Category: Peer Production

Leesa Dean: The Squiggle that is Failure

Adventures in Digital Series Land #114
by Leesa Dean

jazzatthenewzealandschoolofmusicConfession #1: Sometimes (ok, a lot of the time) I wake up in the morning and feel like a failure. Why? Duh. Cause my career isn’t where I feel it should be. And, partly, cause I had a Quick! Easy! Fast! kinda-sorta success when I started out. And since then? Well, let’s just say I’m trying to catch up.  This is not about depression, btw. I’m not depressed. In fact, I’m a happy person and actually pretty optimistic about how things will turn out .

The Background: I made a big rookie mistake when I started:  I actually believed my agent/manager would get me work. So I didn’t spend every waking hour networking and writing writing writing. Yeah, I had more ideas. Yeah, I worked on some. And wrote a few spec scripts.  But since right out the box, I sold a spec script to a network (with virtually no experience under my belt), I thought it would just magically keep happening like that.

Spoiler alert: It didn’t. read article

Cara Winter: Introducing “Somebody Cards”, a new web series

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by Cara Winter

About a year ago, I met a very talented comedy writer, Jason Dummeldinger*. Jason had written a couple episodes of a sitcom he called “Somebody Cards” …both of which I thought were hilarious.

(*Yes, that is his real name. No, it’s not a euphemism.)

We decided to hatch a plan to cast the thing, rehearse a bit too long, hold a few public readings, and then produce the series ourselves for the web (along with a third producer, the effervescent Eddie Follis).

With the pilot episode ‘in the can’ and almost ready to go live online, I sat down with Jason to pick his brain about his brain, his brainchild, and his brainchild’s brainchildren. The following is our interview. read article

Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo is Coming October 31

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LB mentor and friend Stan Lee wants us all to know that YouTube Spaces has partnered with Stan and his company, POW! Entertainment for a special screening and panel discussion on Halloween.

The videos in this screening series are the “best of” results from the “World of Superheroes” program YouTube Spaces, Stan, and POW! hosted last summer in L.A., N.Y., Tokyo, London, and Sao Paulo, where creators were given an original superhero’s lair set, costume designers, visual effects artists, stunt coordinators, and a flying rig to bring their big ideas to life. read article

Web Series: COMPUTER SHOW

It’s 1983, and your local PBS station is doing its best to teach you all about the wonders of the computer age. Not that the computer age has arrived yet…but according to this very funny satire, it will:

See all the episodes HERE

Web Series: THE AWAY MISSION

If you like Britcoms – and we do – you’ll definitely enjoy THE AWAY MISSION. Think about it for a second: All the attitude, both silly and cool, of the average half-hour UK comedy episode compressed into glorious 5 minutes and under wackiness.

As you enjoy these first two episodes, keep in mind that the show gets even better as it goes along. (Assuming you define “better” as “crazier,” which, yes, we do. read article