Dueling Tees-old: 2008-08-17

I Use This For DT!

This is the better version (it's HD!) of the camera used to take videos you see on this site from Alumni Weekend 2007 and Homecoming 2007 weekend.

What's great about the Flip Video Camera? Click to show +/-

--it's easy to use
--it fits into your pocket
--it takes great video
--it's cheap for a good, portable video camera
--it has a USB port that pops up that plugs right into your computer
--at the push of a button you can easily upload videos to your computer and publish directly to sites like youtube.
--this camera now stores 120 minutes!

Gift Ideas:
--I got this camera for my cousin after she graduated from high school. I thought it would be great in college... and as I see on her facebook profile, she's certainly using it everywhere.
--my sister had a baby and since I live 2000 miles away, she and my brother-in-law video my niece and send me the videos weekly.

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DT Hollywood Bits and Pieces

Friday, August 22, 2008

Lots of Penn Hollywood news happening recently...

This past week, Dreamworks Exec Stacey Snider (C'82) was defending her studio's film Tropic Thunder. Find out why!

Roy Bank (C'94) is collaborating with Salma Hayek on a new reality show with a "unique take" on weddings.

My past posts about Roy here

Did you know that Alison Greenspan (C'95, Bloomers) Executive Produced the recent Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (as well as the first one)?

My past posts about Alison here

Todd Lieberman's (C'95, AEPi, Mask and Wig) film Traitor comes out in theaters today. Check out a trailer below!

My past posts about Todd here

Another week of activity for Elizabeth Banks (C'96)...

Liz will return to Scrubs this upcoming season for a 2 episode arc
She has just been cast as Seann William Scott's love interest in High Town who dies in childbirth but later reappears as a ghost to help raise her surviving infant.
She appears in this B-Roll footage in Oliver Stone's upcoming "W" film. See below (minute 3:10)!

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We've Been Watching This Penn Alumna(!) Interview Michael Phelps

Thursday, August 21, 2008

I've been covering all sorts of "Penn in the Olympics" news all week at DT and now I've got some more!

Andrea Kremer (C'80), the reporter that interviewed all the Olympic swimmers, including Michael Phelps after each and every gold medal he won in Beijing, is a Penn alumna! She’s worked for ESPN before switching to NBC about a year or so ago. She primarily covers NFL football.

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Watch Andrea interview Michael Phelps, Peter Vanderkaay, Ricky Berens and Ryan Lochte after taking gold in the 4x200m freestyle relay.

Thanks to Kiera Reilly (C'93, Alumni Relations) for the scoop!

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His Web Documentaries Are Olympic

The other day I wrote about some Penn alumni who have been involved in different parts of the 2008 Olympics ...one as a gold medal winner ...the other as a musician...

Now news of another alumnus who is doing some interesting work related to this summer's Olympics.

Since Glenn Osten Anderson's (C'02, Pennfest 2007) web-video project for The Long Road got nominated for a Webby Award, he has been working with his producing partners Brian Sabin (RW Staff Producer) & Josh Cox (World Class Marathoner and On-air personality) at Runner's World magazine to program and produce web video coverage of the US Olympic Track and Field Trials.

Per Glenn,

“We wanted to give a sort of 'insiders' view of the meet and the incredible atmosphere -- so we did feature stories, post-race interviews and daily recaps. We also wanted to deliver a really well-produced high quality production. There is a temptation with web-video (especially within the sports world) for fast turnover and thus getting 'something/ anything' up quickly -- we sought to truly produce the pieces like TV packages and the reaction has been fantastic (which helps justify the 22+ hour days out in Eugene).”

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Penn Screenwriter's Film Rocks Into Theaters Today!

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Last summer I reported that screenwriter Ryan Jaffe (C'96) just finished filming The Rocker.

And today it's now in theaters near you!

Per Ryan, "The Rocker stars Rainn Wilson, Christina Applegate, Will Arnett, Jason Sudekis, Jeff Garlin, Jane Lynch, Emma Stone, Josh Gad, and Teddy Geiger. It's the story of a drummer that gets fired from a band just before they become really famous and earns a second shot at rock stardom twenty years later when he hooks up with his teenage nephew's band."

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Aaron Karo (W'01) Brings His Stand-Up to Late Night TV

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Did you catch comedian Aaron Karo (W'01, Pennfest 2006) on the Craig Ferguson show this past Friday night? He performed a really solid act discussing his ruminations ranging from what it means to "go out" for "dudes" and "chicks" ...to his clever late night booty calls. Check out the clip above!

Aaron seems to be making quite a name for himself. In addition to his books, touring the country with his act, and this Craig Ferguson show performance, Aaron recently launched a new website: Ruminations.com

Per Aaron:

"For the first time ever, you can now write your own ruminations and share them with the world. If you’ve ever been at the bar and observed something hilarious, if you’ve ever been in the shower or on the treadmill and had a thought you just couldn’t get out of your head, if you’ve ever read my column and thought, “Hell, I could do that.” – well, now’s your chance."

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Gabriel Mann's Music Gets Supersized for the Olympics

Monday, August 18, 2008

Penn is being represented in the Olympics in more ways than one.

Yesterday, Susan Francia (C'04) was one of the eight who won the gold in rowing for the United States.

There's also news of another Penn alumnus who has been part of the Olympics stage as well.

If you've been watching the Olympics, chances are you've seen Gabriel Mann's (C'95, Off the Beat) work...or maybe tivo'd right through it.

Gabe wrote music for a big McDonald's Olympics commercial, which per Gabe is "the one with the breakfast chicken sandwich and a bunch of olympians talking about how awesome mcdonalds breakfast chicken sandwich is". Check out in the clip above!

Besides this, Gabe also shared with me that he produced Sara Bareilles' first album, "the one before the big one on the big label". It's called Careful Confessions, and it's being released by her label.

Check it out here

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