#newellijaytelevision — Public Fediverse posts

Hey, I haven't talked about it recently, but here's a reminder of this thing that I'm doing: https://communitymedia.video/w/icMDFVmUA8jC8WEDFei1SB

Me and Connor and some of the other #NETV folks are taking the ideas behind #NewEllijayTelevision and #communityMedia national.

We've launch a youtube channel and a peertube channel and a website to help highlight independent and community media around the globe.

Check out @communitybroadcasting.network

If you're seeing my #publicDomain work, or seeing #NETV #NewEllijayTelevision for the first time, or even if you're already familiar with what we do and the ideas behind #communityMedia let me take this moment to make a small pitch:

New Ellijay Television needs advertisers to keep it going. Let me advertise your art project, indie website, small business, album, or other thing.

We'll stick you up on the Sponsor section of NewEllijay.News and run your 30 second spot at least 4x a day on our live stream and our cable network.

If you're not making much/any money on the thing you make, but you just want to get the word out, I'll run the ad for free.

If you're making money on the thing, and you want to get the word out to make more money, our packages for fedifolks start at $50/month.

Let's talk.

Sundog mentioned a moment ago that the AJC is going to stop it's print publication.

https://retro.social/@[email protected]claim.technology/115600041119909279

And this started me back down the alternative newswire rabbit hole that I've been circling as I think about the future of #NewEllijayTelevision and what #communityMedia needs to become in order to meet this moment.

We have the infrastructure to reboot something like the Underground Press Syndicate ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Press_Syndicate .)

It would be easier and cheaper and more valuable today than it was in the 60s and 70s. We could have a digital and print distribution that actually spans the globe.

We could enable local news and media organizations to expand their reach well beyond their current limitations, and I'm positive that there is a way to make it self sustaining, and even profitable (What that way is, I don't know! I'm just certain that there must be one.)

So now I have to figure out what this means for #AnalogRevolution and #newellijaytelevision

I expect both to continue on. Analog might be a little quiet for a while, maybe with a renewed focus on print, our magazines, and journalism.

We have 4 LPs planned for release next year and I don't expect that to change. We'll probably not add any live shows, which is disappointing. I was hoping to do 12 - 24 live shows in 26, but both of my audio engineers are leaving.

It's Saturday, and that means #SaturdayShenanigans on #NewEllijayTelevision

Cartoons and kids space adventures (and adult space adventures made to emulate kids space adventures) are on now and continuing throughout the day.

Watch along https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/hPrMTPpUuP8ZLoaqHTkLmd?start=0s

We're on the fediverse at @video, we're on cable in the north georgia mountains on ETC channel 176, we're on roku (search Ellijay and look for the raised fist).

Shenanigans!

What is a #SkyPirates playset?

I'm glad you asked!

The #SkyPirates playset is a project from #mountainTownToys aka me and my dad (and, this time, Sundog.)

We're making original action figures, this time in Playmobil scale and style, but hopefully soon also in 3 3/4 Kenner scale.

We're making Sky Pirates inspired by (but not actually based on) the ones seen in films like Filibus, The Pirates of 1920, The Arial Submarine and others, as seen on #NewEllijayTelevision.

You can learn more about Mountain Town Toys on our website, probably. https://mountaintowntoys.com and occasionally I post work in progress builds at @MountainTownToys but really I haven't used it in like two years and I should start again.

I put most of my energy and time in to local music and news and entertainment and publishing becuase that's how we reach people, it's how we build communities, it's how we keep money and power and mindshare in our communities and out of the pockets of Billionaires.

That's why I built #newellijaytelevision and #AnalogRevolution and all the rest of the things I do.

That's why I'll spend three hours tomorrow finishing the setup of the #JupitersGhost tilde server and making accounts for interested parties.

This is why #newellijaytelevision exists.

This is why #expeditionSasquatch exists.

This is why I'm doubling down to make #JupitersGhost exists.

Do you want to run a television network for your community? (That might be a local community around you, or a community that is separated by geography and united by a common cause.)

I do it (https://newellijay.tv) I wrote a book about it (https://communitymedia.network) and I want to help you do it too.

We're looking at getting our network on local cable, and once that's accomplished I'll update the book with info on how we did it.

We're also looking at establishing other #NETV affiliates. You wouldn't be #NewEllijayTelevision, but you'd have access to the #NewEllijayTV videos and archives in exchange for offering the same to us for things you produce, and using some NETV affiliate branding (Like your local NBC or CBS affiliate does.)

There's a new episode of Expedition Sasquatch available now!

#expeditionSasquatch is a comedy podcast about a bigfoot hunter who finds all kinds of other things, but fails to find and kill bigfoot.

It's written by Me! and voiced by my good pal @Username_Here_ASAP this episode features music from @connor_dylan

You can watch the video version of the podcast ("Video" it's two images with the audio behind it. There's really nothing to see this time) on #NewEllijayTelevision https://vod.newellijay.tv/videos/watch/693f2694-f46a-461c-b998-3deb2a5cf226

or you can listen to/subscribe to the podcast version: https://expeditionsasquatch.org/2023/12/30/The-Arachnid-Wars.html

@DoctorDeathray I just finished scoring the next episode of the Houdini serial I'm releasing next week.

I'm about to start editing the next episode of Expedition Sasquatch which also gets released next week.

Then I'm going to record some bits for @jandrews for the episode of Jupiter's Ghost releasing this month, and just generally start writing/recording/assembling some other bits for Jupiter's Ghost to be released in the coming weeks.

I'm working on a Jupiter's Ghost novella too, but I don't know if it will ever see the light of day.

At some point I have to start filming this weeks news for #NewEllijayTelevision, it's a big one, between the fire in blue ridge, the escaped kangaroo, Open enrollment, and Kissinger.

I'm working on #aurelisles today. I might put some more time in to the #mBBS today. We're trying to blend up a new espresso roast for the coffee shop. Our latest attempt was close, but didn't hit the mark.

(If you're interested in this stuff, https://communitymedia.network and #diyTV #DIYmedia #netv #newEllijayTelevision )

If you don't have anything better to do this morning, we've got Saturday Morning cartoons and Saturday afternoon Adventure Movies on New Ellijay Television.

https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/hPrMTPpUuP8ZLoaqHTkLmd

#NewEllijayTelevision #NewEllijayTV #netv

Hey Musicians and Filmmakers! We're getting ready for the #EllijayMakerspace // #NewEllijayTelevision summer film festival.

We'll start accepting submissions soon.

It's a Television festival, so we encourage short works, and love to see people experimenting with old cameras or low budgets.

This year, we're adding a few categories:

- Pilots:
shoot the pilot episode for a TV show!

- Silents:
Shoot a new silent film, write and record a new score for an old silent film, re-edit an existing silent film to tell a new story

- Ephemera:
Make something small and fleeting, evoke a feeling of being incomplete.

Sneak Peak at a project I've been working on:
https://communitymedia.network/

This is a website with information about #DIYTV and #NewEllijayTelevision, a history of independent video from the #videofreex through to #youtube and suggestions on how to proceed in to the future.

It's still growing. There are almost certainly typos, formatting issues, dead links, awkward phrases, incorrect information, missing instructions, etc. Over the next week or three I'll be adding links, embedding videos, sharing code, and writing additional supplemental and instructional materials.

But the site is up and it works, and I have a page through which you can by a hand bound zine style copy of Community Media: A Handbook for Revolutions in DIY TV.

Got off to a rocky start this morning, but #SaturdayShenanigans is in full swing on #NewEllijayTelevision

https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/hPrMTPpUuP8ZLoaqHTkLmd

Alright, so let's talk about #NewEllijayTelevision and Broadcast Automation.

Err #broadcastAutomation #NETV

After lots of fighting with various pieces of software that did almost what I want, but missed some fundamental element (or allegedly did exactly what I want but were broken in some fundamental way) I decided that traditional broadcast automation software was too big of a headache for me.

So I'm using ffplayout (thread)

So if you've been waiting on our official roku app to check out what #newellijaytelevision is all about, or you're hearing about it now for the first time and want to know more, please do check out what we've done so far.

Give us a review on the store, watch a bit of the live stream or one of our archives.

https://channelstore.roku.com/details/923c7927ca06324871b965f166805a5b/new-ellijay-tv

Now that this hurdle has been cleared, we should have a lot of new original material going up every few days.

#NewEllijayTV streams off a server in Bulgaria so ... It might not work well.

Ah well, it's #diymedia, and specifically #diyTV It doesn't have to work *well*, it just has to work.

Hey! Do you make videos?

Especially short films, Television style videos, or Music programs, but really any kind of news or entertainment videos.

New Ellijay Television's Roku app is under review right now, and we're getting ready for our first big promotional push (I'm going to be on the radio. I might be interviewed on television.)

I'm looking for independent, values aligned, original video productions to add to our VOD catalog and our live stream rotation.

#DIYMedia #diyTV #netv #NewEllijayTV #newellijaytelevision

I'm proud of this. I'm excited to talk more about it. I'm glad to share it with you all.

The cartoon is going to end up on #newellijayTV when it's ready.

We have a bunch of other #diyTV that we've been working on going up on #newellijaytelevision in the coming days.

It's time for me to write some blog posts.

We've been making such good progress on #diyTV for #newellijaytelevision and I want to celebrate that.

It has been brought to my attention that I haven't talked about Jupiter's Ghost recently enough for even people who know me well to know what the hell I am talking about so

It's time to talk about my pet project.

Not #newellijaytelevision

Not #expeditionsasquatch

Not the #zinestation or the #zinestation486

and not the #spacelarpcafe (although very nearly the space larp cafe)

Today, right now, and for the foreseeable future, I'm talking about #jupitersghost or #jg, what it is, what I want it to be, and how you can get involved.