Team Cool Kids FTW!

So we can finally announce it:  Samsung has chosen Team Cool Kids to compete in their Mobile Explorers competition up in Vancouver, Canada during the 2010 Winter Olympics!  My partner, Lindsay Harbert, and I are STOKED to have been chosen as a finalist but our work is not yet complete. We need your help. Here is the video that got us into the competition:

The competition pits Team Cool Kids up against 4 other highly qualified teams in a series of Olympic challenges involving video making, blogging, twittering, and social networking.  The challenges have yet to be announced, but you can count on them being fun!  IT’S THE OLYMPICS!  Now what are we competing for? Well, $24k, a bunch of Samsung schwag, and the potential to do more Mobile Exploring with Samsung (wait, A JOB!? YES PLEASE!).

How do we win? Another good question.  We will be graded on the following criteria: best balance of communication skills, creativity, originality, personality and social media networking capabilities in addition to audience votes and views.  This is where you come in.  We will be posting videos and promoting them while we’re up there for the competition.  We hope that you can help us by checking out these videos as they come up, vote for us, and help us come home with the big grand prize!

The best way to stay up to date with us while we’re there is to follow us on twitter, facebook, youtube, and on the Samsung USA website.

• Twitters: @teamcoolkids, @ethannewberry, @lindsayharbert, @samsungtweets
• Facebooks: Ethan’s FB, Lindsay’s FB, Samsung’s FB
• Youtube: Ethan’s YouTube, Samsung’s YouTube
• Websites: EthanNewberry.com (you’re already here), Samsung.com/MobileExplorers

I’ve also attached the Samsung Official Press Release HERE.  If you know anyone in the press, blogs, or any other way we can help spread the word about Team Cool Kids in this competition, we would be much appreciative.  Here is the second video we made prepping for the competition:

So again, thank you so much for helping us get this far.  We have the best fans in the world.  Just a little more to go and let’s win this sucker!  Stay tuned for more information!

Well, the video above about sums it up. I hate Christmas in LA.  As a result, I wrote and produced this song (with some audio help from my good friend, Blake Lewis).  I am giving you the video above (which debuted on THIS episode of The Real Cool Club) and the mp3 below.

I am not asking for money for the song, but a lil tip to The Real Cool Club’s “Canon 7D Fund” doesn’t hurt.  Our goal is to raise $2000 to buy ourselves a Canon 7D so we can film sketches and bits for the show.  We are at $1100 right now and so close to meeting our goal!  Just click HERE to drop us ANY amount you like – big or small.

Thanks and enjoy the music! Also, spread some of the joy to your friends. Everyone loves a good Christmas jingle, even if it’s about the crap-stain city, Los Angeles.  BONUS: I also included the Frosty Jingle Jam for your listening pleasure.

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BONUS TRACK:

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Neil Patrick Harris wins a Streamy Award 2009!

So The Real Cool Club just wrapped our first season and we couldn’t be more excstatic.  We feel we’ve really pushed the live streaming medium to new heights and limits.  Just looking back, we’ve managed to incorporate LIVE green screen, we did a LIVE interactive murder mystery (Thanks Sandeep!), we constantly engage our interactive audiences with challenges and opportunities to work themselves into the show, we did an 80′s sitcom callback episode, drag episode, celebrity guests and so much more.  This was just the first season, people!

Now here’s what we’d love: to win a Streamy Award.  The Real Cool Club fits into nearly every category that they are listing this year, and we truly feel that with a zero dollar budget we’ve managed to do more than anyone else out there.  We have a lot to be proud about.  But we’d love some of your help to win an award to bring back to our mantles at the end of the day.  It wouldn’t be just The Real Cool Club’s award, it would be OUR award – you included.  Obviously the show would not be where we are today if it wasn’t for our fantastic live viewers and fans.  We love you.

Click here to vote for THE REAL COOL CLUB at Streamy.org

So here’s the deal, nominations have begun on the Streamy Awards website (Http://Streamys.org) and we’d be honored if you would jump over and vote for The Real Cool Club in as many categories as you see fit.  The best part is that you can vote once a day in every category, so keep doing it up until the deadline of January 15th!  Okay, here are some categories we’d love to win:

• “Best Hosted Web Series”
• “Best Comedy Web Series”
• “Best Live Production in a Web Series”
• “Best Interactive Experience in a Web Series”
• “Best NEW Web Series”
• “Best Branded Entertainment Web Series”
• “Best Experimental Web Series”
• “Best Web Series Host — Ethan Newberry”
• “Best Art Director — Ethan Newberry”
• “Best Celebrity Appearance in a Web Series — Debra Skelton, The Real Cool Club   or  Sandeep Parikh, The Real Cool Club  or  Alan Thicke, The Real Cool Club”

What do you guys say?  Want to help the lil engine that could win a big giant award? Please??  Finally, promote it on your twitter.  Include @streamyawards and @TheRealCoolClub.  This helps spread the word.  Thanks!

My lil hipster Christmas tree.

Ok, I LOVE the Christmas season.  I love it more than Tiger loves white, hooker vajayjay (boooo).  One major problem is that because I live in the Los Angeles area, it’s radically difficult to get into the Christmas spirit. So I made some videos to help with the matter. Consider them lil Christmas Spirit Injections. (continue reading…)

I can’t believe it, our Holiday Special has come and gone. But in case you missed it, fret not: it’s ARCHIVED! Watch it right now by clicking the above image.  The show featured cameos from Alan Thicke (legendary actor, composer and author) and Frosty The Snowman (made of snow, coal, and magic).  We talk to Chunkstradamus, we tell you to Shut Up, we dance, we sing, we re-enact A Christmas Story in 60 seconds, and we debut my brand new music video, “I Hate Christmas In LA”.  If you tipped us some fundage over the last 7 days, you get an exclusive copy of the MP3 before anyone else so be sure to get us your email address pronto!

Also, here are some recent quick clips from previous shows: