interesting webseries

dreamcatcher626 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:26:02 -0500

Hello there. I watched the first webisode of Kim and Seana and it seems pretty interesting. I'll have to watch a couple of more webisodes when I have the time. I work with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and did you know that they are now giving the opportunity for online content to be eligible to submit for the 2008 Primetime Emmy's. This is the 1st time the Academy has ever opened the Primetime Emmys to Online Content, finally giving online creators the recognition they deserve.
If you are the creator or know the creator who made this web series, I would strongly recommend that they submit their work to, www.emmys.com

Check out this video with Marshall Co Creator of Quarterlife and Big Fantastic as they sit down for a minute to talk about how big of an impact the Primetime Emmys are going to have on online content, it's really exciting!

http://www.emmys.tv/broadband/video1.html

The deadline to submit is April 7, 2008. Wouldn't it be really cool if your web series won a Primetime Emmy?

Music and road trips are very cool

Seafarer — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:31:21 -0500

Hi Jody,

Thanks very much for the links to the 2 Midwest road trip categories on my Family Travel blog. I had minor angst when I saw them, because after a recent Wordpress upgrade, my blog's internal links broke and many of my photos disappeared. I'd love for everyone to visit my blog, but just be aware that I'm still sweeping up broken crockery. :)

Sheila Scarborough
Family Travel: See The World With Your Kids
Perceptive Travel
Fast Machines motorsports blog

Focus on the Music

Jody DeVere -- Ask Patty — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:38:34 -0500

Two Girls Hit the Road in their Sync-Equipped Ford in Search of Fun and Music

In today's high-tech internet-enabled society, creativity is revealed and rewarded in numerous ways. Take, for instance, Kim and Seana, two girls who have undertaken a nationwide adventure to find fame and fortune.

Kim is a singer/songwriter who dreams of hitting it big. Her friend Seana also dabbles in the singing/playing part. And according to the bio at Myspace.com/kimandseana, they both love music. "LOVE music. Listening to. Watching. Making. It really sums up our lives. So we are going out in search of the music. The new. The loud. The whatever."

Ford supplied them with a Sync-equipped Focus to connect them to their adventures, and the sporty little car features heavily in several of their online webisodes. Almost a co-star in its own right, the flashy blue Focus assists their communications with family and friends along the journey, and helps to provide the soundtrack to their roadtrip - one voice command at a time.

The duo's adventures began in October, at the Annual CMJ Music Marathon in New York. Now more than 25 years old, the event claims to be the largest event of its kind. Like bugs to the light, CMJ draws more than 10,000 music fans, artists, and industry professionals to New York each autumn to discover the best new music and debate the current music business challenges. Regardless of your tastes or perspective, there's something there for everyone.

Click to watch Kim and Seana: http://www.youtube.com/v/4jjTjNjL4HU

Several months later, Kim and Seana have posted more than a dozen webisodes and oodles of informal blogs documenting their drama as they drive around the nation pursuing music and fun, traveling from New York to Chicago to Nashville to Orlando. Along the way, the two young ladies have made valuable contacts in the entertainment industry, visited famous musical landmarks, and discovered new musicians. Additional fun facts from a Ford Insider say Kim and Seana had over a million hits on Crackle.com and viewers have spent over 2,713,141 minutes with the content!

Now if their fun musical adventures haven't already captured your attention, there's something else in this adventure for you. If you take the time to watch the videos and read their blogs, several lucky readers have the chance to win some cool prizes, courtesy of M80, the company that is promoting the girls and their adventures in the Focus. Ford has provided Kim and Seana with some fun prizes to help promote their adventures in the Focus, and we are able to award some of those here!

All you have to do is watch the videos and correctly answer the following questions:

Q: In Webisode 10 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h1rPp6ohbM ), what is the name of the man in charge of acquisitions for the Hard Rock Cafe?

Q: What brand of guitar does Kim play?

Email your answers to kim.seana.giveaway@gmail.com by midnight Pacific time on March 31 and M80 will randomly select from the correct answers to award four $5 gas cards from Chevron), $15 in free iTunes downloads (available for television, music, and movies), as well as a handful of CMJ direct download cards which will allow the holder to download songs from artists who performed at CMJ 2007.

Now for more free prize goodness. Kim and Seana have one more very cool prize to give away, but this one is going to a little harder to find. M80 will award a 1-gigabyte-capacity MP3 player (which also can be used as a data storage thumbdrive and a portable radio) in a random drawing selected from all the viewers who can answer one more question, based on information contained within one of the OTHER webisodes at the site http://myspace.com/kimandseana :

Q: In what city does Seana find the backstage passes for the Country Music Awards?

As Kim says in her blog "It's our passion and we want to share it all with our friends. Music connects us and we want to connect you." Here's your chance to get connected to your favorite music thanks to Kim and Seana, with a little help from the Ford Focus.

Enjoy!

Jody DeVere
President
www.askpatty.com
www.carblabber.com

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interesting webseries

Music and road trips are very cool

Focus on the Music