Gondry=genius. Once you’ve seen the original trailer for his upcoming movie, Be Kind Rewind, then watch this remake he created himself.
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Michelle “Kenobi” Osorio: Blogging since 2000
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Hip hop hooray, hoes! ./shutdown season 1 has hit 1 million views! ($%()$#QVU()#$&^.
Our spotlight on the front of Stage6 hasincreased our numbers significantly. Thanks, Stage6! So far our most
popular videos are episode 7: DDR Hero part 4 at over 500,000 and episode 3: Drastic Measures part 1 at 250,000 views.
Don’t forget to watch the first half of the season finale. Part 2, the conclusion premieres in just a few days. David is hard at work at the editing bench churning that out for y’all.
Thanks for watching the show and contributing to our growing success!
Michelle Osorio
Co-Creator, ./shutdown
It’s weird. I’m 26 and once again I’m back in school after taking a break during the Summer and Fall of 2007 to begin production on the ./shutdown web series. Now, I am enrolled in yet another mass media class (my 3rd now) at Penn State and I will be taking my third (and final!) Spanish class at a local community college. Just got confirmation from Penn that it will transfer. w00t!
It’ll be another couple of years before I graduate, I think. I am only taking two classes per semester, but I am really worried about whether I will be able to pull it off. Right now with just one online class at Penn and a full time job I’m only having to stay up about an hour later. However, starting next week I will be going to my Spanish class two evenings a week. In February, David and I will start writing season 2 of the show and then in March we’ll be starting production again.
I am dreading March and April the most. I honestly don’t know if I will be able to handle two full time jobs plus school part-time. I consider the show a full time job since production time means editing every night and shooting almost every weekend. Yet, at the same time I am very frustrated that I can’t handle school full time anymore. I am really in a rush now that I have decided I want to go to graduate school.
Ah well. Take it one day at a time, as they say.
I met Lala at CES last year when I directed a special for Tiki Bar TV in addition to live episodes with other podcasters like Geek Entertainment TV, JETSET and Pure Pwnage. I hope she is doing well. I saw ads for some show on CBC that she is hosting so it seems she’s doing well. Yay for Lala. She’s a sweetheart.
Watch the Tiki Bar Live @ CES special I directed in January 2007.
Judith Weston’s workshop was truly transformative as so many said it would be. I am genuinely inspired and excited about beginning to apply these principles of acting into my future directing. As you can see from my Twitters, her 3-day class gave me more insight and access to an emotional center that 4 years at a performing arts school couldn’t help me with. I’ve already scheduled individual meetings with the main cast of ./shutdown to discuss some of these things with them and delve into some areas that I think will really help later on the set.
I’m also grateful for the chance to meet and work with the other students in the class. Most were directors and a couple were producers and/or writers. They were all wonderful people. I’m looking forward to getting an email with a class picture someone took so I can post it up on here. I’ve convinced David to sign up for the class I just took, Acting for Directors and I just sent an email off to reserve a space in her next Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques course which isn’t until May. She only does two per year and that one is already close to full!
In other news, I’m looking forward to a ./shutdown paintball game on Saturday and editing the conclusion to the DDR Hero episodes. After that, I will be done editing ./shutdown for awhile. David will be in post production on the season finale during the second half of January while I am having the actor meetings. I’ll probably also edit another Film Fatale video blog and get back to writing songs for a musical ./shutdown episode you’ll see in season 2.
Things are pretty slow at work right now, so in my spare time I’ve been playing with Color trying to get to know the program. I also better start thinking about a fun concept for the next quarterly videos. The CEO told me he’d really like to do something creative that alot of people could get involved with. That is all!
Hi All,
Happy holidays and all that politically correct bull honkey. Check out our lovely ./shutdown holiday special featuring Ben Peterson (Zedd). Fun for the whole family!
DDR Hero continues next week! Don’t miss the two-part season finale beginning mid-January.
Lerv,
Michelle Osorio
./shutdown co-creator
Everybody be sure to check out Episode 5: DDR Hero (part 2). Remember, if you choose the Stage6 option, you can double-click the DivX Web Player window to see the show in glorious full-screen 720 HD!
Also, our Stage6 views, combined with Veoh stats adds up to 300,000 thus far. w00t!
Check back next week when we present a Very Special ./shutdown Holiday Video. DDR Hero continues on December 31.
Michelle Osorio
./shutdown, Co-Creator
Reposted from my news release at shutdowntv.com:
Episode 4: DDR Hero - part 1 is now online for your viewing pleasure. This is a four-parter, guys and features awesome music by ioeo and Mad DPS, plus a guest appearance by GamerGirl, Linda Vargas. So show ‘em some love and say we sent you!
./shutdown is now available in 720HD when you click the DivX option (many thanks to Stage6 for their continued support). Also, take note that clips will be shorter, but you’ll only have to wait a week to see more!
So keep checking back and don’t forget that January will feature the premiere of our epic two-part season finale!
Michelle Osorio
Co-Creator, ./shutdown
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I play myself in the promotional comic for Vampira The Movie. You’ll see me as Michelle, the cynical (but busty) camera girl. Back then I still wore glasses, so I get to sport the nerdy look as well. What fun!
For more info on the movie check out VampiraTheMovie.com.
Live long and prosper,
Formats available: Microsoft Video (.avi) or watch this in HD!
Woohoo. Jason E. and Micah at DivX just pushed the new English DivX Connected site. It features the video I’ve been working on for weeks (in several languages). Check it out at the DivX Connected website!
HD and standard definition versios will release on the Stage6 DivX Connected Channel sometime next week. Keep an eye out for the German and French versions as well. They are in post stages. I’ve never made a video in three languages before. It was alot of fun and I want to thank the wonderful actors Joshua Covington, Sara Jane Nash, Sandra Favero and Tamee Harrison for the wonderful job they did. If you missed them, here are some production stills.
The awesome designer/composer/programmer team of Justin, Jeffrey, Jason E. and Micah at DivX were behind the graphics, music and web presence you see at the site. The scripts were written by Solange and Brigit, and reviewed/edited by Sebastian, Matthias, Ronja, Brenda and others. Peace out.