Emmys mean Swagtime for Jenna Seiden (C'95)

This Sunday's Emmys mean glitz and glamour.

But to one alum it's all about the swag. And who doesn't love a good bag of swag?

That's what Jenna Seiden (C'95) thought when she and her business partner decided to start swagtime.com, a business dedicated to celebrity swag. Their philosophy is simple, “What was exclusive is now inclusive”.

For those unaware, per Jenna, '"SWAG" stands for the products and services that celebrities are getting, giving and using." Jenna's site scours everything from the gift bags and gift lounges at award shows, charity galas, film festivals, sporting events, private celebrity functions and more to tell you about these great products and services.

And what would be a swag site without the site actually giving away swag itself?! Sign up with her site and you can win a bag of an event's actual swag yourself!

And that's not all for Jenna. She is also a video games/interactive agent at the highly reputable talent agency CAA. Per Jenna, "I now represent game developers, writers and talent who make console games and I work to take these game IPs and make movies, etc. So by day I'm gamesgirl and by night I'm swaggirl."

...On a related Emmys note, good thoughts go out to Becki Newton (C'00) on Ugly Betty being nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series.

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DuelingTampons.com to new readers: BEST OF!

(Videos above taken of the Dueling Tampons from Reunion Weekend 2007.)

For those subscribers of my daily emails, I hope you’ve been enjoying all the latest news about our creative Penn community.

For those new readers from today's Daily Pennsylvanian article, below are some of the highlights of what’s been going on here since I launched this site last February…

What else do you guys want to see? Click here to post your suggestions!

Enjoy!

Matt Rosler (C’96, Mask and Wig, AEPi)

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POSTS: HIGHLIGHTS (click links below)

+ Lots of Documentary Penn filmmakers..and more stories coming!

+ Lots of alumni working in TV!

+ Lots of Penn musicians …and many more I’ll be reporting on soon!

+ Gabriel Mann (C’95) on Oscars, music on TV shows, launches new album

+ Elizabeth Banks (C’96) in a slew of tv and films

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VIDEOS: HIGHLIGHTS (click links below)

+ Reunion Weekend 2007 (45+ videos)

+ Mask and Wig visits Los Angeles (15+ videos)

+ Featured Alumni in Film/TV/Stage/Literary

+ Featured Alumni: Musicians

+ Vicarious walk down Locust Walk

+ Vicarious walk into Quad

VIDEO CATEGORIES: Recently Uploaded, Los Angeles Penn Events, Performing Arts, Around Campus, Spring Flings, Hey Day, Graduation, Sports, Pennfest: Emerging Penn Talent, Penn Relays, Misc: Humorous/Tips

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PHOTOS: HIGHLIGHTS (click links below)

+ 5 years of Pennfest programs and photos

+ On campus construction through the years

+ Penn actors headshot gallery

+ Penn musician photo gallery

+ Penn Memoribilia from years past

+ “Me and Ben on the Bench” (upload your pic with Ben here!)

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MESSAGE BOARDS: HIGHLIGHTS (click links below)

+ Stories about how alumni got their starts after college

+ Los Angeles job posts

+ New York job posts

+ Alumni Quotes

+ Alumni promoting their businesses

+ New Jobs postings on Movers, Quakers and Shakers

+ Upcoming Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia events

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OTHER STUFF YOU WANT TO KNOW...(click links below)

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David Isser (C'01): socially relevant filmmaker

Filmmaker David Isser (C'01, Off the Beat) just took part in a 48 hour film festival for the Elevate Film Festival that premieres at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood tomorrow (Saturday, September 15).

This appears to be a great film festival! From the elevate film festival website, "It all begins with a nationwide search for socially relevant screenplays, documentary subjects, musicians and professional filmmakers. Though the directors are chosen prior to the festival, they have no clue as to what they will be shooting until they pull their project from a hat. Racing the clock, they charge into the jungles of guerilla filmmaking with 48 hours to complete a short film, documentary, or music video."

David's film is a short documentary called Making it Home, a story about a group of young homeless kids from Los Angeles, that go down to Tijuana to build a house for a needy family.

...David has been working as a freelance director and editor and has been focusing on documentaries, commercials, and psa's with a focus on projects that are socially relevant.

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DuelingTampons.com featured in Daily Pennsylvanian!

Earlier this week I was interviewed by Penn undergrad Alissa Eisenberg (C'10) for an article about DuelingTampons.com that came out in today's Daily Pennsylvanian.

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Vote now to put Gabriel Mann (C'95) on Star98.7's CD!

On the heels of his new album release, Tall Buildings, I just learned that Gabriel Mann's (C'95, Off the Beat) new song Unbroken is up for a vote to be included on Star 98.7's star lounge cd. (A couple of weeks ago I reported on this contest.)

Click here to listen to Unbroken and then
CLICK HERE TO VOTE!
(Songs are in alphabetical order, so make sure you get to the "u"'s if you choose to browse through site here)

Voting begins TODAY, 9/13, and ends on 9/19, 5 pm PST. (one vote per email). If the song makes it makes it into the final 10 (with your help of course!), Gabe gets to go into another round. come now.

On a related Gabe note, Gabe's title track from his new record, "Shadows of Tall Buildings", was featured as the closing song on MTV's "The Hills."
Click here to go to The Hills Ep. 304, section: Life's hard at -2:10 until the end.

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Erika Frankel's (C'00) campaign for Frontrunners

Judging by how I'm seeing many freshmen enthusiastically using Facebook to campaign for Freshmen elections, many of you undergrad (and alumni) overachievers will appreciate Frontrunners, an upcoming documentary from alum Erika Frankel (C'00)...

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Per Erika, Frontrunners is "our own independent documentary on the race for school president at the most competitive high school in the country, Stuyvesant High School in New York City. At Stuyvesant, we discovered a bunch of very smart, very funny people whose political tactics are just as calculated as our nation's leaders, leaving us to wonder whether political animals are born or made…"

This sounds scandalously delicious to me!

Frontrunners will be making its big screen debut at the Angelika (in NY) as part of the IFP Film Market on Monday Sept. 17 @ 2:00pm and Wednesday Sept. 19 @ 1:45pm.

If you/ your company are registered to attend the market, Erika hopes you will come and see her film! Otherwise, please email her for more information: frankel@suhfilms.com

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TV Alert!: Dr. Zach Lutsky on TLC's Diagnosis X TONIGHT! (9/12)

Sorry for the last minute post, but I just found out that Dr. Zach Lutsky (C'97) will appear on Diagnosis X tonight (Wednesday, 9/12) on the TLC channel at 10 pm!

Tonight's epsiode:
Family Secrets
An active duty soldier returns from the Mideast only to fall mysteriously ill. After putting him in isolation, doctors race to solve the puzzling condition. Also, doctors must figure out what is making a healthy teen have vivid hallucinations.

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