by Marc Hustvedt on February 23rd, 2010
Fan favorite indie drama Anyone But Me released episode 4 (above) of its second season today with former Gilmore Girls star Liza Weil making a guest appearance as a pregnant shrink in “Girl Talk” along with two more episodes coming next month.
There Will Be Brawl, the noir comedy spin on the world of Mario Brothers is hosting a wrap party with six—yes six—DJs at Club Good Hurt in Venice, CA on Saturday March 13. The $10 event organized by the web series’ co-creators Matthew Mercer and Zach Grafton promises live performances from The Megas, a band taking inspiration from Nintendo’s Mega Man series, and The Yuki Shundo Dance Crew. The complete series of TWBB can be found on The Escapist. [Bubble Punch]
AfterEllen.com is asking readers to help them pick Top 50 Lesbian/Bi TV, Film, and web series characters of all time. They are looking for the best fictional characters—votes for reality stars or other “real” people won’t be considered, according to the poll. [AfterEllen.com]
Woody Tondorf, creator of the long running hit series Elevator has left Break Media, the company that acquired his team from HBO Lab last year. The fate of his series Elevator remains in flux, as Break still holds rights to the series, which they have decided to discontinue. They would be will to part with them for a sizable (and as of now undisclosed) price. [NewTeeVee]
More Werner! William Maier is back with his spot on impersonation of director Werner Herzog. In the follow up to last year’s Cooking with Werner and Auto Maintenance with Werner, comes Speed Dating with Werner. [Funny or Die]
by Marc Hustvedt on December 23rd, 2009
For Your Consideration – The Battery’s Down, the musical theater loving web series from New York-based creator Jake Wilson put out today what appears to be the first ever musical For Your Consideration video for The Streamy Awards (above). The riff on “All I Want For Christmas” stars former Wicked star Shoshana Bean and doubles as the show’s holiday release. Wilson and co. have officially raised the bar for FYI campaigns this year. [YouTube]
TheStream.tv raised over $7300 in 24hrs for a charity—The Pablove Foundation—that helps kids with cancer this past weekend during their live on-air #streamathon. Now that’s making good use of live web shows! [theStream.tv]
Dinosaur Diorama made a holiday video of their own, a “special extra-funny” episode of their Greg & Donny series—”Gregeneezer and the Three Monsters” (below). Will Gregeneezer avoid the fate of his old partner, Jacob Donny? [Dinosaur Diorama]
Rodrigo Blaas, a Pixar Studios animator, released his first ever independent short film, Alma, online this week for a limited time. [almasortfilm]
The Bannen Way hasn’t officially launched online yet, but that didn’t stop them from getting it up on Amazon as a pre-order. The action web series will premiere on Crackle on January 6th, and it’s making its Amazon debut January 8th. [Amazon]
Green Screens are everywhere. This ChromaKey video out of Russia mashes up the hundreds of TV shows that use green screen to beef up their environments. [YouTube]
by Marc Hustvedt on November 1st, 2009
The recession really knocked the pants off this country in the past two years, but if there’s any shine on the economic turd it’s that at least Williamsburg is cool again. Sure the trust fund kids took a hit when the market tanked, but real estate got cheap again and the Yupsters thinned out. So what better time to bring back Brooklyn hipster comedy The Burg?
The indie web series from Brooklyn-based Dinosaur Diorama, the same team behind All’s Faire and Vuguru’s The All-For-Nots, is back with its first full-length episode since 2007. The 20-minute episode, “Change” (above) is also the show’s longest, starting off with a catchup of what happened since Xander’s season-ending autobiomentary .
Xander (Matt Yaeger) fills us in on his posse—Courtney (Kelli Giddish) is moving out of The Burg, heading to LA for a TV show gig and Ryan (Jeff Skowron) is losing his grip on sanity. Jed (Bob McClure) and Xander realize they live in “the coolest neighborhood of the coolest borough in the coolest city in the world,” and decide to make it their mission to set some new hipster trends—pogo sticks, Kitten Shirts, skorts. Oh, and Xander has a kid? Spring (Lindsay Broad) tries to keep Courtney from selling out her ideals for a beach house, turning to hipster savior Obama for some direction.
