Here is a trailer for the upcoming web series BROKEN HEARTS DIVISION...

Cameo appearance provided by yours truly in the form of a serial dating DOUCHE.... enjoy.

Broken Hearts Division / Trailer from Travis Graalman on Vimeo.

Mack and Stone, solving crimes of the heart. In full HD.


 

My latest video blog offers pretty much nothing... except a story about a little rubber Sumo Man and my plans for the weekend. I DID get a little tricky with this one... I worked out my rudimentary video editing skills... tried to keep things interesting.

BAWK BA-BAWK BAWK BAWWWWK... BA-BA-BA-BA BAWWWWK!!! You know what that is don't you? Come on? Guess. Hey, What the hell is MOCHI ice cream anyway?? MORNING ppppage!!! I'm up. I'm at it again. I'm writng. I'm trying to get myself back to writing more creative stuff. Creative stuff OH-OH creative stuff. I just can't get enough OH I just can't get enough. Depeche Mode blech. Let me make this perfectly clear. Morning pages are for PRIVATE use only. So please, stop right there. FREEZE. Please leave this page immediately. This exercise contains personal and private musings and is not for public consumption. So what? You're just going to keep reading? Oh thats nice. Seriously? Fine. Enter at your own risk. But no judgements. This is supposed to be a free flowing stream of consciousness exploration of the deepest darkest depths of my artistic soul. Wanna hear a good fart joke? I'm KING of the fart jokes. I am. Ask my girlfriend! I do fart jokes all the time and she LOVES it. She thinks everything I do is hilarious. She advised me not to do too many fart jokes in my video blog because I may over do it and then it will become less fun for her. Those fart jokes are very important to us as a couple. I should just save all that fart humor for a more intimate setting. It strengthens out bond. Helps us grow. You know what they say about fart jokes and relationships dont you? I will tell you... nothing. No one says anything about fart jokes and relationships.... maybe they should. so now you know... I'm just kidding... because my girlfriend does NOT enjoy fart jokes. I mean she will laugh at the occasional hearty belch... but fart jokes are going just a little too far. Now you SEE?? if this were a TRUE morning page I wouldn't feel the need to justify my comments or explain what I'm talking about. Because the MORNING PAGE is for ME!! You know what I AM going to work into my video blog?? The OPERA CHICKEN. I may change the name but  I have this bit I do... in private... about a chicken who sings opera. It's totally retarded. But I think its funny. It brings a a lot of joy and happiness into my life. There are two ways I could go about this. I'm could either... put myself in front of the camera... and do the opera chicken myself... I guess I would just look like a strange guy singing opera as if he were a chicken... could be funny... maybe I could even WEAR something "chickeny"... some sort of CHICKEN GEAR on my head... you know? Dress it up a bit. OR... the other option is to plop a puppet... or a rubber chicken.. somehting like that... and do the chicken opera OFF camera... like a voice over. That might save me the embarrassment of being seen singing "O Patria Mia" in Chicken. I dont know... its a fine line... a fine line. I have a couple of other characters I want to introduce into my video blog repertoire. I have a country music wannabe...I put on my cowboy hat and strum the guitar and make up stupid songs.... and a freestyle rapper from the old school... I put on my KANGOL and bust out some Funky Fresh lyrics... Just playing around. See how that works. Now I just have to find time to do all this.  

The Uncomfortable Truth by Nneka.

This is really Good sh%t... grossly overlooked and underestimated... Nneka is a Nigerian-German hip hop/soul singer and songwriter. She was born and raised in Warri, in the Delta region of Nigeria and then relocated to Hamburg, Germany at the age of 18.

THE UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH is off of her first US album release "CONCRETE JUNGLE."

Dig it...

Another video blog... I shot a cameo for a friend's web series and I made a great impression... as a DOUCHE!!

So my web series, CATCH, did NOT receive a certified nomination for a STREAMY award. I made an official submission for CATCH as BEST NEW SERIES. I sat and watched the official announcements in the form of a live feed on the streamy's website on Monday morning. I figured that CATCH receiving an official nomination would be a long shot, and I was REALLY feeling the odds of that long shot as the announcers started reading off nominees like Zach Galifianakis, Robert Englund, Justine Bateman, Lisa Kudrow... I was like... geeezus... look at what I'm up against... I thought the world of the web series was supposed to a place for the little guy... a niche for the no name...  I shouldn't be surprised. DR HORRIBLE's SING ALONG BLOG took home a truckload of Streamy Awards last year. That web series not only features well known major network sit com actor in the form of Neil Patrick Harris. In all honesty, DR HORRIBLE's SING ALONG BLOG is great... it's well done, well written.... and it's  F%#%ing hilarious... its also SO UN-FAIR. Sorry, I dont mean to sound cynical or bitter... but CUH-MON.... the story behind DR HORRIBLE is that these guys, in the midst of the Writers strike 2 years ago, decided to find a way to keep working and created this fun web series... must be NICE when you've got a crew of professional writers and DP's and AD's and grips and gaffers... oh...and by the way... why dont you go and shoot your little web series on the Paramount lot... might as well...nobody else is using it... right? Some struggle! Not really the Cinderella story that one would want to associate with the world of web entertainment.  I shot all my episode with NOTHING. NO budget... just a bunch of scratching and clawing and begging and shmoozing to get it all done...

F%#K YOU Dr Horrible!!

Okay... sorry...  I'm getting a little worked up.... breeeeeethhhe.

THE GUILD is another web series that has gathered up a handful of awards and nominations and thumbs up and fist bumps. The GUILD is also very good. I feel like THE GUILD is the closest thing out there to the real deal as far as a rags to riches, cinderella web series ... and Felicia Day gave a great acceptance speech at last years awards. She thanked everyone in the business who ever rejected her and forced her to pick up pen and start creating her own work. So I have to give her some credit. That's the kind of shit I like to hear.

And if you havent seen AUTO-TUNE THE NEWS... it's a must see... the whole AUTO-TUNE thing has reached a point of being overdone and annoying....  still... this series really innovative and also F%#king hilarious.

At least now I know what I'm up against. Now I know that I have to raise the bar... or I guess I shoud say that the bar has been raised... and I have no choice but to RESPOND. CATCH will get bigger and better, I promise you that.

Th Nominees for best new web series this year were not very impressive... and I'm really curious as to HOW a couple of those projects could have been nominated... not only over MY web series... but over a handful of projects in the mix, namely 2 series created by friends of mine: DOWNSIZED, written and produced by Daryn Strauss and Leyna Weber's ROAD TO THE ALTAR. Instead a goofy series called ODD JOBS gets a nomination. What's worse is that damn ODD JOBS features a real punk of an actor that I worked with in  a show in New York a few years back. I watched the complete THREE episode season... THREE episodes? Really?? I saw that little prick and wanted to puke. I so want to slap that kid.... I...am not.... bitter.... I'm just on a TEAR... I'm in a BITCH-ASS bad mood and I'm looking to hand out  a BEAT down.

One thing about the nominations that caught my eye.... the "Best Experimental Web Series" category. Hmmmm.... yes. I have a concept that i have been cultivating for about a year now that would fit rather nicely in that category. BIG Wheels are starting ... to turn AS... we.... speak... or AS... I write and SIP... my... TEA...

Stay tuned for that little magic bag of brilliance.... its gonna be a good one.

One thing I forgot to mention is the AUDIENCE CHOICE award ... I tried to recuit as many people as I could to get them to submit a public submission, thereby nominating CATCH for wild card Streamy award. Those nominations have not been announced. So I guess i STILL have a chance... but I'm not holding my breath.

Ok... I 'm out of here...

I will take this opportunity to shamlessly plug my own progress. it IZZZ MY blog by the way (F&%K U DR HORRIBLE)....  My fantastic cast and crew are shooting the final scenes of the REAL PROPERY project (a 50 page corporate video for a legal publishing firm) this weekend. I am also shooting an infomercial for a new cleaning product this weekend. I am writing, producing and performing in a 4 minute infomercial for a NEW client. I'm hoping this little venture can lead to more work from this particular client as well as an abundance of clients in the days to come...

Stay tuned (or stay AUTO-TUNED).

Ok... gotta go to work... I got bills to pay people!!!

 

LITTLE SUNRISE from the Album INTO THE WIND by Bei Bei & Shawn Lee is a sweet little suckatash of song by Gu Zheng performer Bei Bei and Ubiquity producer Shawn Lee. It's a beautiful blend of  Contemporary funk and traditional Eastern music, showcasing Bei Bei's mastery of the GU ZHENG, an acient Chinese instrument, a plucked half-tube zither with movable bridges and 21 strings.





From indiecityentertainment.com

The Official Famous Original Smijalicious Video blog # 108:  Topic of the day: the trials and tribulations of my latest corporate video project. I recorded like... 10 test runs before I just gave up and posted this version. One video blog was too long (12 minutes I think), one version showcased my inability to pronounciate (how the HELL do you spell pronnunciate?). Another version was just plain stupid... then again... aren't they all? Want to hear another fart joke?

Always subject to change, here is the latest official statement from THE STREAMY AWARDS:

"We know you’ve been waiting to see the list of Official 2010 Streamy Award Nominees ever since submissions opened in December. Rest assured, on Monday, March 1 the wait will finally be over. The International Academy of Web Television will announce the Official Streamy Awards nominees across all Streamy Awards categories (except Audience Choice finalists – we’ll be doing that mid-March) at this very location.

So, make sure to check out Streamys.org on March 1 for the official announcement, and don’t forget to mark your calendars for April 11. Good luck!"

As writer... producer and creator of  CATCH: the web series... I submitted a definitive and certified entry for my series. I also canvassed and recruited as many grassroots votes as I could in the hopes of getting a Public nomination for the Audience Choice Award...

I guess we'll see what happens....

Episode 8: Jerry has another date; The Detectives discuss lunch; Squib brings Edbo up to speed on the legend of Mike Fisk. "Giant Ra-ats??" CATCH was written and produced by James Huffman Written, directed by Jai Walia (Courtesey of Gr8 Dane Films), and features Trevor Jones, Tricia Pierce, James Huffman, Brian Wilson, JJ Huckin, Milo Eriksen, Bill Oberst Jr. and Rahul Nath.







MUSIC: Kill Kill KIll by BOY/GIRL

http://www.myspace.com/weareboyslashgirl


Here is the offcial music video for Kill Kill Kill. The Video was Directed by Sunshine Montiague edited by Scott Cronan and features actress Dawn Anderson. Boy/Girl is a sleazy art rock duo from NYC and LA.... playing a city near you... always....