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WORKSHOP - ninth of 13 episodes - "A Little Cocky". Check out the WORKSHOP website at http://WORKSHOPtheseries.com. Created by Nate Golon and Kimberly Legg. Directed by Andre Welsh.WORKSHOP - ninth of 13 episodes - "A Little Cocky". Check out the WORKSHOP... more
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WORKSHOP - the eighth of 13 episodes - "Somebody's Watchin' Me". Check out the WORKSHOP website at http://WORKSHOPtheseries.com. Created by Nate Golon and Kimberly Legg. Directed by Andre Welsh.WORKSHOP - the eighth of 13 episodes - "Somebody's Watchin' Me".... more
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WORKSHOP - the seventh of 13 episodes - "The Next Big Celebrity". Check out the WORKSHOP website at http://WORKSHOPtheseries.com. Created by Nate Golon and Kimberly Legg. Directed by Andre Welsh.WORKSHOP - the seventh of 13 episodes - "The Next Big Celebrity". Check out... more
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WORKSHOP - the sixth of 13 episodes - "Gas Up The Cadillac". Check out the WORKSHOP website at http://WORKSHOPtheseries.com. Created by Nate Golon and Kimberly Legg. Directed by Andre Welsh.WORKSHOP - the sixth of 13 episodes - "Gas Up The Cadillac". Check out the... more
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Diablo III crew member Bashiok recently took time to answer a forum member's questions regarding the Witch Doctor's Zombie Dog skill. Here is what he had to say:
"First thing's first, the mongrel is now (or again) known as the Zombie Dog. It was the name that was used when the idea was first proposed and all the way through development. Calling it a mongrel was kind of confusing because everyone was so used to calling it a zombie dog for so long, no one remembered to call it a mongrel (dune thresher and fallen imp suffer from it as well to a degree). The name zombie dog doesn't need to be lore-fied really. It describes the skill perfectly, so why not use it?
So anyway, right, the fire and poison/locust enhancements for the zombie dogs was removed. It was a cool idea but it just wasn't really panning out to be anything meaningful. It was sort of confusing as to why you would be switching between fire and poison, was it to keep an additional DoT active, or maybe there would be tactical reasons for it? But it just wasn't really jiving in a way that made sense for the rest of the game as it all came together more. It wasn't shaping up to be a meaningful or fun decision to make on-the-fly. And if you didn't happen to spec into the skills that would empower the mongrels in different ways, what then? You're just constantly refreshing a fire DoT on them? To what end? It seemed more and more that a decision that was made at the base skill, either through spending points in another skill (passive potentially), or using particular runes to alter the zombie dogs, made the most sense.Diablo III crew member Bashiok recently took time to answer a forum member's... more
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WORKSHOP - The third of 13 episodes - "Drink My Sunkist". Check out more episodes at the WORKSHOP website: http://WORKSHOPtheseries.com. Created by Nate Golon and Kimberly Legg. Directed by Andre Welsh.WORKSHOP - The third of 13 episodes - "Drink My Sunkist". Check out more... more
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WORKSHOP - The second of 13 episodes - "The Right Look". Check out the WORKSHOP website at: http://WORKSHOPtheseries.com. Created by Nate Golon and Kimberly Legg. Directed by Andre Welsh.WORKSHOP - The second of 13 episodes - "The Right Look". Check out the... more
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"If you can't beat 'em, stream 'em. That's how some TV producers view the Internet, using the Web to draw in viewers who either can't get enough of their favourite show or might otherwise forget it's even on.
Rescue Me sat out over a year-and-a-half between Seasons Four and Five (currently in progress on Showcase). To keep their fans involved, co-creator and star Denis Leary and other cast members shot stand-up rants – as their dysfunctional New York firehouse characters – which served as two or three-minute long Rescue Me webisodes. (They were posted on crackle.com.) Battlestar Galactica also entertained fans with a webisode miniseries between seasons of that show, and other sci-fi shows have been quick to make the quantum leap to web TV. Toronto-born executive producer Brad Wright says he'll be steering the new Stargate Universe in that direction.
Wright and others get the word loud and clear at events such as Comic-Con that fans demand and expect extra web content. Stars and producers from such non sci-fi shows as Fox's Bones told critics at press tour that they were mobbed by fans who can't get enough of their adventures.
Meeting that demand for web content isn't always easy. For one thing, it costs money. Joss Whedon, executive producer of Dollhouse, saw his series limp into a second season at a reduced overall budget after not-so-stellar ratings. The Buffy The Vampire Slayer creator is all for spreading his content out over several platforms, but this year he simply doesn't have the budget for it.
Hollywood unions, too, are just figuring out how to divvy up web TV production. The Canadian-born creator of Bones, Hart Hanson, says webisode plans for his show are still up in the air. "Our actors were so nervous," he says, especially around the time of the writers' strike, when future media platforming was such a contentious issue. "The trick is figuring out what is promotional and what is extra value that they should be paid for," he says.
Web TV work considered strictly promotional – studios make no money from it and therefore, neither do the talent – falls outside those restrictions. It is, however, no less a drain on an actor's time.""If you can't beat 'em, stream 'em. That's how some TV... more
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The latest episode of our ongoing collaboration with the NewFilmmakers L.A. Film Festival is here! This installment features exclusive interviews with directors Matt Aselton (Gigantic) Bruno Miotto (As Far as Diamonds), Paolo Marinou-Blanco (Goodnight Irene), Robert Sperlinga (Shut the Cameras Off!), Sean Christensen (Fan Mail) and Nicholas Wong (House of Wong). Seriously, don't miss this.The latest episode of our ongoing collaboration with the NewFilmmakers L.A. Film... more
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Musicians who think they need to sell their souls in order to make a buck should read up on James Poyser. The Philadelphia-based keyboardist/songwriter/producer has earned quite a living for himself, and he does it all with artists he knows and respects: as a member of the lauded Soulquarians crew, he was in the company of the likes of Erykah Badu, Common, The Roots D’Angelo, and other stuff of the glory years of MCA Records.
But don’t think that he’s limited to the neo-soul crowd—he’s also performed, recorded, or toured with the likes of everyone from Jay-Z to Afro-beat/Jazz legend Femi Kuti, and from Queen Latifah to Roy Hargrove. And his new Rebel Yell project, a “misfit R&B” collaboration with producer Khari Ferrari Mateen (The Roots, J*DaVeY, Skillz) and singer Domini “SupaStar” Quinn, is as different from anything he’s ever done. While in transit from Philly to New York to play with his extended family The Roots on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Poyser spoke to HipHopDX's Producer's Corner about shelved projects, debunking expectations, and making hits rain.
HipHopDX: Tell me about the new project, Rebel Yell.
James Poyser: It got started on a humbug, really. It was myself and another young producer from Philly, Khari Mateen. We were working in The Studio together. It’s a studio in Philly called The Studio, where pretty much everybody works at. He has a room there, I have a room there, and so do a few other production companies. And everybody jams together and plays together on different things. Me and Khari were just vibing over a few weeks of coming up with just some instrumental things. It’s really kind of different, and we spoke about finding somebody to put a voice on it. We’re both familiar with Domini, because Dom’s always around, and gave some music. We came up with some stuff, and we just continued until we had the songs that we have on the album. It’s a lot, but the stars just fell into place, and stuff happened.
DX: Is this the first project you’ve produced entirely? Because I know you do spot work for a lot of people.
James Poyser: No, not at all. … There’s been quite a few things I’ve done that haven’t seen the light of day just yet. [Laughs] There were projects where there may have been an established artist, but I was the main producer for that project. For example, Erykah [Badu’s] Mama’s Gun album, and things here and there. There’s things here and there I’ve done. So I wouldn’t say it was the first.
DX: How does this project differ from the others you’ve done?
James Poyser: It’s pretty much a product of the way we do music now in the year 2009. Some of the things were done initially in the studio, but after a while, everything was done over the Internet. Everyone was doing their own thing, working at their own spots. That’s the way records are done now. This time, everyone was going their own way and just throwing everything into the pot. Me and Khari started working in the studio together, but it evolved to everybody working in their own space.
Read the whole interview here....................
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/features/id.1379Musicians who think they need to sell their souls in order to make a buck should read... more
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Philadelphia producer/emcee/instrumentalist, Lushlife, is no stranger to originality. His work ranges from 60's rock, futuristic electronic, soul, boom-bap, and pop. His projects expand from the successful mash up of West Sounds (Kanye West meets the Beach Boys), to the sample heavy Order of Operations, to his newest pop and instrumentation inspired Cassette City.Philadelphia producer/emcee/instrumentalist, Lushlife, is no stranger to originality.... more
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Whole lotta slappin' happenin' in this clip from Kelvin G's latest movie project, Zombie Truckers 3.
www.zombietruckers3.comWhole lotta slappin' happenin' in this clip from Kelvin G's latest... more
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Danger on every corner! Crazed zombie roams the street in this clip from Kelvin G's latest movie project, Zombie Truckers 3.
www.zombietruckers3.comDanger on every corner! Crazed zombie roams the street in this clip from Kelvin... more
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Which will win? Girl with poisonous gas or a gang of zombies? Bwahahaa...
Clip from Kelvin G's latest movie project, Zombie Truckers 3.
www.zombietruckers3.comWhich will win? Girl with poisonous gas or a gang of zombies? Bwahahaa...
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Looks like a chihuahua in an Indian costume, to me...
Clips from Kelvin G's latest movie project, Zombie Truckers 3.
www.zombietruckers3.comLooks like a chihuahua in an Indian costume, to me...
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Common was fretting about the state of hip-hop way back in 1994, on his first hit, "I Used to Love H.E.R.," a song that compared hip-hop to a girl who ran off with some gangsta guy. Five albums in, Common is on better terms than ever with the music. He describes his reconciliation with hip-hop on "Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip Hop)," his hit ballad with his main squeeze, Erykah Badu, which updates "I Used to Love H.E.R.": "We broke up and got back together/To get her back I had to sweat her." And he's made the most adventurous album of his career: The new Electric Circus (produced in part by Roots drummer ?uestlove) is a free-for-all that recalls the ambition of late-Eighties classics from the Jungle Brothers.
That doesn't mean he doesn't have a few pointers for his colleagues, though. "I really don't want to be preachy," he says over five cups of tea at a Lower Manhattan Thai-food place. But his vision is distinctly more bohemian and less bling.
1 Free Your Mind, and Their Asses Will Follow
"I worry when people are able to imitate hip-hop so well on Saturday Night Live skits -- it means we have set this culture up to be just one thing. I think the big problem comes from us trying to please the crowd. We limit hip-hop to just one look, one uniform, one statement of being real: getting money and guns and women, or selling dope all the time.
"But you try to please the crowd, and the crowd might change. They may say, 'We're tired of that gangsta stuff.' Or a new cat will come in, doing the same thing as you. But because his face is new, he'll get accepted. As Ice Cube said, 'They'll have a new nigga next year.'
"Rock artists are allowed to just be themselves -- to be the nerds or punk rockers or skateboarders or acid takers that they are. Stevie Wonder or Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan or Bob Marley -- they did songs about all type of different things. You can't make yourself secure by just trying to please whatever is happening now. I believe you please the crowd by being you."Common was fretting about the state of hip-hop way back in 1994, on his first hit,... more
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Conor Knighton produces and hosts infoMania, a TV show about all things media, pop culture, world news, and even politics. The show, which airs every Thursday on Current TV, was developed with Madeleine Smithberg (co-creator of The Daily Show) and is not the typical infotainment / clip show by any means.
Oh no, infoMania is brilliant, and it should be in a category of its own. Often funny and surprisingly intelligent, with several awesome segments like Sarah Haskins’ “Target: Women” and Brett Elrich’s “Viral Video Film School“, as well as rants about people like Susan Boyle, well-compiled exposures of the media’s affair with Twitter, and the occasional association of completely unrelated people like Gene Simmons and Sonia Sotomayor (who I agree, must have been separated at birth), infoMania is a show you can actually watch right now.. online.
Click on the link to read the socialnerdia(dot)com interview with Conor that you won't want to miss...Conor Knighton produces and hosts infoMania, a TV show about all things media, pop... more
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New York-based DF Indie Studios is a group of veteran producers who will make independent films > $ 10 million. Their motto is "Indie Style. Studio Dependability." Sounds very very interesting!New York-based DF Indie Studios is a group of veteran producers who will make... more
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"As Broadway prepares to celebrate itself next month, many theater people are increasingly concerned that writers, especially writers of nonmusical plays, are getting the bum's rush at the Tonys.
"Why doesn't the playwright accept the award by himself?" wonders composer and lyricist Maury Yeston, whose shows include "Nine" and "Grand Hotel."
"The bookwriter does, the lyricist does, the orchestrator does, even the person who runs the sound system does. One would think that the progenitor of an original piece of theater would be the person on whom the award would evolve."
Adds Susan Birkenhead, lyricist of the upcoming "Minsky's": "I can understand if one or two producers who broke their backs to raise money for the play go up with the playwright. But it's getting to be a mob scene."
Veteran producers say that many of their biggest investors now have it written into their contracts that if the play wins the Tony, they get to share the stage with the author.
"The chance to be on the Tonys for 10 seconds has become an enticement to invest," one producer says. "It's ridiculous, but that's what they want."
Another longtime producer says: "You should attend a producers' meeting sometime. We sit around deciding who's going to speak and in what order. But did we write the play? What we wrote was the check. Maybe there should be a Tony for Biggest Check. Then we can all go on stage."
The Dramatists Guild, which represents writers, has accepted the fact that, with plays costing at least $2 million, investors have to be wooed.
"If being onstage during a television show is what it takes to get them to produce plays, I'm fine with that," says Guild President Stephen Schwartz, the composer and lyricist of "Godspell," "Wicked," "Pippin" and more.
But he says the Guild is concerned that some of the writing awards are being handed out before the Tony telecast begins. Last year, for instance, neither the award for Best Book or Best Revival of a Play made the broadcast.
"That is a serious problem and really distorts what theater is," Schwartz says. "Film and television, even though they're supposed to be less of a writer's medium than theater, give more attention to writers in their annual telecasts."
The Guild is also pushing for the nominated plays to be acknowledged on the telecast. While the musicals can parade their big numbers, the plays are given barely a nod.""As Broadway prepares to celebrate itself next month, many theater people are... more
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Best known for creating the TV series Nip/Tuck, writer, director and producer Ryan Murphy turns his attention to high school in Glee, his upcoming comedy series for Fox. The series features a high school choir director and his ragtag group of singers.
In addition to his television work, Murphy has penned screenplays for Running With Scissors as well as Eat, Pray, Love, based on Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir.
This is a great interview, check it out people.Best known for creating the TV series Nip/Tuck, writer, director and producer Ryan... more
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