Online Comedy - ADAM ON THE ROAD

From Adam on the Road's twitter DM:-

5 min comedy episodes about a college grad kicked out by his mom on grad day, after she gives him a tent, trying to find his way www.adamontheroad.tv

MORE HERE:-
http://twitter.com/adamontheroad

SHOW HOME SITE HERE:-
www.adamontheroad.tv
and here
http://www.unpaid.tv/

and at the moment it all redirects to here:

ADAM ON THE ROAD YOUTUBE CHANNEL HERE:
http://www.youtube.com/unpaidTV

ADAM ON THE ROAD TWITTER HERE:
http://twitter.com/adamontheroad


LATEST EPISODE HERE:

"Puppy Love" Adam on the Road #4

There is one perfect match for every person on this earth. But that's a lot of ground to cover!

"Kinky Mom" Adam on the Road #1

PREMIERE EPISODE!
Starring - DJ Kemp, Featuring - Matt Corboy & Tamika Simpkins, Animation - Yuri Fain

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*****STORYGAS INTERACTIVE RATING*****
ADAM ON THE ROAD
Can you embed? YES
Can you comment? YES
Also on youtube? YES
Forums? not found
Blog? not found
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What do you think?
Sum it up in 3 words, or scores out of 10...
See COMMENTS below

What does "CAN YOU EMBED?" mean?!

Sorry things have been a bit quiet on the storygas front recently - been busy setting up a web series. I'll be posting some behind the scenes news here soon (man, some things to share with you).

So, slowly going through the inbox, and got this great email from Justin.

It's great because sometimes I make assumptions on here that everything is clear and makes sense... when of course, not always.

Also - reminds me to remind you that I go through my emails very very slowly - so feel free to leave a comment anywhere, so anyone else on here can field your question too...


On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Justin wrote:

Hi Neil,

In the interactive rating, what does it mean " Can you Embed ?"

*****STORYGAS INTERACTIVE RATING*****
THMBNLS
Can you embed? YES
Can you comment? kind of - seem to be heavily moderated
Also on youtube? YES
Forums? not found
Blog? not found
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I'm really curious.

Thanks,
Justin

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Hi Justin

thanks for getting in touch -- good question - maybe I should have a link on the phrase explaining the rationale...

Can you embed? is whether or not you can "embed" the show on your own blog or site.

Some videos allow this,
some have the embedding disabled,
some videos don't provide it at all.





When you click on a video, there's sometimes a "Share" or "Embed" option along the bottom.
And sometimes it offers the option "embed".
If you click on this, it offers you a code that you can paste into your own blog, or website.



On YouTube videos, it's at the bottom of the "more info" box. (Unless the video owner has "embedding options disabled").

The code looks like this:



This is a picture of the code.

If I pasted the actual text into this blog post, the video would have appeared instead.


There's a Glossary entry for this on YouTube, but it's not very prominent and on reading it now isn't entirely clear what it is.
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en-uk&answer=95366


Does this help? If not, leave a comment below!

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Origin Trailer

Friend & supporter of StoryGas, DANNY STACK, who writes the awesome "Scriptwriting In The UK" Blog has just launched a trailer for ORIGIN.

Even more relevant for us - it was funded by donations on his blog and twitter...

http://dannystack.blogspot.com/

JJ Abrams talking about writing for mystery shows

Huge thanks to http://www.twitter.com/toodlepip of Chinwag.com for putting me on to this.

It's been up since January 2008, - but this isn't a news site, just a collection of useful cool stuff for web series writers, producers, and fans.

J.J. Abrams traces his love for the unseen mystery –- a passion that’s evident in his films and TV shows, including Cloverfield, Lost, Alias and the new Star Trek -- back to its magical beginnings.

From TED.com:-

So the amazing thing was, we were able to do this thing. And part of that was the amazing availability of technology, knowing we could do anything. I mean, we could never have done that. We might have been able to write it; we wouldn't have been able to depict it like we did. And so part of the amazing thing for me is in the creative process, technology is, like, mind-blowingly inspiring to me. I realize that that blank page is a magic box. You know? It needs to be filled with something fantastic.

MORE HERE:-
http://www.ted.com/talks/j_j_abrams_mystery_box.html

AUDIO AS MP3 TO DESKTOP:-
http://www.ted.com/talks/download/audio/125/talk/205

HERE'S ONE FINAL INSPIRING EXTRACT:-

The most incredible sort of mystery, I think, is now the question of what comes next. Because it is now democratized. So now, the creation of media is -- it's everywhere. The stuff that I was lucky and begging for to get when I was a kid is now ubiquitous.

And so, there's an amazing sense of opportunity out there. And when I think of the filmmakers who exist out there now who would have been silenced, you know -- who have been silenced in the past -- it's a very exciting thing.

I used to say in classes and, you know, lectures and stuff, that -- to someone who wants to write, "Go! Write! Do your thing." It's free, you know, you don't need permission to go write. But now I can say, "Go make your movie!"

There's nothing stopping you from going out there and getting the technology. You can lease, rent, buy stuff off the shelf that is either as good, or just as good, as the stuff that's being used by the, you know, quote unquote "legit people."

No community is best served when only the elite have control. And I feel like this is an amazing opportunity to see what else is out there.

And here's one of the videos J.J. Abrams plays in his presentation: car chased by a plane on the road.




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Ignore Everybody - the book of how to be creative

Thanks to Sex And The Beach, I found out that Hugh McLeod has a book out based on his awe-inspiring blog posts on How To Be Creative.



Maria reviews the book here:-

Hugh tackles the obvious subjects that shore up for many creative types: ignoring those negative voices (the ones inside your head and the ones coming from others), recognizing and honoring your creative passions, prosperity consciousness, loneliness, frustration, boundaries and most importantly -- sticking to your guns, being true to yourself, no matter what the obstacles or maybe precisely because of the obstacles.

Hugh encourages readers to develop their own "creative sovereignty," which is something I whole-heartedly believe in. If you are really driven to pursue your art, no matter what it is, you will find the way to do it and not dilly-dally with distractions: "If you're arranging your life in such a way that you need to make a lot of fuss between feeling the itch and getting to work, you're putting the cart before the horse."

But it does take time to figure it out: "The most important thing a creative person can learn professionally is where to draw the red line that separates what you are willing to do from what you are not."

MORE HERE:-
http://sexandthebeach.blogspot.com/2009/06/book-review-ignore-everybody-by-hugh.html


LINKS TO "HOW TO BE CREATIVE" HERE:-
http://storygas.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-to-be-creative-by-hugh-macleod.html


HUGH MACLEOD'S BLOG HERE:-
http://www.gapingvoid.com


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RTE STORYLAND RESULTS

Spare a thought for the 4 RTE Storyland finalists tonight...




The voting on round 3 ended at 5pm today (5 hours ago), and now's the time of the nail-biting wait for who goes through.

HappySlapper
Hardy Bucks
Psych Ward
Rental Boys


*** UPDATE from www.rte.ie/storyland ***

Episode 3: Results

1st Hardy Bucks
2nd Rental Boys
3rd Psych Ward
4th HappySlapper


If you voted on the poll here, here were our unofficial poll results(!)
Hardy Bucks 19 (48%)
Rental Boys 13 (33%)
Happy Slapper 4 (10%)
Psych Ward 3 (7%)
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Show some love to HappySlapper -- anyone know if the show will go on independently?

The makers' bebo profile, Screenworks, is here:
www.bebo.com/ScreenworksF

Leave COMMENTS below with any news!


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