What to make your own tv show?

Wired has a fascinating article on a tv production studio in a box.

For $4,000, it's a specialized computer that can control cameras and video effects, letting one person run a live tv show feed, replacing a whole truck of equipment used in the past. It's making niche video programming more viable for sure.

blog post at Wired

It must be something in the water

Zach Galifianakis is a "quirky" comedian that many people haven't heard of if they don't watch "Comedy Central" or some of the late night shows.

His sense of humor is drier than the Sahara. He was also born and raised in North Wilkesboro, NC, near my home town.

Here he is in a new series of web videos, a talk show called "Between Two Ferns".

guest Michael Cera of "Juno"

guest talk show host Jimmy Kimmel

guest John Hamm of "Mad Men"

Another comedian I find interesting is Daniel Kitson. There's a clip of his show "Stories for the Wobbly Hearted" on YouTube.

Vicent Dooley ... "invent destiny"

The web video, with its developing conventions and aesthetics, hasn't really impressed me so far. Web series have a penchant for going after a particular demographic (like Lonelygirl) with such gusto that the internal references are obtuse and the characters and plots are, well, kind of boring. In other cases, such as the many video series at crackle.com, they're so poorly acted and scripted that they're painful and embarrassing to sit through like half-baked failed television pilots.

This web series looks more promising. The first video is funny and well written. The lead actor is really creates a character here and has a great sense of comic timing. So, let's meet Vincent, inventor. From California...

More videos are at the YouTube channel for the series.