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!

The Real Cool Club - Holiday Hangover

Here is our most recent episode where we talk about our Thanksgivings, the oncoming December holiday onslaught, I redub the Twilight New Moon trailer, Brian rants about Paranormal Activity, and we tell you to Shut Up! Seriously, watch and spread. It’s a good one!

And just for shits and giggles, here is the Twilight New Moon trailer I redubbed for the “Dubgasm” segment. It’s pretty durn funny and I get the opportunity to show you Taylor Lautner’s pecks over and over again. Enyoy!

HISTORIC BATTLES: Indian vs. Pilgrim

In all of history, there have been hugely publicized wars, disagreements, and epic battles. This may be one of the most epic Historic Battles to be forgotten. Enjoy.  The video features both myself and Lindsay Harbert my cohost from The Real Cool Club.

This video aired LIVE on The Real Cool Club, Monday November 14th, 2009. You can watch more episodes at http://www.TheRealCoolClub.com And of course The Real Cool Club airs every Monday at 8pm pst ONLY on http://www.TheStream.tv

The Real Cool Club - 80s Edition

We did it. We accepted your challenge of doing the entire episode as an 80s spoof. It was amazing.  The show featured a special intro, news from the 80s, re-dubbed 80s commercials, future predictions foretold by Chunkstradamus, and spoofs on our favorite 80s shows Perfect Strangers, MacGyver, The Golden Girls, Cheers, and Alf.  It’s worth the click, so click it.

Also, below is a dubgasm I did from our previous show with Scott Moore from G4tv.  I schooled Coin-Op TV’s Rob Welkner. Enyoy.

Dubgasm of Coin-Op TV's host, Robert Welkner

Canon 7D vs. RED SCARLET

So I have been in the market for a good quality video camera for a number of years now but cannot afford even glancing at pictures of them. I’ve seen the market ebb and flow with new trends, gizmos, capturing technologies, codecs, formats, blah blah.  About a year ago, I read about RED cameras releasing a new system of hardware that would allow users to vary their set-ups based off of budget, functionality, resolution, and project type.  The new camera was called SCARLET – a small 3K sensor with a vast arsenal of add-ons.  I have been jonesing for a SCARLET since the first production stills and internet rumors were released.  But there might be a new player joining the game to win my digital affections: The Canon 7D.

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