Category: Announcements

Wander Over Yonder

from Craig McCracken:

Hello All,

I’ve always been drawing and typically my stuff (when it doesn’t end up on your TV sets) just sits on a shelf in my office collecting dust. So back in ’07, inspired by the work my wife was doing with her brilliant Milky Way and the Galaxy Girls I decided to dust off some of those drawings and try and hock some of my own wares.

So that year at Comic Con I debuted my nomadic, hippie, muppet man, Wander Over Yonder. It was a real simple affair, a T- Shirt, a patch, and a sketchbook of some of my taken ‘er easy, getting back to nature doodles. Wander was well received and after a good con we still had some stuff left over. So as to not let this “rolling stone” gather too much dust like my drawings used to I’m proud to announce that Wander has launched his very own webstore. So please Wander on over and check it out when you get a chance.

Thank you kindly,

Craig

(PS — shirts come in men’s and women’s sizes, and the sketchbook comes signed)

The Guild’s April Convention Appearances

from The Guild:

We’re so excited that it’s getting to be that time of year — Con Season! We love being able to meet the fans and put faces to the user names we see all the time on our forums and on Twitter. Here are the first of a slew of convention and personal appearances we’ll be making in 2009:

STARFURY in Birmingham, England April 24-26

Felicia Day (Codex) will be there all 3 days of the Con, hobb nobbing with the likes of Adam Baldwin and Summer Glau!

http://seanharry.com/

DELTA H CON in Houston, TX, April 24-26

The cast of The Guild (minus Felicia — see above) will be on hand signing autographs, judging contests and mixing and mingling:

Friday: April 24
Autographs 1-2 pm (main room)
Karoke Judging 4-6 pm
The Guild Season One Screening with Cast Q &A session 8-9:30pm

Saturday: April 25
Autographs 11-1pm (main room)
Panel: The Making of a Web Phenomena (Cast and Guild producer Kim Evey discuss what goes into making The Guild.) 3-4pm
The Guild Season Two Screening with Cast Q &A session 6:30-8pm

Sunday: April 26
Anime Music Video Judging 9-10:30am

http://deltahcon.com/

Broadband Moguls: Producing & Distributing Your Own Webseries Online

Also in Houston, Guild Producer Kim Evey will teach a workshop for the Southwest Alternate Media Project.
Date: Sunday, April 26, 2009
Time: 10am-2pm
Location: Rice University Media Center
Cost: $40 — General Public; $25 — SWAMP Members and Students with Valid I.D.
For more information and to register go to

http://www.swamp.org/workshops.html

And yes, the entire cast will be appearing at Comic-Con! We’ll post the schedule as it comes our way.

Dave and Tom Presents Safety Geeks: SVI Season 1 Premiere

Safety Geeks: SVI starring Dave, Tom and Brittney Powell chronicles a CSI-like team which investigates safety accidents, leaving a swath of comedic chaos and destruction in their wake.

The P.O.S.H. (Professional Occupational Safety Hazard) team investigates safety violations and accidents, ineptly causing more damage as a result. P.O.S.H. provides an obscure, well-meaning service. Unfortunately, they are a bunch of idiots. The world of P.O.S.H. is very unsafe, largely due to them.

The inundation of investigative shows on TV provides the inspiration and setting for Dave and Tom’s latest project, Safety Geeks: SVI. Known for their sketch comedy and a series of hugely popular videos on the web, Safety Geeks: SVI is their first web series. A parody of prime time television’s staple schtick, SG: SVI promises to be sidesplittingly funny. Safety Geeks: SVI premieres Monday, April 27. Check out more teasers on KoldCast.TV, YouTube, and DaveandTom.com.

Weta News: April 2009

from Weta:

Hey Weta fans,
Whether you celebrate Easter or not, perhaps in some little way you can celebrate spring. Unless you’re on our side of the planet, of course. We’re headed for Winter. Beanie, anyone?

Dr. Grordbort’s Easter Hunting Pack:
To celebrate the Easter Bunny Hunting Season, Dr. Grordbort’s have allowed us to bundle a few of their products AND slash the price. Used to be US$90, NOW $74! Save $26!
A Miniature F.M.O.M. Wave Disrupter gun
A Dr. Grordbort’s T-shirt with a pipes motif
A thick, useful notebook for species notes
Check it out!

In the News:
Richard Taylor wins World Class New Zealand Award
Dr. Grordbort’s Rayguns featured in Shooting Illustrated Magazine
The WotWots launch a huge success
How to hook up with other Weta fans
Winners of our Profile prize draw
Listen to Episode VII of the Weta Cast!

Hot Tip!
You can follow Weta on Twitter! Or MySpace. And we have loads of videos on YouTube! Check out Weta’s social network!

Collectors — look here!
Anthony Gibb, one of our good friends in the Weta collectors’ community publishes! Check out Anthony’s Site!

See You Online!
http://fans.wetaNZ.com/Magnus/

Vulcan Fan Fiction Exhibition

from Vulcan Tourism & Trek Station:

Greetings from Vulcan!

The 2nd Annual Star Trek Intergalactic Fan Fiction exhibition (best known as the S.T.I.F.F.e.) will be held in Vulcan during our annual Spock Days/Galaxyfest weekend on Saturday June 13th. If you are interested in displaying your fan fiction items please fill out the attached registration form and return it to me.

We look forward to seeing you all in Vulcan soon! For more information feel free to visit our website at vulcantourism.com.

Peace and long life,
Erin

Erin Melcher
Vulcan Tourism & Trek Station
115 Centre St. E, Box 1161
Vulcan, AB, Canada, T0L 2B0
T: 403-485-2994 F: 403-485-2878
E: erin@vulcantourism.com W: http://vulcantourism.com/

VulCON16: Spock Days/Galaxyfest 2009 registrations are available now! Visit vulcantourism.com for more information.

Live Long and Prosper…

Have Your Voice Be Heard in the StarWars.com Survey

from StarWars.com:

StarWars.com wants to know what you think. Currently running at the Official Star Wars website is a user survey where you can voice your opinion on The Clone Wars, the website design, and the future of Hyperspace: The Official Star Wars Fan Club, and more!

In addition to your thoughts on Star Wars, we want to know some more information about you, so the site can better serve the needs and interests of its many diverse users. Do you think there should be more kids content? More fiction? More tabletop gaming news? More Flash-based games? Let us know your priorities!

For almost 13 years, the Official Star Wars website has been growing and adapting to the rapidly changing world of the Internet, and we greatly value the opinion of our users. Please head on over and fill out the survey today. You can find it here:

http://starwars.com/webapps/survey/200903.jsp

The Guild Wins at the Streamy Awards

from The Guild:

We are extremely excited to announce that we had such an awards-filled night (and possibly mojitos). The Guild won three wonderful awards. You can view all the winners here.

Best Comedy Web Series
Best Ensemble Cast in a Web Series
Best Female Actor in a Comedy Web Series — Felicia Day

We could not have done this without your support. We would like to again thank our Season 1 donors, for showing faith in our project enough to donate and keep us going, also to our very dedicated crew and volunteers. Without them, Felicia would be stuck doing EVERYTHING, not that she couldn’t, also a special thank you goes out to Kim Evey because she is as much a part of these wins for all the work she’s put in (and was very much missed at the awards). Thank you Streamys for putting on a show and making it a great night, thank you to the academy for voting for us, and everyone nominated in the categories, thank you for making these wins mean something for you are all held in high esteem. Lastly, we would like to thank all our viewers for showing us time and time again that our entertainment is being enjoyed by one and all throughout the world.

As the week rolls by, you will see more videos and pictures from the awards. Here are a few videos and pictures we’ve gathered.

Pictures
The Official Streamy Awards Pictures
worldofhiglet at Flickr
wmmarc at Flickr

Videos
How to Make a Streamy Nominated Web Series
Streamy Awards 09 — Felicia Day
Best Female Actor in a Comedy Web Series on 12seconds.tv
Best Comedy Web Series on 12seconds.tv
Best Ensemble Cast on 12seconds.tv
This Girl Does It All — The Fabulous Felicia Day from Mary Rambin on Vimeo.

Winners of the 2009 Streamy Awards

from The Streamy Awards:

We proudly present the official winners of the 1st Annual Streamy Awards, honoring the best in web television in 2008, announced live at the Wadsworth Theatre on March 28, 2009. Over 125 shows and individuals were nominated in twenty-five award categories. On behalf of the International Academy of Web Television, congratulations to all of the winners!

Overall Series

Best Comedy Web Series
The Guild

Best Dramatic Web Series
Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy

Best Hosted Web Series
EPIC FU

Best Reality or Documentary Web Series
The Shatner Project

Best News or Politics Web Series
Alive in Baghdad

Audience Choice Award for Best Web Series
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

Directing

Best Directing for a Comedy Web Series
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (Joss Whedon)

Best Directing for a Dramatic Web Series
Pink (Blake Calhoun)

Writing

Best Writing for a Comedy Web Series
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (Maurissa Tancharoen, Jed Whedon, Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon)

Best Writing for a Dramatic Web Series
Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy (Jane Espenson, Seamus Kevin Fahey, Ronald D. Moore)

Acting

Best Male Actor in a Comedy Web Series
Neil Patrick Harris (Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog)

Best Female Actor in a Comedy Web Series
Felicia Day (The Guild)

Best Male Actor in a Dramatic Web Series
Alessandro Juliani (Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy)

Best Female Actor in a Dramatic Web Series
Rosario Dawson (Gemini Division)

Best Ensemble Cast in a Web Series
The Guild

Best Guest Star in a Web Series
Paul Rudd (Wainy Days)

Best Web Series Host
Alex Albrecht (Project Lore)

Craft Awards

Best Editing
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (Lisa Lassek)

Best Cinematography
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (Ryan Green)

Best Art Direction
Tiki Bar TV (Kim Bailey)

Best Visual Effects
Backyard FX (Erik Beck)

Best Animation in a Web Series
The Meth Minute (Dan Meth)

Best Original Music
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (Jed Whedon)

Best Ad Integration in a Web Series
Back on Topps (Skype)

Best Artistic Concept in a Web Series
You Suck at Photoshop

Streaming Live on the Streamys

from The Legend of Neil:

A special thank you to all our fans who voted for us for the Audience Choice awards. The voting is now closed. You can see the results of the award and the others we’re nominated for live streaming on the interweb at 7:30pm PST at the official streamy website. Don’t miss it!

The Legend of Neil and The Guild are nominated up and down this thing and we want to share our victories and defeats with you, our fans who’ve made these honors possible. I mean, I (as in Sandeep) am nominated along side Rob Corddry, Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, and Joss Whedon. WTF indeed. I don’t know what kind of alternate reality I’ve dropped into, but I know it’s due to all of YOU that have supported web television like Neil and The Guild. So thank you thank you thank you! Also I’m presenting an award with Felicia Day and there’s a good chance I’ll be so nervous that I’ll vomit on her lovely dress, and then I’ll play it off as improv vomit, so you won’t want to miss that…

ETA at 11:33: Whoops, I was mis-informed (by my competition no less!) apparently you can still vote one last time for the Audience Choice awards. Get out there and hit it Neil fans! http://vote.streamys.org/

Streamy Awards Live Cast Tonight

from The Guild:

Thank you for all your votes in the Streamy Awards, we appreciate all the time you’ve taken out to support our independent show! Audience Award voting is now over!

The Awards ceremony is tonight, and the great thing is that you can attend it with us online! They are streaming starting at 7:30 pacific time on the official Streamys Website, so please come by and enjoy this evening with us to celebrate web video.
If we win anything it will only have been because of you, our audience. 🙂

After Judgment: Three Days until the Streamy Awards

from After Judgment:

Greetings fantastic fans of After Judgment,

It is because of all of you that the world has taken notice of our little (but awesome!) sci fi webseries!

We want to sincerely thank all of you for spreading the word and for your support!

Please take a second to VOTE for us today, tomorrow and Saturday as a Finalist for the Audience Choice Award.

http://vote.streamys.org/

And please take a minute to spread the news to your Facebook friends — just share the link or even send a message!

VOTE VOTE VOTE! We’re up against heavyweights like Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, The Guild, The William Shatner Project and Tikibar TV!!

We’d like to say that we’re just honored to be recognized amongst such an illustrious group but we’d really like to win — wouldn’t you???

Spread the word and VOTE… to prevent the end

After Judgment