LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Seeking new ways to entertain audiences, music television network MTV has recently begun allowing fans of new and upcoming shows to discuss and post their own versions of music videos on the Web.
This month the network launched "FNMTV", which airs new videos every Friday night and invites viewers to go online to comment on them and upload their reinterpretations at MTV.com.
MTV has used a similar strategy in limited ways on past programs such as "America's Best Dance Crew" and "The Real World: Hollywood." But "FNMTV" is the first show to employ user-generated video as part of its format, and MTV plans to broaden the strategy to other programs as well.
Here is another very interesting article that we found today by Hillary Crosley. This is something Joysco and many other people in the music business that we've met through out the years talked about too. There are definitely benefits and disadvantages too when you are with a major record label. We think it come down to what really fit your situation and what works best for the artists and the fans as well.
"Rap stars weigh their options as record deals end"
NEW YORK (Billboard) - As a string of high-profile hip-hop artists near the end of their record contracts, a question looming over their pending free agency isn't which major label they'll sign with but whether they should sign with a major.
One prominent rap artist has already jumped ship: Jay-Z signed a long-term recording, publishing and management deal earlier this year with Live Nation. A Def Jam spokeswoman says Jay-Z has one album left on his contract with the label, but Def Jam head Shakir Stewart said recently that "we're still working it out."
While few rappers can match the pull and marketability of the former Def Jam president, big names like 50 Cent, LL Cool J and OutKast will soon be on the market as well. Although they may ultimately re-sign with major labels, their camps have indicated that they are at least contemplating the possibility of a future without a major-label deal.
Here are a few interesting points Missy pointed out. Take a look.
WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE CURRENT STATE OF HIP-HOP?
Well, if anyone knows me, they'd know I try not to listen to the radio or watch TV. I've been doing that since my very first album. I think you can be easily influenced by other music, and before you know it you start doing records that sound like someone else just because you think it's music that's working. I hear a lot of great songs. And then I hear some that aren't so original and creative. Back in the day artists had their own styles. You couldn't say Heavy D sounded like Rakim, or Salt-N-Pepa sounded like MC Lyte, or Big Daddy Kane sounded like Erick Sermon. These days, people try to follow a formula because they see it's worked for others. But that keeps them from being original and creative, (or) at least not as original and creative as it used to be before.
HOW DO YOU KEEP UP WITH THE TIMES, CONSIDERING PEOPLE DON'T BUY PHYSICAL ALBUMS ANYMORE?
That's a whole other ballgame. I was listening to Chico DeBarge the other day and started to wonder what happened to people who wanted to get the track list and the credits and the lyrics to songs. We don't have those longevity artists anymore because they cater to the times, focus on ringtones and don't put efforts into making a great full album. I think people might want to buy albums again if artists stop catering to the times and start making music that makes people want to go out and buy them again. But, it might be a while before that happens since things are so accessible with computers and downloading.
Most people have known Joysco Studio from our capabilities and high standard of "behind the scenes" in designs, technologies and creative marketing adventures. So, most people didn't know or think we actually have been doing audio and music production stuff for ages :) The follow audio clip is one of the older sample mixes created by our own DJ Quixslvr. Does this mean Joysco will be getting back to music production soon? Well, we will let everyone keep guessing since we don't even know yet. Stay tuned. It is going to be hot :) Press Play to listen.
Also check out DJ Mia's quick mix here. DJ Mia will be in San Jose on May 31st at the Agenda Lounge.
Looks Timbaland and Pharrell blanketed the entire album production. Did they put enough fire and inspire us to get back to doing our own music production and remixes again? Well, we will find out after we listened to the entire album. Time to make it hot, again :)
The album features vocal appearances by Justin Timberlake, Timbaland, Pharrell Williams and Kanye West along with production credits from Timbaland, Timberlake, The Neptunes, Nate "Danja" Hills as well as co-production from Madonna. Wendy Melvoin is guest guitarist on "She's Not Me".
Track listing and producers of Madonna's new album
April 23, 2008: Asian excellence Awards at UCLA Royce Hall
The Asian Excellence Awards is an annual celebration of the outstanding achievements of Asians and Asian Americans in film, television, music, and the performing arts. This year’s show, hosted by Carrie Ann Inaba and Bobby Lee, will reach a broad national televised audience with the premiere on E! Entertainment on May 1 at 6 p.m. ET/PT. The show will also be available on Comcast On Demand throughout the month of May in honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
The Asian Excellence Awards is the only nationally televised event celebrating significant Asian and Asian American achievements in entertainment, the arts and other disciplines that have had a profound impact on American culture. The show will be taped live on April 23 at UCLA’s Royce Hall. Welly, the creator and one of the executive producers of the Asian Excellence Awards, is an actor, singer, producer and founder of the Asian theatrical group Second Generation, which produced the earlier version of the “Asian Excellence Awards” known as “The Concert of Excellence.”
Past honorees and presenters have included Chow Yun-Fat, Lucy Liu, Quentin Tarantino, Daniel Dae Kim, Masi Oka, Rex Lee, Margaret Cho, Rob Schneider, Kelly Hu, Parminder Nagra, Yunjin Kim, Lisa Ling, Bobby Lee, Carrie Ann Inaba, Grace Park, Maggie Q, Vivica A. Fox, Jason Scott Lee, Sharon Leal, B.D. Wong and many more.
Time: Following the show until 2AM
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It was an amazing night at the tribute in San Francisco, February 23rd, 2008. Ask anyone who was there and you will know. Much thank you goes out to the people who put this tribute event together, the organizers, dancers, DJ's, the audience as well as everyone in theater last night. All of you did it for Gary!
Click here to visit the One 4 Gee forum and keep in touch. We encourage everyone to post their thoughts, pictures or anything in the forum that we setup for everyone to keep in touch for this event/project as we are in process to gather as many resources and materials as we can help to put the DVD together. If you know someone, let them know and we will do this together. We want you and everyone to be part of the history. So, let's get involved.
A timeline of Gary's life work featuring: CitySlam, Boom Squad/Flava Unit. Community Street Jam, MindTricks/Bsyde. D.C Shorties. D.C. Crew. D.C. Tribe, Jabbawockeez, Monster Shop Bumpin', Textbook, DJ Wish.
Big shout-out goes out to our long time good friends and super skilled DJ Quixslvr of WestwaveDJ.com and DJ Wishboogie of Jabbawockeez and the original Jughead tribe members.
Thank you to ceech of the nustudio.com forum for putting this info up written by written by Carmela Woll. Thank you Camela. Gary Ray Kendell passed away December 14, 2007, in Denver, Colorado. He lost his fight to pneumonia and meningitis, but lived a full and expressive life as a dancer, teacher, director, producer, and entertainer. Gary was born November 7, 1970, to Franklin and Kisun Kendell and was raised in Seaside, California. In 1990, he took his dancing from the streets into the studio as a Hip Hop teacher at All The Right Moves in Santa Cruz. Later he went on to teach regularly at Motion Pacific and provided workshops at DanceCenter and DanceSynergy.
Gary taught at dance studios and performed at events throughout the United States and around the world. Most recently, in November 2007, Gary taught Hip Hop dance to hundreds of students in the Republic of Estonia. Over the years he was a member/director of numerous professional dance groups including Jughead, MindTricks and Jabbawockeez. The past ten years found Gary spending time producing, directing, and traveling with Monster Shop Bumpin' and BreakShop, dance productions designed for County and State Fairs around the United States. These productions also toured China.
Locally, he founded several dance troupes including the Boom Squad, Boom Boys, City Heat, and the Flava Unit. He participated in dozens of benefit performances and teaching activities in the Santa Cruz community such as various County Parks & Recreation afterschool programs, First Night Santa Cruz, A Gay Evening in May, Moving Mountains benefit for women with Breast Cancer, National Dance Week, AIDS Walk kick-off event, Free Mumia rallies at UCSC, Kwanzaa celebrations, and the Monte Foundation Fireworks show. In 2001, Gary was a recipient of the esteemed Calabash Award Honoring Excellence in the Ethnic Arts, from the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz, due to his vast contributions to the community.
For almost 2 decades Gary served as an ambassador of Hip Hop Culture to the Santa Cruz area. Many boys, girls, men, and women from varied walks of life have been escorted down the path of rhythm with Gary as their interpreter. His warmth, his fun, and his care-free, energetic expression engendered his students with self love and a sense of community. He succeeded in opening the hearts & minds of thousands of students to the beat of Hip Hop music.
Gary leaves behind his mother, Kisun Kendell of Yuma, Arizona, his brothers Ronnie Kendell and David Kendell, and hundreds of friends and students who love him like a brother.
"To the lives you touched, to the rhythms you followed, to the footsteps you left behind, and to the talent that will never be forgotten. Here's to a beautiful life lived. We love you Gee. We will miss you. Dance for us in Heaven."
We believe someone or a few people representing Joysco will be on location to film some footages. So be on the look out and ask for Mike(DJ Quixslvr) or Victor(VS Video Productions). You might be our next special guest video feature on our homepage. See you all there and let's dance at Mission Rock. Give a shot out to our good friend and awesome dance instructor Randy Bernal, DJ Wish(Mindtricks, Jabbawockeez) when you see him.
Thursday, (April 17th): $5 Pass with this Flyer$5 Pass with this Flyer "Dance Lesson - Move Your Body - Volume One"
MISSION ROCK CAFE 817 Terry Francois Blvd San Francisco / China Basin
Learn from the TOP CHOREOGRAPHERS of the West: HIP-HOP'S GREATEST INSTRUCTORS: Lee Lee Brewster and Randy "DJ Wish" Bernal
Dance Lessons are geared toward first time dancers and for those who just love to dance. Bring comfortable shoes and comfortable clothing. Loose and baggy clothes are encouraged.
Top Floors Dance Class begins at 8PM. Nightclub begins at 9:30pm. Hip-Hop Technicians: DJ Chronicles | DJ Wish | DJ Soulo
Social Room opens at 9:30PM Bottom Floor featuring sounds of Soulful House by: Anthony Teav | DJ Erick M | DJ V
This year's performers: a duet by Fergie and Heart,Snoop Dogg and Charlie Wilson, John Legend, Miley Cyrus, Annie Lennox, Mariah Carey, Carrie Underwood, Gloria Estefan and Sheila E.
Celebrity appearances: Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Peyton and Eli Manning, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman, Reese Witherspoon and Brad Pitt. David and Victoria Beckham, Kiefer Sutherland, Ellen DeGeneres, Jim Carrey and Whoopi Goldberg appeared in pre-taped segments encouraging viewers to make donations. Hillary Rodham Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama also appeared in pre-taped messages.
Beneficiaries this year include the Global Fund, Malaria No More, Children's Health Fund, Save the Children, Children's Defense Fund and Make It Right, Pitt's campaign to help New Orleans recover from Hurricane Katrina.
Note: This is not the footage from the event "One 4 Gee". We found this on YouTube and think this is a good piece of memory to share with everyone. Thank you Gee and dance for us in heaven.
Feel free to grab these 2 graphics we created and use them anywhere, tell your friends too. Myspace or Facebook them! The official site of Jabbawockeez is at http://www.jabbawockeez.com Give our friends a visit and show them some love.
will open its new $450 million, seven-level museum on historic Pennsylvania Avenue in the nation's capital on Friday, April 11. In its 14 major galleries, 15 theaters, two broadcast studios and a 4-D time-travel experience, the new Newseum blends five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second technology and innovation.
The Grand Opening will include free admission for the public on April 11 and a live broadcast of a portion of ABC's "Good Morning America" from the Newseum. Additional opening weekend events are being planned and will be announced at newseum.org. This is very exciting. Please visit their website for more detail.
Congratulations to our good friend Harmonie who recently voted as #1 by the viewers like you.
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Submitted by Nick Wilson of Clever Zebra on Thu, 02/21/2008 - 09:31
"A few days back we gave the folks on our email update list an exclusive look (those people are always the very first to know about anything we do) at a brand new productivity tool for businesses in Second Life that we've been working on with our friends from i3D and Joysco: Zebra Presenter.
We're still waiting on a few final tweaks to the youtube walkthrough and hope to release early next week. For those that just can't wait though, if you'd like to see a pre-beta copy of Zebra Presenter, please send "57 Miles" (that's me..) an IM in Second Life and I'll drop you a copy!
Feedback is most welcome, please use the Zebra Presenter forum for bug reports or support requests, we'd greatly appreciate it."
ANNOUNCEMENT:Metaverse U Conference at Stanford University
WHERE: Annenberg Auditorium, Stanford University
WHEN: Saturday the 16th and Sunday the 17th of February 2008
Virtual worlds have garnered tremendous interest since their recent proliferation, both in the media and in academia. Given Stanford University's prime location in the heart of Silicon Valley, we think the time has come to explore the cultural, technological, legal, and economic issues surrounding virtual worlds. To that end, it is our pleasure to announce that the Stanford Humanities Lab is putting on a conference called Metaverse U on Saturday, February 16th and Sunday, February 17th, 2008. We are inviting you to participate in this unique event.
Metaverse U will bring together industry leaders, artists, and academics to discuss a range of topics surrounding virtual worlds. Our preliminary event line-up includes the following: • Featured speakers • Keynote conversations • Live streaming video coverage • Networking opportunities
