events

by jenks

reality imitating art

from realitytvmagazine.com:

As if Hollywood’s not a circus enough as it is, ABC and NBC are both getting in on the action. Roll out the big top, guys, the circus is coming to town.

NBC has announced its plan to air Celebrity Circus, based on an Endemol format that’s been a huge hit in Portugal and Argentina, as part of its All-American Summer lineup.

Celebrity Circus, a competition-based reality show that will have “real” circus performers judging celebs on Cirque du Soleil-style circus stunts, promises to be “just as loud and noisy” as NBC’s winter slam-dunk, American Gladiators.

ABC is hoping that a new Circus of the Stars will catch on the way Dancing with the Stars has, and is in an intense bidding war for the show. Going for Dancing with the Stars-style drama rather than Gladiators-style boisterousness, ABC hopes Circus of the Stars will satisfy both the big top bug and reality fever.

which is funny for many reasons, but what i want to know is why the “quotes” around the word “real” before circus performers? is realittytvmagazine under the impression that real cricus performers don’t exist, that ABC will only hire “fake” ones, or that if you’re a circus performer you aren’t actually real?

anyway, in other “real” circus news…. we just announced the lineup for LIB08 today:

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ps. the music player on lightninginabottle.org is live now too. go check out some “real” music.

    



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by jenks

four days of boom wow.

sometime after midnight in the do lab office, on the eve of the launch of the new Lightning in a Bottle 2008 website, i used the phrase “boom wow,” and after an hour of everyone working on the site making fun of me for saying some ridiculous made up words, the phrase ended up in the front page graphic on the site.

so in case you are wondering what’s gonna go down at LIB, its…..

see you in the forest….

    



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by jenks

anniversary party

when katie k brought me in to stage manage her fashion show at lucent l’amour 2005 is how this all began. i say the do lab treats experience itself as an artform. 3 years later, it will be a pleasure to experience tomorrow night’s masterpiece.

2005:

2006:

(c) hero & arin ingraham

2008….

    



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by jenks

bonnaroo 2008 site launches

just a quick note to announce that the new bonnaroo site i consulted on for threshold just launched yesterday.

it ain’t just your regular music festival website, that’s for sure.

check it out:

bonnaroo.jpg

    



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by jenks

website workshop for artists, musicians, & indie entrepreneurs

work with an event creations company, and you too will end up producing an event:

it is a pleasure to announce that i will be leading a workshop on february 9th in los angeles to help creative professionals make more effective websites.

musicians, artists, and creative entreprenuers in general tend to share the same requirements for an effective website, and very often make the same mistakes when creating one. my goal is to make sure attendees gain an understanding of the options, strategies, and resources at their disposal for creating an online presence that will help move their business forward, and leave ready to start implementing them right away.

more information on the workshop and tickets can be found at: social-creature.com/workshop

feel free to pass this on to anyone you think would benefit from the information.

    



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