games worldwide. All of the voice over artists for this game were cast by Dubtitled Entertainment founder creator, Mic Neumann. The "State of Emergency" aka ( S.O.E.) game has military-style violence, including political assassinations and was denounced by some Washington state politicians for its similarity to the real-life 1999 World Trade Organization riots & protests in Seattle which caused $3 million in damages. The game features a fictional 'American Trade Organization' as the antagonistic establishment and it made many media 'Top Ten Lists', including a list of the "Most Controversial Video Games of All Time".
@ ( Punchafish.com )

( http://gta.wikia.com/Rockstar_Games )
( http://www.topdg.com/4893-state-of-emergency-pc.html )
( http://www.rockstargames.com/stateofemergency/main.html )

Founder/Producer/Director

Kung Faux Television Series

1999Present (14 years)

( http://www.bentobox.tv/ )
( http://www.kungfaux.com/ )
( https://twitter.com/#!/kungfaux )
( http://www.youtu.be/y6xhIBbXnE8 )
( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455262/ )
( http://www.thefullwiki.org/Kung_Faux )
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Faux )
( http://www.myspace.com/micneumann )
( http://blogs.myspace.com/micneumann )
( http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1926327/ )

"Kung Faux is Possibly the Greatest TV Show Ever !"
@ ( The Miami Herald )

"High-flying, Hilarious Send-up of the Kung-fu Genre!"
@ ( Billboard Magazine )

"Filled with Hysterical and Clever infusions !"
@ ( Entertainment Weekly )

"For the most part, television remains a world devoid of risk & innovation. It is a place where the folks in charge play it safe out of fear of damaging their tenuous position. So something as artistic as, Post Modernism would be out of the question in the higher echelons of pop-culture, but Kung Fu revisionist Mic Neumann has an offering worthy of the Post Modernism canon, alongside Godard's Weekend & Bunuel's Chien Andalou. But in case the mere mention of postmodernism has you hitting the snooze button, allow me to be clear: What we're dealing with here is old-school kung fu movies, sliced down to the best bite sized morsels, re-dubbed by Hip-Hop artists & electro-defectified with future-retro graphics and Hiiyah! You've got the ultimate postmodern martial arts mash-up. Like a Saturday morning cartoon on steroids meant for those weaned on Coleco, Strawberry Honeycombs and B-Boy style boombastic. Kung Faux is all of this & more!" - Excerpt from Written Review by Steve Johnston
@ ( TheFilmCynics.com )*

( #1 Pick for Top Ten List of The Film Cynics Reviews in 2008 ! )*

"Kung Faux : DVD Collection" Scores 10 out of 10 !!!
( http://www.dvdresurrections.com/KungFauxReview )
( http://www.facebook.com/KungFaux.NowYouKnow )

Co-Founder

Tommy Boy Films LLC

1999Present (14 years)

( http://blogs.myspace.com/micneumann )
( http://dubtitled.com/print.aspx/ January 2001)

Tommy Boy Entertainment (formally known as Tommy Boy Records) is a record label started in 1981 by Tom Silverman. The label is widely recognized for significant contribution to the development of hip hop music, dance music, and electronica.

In 2001, Tom Silverman, in collaboration with producer-director Mic Neumann and his company Dubtitled Entertainment, launched an independent television and film division known as Tommy Boy Films, LLC.

In 2003, Tommy Boy Films’ first project, a half-hour television series titled Kung Faux was released on DVD after first being licensed in dozens of countries around the world to television networks such as STAR Asia, FOX Latin America, & CANAL Plus Europe. Kung Faux has now been seen in over 150 countries worldwide. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Faux )

( http://www.kungfaux.com ) & ( http://www.bentobox.tv ) & ( http://www.tommyboyfilms.com )
( http://youtu.be/y6xhIBbXnE8 ) & ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Boy_Entertainment/ )

Marketing and Advertising industry

1997Present (16 years)

( www.popdetail.com ) & ( http://www.popdetail.com/print.aspx )

"Popdetail is a General Contractor for Brand Building"

Mic Neumann is a globally influential Cultural Engineer, American business consultant, entrepreneur, producer, director, artist & curator, who is best known as the creator of the international entertainment television series known in over 150 countries around the world as Kung Faux, as well as for founding the production company Dubtitled Entertainment, & Co-founding Nylon Magazine with super model Helena Christensen, in addition to founding the advertising, sales & marketing consultancy company known as Popdetail.

Mic Neumann has been an influential figure within a number of pop culture events, projects, & product creations over the past decade through consultant collaborations between himself, Popdetail, & a diverse list of celebrity entrepreneurs that include hoteliers Andre Balazs & Alex Calderwood, nightlife impressarios Serge Becker & Andrew Sasson, internet media entrepreneurs Graham Hill & Rex Sorgatz, international art stars Shepard Fairey, Rostarr & KAWS, Hollywood directors Judd Apatow, Cameron Crowe, Sam Raimi, & Brett Ratner, Katie Ford of Ford Models fame, Grammy winning bands Gnarls Barkley, The Killers, & Pearl Jam, and legendary Hip Hop industry pioneers Afrika Bambaataa, Queen Latifah, & Biz Markie.

Mic Neumann with Popdetail has consulted in a variety of fields including, tv, art, film, music, new media, producing, directing, curating, hotels, fashion, magazines, advertising, marketing, sales, licensing, branding, cultural engineering & innovative deal making.

( http://www.thefullwiki.org/Kung_Faux )
( http://blogs.myspace.com/micneumann )
( http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1891678/bio )
( http://www.facebook.com/Michael.Mic.Neumann )
( http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cultural-Engineers-Report/198259390211964 )
( http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/1/10/1512/69255/hotels/Andre_Balazs_To_Seattle )

Collaborator

Ace Hotel Group

19972010 (13 years)

( http://www.acehotel.com/ ) & ( http://blog.acehotel.com/ )
( http://www.acehotel.com/about/atelierace)
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Hotel )

"Best Hotel Bar !" @ ( Time Out Magazine )

From co-hosting parties in partnership with ACE Hotel Co-founder, Wade Weigel in the abandoned NP Hotel in Seattle's "Chinatown" district, to co-financing ACE Hotel Co-founder, Alex Calderwood's first solo venue venture known as ARO.Space in Seattle's "Capitol Hill" district in 1997, later sold & consequently renamed NEUMO's after its key components evolved into the boutique agency known as NEVERSTOP, the original ACE Hotel Group's partnership formation, and the creation of Mic Neumann's own consultancy firm known as POPDETAIL, which was responsible for recruiting such notably global pop artists as KAWS from New York City & Shepard Fairey from Los Angeles for artwork commissions in the very first ACE Hotel in Seattle, ARO.Space & Rudy's Barbershop, as well as establishing vital relationships with key figures such as New York City's serial entrepreneur Serge Becker, international fashion brands like Burberry, Comme des Garcons, Issey Miyake, & many other art, press, music, design, fashion & advertising contacts important to the evolution of the ACE Hotel Group & its affiliated businesses, including the initial content & acquisitions resources for the proprietary Video On Demand network within the ever growing boutique hotel chain, formally cementing Mic Neumann as an original "Cultural Engineer" for the ACE Hotel Group & their affiliated businesses, including RUDY's Barbershops, Atelier ACE & NEVERSTOP.

( http://thescoutmag.com/features/newyork/406/detail/alex_and_companies?page=2 )
( http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/fashion/30ACE.html?pagewanted=2 )
( http://rudysbarbershop.com/ ) & ( http://www.neverstop.com/ )

Co-Founder

NYLON Magazine

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry

19971999 (2 years)

( http://www.nylon.jp/ )
( http://www.nylonmag.com/ )
( http://nylonsguysmag.com/ )
( http://www.myspace.com/nylonmagazine )

"Nylon Magazine was Co-Founded by ex-Ray Gun publishers Marvin Scott Jarrett, American entrepreneur Mic Neumann & supermodel Helena Christensen who later both left the magazine to pursue other projects, but their impeccable style and creative verve still reverberates in Nylon’s pages to this day. American by nature, international by name, Nylon’s frequent coverage on the “self-willed sibling-cities New York and London” encompasses all things pop culture from art and beauty right down to music, design, celebrities, technology and travel."
@ ( FromMondayToFashion.com )

"One of the World's Best Fashion Magazines !"
@ ( Print[ed] Matters )

( http://www.hyperfacts.com/1544077 )
( http://www.wikifashion.com/wiki/Nylon )
( http://www.gossiprocks.com/helena-christensen )
( http://www.moviemusicnews.com/celebrity/index.php/Helena_Christensen )

Consultant

Rockstar Games

Public Company; 501-1000 employees; TTWO; Computer Games industry

19961997 (1 year)

( http://www.rockstargames.com/ )

Consultant

Downtown Records Group

19951996 (1 year)

( http://www.downtownrecords.com/ )

Consultant

Christie's International Art

19941995 (1 year)

( http://www.christies.com/ )

Creator/Curator

BentoBox.TV Media

19931994 (1 year)

( http://www.bentobox.tv/ )

Consultant

The Standard Hotels

19921993 (1 year)

( http://www.standardhotels.com/ )

Consultant

PAPER Magazine

19911992 (1 year)

( http://www.papermag.com/ )

Mic Neumann's Skills & Expertise

Mic Neumann's Education

University of Washington

Communications, Art & Pre-Law

Mic Neumann's Additional Information

Interests:

Imagination, Innovations, Recombination, and Collaborations.

Groups and Associations:

An arts collective known as "Colab" was originally formed in 1977 before it became moribund after an approximate ten year long run. However, twenty years later in 1997 the dormant mantle for this organization was picked up by arts and entertainment entrepreneur, Michael "Mic" Neumann, who then merged Colab with his creative consulting concerns in order to globally diversify it into an open source collective for the future, and Colab can now be found curating artists work around the world in traditional, non-traditional, commercial and public spaces, through the monikers of : Colab, Colab TV, Colab Projects, and Collaborative Projects. - Credits: LIST Magazine

Honors and Awards:

Kung Faux : "Best DVD" by Muzik Magazine ( UK )
Kung Faux : "Best TV Show Ever !" by Miami Herald
Dubtitled 's : "Best Video Game" for "S.O.E" by "E3"
Popdetail's : "Best Product" by The Standard Hotels
1st Winner : "Art Collectors Poll" EditionOneHundred

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