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Entries from November 2009

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Hire Rude Mechanical Orchestra For Your Next Protest, Rally, Demonstration, etc.

Are you organizing a rally or a protest or a march? This will make your planning a little easier. The Rude Mechanical Orchestra is your dream back-up band for any leftist political activism, and they're for hire.
Here they are in action against the RNC…

I really feel like organizing a protest at our cafeteria [...]

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

Woodies Sneak Peek: Leighton Meester, Zooey Deschanel, Pete Wentz, Mary-Louise Parker, Cyndi Lauper, Lady Gaga (3OH!3), David Cross & Death Cab For Cutie Doing "Twilight: New Moon"

The Woodie Awards hit MTV, MTV2, mtvU and in hi-def on Palladia, December 4th at 10pm. But why wait? This stuff's leaking out as we speak…
Leighton Meester and Cyndi Lauper present Woodie Of The Year:

MTV Shows
3OH!3 show up dressed as Lady Gaga from the VMA's:

MTV Shows
Death Cab For Cutie Premieres their new song from the [...]

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

Setting Up The Bar At The Woodie Awards

Mary-Louise Parker, Amber Tamblyn, Zooey Deschanel, Leighton Meester…we had to make sure they could each drink as much as they wanted to at the Woodie Awards last week. Besides the performances, massive consumption of alcohol is a hallmark of the Woodies. So I was happy to have helped set up the bar, and [...]

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Pranav Mistry: SixthSense Technology

From his TED talk…

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Building The Set For Last Night's Woodie Awards

Tom Lenz's set design for this year's Woodie Awards was more ambitious than we'd ever attempted. And it turned out to be my favorite he's ever done for us.   The build was kinda intense.
Once we are done cutting the show (it airs at 10pm December 4th on MTV, MTV2, mtvU and Palladia, we'll really get [...]

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Just Left Matt & Kim Woodie Awards Rehearsal

Tough to figure out lighting and what happens visually in the song's bridge and climax, but lighting designer Chris Lande, Set Designer Tom Lenz, and the rest of the Woodies production team just nailed a really powerful way to kick off the show, which is at Roseland Ballroom in about 20 hours. We are putting [...]