The first GIF in this post is the animated title sequence to our show, designed by the wonderful Gica Tam. What show, you might ask? Announcement time!
For the better part of the past year, I’ve been developing I Ship It as a series for the CW Seed. Though this series shares the same creative team behind the short film I Ship It(myself, Brian Grider & Kirstyn Hippe, as well as much of the same key crew), we’re playing with new characters, new stories, and a new spin on a familiar universe.
I SHIP ITpremieres on Thursday, June 23 on the CW Seed.
The Story: Ella Spencer forms a nerd rock band with her roommate Tim and two summer interns, Sasha and Denver. Musical adventures ensue!
Release Schedule: June 23: Episodes 1-4 June 30: Episodes 5-7 July 7: Episodes 8-10
This 10-episode series is a musical adventure and features 15 original songs by Brian Grider & Kirstyn Hippe and performed by our spectacularly talented cast (everyone did their own singing!) I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE SOUNDTRACK TO THIS SERIES.
This show has been a massive labor of love for so many people – our entire cast and crew absolutely killed it from development to post-production – and I’m thrilled to be able to share it with you soon. And nervous. And excited. And feeling a lot of feelings, IDK!
Keep an eye out on this space / twitter / snapchat / YouTube as I’m going to be sharing more things leading up to the premiere.
I’ll also be doing some behind-the-scenes stuff on this blog and also at VidCon – if there’s anything BTS-related that you’re particularly interested in, please let me know! Here are two BTS posts (on casting& on production) that I made during production. You can also see the tiniest bit of previews in this video on my channel.
#ISHIPITSERIES, it’s happening! I’m hyped! Get hyped with me?!
The whooping crane is currently trying to make a comeback. In the 1940s there were 21 birds left in a single flock. Thanks to recovery efforts and wetlands restorations, there are currently around 600 whooping cranes today with over 400 individuals in the wild, though their futures remains uncertain.
Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park, FL
I remember as a kid when I first got into birds how sad it made me to read about the horrifically low numbers of whooping cranes. I was grief-stricken by the apparently certain knowledge that they were doomed, that their extinction was something I was powerless to avert.
It’s only now looking back that I realize how my own sense of personal loss was wrapped up in my response. How the birds I encountered while tramping around the chaparral functioned as a surrogate family at a time when my own family was coming apart.
I’m glad the cranes are doing better. I hope they make it.
Trump isn’t creating this; he’s just tapping into it for his own (sad) purposes. But by tapping into it he reinforces it, amplifies it, and it becomes a kind of pollution of our collective social/political environment.
He’s a ruptured well-head spewing oil with no way to shut it off. Eventually (November?) the flow should stop on its own, but it’s going to take a long time to clean up the beaches.
I really don’t like when people rag on women for wearing make up to the gym. Like when people brag about how hard they work at the gym but then say, “I’m not one of those girls who wears make up to the gym.”
What does that have to do with anything? I wear make up to the gym ALL THE TIME. Sometimes it’s because I go at the end of the day so I’ve been wearing make up all day. Sometimes it’s because I want to cover up the bags under my eyes at 6:00 am. But how does that impact how hard I workout?
Oh. It doesn’t. That’s right.
Ladies. Don’t bash other ladies for their choice to doll themselves up before the gym. Maybe they are just looking for a cute fit guy to take home. Girls gotta do what a girls gotta do. Let her spend her money on a gym membership. Encourage each other to be fit or to reach whatever goals. Do that wearing make up or with a make up free face.
It makes me happy when people use Emily as a reaction gif.
Donald Trump telling Bernie supporters they’re welcome to support him feels like the scene where Voldemort declares that Harry Potter is dead and asks if anyone wants to start following him.
Announcing our Kickstarter backer livestream – next Sunday, June 19th from 1pm to 5pm PST! Join us as we say every single one of our 1,139 kickstarter backers’ names to thank them for bringing Poe Party to life. We’ll also be counting down to the end of our BackerKit (so get those final perk orders in!) and it wouldn’t be a Poe Party livestream if we didn’t have some fun announcements to make. Plus we’ll update you on how production went and how excited we are about the show–we might even have some special guests! It’s going to be a grand old time, and if you can’t make it, don’t worry! The livestream will be up on our channel forevermore for your viewing pleasure.
We’ll be counting down to the end during our livestream, so get those surveys, pledges, and add-ons in, right here: POE PARTY BACKERKIT!!
ALSO!!!
Special Announcements!
Surprise Guests!
Stuff on the Wall!
Movie Boat Game!
Q&Aing!
Maybe Sinead Finally Eats That Pint of Ice Cream!
And most importantly: A shout out to every single one of you that made this incredible experience possible.
No me gusta el basketball pero esto es perfecto, puede hacer que me empiece a interesar por los deportes. Maravillosas estas capitanas. Me gustó tanto que hice todos estos gifs. Video original
Alright, so I just recently listened to this and holy shit, I cannot believe that this was not posted anywhere else??? God this is a work of art and here’s why:
“This bitch is askin’ for someone to bring him to task, Somebody gimme some dirt on this asshole so we can at last unmask him” Damn TJeffs!!!! I just love how angry this dude gets!!!!
“He likes taxes so much, can we enact an asshole tax?” Okay, straight up, JMads whole verse is incredible. He starts of talking about how A.Ham and him started off as colleagues and worked together for the same issues, however, after working with him for a while, he realizes that A.Ham is wildly dangerous and seems to get his way most of the time, hence the title of the song. This is why I low-key always thought that JMads hates A.Ham slightly more than TJeffs.
“Let’s lower his stack in the eyes of the nation. With misinformation, first we diminish him, then we finish him!” Honestly, one of the great parts of the song. The rumors they spread! WHAT A DAMN MESS!!!!!
“I HEAR HE’S GEORGE WASHINGTON’S ILLEGITIMATE SON!” My damn senior quote!!!!!!!!! I literally shouted the first time I heard this, OMG!!! HOW WAS THIS NOT PART OF THE PLAY HOLY SHIT
“He wants to abolish slavery.” “That one’s actually true.”“NO”
I especially love how it is mostly a TJeffs and JMads song. Like no one else is it, but our favorite Southern Mother-Fucking Democratic-Republicans! This such a great song and I seriously think this is one of the greatest songs ever produced in the entire musical.
I know there are wonderful things that got lost on the way to the final version. Listening to those in isolation I can totally appreciate the sense of loss.
When I think about what it was that made Hamilton so amazing, it’s that they held themselves to such a high standard. They kept honing, refining, killing their darlings, burning things away in the crucible of their zeal. They kept pushing to make it as good as it could possibly be – and then to make it even better. That included taking things – really good things – away so that what was left could shine out more clearly.
Depending on when you ask me, this could easily be my favorite song in the show. I love its giddy over-the-top energy, its emotional arc. I love this version, too. But it got better.
Sometimes I think people don’t understand how lonely it is to be a kid, like you don’t matter. So, I’m eight, and I have these toys, these dolls. My favorite is this ugly girl doll who I call Clementine, and I keep yelling at her, “You can’t be ugly! Be pretty!” It’s weird, like if I can transform her, I would magically change, too.
