I am proud to announce that SOLO has garnered FOUR NOMINATIONS for the Inaugural International Academy of Web Television Awards (IAWTV):
Best Directing (Comedy): Frederick Snyder
Best Male Performance (Comedy): Jonathan Nail
Best Original Music: Rob Gokee
Best Design: Jonathan Nail & Michael Levinson
This is truly an honor. And congratulations to all the IAWTV Award Nominees! Your work inspires me continually.
Introducing Bob Severns of Ohio! With his fantastic “Send Bob To Mars” video response, he won the iPad 2 – a generous gift from DataDirect Networks and Rocket Munkee Productions. Congratulations, Bob! Don’t get in trouble for using the iPad at work…
And now his winning video…
DataDirect Networks and Rocket Munkee Productions are happy to announce our Mars Madness “Comment & Win” Sweepstakes Winners!
Episode 4 Winner: Matt Wiatt of Florida – “I would learn how to farm hamsters and then open a dairy hamster milk farm when I returned home.”
Episode 5 Winner: Cathy Diaz of California – “Message: ‘Hey, how are you? And, oh, you’re going to die. See ya!’”
Episode 6 Winner: Gary Wischstadt of California – “My Space Ninja’s super power would be the ability to turn a man to putty with just the right look a get him to do whatever she wanted…. a lot like what yours can do I’m sure.”
Episode 7 Winner: Jared Hoy of California – “I’d play raffi’s banana phone over and over on a repeating loop a la Noriega to torture and get my information!”
Episode 8 Winner: Jason Smith of Alabama – “I’m quite fond of poking… death pokes.”
The winners were chosen at random from all valid entries per episode. The 5 winners each received an Apple TV! Congratulations and enjoy! You better be watching SOLO on iTunes with your new Apple TV.
Now to give away an iPad 2 in the Mars Madness “Mars or Bust” Contest!
We are so busy in post that we almost forgot to make an announcement on our website…
SOLO – Season 1.5 launches April 12th, 2011! This is also the 30th Anniversary of the Space Shuttle Program. How’s that for timing?
We will release the first three episodes on YouTube with annotations and updated graphics beginning April 4th. Episode 4 will begin on Tuesday, April 12 and we will release a new episode each week. 6 new episodes are coming your way!
And we couldn’t have accomplished any of this without the help of our SOLONAUTS! Every dollar was put to good use. Thank you for your donations!
Tonight Indie Intertube announced their nominations for their 2010 Award Show. Among the shows nominated, SOLO The Series was nominated for 5 Awards:
Best Set Design
Best Dressed
Editing – Frank Mohler
Best Actor in a Comedy – Jonathan Nail
Audience Choice
This is a wonderful honor. Thank you to Indie Intertube and to our fans for the nominations! Congratulations to all of the shows who were also nominated.
The award show will be streamed online on January 20, 2011 on Indie Intertube.
