Category: Peer Production

Leesa Dean: Adventures of a Web Series Newbie, Chapter 9 – Good Things!

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by Leesa Dean

So before I get into the Rollo story, wanted to talk about some more exciting stuff that’s happening. First, Lele (the actual character) was tapped to do a weekly radio segment! This is how it happened. I’ve been twitter friends with Gigi Capone for while. She has a radio show in Yuba City, Cali called the Business Report on KRYC Rhythm 105.9 Fm . She interviewed me for the show and afterwards, we started talking. I mentioned that HNS Mag is doing a feature on Chilltown/Lele’s Ratchet Advice Show and they’re putting Leleon the cover! Gigi loved the idea and said, “Why don’t you have Lele host the 60 Second Wrap-Up?” I jumped at the chance. A cartoon character hosting a radio segment?! For those of you who don’t know, I not only write and animate Lele, but also voice her. So I wrote the segment, recorded it and she loved it. One thing led to another and my first show was yesterday, April 11th. Every week on Thursdays at 4pm PST, Lele will be doing her comedic spin on entertainment and gossip–all in 60 seconds. It’s really gonna be a blast. And, can’t wait to show you guys the HNS cover. I did a special illustration for it. It drops at the end of April.

Also, more in the collab department. Been so incredibly busy, it’s hard to keep up with everything but am in the planning stages of a number of collabs plus Chilltown/Lele spin-offs (yes, the Lele show is already a spin-off so this would be…a spin-off off?) There’s one in particular I wanna mention. read article

Travis Richey: On Success, WonderCon & Building a Time Machine

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Latest News about the
Untitled Web Series About A Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time
by Travis Richey

Greetings, Inspectators!

It’s been a while since the last newsletter, and SO much has been happening! Not leaving a lot of time for newsletter-writing, but it’s very important to me to keep you in the loop about what we’re doing on this end, since so many of you made it possible at all.

We have HUGE casting news to announce, and I’ll probably be sending out an announcement on that on Monday (as always, keep an eye on the Facebook page to find out the news first), but I wanted to tell you all about some awesome recent events… read article

Peer Production: Truth in Cable Co. Advertising – At Last

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We could swear this is a commercial for our cable company.

Or would be if our cable company had just the slightest awareness of a concept called “ethics.” read article

Leesa Dean: Adventures of a Web Series Newbie, Chapter 8

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by Leesa Dean

A lot of exciting stuff is going on. The biggie: Chilltown was listed by ABCNews/Univision as Web Series That Should Be On Your Radar!!!!! And we got an incredible review! Ecstatically happy about it. Also, did a ton of fun radio including Geek Soul Brother,Educated Insanity (on ChicagolandsportsRadio), The Bobby Pickles Show and KRYC Rhythm 105.9 FM !! Also released Episode 6 of Chilltown and people are telling me they love it. In spite of all that, there’s still a bit of frustration that always boils down to the same thing: How can I get more people to watch? We’re still a very tiny show in an enormous pool. Have a lot of plans in place for additional shows and specials that (hopefully) will make a little noise. But it’s a tough tough game. Much tougher than I expected. But, in all, a really good week.

And I heard from Rollo. Last Friday, went to another YouTube meeting and it was great! Met some cool people plus got to see the YouTube studios at Next New Networks NYC. Very exciting. They have a couple of green screen studios with pro lights and cameras. Some of the collabs I’m involved with will probably be done there. Part of the meeting involved having a tour and being shown the ropes (a prerequisite to using their space.) Their computers are probably a billion times faster than mine, so can’t wait to do some editing there. A guy name Chris Chan Roberson runs stuff there and he’s great. They had pizza and drinks after and everybody was schmoozing and just like clockwork right towards the end, my phone rings. Guess who? Rollo happens to be in the area and we meet. read article

LB: I’m Not the Only One Who Hated LIFE OF PI After All

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Whew. I may be in the minority, but I think it’s the right minority.

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