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NYU on 3/9/2010 12:35:30 PM by Virginia
Thursday night, March 11, our My Damn Channel Founder/CEO & Handsome Man, Rob Barnett, will answer your probing questions personally at NYU's Cantor Film Center - following the International Academy of Web Television's Streamy Awards finalist's screening.
Come see original videos nominated as the best in the biz and learn more about this whole web tv thang.
(free) tickets here
NYU Cantor Film Center
36 East 8th Street
NY, NY
6 pm - 9:30 pm
The night will be moderated by Jamison Tilsner from Tubefilter.tv
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Jimmy Kimmel Live,
Handsome Men's Club,
Oscars,
ABC,
Ben Affleck,
Lenny Kravitz,
Matthew McConaughey,
Ted Danson,
Sting,
Taye Diggs,
John Krasinski,
Patrick Dempsey,
Rob Lowe,
Ethan Hawke,
Matthew McConaughey,
Josh Hartnett,
Matt Damon,
Keith Urban,
Jennifer Garner,
Tony Romo on 3/8/2010 4:17:11 AM by Rob Barnett
And the Oscar goes to:
JIMMY KIMMEL.
Last night's Oscar special on Jimmy Kimmel Live featured Robert Downey Jr and the premiere of the trailer from Iron Man 2.
But the video that must be seen now - over any Monday morning work priority - is the HANDOME MEN's CLUB, starring its President Mr. Kimmel and the most A-list cast to ever grace video virality.
Prepare to be Handsome:
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Sparhusen with tags
Spärhusen,
Sparhusen,
Beirget Kattson,
Tupac,
Elvis,
Michael Jackson,
Illeana Douglas,
Todd Spahr,
Wallace Langham,
Rob Mailhouse,
Keanu Reeves on 1/21/2010 2:17:42 PM by KT Pierce ~ Voodoo Priestess
In the spirit of Tupac and Elvis - the 70's rock group Spärhusen is releasing an album many years after their presumed and mysterious death.
The 12-track, limited edition album, Best of Spärhusen is now available on iTunes and includes their classic hit Apples and Fish.
After Olf Nystrom and Gert Forseberg were feared dead following their tragic plane crash in 1974, the world grieved along with the band's one surviving member, Beirget Kattson. A reincarnation of the "almost great band of Sweden" is rising like....what is the name of that bird?
My Damn Channel has exclusive never-before-seen footage of Spärhusen from 1972 with their manager Bjorn Epstein, and the fiercest producer in all of Sweden at the time, Würst Fierren, quite famous for his "whale of sound."
Visit the iTunes Store today to get this existential masterpiece.
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Sparhusen with tags
Easy To Assemble,
IKEA,
Illeana Douglas,
Justine Bateman,
Sweden,
Eric Lange,
Ed Begley Jr.,
David Henrie,
Sung Kang,
Wallace Langham,
Rob Mailhouse,
Tim Meadows,
Mia Riverton,
Michael Irpino,
Sean Durrie,
Todd Spahr,
Ogy Durham,
Dominik Rausch,
Warren Chao,
Ad Age,
Wilson Cleveland on 1/20/2010 3:13:10 AM by Rob Barnett
Tag - you're ALL it. Everyone listed above is Flying High. Advertising Age just called Easy To Assemble "the most-watched sponsored web series."
Illeana Douglas had a vision about how to make the best possible films directly for the web - for fans - for actors - and for one very visionary sponsor: IKEA.
There's proof that Illeana was right. Everyone keeps coming back for more.
Today marks the premiere of the Easy To Assemble mini-series event: "Flying Solo."
We're on the scene in Vegas. My Damn Channel Founder/CEO, Rob Barnett, was selected as one of the "25 Executives to Watch in Digital Entertainment" by Digital Media Wire.
Digital Media Wire is a full scale media company that owns and produces 8 major conferences, publishes daily newsletters and directories, and operates the popular www.dmwmedia.com news and community portal.
Rob and his fellow honorees dissected all things digital at today's all-afternoon conference in the city of sin.
Rob was also a guest speaker on a Kodak panel at CES moderated by Kodak Chief Marketing Officer, Jeff Hayzlett. You can find the 20-minute video called "I Want My Web TV" (part 1) from 1p today here.
Part 2 features our wonderful wizard, star and guiding light from "Easy to Assemble," Illeana Douglas. You can also catch her TubeFilter interview from CES here.
As soon as all the advils and bloody marys take effect, we're getting ready to launch all new episodes of EASY TO ASSEMBLE on Wednesday, January 20 on My Damn Channel. And what about SPARHUSEN??? More shall be revealed 1.20.10.
Wednesday & Thursday, Nov. 18-19, TV and digital media honchos will gather in NYC for the Future of Television Forum, hosted by Digital Media Wire, with the Consumer Electronics Association and NYU's Stern School of Business
Over 300 guests are scheduled to speak - including Rob Barnett, Founder/CEO of MyDamnChannel, on the "Future of Online Video" (cue the music!). The panel will be moderated by Simon Applebaum, Producer/Host of Tomorrow Will Be Televised, and fellow panelizers include: Itzik Cohen (ClipSync), Dina Kaplan (Blip.tv), Erik Hachenburg (Metacafe), Ronald London (Davis Wright Tremaine LLP).
The conference promises live debate on timely cutting-edge business topics surrounding the future of the television industry, such as maximizing digital opportunities through transmedia, online video,
VOD, mobile, iTV, metadata, game consoles and more.
Sounds fiesty! Click HERE for more. See you there.
The cast and crew of Easy To Assemble: Co Worker of the Year hit Hollywood last Wednesday at the first ever red carpet premiere for a web show. We documented the magic.
Illeana Douglas Rob Mailhouse Illeana & Justine Bateman
Judith Owen & Harry Shearer Illeana & Tom Arnold
We were slightly confused as to what happened to the yellow polos, but everyone still looked great. Illeana Douglas, Rob Mailhouse, Justine Bateman, Tom Arnold, Keanu Reeves, Todd Spahr, Sean Durrie, Dominik Rausch, Wilson Cleveland, Greg Pritikin, Cheri Oteri, Kevin Pollak, Elisa Donovan, Kate Flannery, Michael Irpino, Nina Rausch, Daryl Sabara, the cast of "Prom Queen: Homecoming", the cast of "The Fall of Kaden", the cast of "Compulsions" and My Damn Channel VIPs Harry Shearer and Judith Owen graced the red carpet too.
Easy to Assemblepremieres new episodes every Thursday. In episode 2, Illeana has a team building event to have "Ikeans spend more time with Ikeans". See the joys of speed dating - or, uh - team building...here.
10. Our cast: Illeana Douglas, Rob Mailhouse, Todd Spahr, Wallace Langhan...annnndddd Keanu Reeves
9. "Apples and Fish" is a favorite dish
8. Whale sounds...enough said
7. Everyone loves a Swedish fight
6. Tears are shed
5. Find out who the father of Beirget Kattson's baby is
4. Mind-blowing music
3. It's sweet and hard like candy
2. You will know the truth behind the "almost great band of Sweden"
1. We've never steered you wrong before, yaaaah?
SEE THE SEASON PREMIERE OF SPÄRHUSEN only on MY DAMN CHANNEL, THURSDAY, OCT 8th.
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Sweden,
Easy To Assemble,
Spärhusen,
ABBA,
Ikea,
Volvo,
Greta Garbo,
Ingrid Bergman,
Illeana Douglas,
Rob Mailhouse,
Todd Spahr,
Wallace Langham,
Keanu Reeves on 9/29/2009 8:24:23 AM by Meg Mylan
With the big premieres of Spärhusen and Easy to Assemble season 2 quickly approaching, we started thinking about the lovely nation of Sweden and all the wonderful things it has brought us. We're assuming you guys may not know everything (or maybe anything) about the country squished somewhere between Finland and Norway. So, here are a few educational facts about this Scandinavian gem!
--Sweden is called "The land of the midnight sun" or "The land of the Vikings". We’re thinking is should be called "The Land of Apples and Fish" or "The Land of Ikea"…but that’s just us.
--The Swedish alphabet has 3 more letters than the English alphabet; they are å, ä and ö. We're wondering how this changes the ABC song...
--One of Sweden’s most famous exports is the family friendly Volvo driven by soccer moms all over America. The soccer-mom in Sweden is known as the latte-mama. This is due to the Swedes’ obsession with coffee as they consistently rank in the top 5 for countries with the highest coffee consumption per year. A coffee break is known as a “fika”. “Fika” can be used as either a verb or a noun (i.e. “let's have a fika” or “shall we fika?”). This is similar to the English word “dance” or “shit” (i.e. “this is shit” or “I need to shit”).
--Legendary actresses Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman are both from The Land of Apples and Fish! Actor Gunnar Björnstrand, also hails from Sweden (not really sure who he is but he’s got an awesome name so therefore we included him).
--In the 1970’s, the Swedish band ABBA gained worldwide popularity. According to the always truthful and trustworthy Wikipedia.com, “Sweden is the third largest music exporter in the world, with over 800 million dollars in 2007 revenue, surpassed only by the US and the UK”. Obviously, with the highly anticipated release of Spärhusen’s “The Best of Sparhusen” these numbers are likely to increase.
--Finally, in Sweden dates are written Date/Month/Year unlike in America where we insist on being different from the rest of the world and writing Month/Date/Year. Therefore to avoid any confusion Spärhusen and Easy to Assemble Season 2 will be debuting on My Damn Channel on 8/10/2009 for the Swedes and 10/8/2009 for the Americans.
Two years ago, on 7/31/07, we declared independence from everything old. We launched our new show business battleship on a mission to deliver the best original video series to your fingertips n’ eyeballs. We set sail for a new world free from the ridiculous, red-tape creating ways of radio, TV, & film.
In two years, we’ve built a new studio to produce the entertainment – a network to showcase the goods – and a syndication business to help it all fly far and fast.
We knew if we avoided idiotic start-up mistakes, we’d have a shot at building a creative and financial win. The past two years have been about building our brand, signing talent, co-creating hit series, finding a mass audience, and finally making real revenues from multiple streams.
Our advertisers keep fueling this fun because they know that we’re one of the new companies who can deliver three essential must-haves for new media messaging to make sense for brands:
1) highest-quality, star-driven entertainment
2) customized distribution to any digital platform
3) guaranteed traffic
As we start our next trip 'round the sun thanks go to our ARTISTS. The musicians, comedians, filmmakers, actors and revolutionaries who believed in us when we were schmucks with a PowerPoint now have a safe haven to produce and distribute video directly to fans. Most of our first famous friends are all still here. And thanks go to the newest members of the My Damn Channel line-up for signing on to put us to work on their behalf. We’re getting ready to announce a handful of mind-blowing deals with more stars from da movies and da teleevision.
Special thanks to every one of you who watch and share My Damn Channel videos. The minute we start screwing up, you stop watching, and it’s game over. Thanks for teaching us how to serve at your pleasure.
If you’ve worked inside our small, determined crew, please accept a personal thank you for putting in the brains, sweat and passion to prove this all works. Warren and I are forever mindful of what you’ve brought to this picnic.
Warren Chao is the Co-Founder & COO of My Damn Channel turning ideas into action. I’ve never seen anyone combine so many skills to make up the super-human-management sensation that Warren embodies. The man is awesomely inspiring and the essential ingredient inside this thing.
We share our My Damn Channel birthday with Mark Cuban, J.K. Rowling, and a visionary named Marc Averitt. Marc is our Board Director, and the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Okapi Venture Capital. We pay tribute to the man who first believed in our vision. And we mark our two-year milestone honoring every investor who helped put technology to work for our content creators, our audiences, distribution partners, and advertisers.
We’re about to make an announcement about new investment, new revenue deals, new series from our current stars and a few jaw-droppers if tonight’s midnight emails are to be believed.
Our next new pilot may be live within hours of this post…
Thanks for being here.
Rob Barnett
Rob@MyDamnChannel.com