Archive for Requests
05.28.08
Posted in Ryan, Video, Requests, Montreal at 11:29 pm by Ryan
I came across this Canadian improv troupe somewhere in my web surfing this year, and this week I saw their videos on the Montreal Fringe’s Facebook page.
It looks like their show is called “Argument With A Dolphin”, and I think they specifically do long-form shows. Watch more of Without Annette’s behind-the-scenes footage on their blog.
Some of our friends from previous Orlando Fringes will be there, like Barry Smith (Jesus in Montana, American Squatter), TJ Dawe (Totem Figures, Slipknot), and Greg Landucci (Dishpig, Mr. FOX), and Influx Dance (Goals for 2002). Also, some new friends from this year’s festival - The Cody Rivers Show (Stick to Glue) and Andrew Connor (Boom), will be there too.
If this information is wrong, sorry. Iwas having some trouble finding info on the Fringe site. If I’m missing anyone, I’d love to include them too.
Funny thing about Montreal and Blogging Fringe - if you search for it, we come up on the first page, from my post-fringe show last year where I was Seeking Updates from Montreal Fringe. My offer from last month (and last year) still stands - anyone who wants to can do whatever with Blogging Fringe - we have set up some conventions - Fringe Crush, Voicemail Reviews, and Fringe Moments - do with them what you will. If you send me links I will post them here, or I will give you an account and plenty of attribution on the site.
We will even import your blog posts word-for-word, but a warning that MySpace blogs are not very good for that purpose, since the feeds only include a few words for each blog post.
If you’re in Montreal or any other Fringe City, get in touch. I’d love to just know you’re out there.
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04.28.08
Posted in Ryan, Events, Requests, Blogs at 3:14 pm by Ryan
I have a choice: do I take the first three days of Fringe Week off, the middle three, or the last three? I know opening weekend, the last weekend and Memorial Day will be action-packed, but I also don’t want to lose too much money from work.
Blogging Fringe (or this year, my personal blog and OrlandoScene.TV) will be taking up some time, but I also don’t want to take ALL week off so I can save my pennies. Any thoughts, comments, suggestions?
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04.15.08
Posted in Ryan, Announcements, Requests, Blogs at 1:30 am by Ryan
My Friends,
As you all know, I’ve done this Blogging Fringe thing for the past two years. Sadly, this year looks like I’ll be pulled in more directions than ever before. I’ve been up until 2AM every night for weeks on end and I’m not sure when this will stop.
At the same time, I really love the opportunities the Fringe Festival presents to show off some great groups in Orlando and Internationally, and introduce the world to our potential.
At this point I have received dozens of press releases from faithful producers who would love a mention on the blog. I’d love to contact them, conduct interviews, post them to the site, get everyone excited and oh so much more, but that’s not going to happen.
Some of you have contributed time to this project before, others are simply friends, but you are all tied to the theatre community and you have proven your interest in making our community something special.
My plan for Blogging Fringe this year is to write a small number of posts on my personal blog and have them automatically re-posted to BloggingFringe.com, and I’m going to open that up to everyone in the world. All the content on the site will be release under a Creative Commons license, meaning anyone will be free to re-post and re-mix the work in any medium for non-commercial purposes This includes all archived content on the site as well.
Getting your content posted is simple. We’ll agree on a keyword, something like “bloggingfringe”, or “Orlando Fringe”, something you will only write on your blog if you’d like the content to be seen, and those posts will be re-posted with a link back to your blog. An example of this is on Liberatr.net where all the posts link to the original home instead of inside the site.
This project has never been about my own personal gain - I’ve sunk hundreds (thousands?) of dollars of my money into creating an environment for patrons and artists to have a conversation, but I believe I’ve fallen short of the mark up until now. Beth will be the first person to say that the Fringe website is not the place she’d like this conversation to happen - that’s one great thing about a site like ours.
All the editorial content on Blogging Fringe - the reviews, videos, audio podcasts, will no longer be called Blogging Fringe, but instead Ryan Price Media, Orlando Scene TV and Florida Creatives. These three websites will just be other first-class citizens of the community like anyone else in the world. If I end up being too busy to post many videos, podcasts or blogs, that will show, because they’ll be lost in the ocean of posts created by the blogging Fringe Faithful.
If I have to I’ll paint the administrator password to Blogging Fringe on a canvas and submit the artwork to Visual Fringe. That’s how open this should be. Anna, what’s the entry fee again?
More news on exactly how to get your blogs re-posted to a public, highly visible website for free coming soon. I hope the Fringe itself, the Orlando Weekly, Elizabeth Maupin, Orlando Arts Blog and others will be proud to include their blogs in the list, because the point is visibility, not exclusivity.
The contents of this email are posted here in order to make this information as public as I possibly can. If you’d like to contribute, you can start by posting a link to your blog in the comments! All serious submissions (and some not so serious) will be accepted.
321-441-3964
Any voicemails left here will be re-posted as comments unless otherwise noted.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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02.20.08
Posted in Articles, Requests, Orlando Sentinel, Newspaper at 1:29 am by Ryan
Orlando Sentinel - Talk to us. Please. - by Elizabeth Maupin
Arts journalism is being cut back at newspapers all over the country, including the Sentinel, because somebody higher up the chain of command thinks it’s not important.
Now you know and I know that that’s not the case. If arts journalism were to go away, the arts would have a hard time getting their message out. And all of us would suffer.
One suggestion was for the board members and high-rollers at each arts organization to lobby the people they know who run newspapers. Tell them how important the arts are, and how much you want to read about the arts in the paper.
Now, today, the Sentinel’s public editor, Manning Pynn, has made a related suggestion in his Sunday column. The Sentinel wants its readers to tell us what you’re interested in, he says. We’ll shape our coverage to please you.
So PLEASE. If you love theater, and you love the arts, write to Manning Pynn and tell him so. Tell him you want more arts coverage, not less, in the paper. Tell him how important it is to Orlando’s arts community and to our society that the arts be encouraged to flourish.
To write him, just email public@orlandosentinel.com. Of, if you’re a telephone person, call 407-650-6410.
To the editor:
Please take a moment to consider the ramifications of including less arts coverage in the local paper.
First of all, including articles from the associated press or syndicated from other papers is hardly what I’d call original and creative, so please none of that.
Second, on printed or online arts and culture coverage.
A large part of what defines the fingerprint of a community are those things that can only be found in the local area - those who grew up locally or who started working in the local industries (in our case, entertainment, engineering and military) and then branched out to do their own thing. SAK Theatre and Mad Cow are great examples of this, as well as Jester Theatre Company or the Orlando Fringe Festival. The first reason for any of these entities to exist is because of the vision of the founders and organizers - locals who are dedicated to their craft.
There are countless other examples in other areas of the arts besides theatre - take the Broken Speech Poetry Slam at Stardust or Preacher Bill’s songwriter showcase at Taste. Local art at Dandelion and all the cafes in town; shows at Back Booth, Crooked Bayou, Underground Bluz, Orlando Brewing Company and the like.
As the only main stream publication in town, you have a responsibility to the community to help give Orlando’s fingerprint more definition, not only to the locals but to the millions of tourists and passers-by who visit Central Florida every year.
Cutting coverage of Arts and Culture is a step in the wrong direction, and in fact encouraging the homogenization of a city desperately trying to imitate other major cities, thinking that by building some condos, allocating money to new developments and hiring designers who have worked in other distinctive cities that we can catch some of the glow created by these places in some sort of sad mirror. Mirrors, however, are not designed for looking at others, but at oneself. Help this city see the glow we have already achieved, and we may shine all the brighter.
My best wishes to you in a time of transition for the Sentinel and the Tribune Company as a whole.
Peace,
Ryan Price
FloridaCreatives.com
BloggingFringe.com
OrlandoScene.TV
RyanPriceMedia.com
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09.11.07
Posted in General Fringe Info, Ryan, Announcements, Requests at 1:23 am by Ryan
The all-new OrlandoFringe.org website has a link to the 2008 Fringe artist application. I am helping out with some programming and implementation of the site this year, and I’m very honored to be able to help out.
I was thinking about doing a Blogging Fringe show (or something in a similar vein) but then I saw that you can get 7 shows at the outdoor stage for less money than I paid to rent a vendor space last year - I’m so taking that option. Expect to see 7 Blogging Fringe shows, all videotaped, all including interviews with patrons and artists, all including songs and dances (maybe). Who knows what we’ll be doing? All I know is I’ll have to apply later, because I’m broke.
If I could bind myself to doing 7 events during Fringe this year, then maybe I can prove my ability to do 7 shows next year, or perhaps an outdoor event will always be our deal from now on.
What would you like to see at a Blogging Fringe show outdoors?
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06.26.07
Posted in Ryan, MySpace, Requests, Quotes, Orlando Sentinel at 3:19 am by Ryan
So believes the person running the Starlight Theatre’s MySpace Blog. Here’s the post where they lay it out.
Of course I understand limited resources, cutbacks, etc. However, to the trained eye, it seems that the Orlando Sentinel is only cutting back on certain theaters.
For the record, the last time someone came to Starlight Theater to review a Starlight-produced show was Betsey Maupin’s visit to us on January 5th, 2007 for our “decadent” version of Cabaret, which is still what I would call a well-known musical.
This is where the Internet proves its worth. Agree? Disagree? Leave comments.
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06.11.07
Posted in General Fringe Info, Ryan, Requests, Montreal at 10:47 pm by Ryan
So, I know Montreal Fringe is going on right now (June 7th - 17th), but I’m a poor blogger living in Orlando, so what do I do? Ask for help!
If you’re in the second largest city in Canada and you have an internet connection, a camera, a mobile phone, or even a landline (1-321-441-3964), BloggingFringe.com will proudly play host to your content. If you have a video, we can suggest a way for you to make a small handful of change from making said video. If you just want to be our MySpace friend, you can do that too!
All serious offers will be accepted, really.
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