It's here! Well, almost.

Season Two of SHE'S GOT THE LOOK, for which I story produced the premiere and one other episode, airs June 11 at 9pm on TvLand.

        

Style Network's SPLIT ENDS, on which I am enjoying yet another season of gainful employment, has received a Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Special Class Program for the last outing.

Congratulations to all involved.

        

Now you can follow me with Twitter. You know, if you're that kind of person.

        

Super-gigantic thanks to Full Sail University staff as well as director Bobcat Goldthwait and actor Tom Kenny for participating in the decidedly under-teched but extremely awesome screening of SHAKES THE CLOWN at Full Sail University this past week.

I'd heard a month or two earlier that SHAKES was a contender for their new screening series, and it was a real pleasure to moderate the student discussion of the film --- complete with call-ins from Bob and Tom graciously arranged by the incredible Paul Kozlowski.

Full Sail Network's RG Lacandola posted this brief interview with me afterward.


Story Producer and Grad Troy Devolld from Full Sail Network on Vimeo.

        

As you can tell from the frequent championing of her work that I do here on my wee blog, I've had the pleasure of knowing the multitalented, multiplatform mediaist tornado Allee Willis for about a year now. Whether you know her as the songwriter behind Boogie Wonderland, Neutron Dance, The Theme from Friends, Broadway's The Color Purple, or countless other projects, as a multimedia artist whose paintings and sculptures have sold in the thousands around the world, as a brilliant set designer for music videos and television programs, or as any one of her myriad creative selves, there's no debating her ability to remain creatively evergreen, boldly charging down the dark alleys of creativity like some kind of pink and green superhero.

So believe me when I tell you that her latest project, a music video called HEY JERRIE that posts on YouTube at 6pm tonight, will be worth the watch. The video features Allee with 91-year-old drummer Jerrie Thill.

More on the project here:

www.alleewillis.com/music/jerrie-thill/index.html

Thanks in advance for supporting real genius by lending your eyes and ears to something inspiring and fun.

-Troy

        

Anyone who knows me knows how I feel about the incredible SITA SINGS THE BLUES and its creator, Nina Paley, whose fight to get the film distributed still rages on.

You can donate to help get Sita to the big screen at www.questioncopyright.org/sita_distribution. While I'm a big fan of ensuring that writers, musicians and artists be allowed to profit from their work by retaining ownership, the sticking point for Sita is a copyright issue --- the film is reliant on several Annette Hanshaw songs of the 1920's which need to be cleared... though Nina's finding many other ways to ensure the film gets seen until that can happen.

        

        

I'll be 38 next week, which is no big shakes as life is good and numbers don't mean anything.  I've had a great year personally and professionally, and owe a lot of people my gratitude for being part of my ongoing evolution as a human being.

        

How about some more exciting Allee Willis / Bubbles the artist YouTubage?

This time out, it's "I Confess," an incredible video resulting from the collaboration of Bubbles (Allee), Holly Palmer, and animator Prudence Fenton, who belongs in the pantheon of history's greatest animators for her groundbreaking work on everything from Pee Wee's Playhouse to Liquid Television to Peter Gabriel's best-remembered videos and beyond.

Dig in, eyeballs.