Exit Stage Left is a web series by, for, and about theater people. This is not a knock on the project, just a point that needs to be made. In my day job I deal with a fair number of people whose lives revolve around the stage. They’re driven like any other artists, but nearly [...]
Well-spoken, intelligent, fair-minded, fit, dapper…and now bullet proof? Can this guy be for real? You read right. The seemingly standard, conventional, conservative suit that President Obama donned before catapulting The United States into a new era was, in fact, bullet proof. Though the secret service has not officially confirmed details of the inaugural garment, informed [...]
Watch out, world of web TV, because there’s a new ninja in town: Katana has debuted with a pilot episode on Strike.TV. Billed as the first martial arts web series, Katana brings in a host of top-notch stunt talent. The hard hitting show stars John Koyama and Yuji Okumoto (also the writer-producer) alongside stunt superstars Al Goto, Sam Looc, and Don Tai. If you haven’t recognized any of those names, check out those IMDB listings, because you’ve definitely seen their movies.
Koyama and Okumoto play brothers in a Japanese American Yakuza crime syndicate family. Where Koyama quit the ninja lifestyle to spend time with his wife and daughter, however, Okumoto decided to carry on with the family business – and “convinces” Koyama to join him. Family kidnappings, organized crime, and ninjas; it’s like 1980s action movies meet The Sopranos.
The online video resurrection of things 80s isn’t only relegated to Fox television sitcom stars, MTV anchors, and Super Mario characters. With the launch of Strike.TV‘s Dangerous Women, the phenomenon now encompasses the female actors that played (dismembered) hormonal teenagers that unwittingly unleashed hell via cassette recording in a remote cabin in the woods of [...]
Jonah Ray’s BarBeQuay is a quirky new party type spin on the ol’ talk show format hosted by comedian Jonah Ray that you can see on maniaTV.
You might remember Jonah Ray from The Freeloader’s Guide To Easy Living, his writing on SuperNews!, or even as Clancy on Saul of the Mole Men. Now you can find Jonah interviewing some extremely hilarious and cool people like Janeane Garofalo, Steve Agee, Har Mar Superstar and others at his BarBeQuay.
Jonah Ray’s BarBeQuay is the creation of Jonah and his friend, writer/director Mason Steinberg. The pair met on The Andy Milonakis Show where Mason was a writer and Jonah the ill-fated writer’s assistant. “It was a disaster,” said Jonah, “I had been fired from the Arclight and was offered this job and I had no idea what I was doing.”
The other day I received the Februrary 2009 issue of Seed magazine which features a piece by Jonah Lehrer on the concept of “metacognition.” This, it turns out, is the technical term for thinking about how something is thinking. As Lehrer puts it, “When a mind thinks about metacognition, it’s thinking about how it thinks [...]
Attention web series directors, producers, writers, editors, creators, stars, and fans! Time is running out to nominate your favorite online original series for The Streamys, an awards ceremony created to recognize and honor outstanding achievement in this rapidly growing medium of episodic online video. Since we and the fine folks at NewTeeVee and Tubefilter made [...]
Busy boys Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, the brains behind EQAL and the online web phenomenon lonelygirl15, have been blowing up. Having recently launched a community-sourced web series LG15: The Show Is Yours, creators of the LG15 Universe have announced a license agreement with a Polish media company for a new story in the LG15 canon: n1ckola—all this on the heels of another announcement for a multi-platform mystery web series in partnership with CBS Interactive Harper’s Globe, which will complement Jon Turtletaub’s new prime time television series Harper’s Island premiering on CBS in April.
Harper’s Globe will be launched in anticipation of Harper’s Island with original show episodes that will support the on-air storyline with overlapping characters, locations, and plots. Beckett and Goodfried, who created hit online shows lonelygirl15, KateModern, and LG15: The Resistance were tapped by CBS in May
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