Kickstarter funding for the Catastrophic Neon Rainbow video shoot was a success and the video was shot last weekend. Check out more info on the Kickstarter page. I’m excited about this one!

I launched a project on Kickstarter.com this week to help fund a music video I am shooting for “Catastrophic Neon Rainbow”. My friend Mark and his 13 year old daughter Casey have been writing music together and I offered to shoot a video for their song “I Had a Bird”. ‘

As of this post we have met and exceeded our goal to raise $400. We could definitely use a few more bucks to help pay for some additional materials (and food!). If you want to help out and get an awesome award check out the project here!

Come to the UCB Theatre and see my Improv 301 final class performance!
Saturday February 28, 2009, 1pm

Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
307 W. 26th Street
New York, NY 10001

Facebook Event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=63888894544

A few years ago a 24 spoof I created was pulled down from YouTube due to copyright infringement. One of my oldest video was pulled down last month by Warner Music Group due to audio copyright infringement. The video entitled “Stevie G” depicts an unusual moustached fellow (played by myself) taking a stroll to the supermarket set to the 80’s ZZ-Top hit Sharp Dressed Man. Fortunately YouTube now offers “Audio Swap” which lets you swap out the audio with one of their approved music tracks. Unfortunately for Stevie G this really changes the vibe.

Original Video:

New Video:

Excerpted from email from YouTube:

“…A copyright owner has claimed it owns some or all of the audio content in your video Stevie G. The audio content identified in your video is Sharp Dressed Man by ZZ Top. We regret to inform you that your video has been blocked from playback due to a music rights issue…”

“This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by WMG.”

Saturday, September 20th 20082:30pmUpright Citizens Brigade Theatre307 W. 26th StreetNew York, NY 10001Facebook:http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=25783159021

I recorded a few drum tracks on Ezra’s new album. Download the “i’m an ant” album here:

http://www.puddletownhop.com/imanant.html 

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Blue Album Group show at Glasslands. It was great!

(clip by Lawrence)

Sometimes you come across something brilliant on YouTube that makes you think, “Why didn’t I think of that?” So you become inspired and make your own. StSanders is  a true video remixing pioneer who has been denied Fair Use .

“In what has to be the lamest copyright-related takedown in the history of YouTube, someone or something has removed those excellent parody videos that paired video footage of famous guitarists “shredding” with expertly-done amateurish guitar buffoonery.”

read more – Copyright Vampires Delete Guitar ‘Shred’ Videos from YouTube , by By Eliot Van Buskirk

Valleywag.com happened to grab my clip “Morning Commute” as an example of “Vimeo’s Beauty”.

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I guess you can only get away with remixing copyrighted material for so long. Last year I made a few remixes of the Fox television show depicting “MySpace Tom” as a criminal. I thought they were rather humerous. I reposted the video YouTube is referring to here.