We've been waiting and waiting for the release of the video from the Amanda Palmer/Jherek Bischoff David Bowie Tribute we live-streamed from City Winery in late March. It's finally arrived and the amazing performances still pull my guts right through the computer screen!
Originally published at Newtek.com I am a theater lover. I have been an actor all my adult life. I went to college for theater, I apprenticed at a major regional theater, I moved to NY because of my love of the theater, I spent my twenties and early thirties doing horrible jobs because they gave [...]
"it's amazing how compelling it is to watch, to be a virtual fly on the wall on the other side of the continent...it's a surprisingly intimate experience..." - Mandy L in the chatroom "I used to dream about this living in my little corner of an island so isolated on the West Coast--being connected [...]
You can never get something for nothing...but you can always try. This is the unspoken motto of our industry. In video production we are stuck between our lorals and a hard place. As a professional television director, I only want my name attached to high quality production work (which is why we only produce high-quality [...]
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - e.e. cummings This week we ask the question: what do you want to be when you grow up? In life... in art... anything is possible! So!! What do you want to be when you grow up? VirtualArtsTV presents The Wiredarts Fest - [...]
As I’m sure many people are, we have been very much looking forward to this year’s Digital Content NewFront conference. This first press piece, in yesterday’s AdAge.com, has a good deal of justification for producing original web video content. We’ve certainly prescribed to this plan for some time. Namely: ”…episodes of shows made for [...]
This past August VOTV founder Kathryn Jones was a speaker at the 140 Characters Conference in Kingston, NY. Kathryn spoke about how social media and live-streaming have the capacity to reinvent all of the performing arts, from theater to music to dance - enabling even small companies to reach audiences and ignite passionate conversations about [...]
This post was originally published on the 2AMt blog. It summarizes the history, the reasons behind, metrics, the technical and aesthetic requirements of and the successes of our production of Better Left Unsaid TV, the first of it's kind interactive live streamed play. To skip to the section that most interests you click the appropriate [...]
So said Virginia Heffernan, digital media critic of the New York Times when reviewing my live streamed online video series "35". It was a rough night- we had sound problems, we had camera problems- in fact we shot all 10 episodes on a budget of less than $6000- and yet Virginia Heffernan responded to what [...]
...actually 648% according to Andres Palmiter in his recent article for Comscore. To further gild the lily, live streamed videos are holding on to their audiences 7% longer than traditional on demand video. Why are live online broadcasts attracting and keeping an audience? In a world with hundreds of thousands of videos on demand, live [...]
