THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE.

Buckle up, bleeptard.

Instead, Newsbleep will attempt a loftier goal: NaNewPonMo. For those who can’t read made-up acronyms, NaNewPonMo is National Newsbleep Ponders… Month. In short, Newsbleep editors will post a new Newsbleep Ponders… for every day in November.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE.

So, hold on, enjoy, and ponder…

In other news, we wrapped filming of Newsbleep 107 this weekend in St. Paul, MN. We hope to have the episode up soon (with no promises).

I’m planning on re-releasing all Season One episodes in full size glory – no longer will they be the tiny, eye-killing size they were. Instead, they’ll be the slightly large, vomit-inducing size that the Season Two episodes are. Also, I am updating the Credits for these Season One episodes. Also, I’m re-editing the first four episodes to include Creative Commons licensed music instead of their copyrighted originals. This is a tricky process as many of the original project files have been corrupted.

“But, Miles. I don’t want to go back and rewatch those episodes. I’m lazy.”

Don’t worry! They’ll come to you!

I am terribly sorry. This past December and January have been rough for true fans of the show. While I’d like to think that Prima Donna was a good video to end on, there was no official episode of Newsbleep in December. What of January? Well, that’s coming, but I’m having problems.

I won’t bore you with the issues, but after a number of frustrating editing setbacks, I encountered a larger number of frustrating hosting setbacks. Long story short, I’m looking at options away from blip.tv. They’ve let me in down in a big way twice, and I think I’ll just take that burden on myself and figure out another solution.

The latest episode IS DONE. It is ready for viewing. It just doesn’t have a home on the Internet yet. I’m working on fixing that as soon as possible.

Stay tuned,

Miles

Also, check out Late Night Underground‘s new Lazer Tag video, with a cameo by Conan O’Brien.

Watch for the Season Premiere on September 28th!

I’m assuming you watched the last Newsbleep and that you are eager to participate in the script-writing contest, but you’re nervous. You know what? Don’t be! Script-writing isn’t hard (I do it, after all), and it doesn’t need to be scary, either.

Today is the day that you start your screenplay for the season premiere of Newsbleep, and tomorrow is the day you continue it. Don’t let me down. I’m counting on you!

Newsbleep is on Blogotheque! In an article called Take Away Show, a parody, Chryde shares Take Away Show 66.1 with the French-speaking (and -reading) world.

If you do like indie music, and you want to see some acoustic concerts, check out these awesome Take-Away Shows. Do you guys have any weird band names you want to add?

Well, it seems that no one checked them out. That’s okay, but that was really the focus of this Take Away Show. What I did was my first experiment in parody that involved changing the look of the entire piece. I did do a Lost parody before, but that was mostly in content. I mimicked some camera shots, but the look of my Lost episode did not match the look of their Lost episodes. The same goes for eXtreme motoriZed Vehicle Makeover segment of the Christmas episode. That one was a closer parody, but little was done to the look itself.

Basically, I boiled down the Take-Away Show to these elements:

1. A band of Indie Rock or Indie Alternative ilk
2. A neat venue (usually a small bar, an intimate flat, or the streets of Paris)
3. A poignant song to be played acoustically
4. High-contrast look to the video
5. One long shot, sometimes involving musicians in other locations
6. Reaction shots of other patrons of said venue
7. Big text for titles, dropped on top of sound and inbetween video from one or more locations

With that in mind, I created my Take Away Show with these elements:

1. “The Emiliy Dickensen Making Music Band of Americanada” sounded just unique and pretentious enough to be the fictional band I wanted
2. The venue is the alley behind and leading up to a gas station
3. The song is called “How Long Must I Live This Waking Nightmare (This Hell)” but is actually a cover of the Rubber Ducky song from Sesame Street
4. Done in After Effects
5. We set up our band members along the alley way: Bob on vocals right away, then Bob on guitar, then Holly on guitar, then Holli playing percussion on guitar
6. Not only reaction shots, but vocal reactions. A faint “Rock on” can be heard as we approach the doors of the gas station (I gave him the devil horns as a sign of appreciation)
7. Done in Photoshop with original material as a source. Once I figured the font, then it was a matter of comparing kernings and such

So, there you go. In a very scientific way, that is the deal with the Take Away Show. This should alleviate all confusion and open the doors to laughter.

I doubt it. But, it’s a good waste of thirty bucks.

I’ve made some changes to the site. There’s an about page. I added all kinds of links for subscribing on the right side. And, I updated the Archives page. So, go nuts!

—— Do Not Read Below This Line, Or Whatever (It Don’t Hurt Nobody) ——

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If you are currently subscribed to the Newsbleep feed, then the old site will be taken down on April 1st. However, you may not need to re-subscribe. Just watch and see what happens! We’re pretty much playing this by ear!

Remember to visit Newsbleep at Newsbleep.com, the Newsbleep TV Facebook group, Newsbleep on Digg.com, and the Newsbleep TV MySpace page.

Here’s your chance.

Post your favorite quote into this discussion board, and I’ll choose a random number of them to appear in the February Newsbleep. If this doesn’t spell “awesome”, then I don’t know what does.

Either post your quote as a comment, post to the Newsbleep TV Facebook group, or post to the Newsbleep TV MySpace page.

You can now find Newsbleep at http://youtube.com/newsbleep!

If you have a YouTube account, you should go and comment on the videos and rate them! Send the links to your friends!