The Entertainment Experiment is excited to show you Portland based singer Sara Hallie Richardson's music video for her haunting song "What would it be like." Not only was this shot in the middle of winter here in Maine but also in the Summer. It's a wonderful reminder of the beautiful seasons here and the beautiful music that is created in our state.
We're so excited about this new feature on The Entertainment Experiment. The Haunt ME team will be putting out new segments to play in between episode release weeks. They call them "Spirit Shorts." Join Haunt ME cast members Ashley and Ty for a look into the silly side of paranormal investigation! Spirit Shorts will give you a small but chilling dose of Haunt ME fun as Ty and Ash banter, share clips from upcoming episodes and sip lots of tea in decorative mugs. Keep a look out for other cast members!
The Entertainment Experiment is excited to share with you a mini documentary that is taking the world by storm. It was captured by the Portland Maine production company Knack Factory.
This short documentary was shot on the the evening of December 28th and early morning of December 29th, 2012 in Portland, Maine during the very first equal marriages in the state. The film highlights the marriage of Michael Snell and Steven Bridges, the first gay couple to get married legally in the state of Maine.
This week, host Justin C. St. Louis wraps up 2012 by counting down his top 10 favorite web series moments. Catch up on some outstanding series and see if YOUR favorite web series make the list! Links to all the shows featured in this episode will be posted at the end of the video.
Maine hip hop Artist Sontiago releases "Muscle Car" the maxi-single after receiving national recognition and charting #6 on the CMJ hip hop charts in 2007 with her sophomore album, "Steel Yourself." She has received the honor of being named one of URB's Next 100 artists. When she's not recording and playing shows, Sontiago busies herself around Portland, Maine as a youth worker, Grants and Communications Manager at the Maine Women's Fund and wife to fellow artist, jdwalker.
This week, the uber-talented Michael Caruso, Katie Caprio, and Alexis Zibolis, creator/writer and stars of the smash-hit websoap, "DeVanity", drop in to chat about their highly-anticipated Season 3 premier. Lavish sets and costumes, snappy one-liners, classic cat-fights, and their recent NINE Indie Soap Award nominations make "DeVanity" one of the most talked-about series on the net. Host Justin C. St. Louis teases some fun spoilers out of his guests about the new season, making this a must-see episode!
For more info on DeVanity, check out these links, and tell them The Spoiler Alert sent you!
Justin wants to know which shows you want to hear from! Let him know who you want featured and what you want asked by commenting below or over on The Spoiler Alert Facebook page!
The Entertainment Experiment is overjoyed to share with you a very special Holiday episode of No Refund For Content! In this episode, Steve and Jim Black reminisce about a Christmas eve spent working at Capitol Cinemas.
Learn more about the spooky world of paranormal investigation! Host Amie E. Marzen sits down with Ashley Brooks, the creator of the web series Haunt ME.
Flippy Day is a "Holiday Film" that swept the 48 Hour Film Fest awards of 2009, awarded Best Comedy in The Portland Phoenix Filmfest of 2010, and played at LAFF as one of the Best of. It currently is being scripted as a feature length film set to begin filming in Spring 2013.
Description:
What's a 'Flippy?' It's only the greatest roller skating trick ever performed! Or so thinks an oddball group of roller skaters who have gathered at their local rink to celebrate the legendary creator of the trick, Horatio Baldwin. Led by Holly Baldwin, a self-proclaimed 'activist' and the great, great granddaughter of the Patron Saint himself, Flippy Day embarks on a character by character explanation of what the holiday means to them in their search for community and camaraderie.
Written and Produced by Jeff Day and Michael Panenka
For a full list of credits go here.
Visit their blog here.
"How can so much time have passed without me noticing!? Who's been eating all the bad children!?"
-Krampus
After a century-long bender, the demon Krampus, who used to work with Santa Claus, is hungry for bad children again and wants back in on Christmas. Written, directed, shot and edited by George Dalphin.
A 48 Hour Film by Man-Like Machines. Written, directed, shot and edited by George Dalphin. Produced by Annie Dalphin, George Dalphin and Robin Long-Jordan. Starring Jenny Anastasoff, Dan Greenleaf, Maria Liebana, Justin Roig and Ben Severns. Featuring artwork by Robin Long-Jordan and Adam Robertson. Music by Kevin MacLeod.
Representatives from Haunt ME, No Refund For Content, The Cleansed, Vacationlanders & Ragged Isle were a part of this montage video of some of the most popular web series on the internet! Enjoy this holiday message and hopefully check out some of the shows mentioned in the video! Happy Holidays!
The Entertainment Experiment proudly presents the second episode of the supernatural reality series Haunt ME entitled "FIVE OF CUPS (THE SCHOOL HOUSE.)"
Welcome back for Episode Two of Food Coma TV "Fryeburg Fair." This episode brings Joe and the gang to the Fryeburg Fair, where he rocks it with carnies, attacks children on the bumper cars, eats fried everything, and discovers the big, old-timey woman who resides inside of him. Produced by Knack Factory.
The Entertainment Experiment's Amie E. Marzen sits down with Andrea Nilosek, creator and director of "No Refund for Content". What's it like shooting a webseries in an empty movie theater overnight? Let Andrea tell you more behind this hysterical webseries.
Once You Leave is a multi-part award winning series about a woman trying to find her place in the world amongst the backdrop of some of the most beautiful imagery captured for a web series. The Entertainment Experiment is super excited that Justin C. St. Louis got a chance to talk with the mad geniuses Nate Locklear and Kayla Olson about this truly stunning series from Texas.
How I Seize Itis the hilarious, provocative, and often controversal Vlog spin-off from the smash hit comedy series, Trailer Made. This week, host Justin C. St. Louis gets down and dirty with creator/writer Jason Vitteri-Lewis and Miss Loretta Jenkins herself, Cinda McCain.
For more information and to watch episodes of How I Seize It, check out the following links:
Learn more about the tools and technique behind ghost hunting from the makers of Haunt ME! Captured by our friends at G33K L1F3, here is the panel that the Haunt ME team did just prior to releasing their first episode on our network.
Voted "Best Heavy Music Act" for 2012 in the Portland Phoenix, Whitcomb definitely a band to keep your eyes and ears on. Comprised of veterans of the Maine music scene. Formed by Sean Libby and Andy Beavis on guitars, Ryan Fleming on bass, Mark Sayer on drums, and vocalist Brant Dadaleares, the band has created something intense and original, both heavy and melodic, with multiple layers of sound. Check out the video for their song "An Assassin filmed by Jason Bosch, assisted by Michael Gagne.
The Entertainment Experiment congratulates "Haunt ME" investigator Carol Cleveland and Ronny Vacchiano on the birth of their baby girl, Leila. Leila was born on 12/6/12 at 3am and weighed in at 6lbs, 14 oz. Congratulations to the proud parents! It looks like "Haunt ME" has a new investigator-in-training!
Maine Big Band legends The Fogcutters have a great big show coming up on Friday December 7th. So big in fact that they built a 2-part web series produced by South Addison Picture Company to promote it. Go behind the scenes and meet some of the talented local musicians who will be backed up by the one and only The Fogcutters this Friday night at the State Theatre!
The Spoiler Alert host Justin C Saint Louis is Maine's biggest web series fan and The Entertainment Experiment is proud to have him on the network! He's our gateway to the larger world of national and international shows. Enjoy his network premiere as he dishes with the talented and super sweet cast and crew of the dramatic western series called Thurston!
Justin wants to know which shows you want to hear from! Let him know who you want featured and what you want asked by commenting below or over on The Spoiler Alert Facebook page!
Why this song? Because it's beautiful, for one. This version is of course inspired by the great Israel "IZ" KaÊ»anoÊ»i KamakawiwoÊ»ole, one of the sweetest voices the world has ever known. I first heard this song ten years ago on the show “E.R.” It was featured during an incredibly beautiful and heart wrenching moment toward the end of an episode called “On The Beach” (Season 8, Episode 21). It played during the last moments of Dr. Mark Greene's life. I was so into that show, the guy felt like my old, dear friend. I just watched it again and cried my eyes out. It's one of the finest moments in television history, in my opinion, especially if you followed the character and story. I remember one time, at my friend Jason's wedding reception, a number of people, myself included, gathered around the P.A. speaker when this song started playing. All of us admitted that we were drawn together thinking the same thing, the death of this fictional character. We all loved Dr. Greene. Great stories are human kind's favorite thing, right?
The show led me to track down the song on mp3, and find out about the singer. If you haven't heard of Israel Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole, you should search him out, hear more of his music, and learn his story. He had an amazing life, and has become the best selling Hawaiian musician of all time.
I've wanted to sing this song since I heard it, ideally just like IZ, with nothing but vocals and ukulele. Barry Dodd had the Ragged Isle Season 2 Premiere Party coming up at Geno's in Portland, with musicians from the RI cast and crew performing, and I badly wanted to be a part of it. I tried to find a karaoke version of the song because I can't play ukulele, but there wasn't one to be found. I noticed the word “ukulele” in a post on Facebook, from my friend Meghan. I have known Meghan for many years, and have been in the same place at the same time as her many times, but we had only actually talked on a few occasions in all those years. I instant messaged her on the old FB, and it looked like this:
Luckily, she had a rehearsal space. So, I rigged up a makeshift P.A. with a mike and a Sirius boom box, and we had a number of rehearsals. We both had a lot of fun working on the song and chatting it up, and have since become closer friends. Meghan is one of the most intelligent, interesting, and enjoyable people I know, one of my top faves, and we came together through a song. Now we enjoy regular visits and great conversations. She calls them “walks” and they seem to involve movement, and being outside without a computer screen. It takes great conversation to get me around the block without taking a cab.
There were lots of great performances the night of the premiere, and a great time was had by all in attendance. It was such a thrill to finally get to perform Somewhere Over The Rainbow live. Meghan kicked ass. Thank God she tackled the tougher job. And of course, it was pure magic to watch the Ragged Isle Season 2 premiere on the big screen, and see everyone cheering the battleships and aircraft carriers!
The Entertainment Experiment is proud to announce that the post apocalyptic 6-part drama series Vacationlanders will be coming soon to our network! Check out the promo!
"A few weeks ago, Coast City Comicon organizer Tristan Gallagher had a secret. Asked about a Comicon event titled the "Entertainment Experiment Panel," Gallagher claimed he'd been sworn to secrecy, adding only, "Seriously, this is kind of a big deal."
Episode 1 of Food Coma TV brings Joe and the gang to Bangor, Maine where he gets his fill at Fiddlehead, gets wrecked at Nocturnem, compounds said wreckage at Dysart's and somehow makes everything better with breakfast pizza and a beer at Giacamo's. Produced by Knack Factory.
The Entertainment Experiment is so excited to share with you the pilot episode for Joe Ricchio's "The Food Coma Show." Shot at Bresca in Portland, Maine, Joe brings together 4 of his friends to dine, and "drink their faces off". Watch and laugh as the evening spins out of control.
Fresh on the heels of their network debut this morning The Entertainment Experiment is excited to bring you the brand-spankin' new episode two entitled "Lessons in Irony and Cynicism."
If you haven't seen it from the beginning, here is episode one!
FOR EVEN MORE NO REFUND FOR CONTENT CHECK OUT THEIR WEBSITE HERE!
Barry & Karen Dodd, co-creators of the web series Ragged Isle introduce you to their next project. It's an online network for Maine artists looking to build content to share on the internet. They have teamed up with Justin C St. Louis and Amie E Marzen to make it happen. They call it The Entertainment Experiment.
The Entertainment Experiment proudly presents the series premiere of the supernatural reality series Haunt ME entitled "Ace of Wands (Training Episode.)
The Entertainment Experiment proudly presents Episode One of the new comedy series No Refund For Content called "A Kernel For A Kernel."Stay tuned because later today we will be releasing the 2nd episode!
As I was editing our sizzle reel for the network, I was listening to a local music compilation I had recently downloaded when the track "Feels Like Home" by the group The Other Bones came on. I was instantly in love with the track and it seemed to be the perfect song to use for our montage video. I crossed my fingers and contacted the group, hoping that they would be interested in lending their song to our project. Turns out they are super nice and not only let us use the song but also allowed us to use the title as our network slogan.
Thanks so much to Andy, Eric & Loretta for allowing us to use their art!
Here is a music video done by local filmmaker Jason Bosch for their song. The performance was captured live and it really shows off how talented this trio is!
We're super excited at The Entertainment Experiment to not have one but two shows starring Maine foodie celebrity and all around filthy mouthed lovable rock star Joe Ricchio!
First up is FOOD COMA TV. Based on Joe Ricchio’s exceedingly popular blog Portland Food Coma, FOOD COMA TV is a series of short films that will report on the oft-overlooked food culture of Maine that exists outside of Portland’s city limits.
We've also got the all brand-spankin' new FOOD COMA SHOW! Each episode Ricchio sits down with four guests at an area restaurant, where they proceed to manhandle multiple courses while discussing a range of topics, with the focus on food and booze. The cuisine of the restaurant, as well as the personal style of the chef, are showcased beautifully.
The Entertainment Experiment and representatives from their initial lineup. From left to right: Amie E. Marzen, Ashley Brooks, Justin C St. Louis, Andrea Nilosek, Ben F. Howard, Rick Dalton, Karen L Dodd, Regina Bartholomew, Jeffrey Charles Day, Ty Gowen, Barry Dodd, Fred Greenhalgh, Marc Bartholomew, Simon Adams and drunk baby :)
New online network to feature Maine’s digital talent
The Entertainment Experiment, the producers of the award-winning web series Ragged Isle, announced Saturday they will be launching a website to support Maine’s online storytellers on November 19th.
The Entertainment Experiment Network hopes to be the ultimate destination for fans of Maine online artists. It will serve as a community where these digital artists will not only share their work with a global audience but also collaborate with each other.
“We have such a great pool of talent here in Maine,” says Amie Marzen, the Entertainment Experiment’s Director of Marketing. “Our hope is that the online network will help not only with exposure, but that the artists will also be able to combine resources. Most of these projects are very grassroots, often funded out of pocket. Being able to combine strengths is crucial to our collective success.”
The website, located at www.entertainmentexperiment.com will primarily feature the growing genre of web series, which is a condensed television show produced exclusively for an online audience, as well as other digital artistry, including podcasts, web comics, short films, and online video games. These offerings all have one thing in common in that they are produced independently in Maine by Mainers.
The tagline for the network is “It feels like home”, which is exactly the Maine-centered mentality behind the online network. “We really want to stay true to our roots and help one another," says the Entertainment Experiment’s programming director, Barry Dodd. “We’re all very proud to live in Maine and want to help support more creativity in our state. I want the world to know about the talent we have here and I want that talent to have access to the largest global audience our network can attract.”
Kicking off the network are new Maine web series Haunt ME, The Food Coma Show and No Refund for Content. They’ll join Maine favorites Ragged Isle, Vacationlanders, and The Cleansed. The Entertainment Experiment Network will be searching for new and exciting web talent from all corners of Maine.
“With the network in place, we’re hoping to inspire a new crop of local creators in the making. Pulling from the success of our established shows, we want to create a welcoming environment for all those who have an interesting story to tell,” says Dodd.
The website will also feature behind the scenes content, merchandise, and ways to help support each series.
“We’re so thrilled to be launching the network and can’t wait to get it going,” says Marzen. “It’s been a longtime dream of ours and we have a great team on board. We have some big plans to further help Maine’s artists develop and promote their work, right now the sky’s the limit.”
