South by Southwest, Austin’s booming film and music festival isn’t just about the legendary music and film. This week of the festival includes an entire week devoted to interactive media, assembling the brightest minds in emerging technology for SXSW Interactive.
Modest Mouse. The Killers. Death Cab for Cutie. Aside from all being commercially successful indie rock acts, the three bands, along with a handful of others, share something else in common. They all owe much of their success to a single gig at the same venue: The Bait Shop in Newport Beach, California, the fictional [...]
If you’ve been hankering for some more awkwardly wacky improvisational comedy, you’ve got great timing, because The AV Club is debuting their new web series, Striker and Swat, on Tuesday.
Striker and Swat is a mockumentary-format show centered around the hijinks of two roommates who seem to have very little in common besides an abundance of free time; Striker (James Bonadio) is intense, aggressive, and neurotic, and Swat (Steve Berg) is mellow and gentle. Together, they’re unstoppable, and no one in their boring Southern California apartment complex can stand in their way. What’s more, in addition to Bonadio and Berg, the show brings in several veterans of the improvisational comedy scene, like Nick Armstrong who has shown up on The Office, and Dave Holmes, who you might remember from Reno 911! Miami. That’s a lot of talented people appearing in a show which puts the communal dryer’s unclean lint filter in the center of the first episode’s plotline.
During our open call for nominations for The First Annual Streamy Awards (co-hosted by the good people at Tilzy.TV, Tubefilter, and Newteevee) the International Academy of Web Television processed nearly 100,000 unique submissions. The top 10 most nominated shows across the board all qualified as finalists for the Audience Choice Award. Here’s iJustine – official [...]
Seeking the skinny on the latest trends in digital media but lacking the cash to get to the Digital Hollywood Media Summit in person? Thanks to Scribe Media’s live webcast, you can hear the latest trends in digital entertainment from the industry’s top minds from the comfort of your desk chair. This year’s Keynote speakers [...]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! More Streamy Awards news to report—today the ten Audience Choice Award finalists have been announced and voting begins to see which 2008 web series has the most fan love out there. The following ten web series were the most overall submitted in any category during the open submission period which ended January 23rd. Video blogger extraordinaire iJustine had a little fun taking the honors of kicking off the voting frenzy (above).
What do you need to do? First, head over to vote.streamys.org and watch episodes from all of the finalists in the nifty interactive player from Episodic. Then VOTE daily for your favorite series from now until March 28th. Have an iPhone? You can even watch the finalists directly on your phone and vote on the go. Grab your phone and head to i.episodic.com/streamys How cool is that?
Ah yes, the college dorm life—such wonders it held for many of us. As we hauled our asses out of our beds—hung over or over somebody—to get to our academic destinations, each step we take brings us memories of the night before. From the booze filled conversations, the awkward recitals and to the pleasurable score of the evening, the dorm life would always revolve around the three necessities of college education: drinks, company and sex.
But what if all of a sudden, you witness one of your dorm neighbors being dragged away in a body bag by two mysterious men who seem to have no affiliation with the school or any fraternity. The party stops all of a sudden…
Creators Adam and Nolan Lebovitz introduces their new web series FreshmanJulie, a suspense-thriller about a college newcomer Julie (played by Lindsay Rathert), who documents her daily life with a webcam as she explores the wonder and surprises of first year in the university. Her chronicles took an unexpected turn when she finds out that her dorm neighbor and love interest, Craig (Kevin Reich), went missing.
If playing Left 4 Dead on Xbox has taught me anything, it’s that in the event of a zombie apocalypse, the company you keep can means the difference between life and death. You need to know that your fellow survivors will work as a team, stay cool in the face of undeath, and most importantly, [...]
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