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This monday, LIVE at 9:15 est on The Jabbo and Crabbo show…

Multi-instrumentalist and singer, Dawn Drake

Woodturner, blogtv’er and social media star Keith Burtis

and Podiobooks, the easiest and most dynamic way to bring your book, turned audio book, to a worldwide audience through the power of podcasting.

 

and of course the fabulous Question of the Week, chat room, community events and more.. come join the community!

And of course we are happy to remind you pre-show … just shoot us an email

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NYC based theater, music, video and Collaborative Media Companies, this week on J&C

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Andhow! Theater Companies Little Suckers, photo by Michael Gottlieb

This Monday… 9:15… LIVE

 

A proverbial fest of New York based creativity!

 

Featured on this weeks show are Jessica Davis-Irons, founding member and Artistic Director of Andhow! Theater Company a New York based theater company lauded by The New York Times, Time Out, and New York Magazine, and in residence this season at The Flea Theater.

 

Also..the brooklyn based Darrin James Band,, a preview of Kaltura - a new simple, free way to collaborate on video projects with people from all over the world - and the fabulous Alec Pollack, on-line video expert and writer of Vita’s Garden, a short that is currently competing in The Doorpost Film Project.

 

The show is entirely interactive, so come and chat!!

 

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Emily Rubin -Playfully Subversive

This past week we had the honor to have Emily Rubin, founder of Wash and Dry Productions and producer of Dirty Laundry: Loads of Prose on The Jabbo and Crabbo Show.  Guiesseppe and I got to attend Loads of Prose- quite literally poetry readings in a laundromat- this past weekend and were struck with how purely fun and meaningful this seemingly incongruous event was. “Playfully subversive” is the phrase Emily used to describe her artistic inspiration and playfully subversive is exactly what you get when you read Emily’s work (aha!  it turns out Emily is a writer in her own right).

 

Emily, Guiesseppe, the chat room and I got a little carried away talking about Loads of Prose and all its potential  (Podcamp Boston perhaps???)  and forgot to leave time for her to do a reading of her own.  So…in lieu of a live reading I am posting Emily’s beautiful short, “Janis and Red in Love”, here.  Fun, funny, smart, sexy, Read More »

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Poetry at the Laundromat and Drunks from Hollywood

This week on The Crabbo and Jabbo show meet Emily Rubin from Wash and Dry Productions… Producers of “Dirty Laundry: Loads of Prose”- poetry readings at the laundromat…yes…the laundromat!  We will see some footage of their most recent laundromat reading and talk to Emily about why she thinks poetry and laundry soap are such a natural fit.

 

Our musician of the week (courtesy of Ariel Publicity…of course) is Alternative, Rock, Pop, Hip Hop / Rap, Funk band… Winzenried…. fun, funky and totally original, tune in to hear two of our favorite Winzenried, aka Hollywood Drunks, singles.

 

And of course and fantabulous tech tip of the week, a question of the week, and so much more!

 

Tune in to The Jabbo and Crabbo Show  Monday May 5th at 9:15 est and let us know if you have  an event you want us to promote or an artist (including you) you want us to feature.

 

Fraid your gonna forget? text idare to 41411  for a free subscription to Jabbo and Crabbo text alerts, or shoot us an email us and we will email you right before the start of the show.

 

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Tonight on the Jabbo and Crabbo Show

Sculptor Marla Mclaine whose mixed media, mosaics and sculptures blow my mind… and soulful, inspiring, funk authentic singer/songwriter Sheri Miller.

If you have an event or a project you want to share with the community… its not too late to let us know… shoot us an email at synchronis.tv@earthlink.net

(and hey! think think think we have solved the tech problems…turns out it was a packet transfer issue with our isp provider…can’t believe I know what that means… but I do now!!!

See you tonight at 9:15 est

The Jabbo and Crabbo Show- The artist’s (and otherwise cool person’s) guide to creativity and technology on the web.

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The Crabbo and Jabbo Show- LIVE this Monday April 21st

Its been 8 months since “35″ premiered. The first web drama to stream live on the web, “35″ was a labor of will, of love, of pain, of tenacity and in retrospect… of celebration. In the past two years the web 2.0 community has unleashed a torrent of tools and sites that now make it possible for artists of all sorts to Green Light their own creative projects. To produce work on a scale which only months ago would have been deemed impossible, and to reach a global audience with our music, our sculpture, our crafts, our videos. We no longer have to wait for casting directors, for investors, for galleries or film festivals to deem us worthy… we can stand behind our own work, tell the world that we are passionate about what we do, we believe in ourselves and that is more than enough!

“35″ was designed to be a presented in two seasons, and we hope to bring you season 2 ASAP. We also have another webisode in development… but in the mean time…

hey!  this is a 1 min promo video below…click the frame to play!!

 

 
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The Jabbo and Crabbo Show- Live and Interactive

The artists (and otherwise cool person’s) guide to creativity and technology on the web.

It is Guiesseppe and my hope to build a community of artists who support one another in living the lives we dreamed of and bringing our work to the Internet. We will offer everything we have learned this past year and will offer up tips each week that will make it easier for every artist to publish their work, to collaborate with other creatives, to market their art and (hopefully) live a more fulfilling life.

We hope you will join us on Mondays at 9:15, right here on our website.

If you would like to receive an email reminder right before we go live each monday, contact us and we would be more more more than happy to oblige!

We also want this show to by YOUR show… so let us know what you want to learn about, and what topics you want to discuss.   Join the Community!

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Post Show Chat -Episode Nine

Why a drama and not a comedy or a thriller? Why a teenage girl and not a teenage boy? And what were the specific difficulties in mixing sound for the first scripted drama to stream live? TD Andrew Lipson, producer Kathryn Jones and production sound mixer Jan McLaughlin join in episode nine’s post show chat.

 
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Post Show Chat -Episode Eight

“35″ TD Andrew Lipson, Actors Bruce Ross and Elizabeth London, and camera man Samir Mahadin talk about what it’s like to shoot sex scenes, the choreography of the cameras, and how much creative input was given to actors and crew alike.

 
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Post Show Chat -Episode Seven

Director of Photography Marcus Lehmann and actor Arthur Aulisi (Cal) talk about all things 35, including acrobatic cameramen, what its like to shoot a new episode every day and why they chose to work so hard on such a difficult project for no upfront fee. (conversation facilitated by the always charming, alway insightful Andrew Lipson… of course)

 
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Live on Pulver TV via the inimitable Jonny Goldstein

I had the great joy to spend most of last week at Podcamp Boston and Video on the Net (more on this in my next post). One of the highlights of the week was Jeff Pulver’s post-podcamp live broadcast on sunday afternoon. It was a two and a half hour video fest with multiple hosts, and I had the honor to be on Jonny Goldstein’s segment… where I disclosed a few synchronis secrets!

I am at the end of the segment… but if you watch the whole thing you will also get to see the tail end of David Kowarsky’s interview with the marvelous Rudy and Casey from Galacticast, the great Bre Pettis from Make and the charming Lux Nightmare from boinkology….

live with jonny

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Post Show Chat -Episode Six

Co-Producers Patrick DiRenna and Elena Primost talk about The Digital Film Academy, about why they choose to work and teach all on digital, how their programs unlimited lab time and post-graduation facility membership provides students with the tools to truly become an indie film maker, and why they chose to co-produce 35.

 
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Post Show Chat episode 5

Actress Hannah Sloate, Technical Director Andrew Lipson and technician Rich McGrath talk about what it’s like to shoot a scripted series live, from both the technicians and the actors perspective

 
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Post Show Chat episode 3

Join Producers Kathryn and Guiesseppe Jones and technicians David Kowarsky and Rich McGrath for the first post-episode chat. Shot live with the chat room audience on September 21st, 2007, Kathryn, Guiesseppe, David and Rich talk about what they learned about the process of shooting live, why the episodes are so short and what it is like working with the tricaster studio.

 
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First the Wall Street Journal, now The New York Times online

We think we might be on to something….

September 28, 2007, 6:45 pm
Walking the Pixelated Boards
By Virginia Heffernan
So 7 episodes in—with 3 to go—and the Web series “35,” the first-ever fictional Webcast
to stream LIVE has gained some legitimate momentum with its stagey seriousness and clangy we-made-it-in-our-backyard sound . . .

A bonus: it no longer looks like it’s shot in a coal mine. (That was just the first episode.)

I tuned in for episode 7 last night, and you know what? I officially feel for Sarah, the bipolar recovering-alcoholic mom of the drug girl. She’s all tough, and boundaries, and in ep. 7 she actually kicks to the curb all the ill-gotten makeup and stuff from witchy St. Marks Street that her teenaged daughter acquired through her wicked ways. Then she ditches her daughter’s drugs, and hugs her from behind, promising that they’re all going to make a brand new start of
it.

But it’s not an Oprah-style new start, it’s one of those scary Brand New Starts. Horror-movie style, bluebird-and-sunshine, I’m-fooling-myself style. You know it’s NEVER going to be a new start with these people, is it?

The scene was all overplayed–acting way too big for TV, let alone this business-card-sized screen–and the sound in the bathroom, where the scene took place, echoed amateurishly. But it worked.

The filmmakers, overseen by producers Guiesseppe Jones and Kathryn Jones (the director is Adam Forgash and the writer is Sharr White), have the courage of this series. They’re stage people, and they workshopped and rehearsed their show, like real MFA folk.

It’s clearly the live, streaming part of online video–and not the size of the screen, or the hipness of it, or the opportunities for broadcast–that appeals to them first.

Online video’s not just for admen, guitarists, comics and pornographers. Theater people: we need you!

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First Live scripted drama in the Wall Street Journal

Picks
Online: Video

In a new Web drama, the action unfolds live

By JOHN JURGENSEN
September 22, 2007; Page W2

TV shows from “Will & Grace” to “ER” have broadcast live episodes to pump up ratings. Now that strategy has come to the Web with a new drama streaming live in prime time.

[Online: Video]

“35″ is a 10-part series about a family whose already shaky foundation is rocked by an unwelcome house guest. After weeks of rehearsals, four actors and a dozen crew members went into action on a set in Harlem, N.Y., last Wednesday night. Following a detailed script, the director cut among three cameras, capturing scenes unfolding in sequence around the apartment building. The feed from the cameras was uploaded in real time through a standard Internet connection.

Producer Kathryn Jones says that, until now, live content on the Web has been limited to “some sports, some politicians, and a lot of people at desks with microphones.” Ms. Jones, who also stars in “35,” says the creators wanted to mix the accessibility of Web TV with the spontaneity of theater.

“35″ is also meant to be a showcase for the Web site hosting it. Ustream.tv is part of a new crop of services trying to get users interested in creating and watching live video, as opposed to sites like YouTube that show prerecorded clips.

The creators of “35″ are still working out the kinks of streaming live. After a first episode in which the online video was too dark and the sound was disjointed, they tweaked their Internet settings and boosted the on-set lighting for Thursday’s show.

HOW TO FIND IT: Through Sunday, live episodes of “35″ air at 9 p.m. EDT on Ustream.tv, where episodes are also archived. Five more installments will stream next week, starting Wednesday.

Write to John Jurgensen at john.jurgensen@wsj.com

 

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