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Episode #12 of YOU SUCK AT PHOTOSHOP is up LIVE.
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Six Million on 6/26/2008 2:39:17 AM by Rob Barnett
In our never-ending quest to not suck....we're about to unleash the return of DONNIE HOYLE and YOU SUCK AT PHOTOSHOP.
Unless there's a breakin, a leak, and sabotage,
set your timepiece for early FRIDAY morning,
the 27th of June, the year of our lord 2008.
Monday, 6/30 is the premiere of the second all-new WAINY DAYS.
Starring......uh.....David Wain....and LEE MAJORS (The Six Million Dollar Man) ! !
The X Files
Lost
Friends
Star Trek
The Sopranos
The Fugitive
Seinfeld
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Six Feet Under
Twin Peaks
Arrested Development
just a few of the biggest finales ever - that all have one thing in common:
they've got absolutely nothing to do with the Season Finale of Sn4tchbuck13r's Second Chance & the unfolding mystery about the return of Donnie Hoyle & YOU SUCK AT PHOTOSHOP
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Donnie Hoyle on 5/6/2008 12:14:58 AM by Rob Barnett
We're totally blown away!
THANK YOU to the WEBBY AWARDS judges
and to all of YOU who voted for My Damn Channel.
7 Honors in All from the "Oscars of the Web."
We were stunned to be in any of these categories with all the nominees and we're shocked to have won so many.
Congrats to all the winners & nominees in the WEBBY AWARDS.
We're sharing MANHUGS with Big Fat Brain, David Wain, Harry Shearer & all the producers, crew and artists who make My Damn Channel's original videos.
Our business was built to respect the best talent in music & in comedy. We're incredibly honored and proud to support their work...
& now....cue the music:
Webby Award Winner:
Best Comedy Series - Wainy Days (David Wain)
People's Voice Winner:
Best Comedy Series - You Suck at Photoshop (Big Fat Brain)
Webby Award Winner:
Best How-To & DIY - You Suck at Photoshop (Big Fat Brain)
People's Voice Winner:
Best How-To & DIY - You Suck at Photoshop (Big Fat Brain)
3 Honorees:
Official Honoree / Humor:
My Damn Channel
Official Honoree / Comedy: individual short or episode: Wainy Days - Season 1 - Episode #10 - The Future (guest starring: Rob Corddry, Zandy Hartig, A.D. Miles)
Official Honoree / Viral:
Harry Shearer's "Found Objects" - Katie Couric #1
Harry Shearer's "Waterboardin', USA" was nominated for Best Music Video and we congratulate Freestyle 101 from G4TV.com on their win - as well as Minilogue from Blink Productions as the People's Voice Winner for Music Video.
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Peopleburg on 5/3/2008 2:08:44 AM by Rob Barnett
TIME 100 Most Influential People in the World
Technoculture
Fun with Photoshop
Thursday, May. 01, 2008 By JOSH QUITTNER
Troy Hitch, left, and Matt Bledsoe have just been revealed as the co-creators of the hit Web series You Suck at Photoshop.
Five hundred Gazillion Web video channels and nothing good on? Google this: You Suck at Photoshop. Narrated by the fictional Donnie Hoyle--an angry, sarcastic, cuckolded Photoshop expert--it was launched in late December and ended 10 episodes later, in April, when Donnie mysteriously disappeared. Not that you ever saw him. In the videos, the camera remains centered on a computer desktop and follows Donnie's cursor as he conducts mock tutorials on how to use the photo-altering application. Sound obscure? Maybe not. With the explosion of blogging and do-it-yourself publishing, Photoshop has become one of the Web generation's indispensable tools. Accordingly, the Donnie series has been viewed nearly 8 million times and is up for two 2008 Webby Awards: Best Comedy and Best How-To Video.
How a goof became a phenomenon is a Web-age love story almost as sweet as Donnie is bitter. Many fans believed the video series had to have been made by a professional comedian; Dane Cook was a favorite suspect. But it turns out to be the work of Troy Hitch, 37, and Matt Bledsoe, 39, both of Covington, Ky.--two former ad-agency guys who met while recording a radio commercial in nearby Cincinnati, Ohio. They buddied up, started writing funny bits and launched a new-media-centric creative agency called Big Fat Institute in 2005.
That's where Rob Barnett discovered them. A show-biz guy who had worked at MTV and VH1 before spending two years at the helm of CBS Radio, Barnett had decided to become a Web-video impresario. He found Big Fat Institute while looking for someone to design his website. You Suck at Photoshop "was hysterical," Barnett recalled recently. "I was instantly engaged and e-mailed them: 'WHO are you?' In 38 seconds, I get a response: 'Who are YOU?' We started flirting." The e-mail led to phone calls and an invitation to visit Barnett in New Jersey. "A few days later, they jumped on a plane to Newark, and we fell in love," he says. Barnett signed the guys to build his video-entertainment website, MyDamnChannel.com and then produce comedy videos for it. You Suck at Photoshop was their first baby.
Hitch and Bledsoe had long nurtured an idea for a character they thought of as the Angry Photoshop Guy. Explains Bledsoe: "We had both been in the agency business so long that after a while we'd seen every kind of person in the advertising world." One of those stereotypes, he says, was the "insane designer, basically. He has horrible social skills and horrible things going on in his life, and the only thing he has going for him is he can out-Photoshop the guy in the cube next to him." It took 2 1/2 hours to complete Episode 1. "The vast majority is improvised by Troy," says Bledsoe. "I hate him for that." Hitch adds, "It was meant to be a one-off thing." But within a few weeks, the blogosphere discovered it, and the series began racking up page views.
In my favorite episode, Donnie shows viewers how to seamlessly remove the wedding band from a picture of his cheating wife's finger. "We actually really put the ring up for sale on eBay, and within four hours, 30,000 people had come by to look or bid on it," Hitch tells me. "The ring was bid up to $760." But eBay shut down the auction after discovering the performance art--a violation of the terms of service, apparently.
The team emerged from anonymity in April to launch a sequel, Snatchbuckler's Second Chance. It's filmed in a fictional, virtual world called Peopleburg.com Snatchbuckler, Donnie's erstwhile partner in the online game World of Warcraft, has gone there to shake off his Internet addiction. The video debuted on MyDamnChannel.com in late April, and it looks pretty cool. But I miss Donnie and wish I could Photoshop him back into my life.
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You Suck at Photoshop on 4/25/2008 9:06:00 AM by Rob Barnett
Matt Bledsoe & Troy Hitch
We’re launching our newest MY DAMN CHANNEL series today from the men who brought you “You Suck at Photoshop” (YSAP). Big Fat Brain is: Matt (Bledsoe) & Troy (Hitch) - one vowel away from South Park and please add Amy Austin to your consciousness - since every male lobe needs a brilliant woman behind them...or something like that.
YSAP is nominated twice by the WEBBY AWARDS for Best Comedy Series and for Best How-To Series.
7 WEBBY nods in all, for our artists & our site.
From Genesis to Revelation & from “YSAP” to “Sn4tchbuck3r’s Second Chance”
Here’s the first exclusive interview with Big Fat Brain by TIME magazine’s Josh Quittner
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You Suck at Photoshop on 4/8/2008 9:24:00 PM by Rob Barnett
The NY Times calls the WEBBY AWARDS "the Oscars of the web."
Over 10,000 entries from over 60 countries & today's WEBBY announcements blew us away today with 7 honors in all.
4 nominations & 3 Honors. Only 5 others have more nominations.
Here's the list:
1. My Damn Channel (Honoree for Best Humor Site)
2. Harry Shearer - Found Objects / Katie Couric (Honoree for Best Viral Video)
3. Wainy Days - Episode 10 - The Future (Honoree for Best Indiv. Comedy Episode)
4. Wainy Days (Nominated for Best Comedy Series)
5. Big Fat Brain's You Suck At Photoshop (Nominated for Best Comedy Series)
6. Big Fat Brain's You Suck at Photoshop (Nominated for Best How-To / DIY Series)
7. Harry Shearer - "Waterboardin', USA" (Nominated for Best Music Video)
Nominations are decided by judges....and by you - so please vote!
A bit of a bitch - but it only takes a minute - here's how:
Click here - then register
Go to Online Film & Video
Find COMEDY LONG FORM OR SERIES (& vote for WAINY DAYS or YSAP)
Find MUSIC (& vote for HARRY SHEARER)
Find HOW-TO/DIY (& vote for YSAP)
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You Suck at Photoshop on 2/23/2008 10:29:00 AM by Rob Barnett
Monday 2/25:
HORRIBLE PEOPLE - episode 3 - the evil soap opera continues
Tuesday 2/26:
HARRY SHEARER's FOUND OBJECTS - BILL O'REILLY / ANN COULTER / KATIE COURIC.
(O'Reilly is too beautiful for words. Coulter has an ugly addiction. We still love Katie.)
Wednesday 2/27: COOKIN' with COOLIO - episode 3
ANDY MILONAKIS presents ANDY MILONAKIS
Thursday 2/28:
CARNIVAL of STUFF presents INVASION - episode 3
DON WAS presents NEW MUSIC from the LA SKA BAND, COMMON SENSE
Friday 2/29:
BIG FAT BRAIN presents "YOU SUCK AT PHOTOSHOP" - episode 8 (it's comin - it's comin)
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You Suck at Photoshop on 2/17/2008 8:53:00 PM by Rob Barnett
A lot of video sites wish they could be YouTube. We don't. We're true to our plan to premiere at least one major video every day.
Here's a cheat sheet for the week ahead:
Monday/President's Day:
HORRIBLE PEOPLE - episode 2 - our brand new evil soap opera continues
Tuesday:
HARRY SHEARER's FOUND OBJECTS - MIKE HUCKABEE - Caught on Tape
Wednesday:
COOKIN' WITH COOLIO - episode 2 - SHAKA ZULU!
Thursday:
CARNIVAL of STUFF CHANNEL - INVASION - episode 2 - our damn animation....and.....more NEW music from DON WAS & THE WASMOPOLITAN CAVALCADE OF RECORDED MUSIC
Friday:
BIG FAT BRAIN CHANNEL - YOU SUCK AT PHOTOSHOP - no....you really suck.