Lance Weiler joins Evil Twin and Lost Film Fest takes California

Lance Weiler - critically acclaimed award winning writer and director, tech iconoclast, digital media pioneer and Alternate Reality Gaming visionary - has just joined Evil Twin Booking for college speaking tours. Yay! Weiler's interactive presentations are a free survival kit for artists and mediamakers of all stripes who are rethinking and navigating the changing landscape of content creation, media consumption, and distribution.

And, Lost Film Fest has some incredible screenings in California coming up these next two weeks. Lost Film Fest is a performance that incorporates politically charged and humorous short films by folks like The Yes Men and the TV Sheriff. You'll also see pieces on radical urban sustainability, bike shenanigans, as well as news that doesnt make the news. The program is VJ'd and hosted by Scott Beibin (Evil Twin Booking Agency guy and mastermind of the Jerry Springer episode with JP of The Locust). Looky here:

UPCOMING SHOWS

May 17 Thu
Summerland @ Luna Cafe
2345 Lillie Ave. | 8pm | $5-10 donation

May 18 Fri
Isla Vista @ UC Santa Barbara /Isla Vista Theater
960 Embarcadero Del Norte | 8pm | $4
presented by Magic Lantern Films (www.magiclanternfilms.org) and HCSB 91.9FM

May 19 Sat
Santa Cruz @ UCSC - 1156 High St. | FREE
biofuels conference and sustainable transportation expo
noon-6 conference
6-7pm vegan dinner
8pm Lost Film Fest

May 24 Thu
San Francisco @ Chez Poulet | 3359 Cesar Chavez St @ Mission | 8pm | $5-10 donation

May 26 Sat
Oakland @ AK Press - 674-A 23rd St (near Greyhound station)| 7:30 | $5-10 donation

May 27 Sun
CA, Berkeley @ 924 Gilman St. | 5pm | $3 | Lost Film Fest Afternoon Matinee

Video blogger Josh Wolf is out of jail!

Yay! See here (CNET), here, and here .

And, Josh Wolf posted the entire video he shot of the anti-G8 protest in San Francisco to his blog. (Allow a bit of time for it to load). He will not have to testify before the grand jury about the events at the protest or the identities of its participants.

More news to come after the press conference! Woo hoo.

Slouching home from Bethlehem...

We are finally back from SXSW. This year Gay bi Gay Gay, the Todd P shows, and all the other free events totally overshadowed SXSW. I don't know where to begin, so here are some highlights: We added the 999 EYES CARNIVAL OF THE DAMNED to the Evil Twin family, and went marauding with That Damned Band. We reconnected with Lance Weiler and huddled with intimidatingly brilliant people from Second Life and Upcoming.org at the Creative Commons / GOOD magazine party. Scott performed LOST FILM FEST with wonderful, adorable SCREAM CLUB and THE PASTIES at 2105 Comal in beautiful East Austin.

Unfortunately I was accosted by the one thing capable of ruining that night - a scruffy, sullen, unknown lout who tried to put his arm around me and dance way too close during Scream Club's set. You'd think creepy gropey guys would steer clear of pansexual rap shows...I guess not.

The infamous Justin Pearson / Scott Beibin Jerry Springer episode

So, I just posted the Jerry Springer Episode Scott Beibin was on here with the full back story..

LOST FILM FEST

Scott went on the show awhile ago with Justin Pearson (The Locust, Some Girls, Ground Unicorn Horn, Swing Kids, Struggle, etc) and other friends ALysia and Christine....So, we finally posted all the shirt-ripping, chair-throwing , making-out ridiculousness.

Enjoy!!!

How things work

I'm late on this. So sue me. It takes time to readjust from Sundance. The altitude, the watery alcohol, the late-late nights and early mornings, trophy wives in fur outfits, A, B, C and Z list celebrities, and desperate hangers-on looking to get noticed for something can make one weary.

Last week YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley announced that the site will start sharing the spoils of ad revenue with some of its producers and posters of user-generated content. Hurley didn't give specific reasons for YouTube's new desire to pay for what it's been given freely, thus joining the ranks of similar sites like Revver.com and Break.com. It's worth noting that Hurley's announcement came hot on the heels of a subpoena from FOX demanding the identity of a person who uploaded pirated episodes of the Fox television network shows "24" and "The Simpsons." Of course it's easy to post anonymously on YouTube, and even if subpoenas urge the site to use server tracking on posters of copyright protected videos, anonymizer programs can make finding them difficult or impossible.

However, a more reliable way to track someone is to give them money and see where it ends up.

Hurley didn't give a model or timeline for introducing payment. One would assume it's made per download, or per ad click, like Revver.com. On the bright side, this could be a incentive for producers of popular videos to improve YouTube's signal to noise ratio.