I played “Vampira” on a faux daytime talk show…
I was back in Vancouver earlier this year and my good friend Nicholas Humphries asked me to be in a video he was making with his students at the Vancouver Film School. I’ve been wanting to do something with Nick for a long time, so without hesitation I said something along the lines of “F*CK YEAH!” In the video I play a character named “Vampira”, the trashy gothic trophy-wife of a mad scientist, who is obviously having marital problems with her husband. I realized I forgot to blog about it when it came out back in September, so here it is now!
I had lots of fun filming this with them, so I hope you have fun checking it out.
Nominated for 3 IAWTV Awards!
The International Academy of Web Television nominated my web series A Comicbook Orange for three IAWTV Awards!
- Best Hosted (Taped) Web Series – A Comicbook Orange
- Best Host (Taped) – Casey McKinnon, A Comicbook Orange
- Best Writing (Non-Fiction) – Rudy Jahchan, A Comicbook Orange
We’re all really grateful to the voting members of the IAWTV and I’m looking forward to getting all dressed up and attending the ceremony at CES in Las Vegas! For those who followed my dress exploits before the last big award show I received a nomination for, you’ll be happy/sad to find out I already bought a dress this time!
Be sure to check out the full list of nominees. As a Trekkie, I’m happy to see the amazing Jeri Ryan nominated for Best Female Performance (Drama) for her work on Mortal Kombat: Legacy. Similarly, I’m also relieved to see I’m not in the same category as her. ;) Congrats, Jeri, I hope to see you at the ceremony!
The award ceremony will take place on January 12th, 2012 and will be live-streamed online. I’ll remind you closer to the date and link to the stream from Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and my blog.
ELF SABERS: Two elves enter, one elf leaves!
Last month I had lunch with my friend Teal Sherer and she said she wanted to make a lightsaber battle video. She asked if I was interested in doing it with her, and I said something along the lines of “HELL yes!!!” Thanks to the fight coordination and direction of America Young, the idea took shape very quickly… and I’m so happy that I can finally show you “ELF SABERS“!
Be sure to check out Comediva for other wonderfully funny videos, and some behind the scenes photos of our ELF SABERS shoot. And, happy holidays, everyone!!!
In case you missed me on Framerate…
I was a guest on TWiT‘s Framerate this week thanks to the suggestion of the show’s wonderful hosts Tom Merritt and Brian Brushwood! We discussed the online video industry, the future of television distribution, and the TV shows and movies we’ve been watching. Thanks to Tom, Brian, and producer Jason Howell for having me on!
Google+ Comments!
Thanks to Juan Carlos Bagnell from Movies You May Have Missed for making this all possible (directing, narrating, and making me crack up). And thanks to all of you awesome Google+ commenters who make me giggle every day. :)
You can find me on Google+ here.
Five years ago today…
…Rudy and I attended the Vloggies, the first ever web video awards, and won five awards for Galacticast! We were critical of the event at first because there were a few f*ckups and it was more corporate than we wanted a web video awards show to be, but in time (and especially after last year’s Streamys) I grew to look back on it with shiny eyes.
Many of the creative and innovative people who attended the Vloggies have gone on to do amazing things. One of them is sadly no longer with us… R.I.P. Oscar, we miss you.
For more information on the Vloggies I highly suggest reading Laughing Squid’s Vloggies wrap-up… I couldn’t have said it any better myself.
Photos courtesy of Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
Sci-Fi Movies for the Unsuspecting Non-Sci-Fi Fan
After seeing a few exceptional trailers (1, 2, 3) for Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, starring Kirsten Dunst, I started to think about all the sci-fi movies that mask themselves as a different genre altogether.
One of my favorite movies of all time is Repo Man. With taglines like “Let’s do some crimes!” and “…It’s 4 A.M., do you know where your car is?”, it’s hard for most people to even imagine that it’s a sci-fi movie. Yet, one of my favorite alien theories came from this film – see video below to hear Miller’s theory on time travel and aliens:
Another one of these unsuspecting sci-fi films is Dude, Where’s My Car? After seeing countless commercials portraying it as a stoner comedy, who would’ve known that it was actually a pretty decent sci-fi movie? I didn’t go see it in the movie theater, and was NOT the one who selected it as a rental, but was mind-blowingly surprised when it had more to it than mindless idiocy.
So there you go, two unsuspecting, but entertaining little sci-fi movies for you to add to your Netflix queue… because if you haven’t seen them yet, you need to. Well, at least Repo Man. ;)
Are there any other English language films that I should add to this list? Let me know in the comments… I’m genuinely interested.
My 1st Internet Pseudonym
I love hearing stories about how people came up with their first internet pseudonym. It tells a lot about a person, especially when the pseudonyms are really nerdy.
My first pseudonym came from watching a lot of Star Trek: Voyager. When I was living in Edinburgh between 1997-1999, I trained in a martial art called Kuk Sool Won. My instructor Master Don Mackenzie used popular TV and movie quotes to motivate us; with many of his references coming from Highlander, Star Trek, and various superhero movies. In Star Trek: Voyager episode Drone, a Borg drone is created after a transporter incident that fuses the Doctor’s mobile emitter with some of Seven of Nine’s nanoprobes. During the course of the episode the drone asks for a designation, but since Seven of Nine and Captain Janeway are encouraging him to embrace his individuality, he selects the name One. Soon after that episode aired, Master Don started teasing/motivating me by calling me “One of One.” I loved it.
When I finally went to register my first email address I tried to get oneofone, but someone had already taken it. As they do, Yahoo suggested I add a number to the username to make it unique. So what number did I add? 5618, the Borg designation for the human species. After that, oneofone5618 was born! :P
So what was your first internet pseudonym, and what was the story behind it?
Throttled to death.
I’ve been thinking a lot about cutting the cable with Time Warner Cable. I started thinking about it after I read this Wired article last fall, but never actually thought I’d do it until I signed up for Netflix streaming and XBox announced Live TV at E3 this year.
Now with recent rumors about Apple trying to kill the cable industry using Apple TV and iCloud, we’re getting closer and closer to the death of cable TV. But reading Robert Scoble‘s Google+ post about Apple TV the other day forced me to think of a huge potential problem; internet access.
Although we pay for Time Warner Cable’s Road Runner Turbo, the fastest internet access possible with the service provider, every single time I stream something – whether I’m watching Netflix, talking to my parents on Skype, or appearing as a guest on TWiT – TWC never fails to cut off my internet forcing me to reboot my modem and wifi over and over again. This is called throttling, and it’s driving me f*cking crazy.
As more and more people dump cable for internet streamed television, we’re going to have to address this problem in a big way. Currently I’m looking for alternatives to TWC in my area, preferably a service provider that doesn’t need to string a line through my apartment building to get me internet service. I’m looking for the future… there must be someone out there who’s providing throttle-free wireless internet service at ludicrous speed! If not, they’d better start doing it soon… otherwise we’ll all have to file a class action suit against service provider TWC and their lack of, y’know, providing service.
