@w00d’s nerdtainment

Mahalo Daily started posting their Idol episodes on Monday.   Its really well produced.  I love how they are editing them.  I’m also enjoying watching how the other girls performed since I only got to know them in the waiting area.  Today features my round 2 mock interview.  You can totally tell I’m nervous.  I wasn’t my bubbly self.  They even threw in an awesome yawn from Alex in the middle of my performance.  :)  Good times!

Iron Man
The Iron Man site has pictures and a trailer that will pump you up! There’s some good reading at THR and EW.

Speed Racer
The Speed Racer site has several trailers, a game and a location guide so you can find where to watch it in IMAX. EW has an interview with Christina Ricci.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The theme song starts immediately when you visit the Indiana Jones site and makes you want to see this movie pronto! There is a fun Q & A with Speilberg and Lucas here.

Check out the effects in this video for College Humor. They turned the 134 into Guitar Hero! This gives all new meaning to rock’n out to Boston in LA traffic.

What an amazing weekend I had at Mahalo headquarters. The auditions have taken us through various reality show type challenges. It started with a basic preliminary interview, then we entered American Idol and then the Bachelor.

My preliminary interview went well and I was passed on to the second round. I did a mock interview in front of Jason Calacanis and two celebrity judges, Alex Albrecht of Diggnation and Loren Feldman of 1938 Media. The overall consensus was that I needed more energy. Alex didn’t think I pop’d enough for him so he gave me a no. Luckily, Jason and Loren gave me a yes! I must admit…the combination of streaming live the entire 4 hours leading up to the mock interview mixed with my nerves…my energy was low. You can watch this part of the audition here.

Sunday, the top 10 met back up for a new challenge. We had five minutes to interview people “man on the street” style. This was a fun and easy challenge for me. I think this will truly show who has the chops for this job. The nerves were gone for me and I just had FUN! (and lots of energy)

The judges will review the footage and announce the top 5 on Thursday. I am really looking forward to the next phase (fingers crossed). The top 5 get to produce/host a full Mahalo Daily episode. Well, nothing makes me happier than doing the actual work that I love! Check out my seesmics if you want to see my updates throughout the weekend.

It appears the front runner in this race is Lisa Brewster. I met Lisa almost immediately on Saturday. She is a very smart, tech savvy gal who doesn’t have on-camera experience but is clearly a quick learner. Lisa announced her campaign for the job and called for a “Lisa Nation” to help support her on her blog. I’m sure people are waiting for me to do the same but I announced my campaign before Mahalo Vlog Idol was even announced.

I am a true believer in letting the work speak for itself. I think it is clear that I know this industry and am a part of this online community. And those that have gotten to know me well, know that I truly love this community. Its awesome that Lisa asked for people to comment on a flickr picture, what a great idea. I’m glad my network of supporters jumped on my pic as well but I also have a large network of supporters who aren’t flickr members. They are your average internet users that need Mahalo.com and will follow me to Mahalo Daily. Lets not forget about them.

The fact is, I’m the only girl in this competition that has the blend of on-camera experience and web savviness. I feel I compliment the Mahalo brand and would love to have the opportunity to bring my quirky style to their daily podcast. I just hope my work speaks for itself!

Fox Pilot
Oops! I forgot to say the name of this pilot. Its Sit Down, Shut Up. This animated comedy is being voiced by some heavy weights including Cheri Oteri and Arrested Development alums Henry Winkler, Will Arnett and Jason Bateman.

CW Pilot
I don’t understand why anyone would want to spin-off a show that has been over for 8 years but apparently 90210 is worth it.

New on DVD
It is now time to rent Lars and the Real Girl and download Juno. Immediately. Kthnxbai.

Ninja Handbook
It is now time to pre-order The Ninja Handbook written by the guys from Ask a Ninja (the only real source of ninja information). Immediately. Kthnxbai.

Mötley Crüe on Rock Band
“Saints of Los Angeles” is the new single from Mötley Crüe that has been released for Rock Band. This new album is the first in nearly a decade to feature all 4 original members: Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars and Tommy Lee!

Galacticast
AMC’s SciFi Scanner named Galacticast as their site of the week!

As some of you may or may not know, I started my new media career at Nontourage. Julie Daman, the master mind behind this podcast production company, took me under her wing and opened up a whole new world for this traditional media girl. She allowed me to hone my producing skills and perform in most of the things we shot. I will forever be grateful to her for showing me the ropes and giving me the room to grow.

And now she has gone above and beyond. I can’t imagine the time it took her to go through the tremendous amount of footage she has to find these outtakes. The first time I watched this, I laughed so hard I cried. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do and know that I appreciate everyone’s support in anything and everything I do. I lurve my internet peeps!

This weekend is the beginning of the Mahalo Idol auditions. I am revved up and ready to go! They are fairly extensive and a great PR campaign for the show. Part of it will be streamed live Saturday from 2-4pm with “celebrity judges”…so tune in if ya can! It promises to be an entertaining parade of chicas if nothing else.

I am, of course, rooting for myself to get the gig but I found my second choice. (if for some reason I don’t get hired) Alana Taylor. Why? Cuz she wrote a song about Twitter. If you have learned anything about me in our times together here at wordpress, its that I. <3. Twitter. Alana wins my respect for the awesome lyrics in “The Twitter Song.”

When I wake up in the morning,
The first thing I see,
Is an e-mail in my Gmail,
Sayin’ you’re followin’ me.

And next thing you know,
I’m followin’ you,
Not everybody does it,
But me and Scoble do.

Chorus:
Cuz Twitter beats Facebook any day,
140 characters is all you need to say.

Cool thing ’bout Twitter is you meet new people,
You even get to stalk the famous ones too,
We’ve got Veronica Belmont from Mahalo Daily,
Barack Obama and Hugh MacLeod too.

Chorus

Twitter’s like a family,
As long as you’re not spamming me,
We keep in touch, we share too much,
And @Garyvee meets up for lunch!

Chorus

But be careful, with you’re iPhone…
Don’t DM the whole worlldddddd

Chorus

She notes on YouTube that she’s not a singer and her guitar is out of tune but I appreciate her admiration for the one…the only…TWITTER! Here’s the vid…

Christina Warren
Christina co-hosts The Squadcast with Grant Robertson. They started JasonStealMyCoHost.com with the Christina Drinks Your Milkshake video.

Secret Agent Clip
Julie Daman and I made a video map of a TV home tour.

Jackson West Interview
I interviewed Jackson West at SXSW 2007 for Nontourage’s Techie Travels.

The Vloggies
Julie and I documented out trip to San Francisco in November 2006 for The Vloggie Awards where we ended up taking home a couple statues for Almost There!

Snowboarding Clips
For obvious reasons this footage has never before been published for public consumption. Your welcome.

Vulcan Death Pinch
Casey McKinnon was kind enough to work with me in a little video we like to call Galactourage. Girl fight!

Mahalo Daily
This daily podcast supplements the web directory Mahalo.com.

What is the point to video on Flickr? I’m all for video on the net but Flickr is set up so nicely as a photo sharing site. Why fix something that isn’t broken?

I happen to enjoy the simplicity of a website that is focused on one thing. Twitter = updates no longer than 140 characters, Flickr = photos…I’m on these sites all day long, whereas Facebook and MySpace have soooo much going on that I can’t visit more than once a day, its overwhelming.

I hope this turns out to be a complimentary addition to Flickr and not some crazy version of YouTube but I am being pessimistic at the moment. Check out the photo pool “We say NO to videos on Flickr”. People are so creative!

Check out these photos of Mustangs being transported. They have the Decepticon logo on the side! Transformers 2 is filming so I’d have to assume these are being taken to the set. But, how cool would that be to just drive down the street and see fictional characters go by? And badass ones at that!