Video: Wayne Coyne appears on “The Gorburger Show”
Leave it to Oklahoma City rock star Wayne Coyne, frontman for The Flaming Lips, to use his love of confetti to antagonize a savage beast.
Coyne appears on this week’s episode of comedian T.J. Miller (“She’s Out of My League”) web series “The Gorburger Show,” and not surprisingly, things get even weirder than usual, which doesn’t even seem possible but is so, so true.
After all, this is a show in which Miller dresses as a giant blue man-eating monster that got his own show by attacking and killing the hosts of a super-perky Japanese morning program.
This video is NSFW because of lots of strong language. No surprise there either.
The Lips will release their 13th studio album, “The Terror,” on Tuesday. But NPR is giving fans a First Listen of the album, which even Wayne has described as disturbing.
Click here to access NPR’s free advanced streaming of the album.
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Video: “Storm Chasers” star Reed Timmer raising money on Kickstarter for web docu-series “Tornado Chasers”
Oklahoma native and University of Oklahoma Ph.D student Reed Timmer, the star of Discovery Channel’s 2007-2012 series “Storm Chasers,” is raising funds via Kickstarter for his new docu-series “Tornado Chasers” which he is producing simultaneously as he negotiates his next TV deal.
“Tornado Chasers” is featured on his site www.tvnweather.com.
“I’m on the road 90 percent of the time,” Timmer told The Oklahoman correspondent Sandi Davis in a phone interview last month from his Norman home. “I drive from the Mexican border to Canada. I spent Christmas chasing storms in Mississippi and Alabama.”
With 2013 already a hotbed of wild weather, this year’s summer tornado season is expected to be unusually extreme, and Timmer is not one to sit back and wait for his TV deal to get inked. Chasing celebs Joel Taylor and Dick McGowan as well as Emmy-nominated Chris Whiteneck – a veteran of “Dirty Jobs,” “Deadliest Catch” and “Storm Chasers” – are already on board for the series, according to a news release.
Timmer’s Kickstarter campaign goal is $75,000, and the deadline is March 28 to reach it or the funding does not come through.
The campaign has raised $70,375 with two weeks left to go.
The pledge amounts range from $1 to $10,000, and depending on the amount, those that pledge in return receive anything from an advance pass for the 2013 season of “Tornado Chasers” to a chance to chase tornadoes with the team in the Dominator 1.
For more information or to donate, click here to go to Timmer’s Kickstarter site.
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ACM Awards nominations to be announced Wednesday
The Band Perry (AP file)
For the second year, the Academy of Country Music will announce nominees for its annual ACM Awards via digital press conference scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to a news release.
Hosted by the Academy of Country Music, CBS Television and dick clark productions, the nominees will be announced via ACM social media channels: www.facebook.com/AcademyOfCountryMusic and www.twitter.com/ACMawards.
The Band Perry, “2 Broke Girls” star Beth Behrs, Little Big Town, Scotty McCreery, Ryan Seacrest, “Entertainment Tonight” hosts Rob Marciano and Nancy O’Dell and more surprise guests will announce categories via videos posted in real time to fans and media simultaneously. The press conference will culminate with country music fans announcing the nominees for Entertainer of the Year.
Past participants in the ACM nominations press conferences have included Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, Miranda Lambert, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Reba, Lionel Richie, Blake Shelton, Sugarland and Carrie Underwood.
Oklahoma country music superstar Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan will co-host the 48th Annual ACM Awards, which will be broadcast live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Sunday at 7 p.m. April 7 on the CBS Television Network.
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Water4 offers photo contest with Grammy Award winning singer Sandi Patty as co-judge
Sandi Patty
Oklahoma-based charity Water4 is inviting Facebook friends, Twitter and Instagram followers and Pinterest pinners to express their gratitude for the free flowing water they are fortunate enough to enjoy by uploading personal photos and videos which express the answer to the question, What Does Water Mean to You?
For each photo submitted, a generous donor has pledged to make a contribution of $5 in the submitter’s name to Water4. Further, anyone, including a submitter, who makes a $5 donation to Water4 during the contest will have their $5 donation matched by the same donor, according to a news release.
The contest was launched earlier this month and continues until midnight Dec. 31.
Water4 co-founders Richard and Terri Greenly and Grammy Award-winning Christian singer and Water4 supporter Sandi Patty will choose the best three photo submissions. The three photo contest winners each will receive the honor of having a well dug and a pump installed and named for their families. Also, each of the winners will receive four hand-crafted fair-trade bracelets purchased from women in Dehli, India to share with their family members.
In 1901, Water4 co-founder Terri Greenly’s great-grandmother won a dry plot of land in the lottery, instilling in the family the importance of having access to fresh water and leading them to learn how to pump their own. They went on to use their knowledge and experience in the water well industry to help address the world water crisis and in 2008, Richard and Terri Greenly founded Water4 to endeavor to end the world water crisis. Most Americans are blessed with clean water today, but every 22 seconds around the world a child dies from preventable water-related disease, according to the release.
“Terri and I are thrilled to host this contest to raise awareness and support for Water4 and for the solution to the little known, worst crisis of humanity, the lack of clean drinking water to the bottom billion in the world. For the first time in history, this solution to fixing the world’s water crisis (4000+ child deaths per day) is within our grasp,” says Richard Greenly in the release.
“It is an honor for me to co-host this contest with Richard and Terri Greenly and Water4 and to help bring attention to this issue which is important to every person on this planet,” said Patty, who resides in the Deer Creek area of Oklahoma County, in the release.
“Water4 offers a simple and sustainable solution to the water crisis by not just getting clean water to people but by teaching them to get clean water to themselves. The holiday season gives us the chance to give back and show how grateful we are for the good fortune with which we have been graced, to do something to help those who haven’t been as lucky as we.”
For more information, go to www.water4.org.
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All-American Rejects talk baseball, coolness and perform “Walk Over Me” in MLB Fan Cave
The All-American Rejects perform in the MLB Fan Cave.
Pop-rockers All-American Rejects, who have Stillwater roots, were the latest music artists to perform and sit down for a chat in the MLB Fan Cave. To see their performance and interview clips, click here.
At MLBFanCave.com, new videos, photos and blogs featuring Major League Baseball’s biggest stars along with celebrities, musical acts and other guests are posted every day, allowing fans to interact with the game in an entirely new way. The MLB Fan Cave, located at 4th Street and Broadway in the heart of New York City’s Greenwich Village, is a first-of-its-kind space mixing baseball with music, popular culture, media, interactive technology and art.
The Rejects, who are due to play a home state show Dec. 14 at Oklahoma City’s Diamond Ballroom, played “Walk Over Me” from their 2012 album “Kids in the Street,” in the MLB Fan Cave. They also talked about their tour and tried to define coolness. Check out the video about the thrill of throwing out the first pitch at a Yankees game to hear them chat a bit about maintaining their Oklahoma roots and raising money for various charities, including OKC-based Feed the Children.
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Georgina Chapman picks Oklahoma photographer’s image for “Project Imaginat10n” short film
“Her Throne Was Magic,” a photo by Brittany Johnson of Edmond, has been chosen as a winner in “Project Imaginat10n,” the latest creative endeavour between Ron Howard and Canon U.S.A. As part of the project, fashion designer Georgina Chapman will use Johnson’s photo as inspiration for the character in her short film.
Brittany Johnson of Edmond has been chosen as a winner in “Project Imaginat10n,” the latest creative endeavour between Ron Howard and Canon U.S.A. As part of the project, fashion designer Georgina Chapman will use Johnson’s photo “Her Throne Was Magic” as inspiration for the character in her short film.
From Wednesday’s Life section of The Oklahoman.
Georgina Chapman picks Oklahoma photographer’s image for “Project Imaginat10n” short film
As part of Ron Howard’s initiative, Edmond resident Brittany Johnson’s photo “Her Throne Was Magic” will inspire the character in the fashion designer/actress’ short film.
Fashion designer and actress Georgina Chapman has chosen an Oklahoma photographer’s whimsical image to inspire her short film in Ron Howard’s “Project Imaginat10n.”
Edmond resident Brittany Johnson’s “Her Throne Was Magic,” which depicts a little girl bathed in silvery light holding court with a pack of stuffed animals underneath a stately tree, will influence the character of Chapman’s mini-movie.
“I am so incredibly happy and honored to be a part of something so amazing,” Johnson said in an email last month after she was announced as a “Project Imaginat10n” winner. “The goal for my photography has always been to tell a story, to make you feel an emotion and to inspire you.”
The nationwide “Project Imaginat10n” photo contest is part of the ongoing “Long Live Imagination” partnership between Canon U.S.A. and Howard, the Oscar-winning director who was born in Duncan.
Canon representatives, Howard and a public vote selected 91 winners, including two Oklahomans, for “Project Imaginat10n,” in which 10 celebrity filmmakers each will use 10 of the winning photos to inspire a short film.
In addition to Chapman, four other celebrities already have been tapped to direct “Project Imaginat10n” shorts: Academy Award-winning actor Jamie Foxx; Golden Globe-
Georgina Chapman (AP file)
nominated actress Eva Longoria (“Desperate Housewives”); Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter; and singer/songwriter/producer James Murphy.
Chapman, the wife of Oscar-winning producer Harvey Weinstein, is the designer and co-founder of the Marchesa fashion label. Her “Project Imaginat10n” mini-movie will mark her debut as a film director.
All five short films will go into production between this fall and spring 2013 and will premiere at a special “Project Imaginat10n” Film Festival. Five additional directors will be announced at a later date, according to a news release.
For “Project Imaginat10n,” 10 winning photographs were chosen from the thousands submitted in nine different storytelling categories: Character, Mood, Goal, Backstory, Setting, Obstacle, Relationship, The Unknown and Time. Howard personally picked the victor in the Discovery category — “Unparalled” by Jennifer Harris of New Orleans — and that photo will provide a thematic tie for all the celebrities’ short films.
While Johnson was a winner in the Character category, Richard Waters of Broken Arrow was picked in the Relationship division for his photo “Gone Fishin.”
“I am so passionate about the integrity and user-generated process of ‘Project Imaginat10n’ where our celebrity directors can be directly inspired by photographers from all across the country,” Howard said in the news release. “As we selected the photographs, I was blown away by the beauty, perspective and intrigue that they conveyed, and was thrilled that so many people wanted to once again take part in this exciting artistic experiment.”
Ron Howard (AP file)
Along with the Discovery image, the celebrity filmmakers each are selecting one photograph from the other nine storytelling categories, ultimately using 10 photos to create their short films.
Last year, Howard and Canon partnered for a similar creative endeavor, “Project Imagin8ion.” From the more than 96,300 photos submitted online, eight photos were selected and influenced the award-winning short film, “when you find me,” which Howard produced and his actress/filmmaker daughter Bryce Dallas Howard directed.
Broken Arrow resident Chris Wehner’s “Yea, Though I Walk,” a stunning image of a gate at Tulsa’s Memorial Park Cemetery, was one of the winning photos in the “Project Imagin8ion” competition.
For “ Project Imaginat10n,” Ron Howard again will mentor the celebrity directors as they begin the filmmaking process in his effort to prove that “we’re all creative.” To see all the winning photos, go to http://imagination.usa.canon.com.
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Two Oklahomans named winners in Ron Howard’s new “Project Imaginat10n” photography contest
“Her throne was magic,” a photo by Brittany Johnson of Edmond, has been chosen as a winner in “Project Imaginat10n,” the latest creative endeavour between Ron Howard and Canon U.S.A.
“Gone fishin,” a photo by Richard Waters of Broken Arrow, has been chosen as a winner in “Project Imaginat10n,” the latest creative endeavour between Ron Howard and Canon U.S.A.
From Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman.
Two Oklahomans named winners in Ron Howard’s new photo contest
The Oscar-winning director and Canon U.S.A. have partnered for the nationwide “Project Imaginat10n” contest — the follow-up to last year’s “Project Imagin8ion” — and five celebrities already have signed on to direct short films based on some of the winning photos.
For Brittany Johnson, photography is about conveying stories and inspiration as well as capturing striking images.
Now, the Edmond resident has a chance for one of her images to inspire a celebrity filmmaker’s storytelling.
Johnson and Richard Waters of Broken Arrow are among the winners of the nationwide “Project Imaginat10n” photo contest, part of the ongoing “Long Live Imagination” partnership between Canon U.S.A. and Oscar-winning director Ron Howard, who was born in Duncan.
“I am so incredibly happy and honored to be a part of something so amazing,” Johnson said in an email. “The goal for my photography has always been to tell a story, to make you feel an emotion and to inspire you.”
Ron Howard (AP file)
Canon representatives, Howard and a public vote selected 91 winners, including the two Oklahomans, for “Project Imaginat10n,” in which 10 celebrity filmmakers each will use 10 of the winning photos to inspire a short film.
Five celebrities already have been tapped to direct “Project Imaginat10n” shorts: Academy Award-winning actor Jamie Foxx (“Ray”); Golden Globe-nominated actress Eva Longoria (“Desperate Housewives”); Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter; Georgina Chapman, designer and co-founder of the Marchesa fashion label; and singer/songwriter/producer James Murphy, founder of the Grammy-nominated band LCD Soundsystem.
All five short films will go into production between this fall and spring 2013 and will premiere at a special “Project Imaginat10n” Film Festival. Five additional directors will be announced at a later date, according to a news release.
For “Project Imaginat10n,” 10 winning photographs were chosen from the thousands submitted in nine different storytelling categories: Character, Mood, Goal, Backstory, Setting, Obstacle, Relationship, The Unknown and Time. Howard personally picked the victor in the Discovery category — “Unparalled” by Jennifer Harris of New Orleans — and that photo will provide a thematic tie for all the celebrities’ short films.
“I am so passionate about the integrity and user-generated process of ‘Project Imaginat10n’ where our celebrity directors can be directly inspired by photographers from all across the country,” Howard said in the news release. “As we selected the photographs, I was blown away by the beauty, perspective and intrigue that they conveyed, and was thrilled that so many people wanted to once again take part in this exciting artistic experiment.”
Along with the Discovery image, the celebrity filmmakers each will now select one photograph from the other nine storytelling categories that personally inspires them, ultimately using 10 photos to create their short films.
A winner in the Character category, Johnson’s photo “Her throne was magic” depicts a little girl bathed in silvery light holding court with a pack of stuffed animals underneath a stately tree. Waters’ “Gone fishin,” which he took of two silhouetted fishermen casting their lines on foggy Lake Bixhoma, was among the 10 selections in the Relationship category.
“You know the phrase ‘The early bird gets the worm’? Well, I wake up the bird. If you’re going to take sunrise pictures, you have to be there way before the sun gets close to coming up,” Waters said in an email. “I want to thank Ron Howard, Canon and the judges. I’m sure it was a tough job deciding which photos to pick for the finalists. … I also want to say a special thank you to ALL that voted for my picture.”
Last year, Howard and Canon partnered for a similar creative endeavor, “Project Imagin8ion.” From the more than 96,300 photos submitted online, eight photos were selected and influenced the award-winning short film, “when you find me,” which Howard produced and his actress/filmmaker daughter Bryce Dallas Howard directed. Broken Arrow resident Chris Wehner’s “Yea, Though I Walk,” a stunning image of a gate at Tulsa’s Memorial Park Cemetery, was one of the winning photos in the “Project Imagin8ion” competition.
For “Project Imaginat10n,” Ron Howard again will mentor the celebrity directors as they begin the filmmaking process in his effort to prove that “we’re all creative.” To see all the winning photos, go to http://imagination.usa.canon.com.
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Vote today! Oklahoma City-based Christian group Acappella competing to open for Lady Antebellum
Acappella
Lady Antebellum
Grammy Award-winning country group Lady Antebellum is searching for a group to sing with them at a December event, and Oklahoma City-based Christian group Acappella could be chosen to perform with the popular trio.
Acappella, which recently gave a free concert at Oklahoma Christian University, is participating in a contest that has them now in a tight race with a group from the University of Connecticut to win it all, reports The Oklahoman’s Religion Editor Carla Hinton.
The group with the most votes wins, and today is the final day people can cast their online vote. You can see Acappella’s audition video and vote by going to tinyurl.com/AcaLady or http://acappella.ladyantebellum.com/entry/748106. The group’s rendition of Lady A’s hit “Love Don’t Live Here” is terrific!
Members of Acappella are Zac George, Malcolm Himes, Anthony Lancaster, Wes McKinzie and Raymond Mobley. McKinzie, who is OC’s director of communications/marketing, said the group’s tech director Justin Elliott, does vocal percussion on the video. McKinzie also said he and Elliott and the other four men mentioned here are OC alumni or current students.
To read Carla’s excellent Sept. 29 feature on Acapella, click here. But vote for the group first!
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Video: All-American Rejects and their dog Dexter celebrate Adopt-a-Shelter-Dog Month
October is Adopt-A-Shelter-Dog Month, and The All-American Rejects guitarist Nick Wheeler, who hails from Stillwater, is partnering with Petfinder.com to encourage people to consider making a shelter doggie their forever pet.
Wheeler adopted his dog, Dexter, from a shelter in 2009. The dog has become the band’s unofficial fifth member and mascot. To read Wheeler and Dex’s adoption story, click here.
In honor of Adopt-A-Shelter-Dog Month, Petfinder.com is offering its All-American Rejects Sweepstakes. Fans can enter on www.facebook.com/Petfinder for a chance to win a call from Wheeler, a signed photo of him and Dex and a signed copy of AAR’s new album, “Kids In the Street.”
Check out this video of Wheeler and Dex spending a day off together:
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Loretta Lynn to celebrate 50th anniversary with the Grand Ole Opry tonight with special guests Miranda Lambert, Pistol Annies, Crystal Gayle
Loretta Lynn
The Grand Ole Opry will honor one its most beloved members, Loretta Lynn, with a special show tonight celebrating her 50th Opry Anniversary.
Among the artists scheduled to participate in the celebration are Lynn, her sister Crystal Gayle, plus friends Miranda Lambert, who lives in Tishomingo; Lee Ann Womack; Trace Adkins; and Lambert’s all-girl trio Pistol Annies, who will be making their Opry debut
Lynn joined the Opry family on Sept. 25, 1962, according to a news release. Among the hundreds of accolades she has received in the years since are three Grammy Awards, eight Country Music Association Awards (she became the first female artist to win the coveted Entertainer of the Year in 1972), induction into the Country Music and Songwriters Halls of Fame and the 2010 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
“There is no one at the Opry, in country music, or on Earth quite like Loretta Lynn,” said Pete Fisher, Grand Ole Opry vice president and general manager, in the release. “Her influence as a recording artist and songwriter reaches across musical genres, cultures, and generations. She’s earned her place among America’s musical icons, and we look forward to celebrating 50 years of Opry membership with her next month.”
Even if they can’t attend the show in Nashville, Tenn., fans can get help celebrate Lynn’s golden achievement today online and on the radio:
- Listen to the show: Tonight’s Opry show, which begins at 7, can be heard live on 650 AM-WSM, www.opry.com, www.wsmonline.com, and free apps available from both the Opry and 650 AM WSM.
- Press Conference Stream: At 6:30 tonight, www.opry.com will stream a press conference featuring Lynn and other artists live from backstage at the Opry House.
- Twitter: Fans and fellow artists are invited to share their favorite memories of Lynn via Twitter using #Love4Loretta. Favorite tweets will be compiled into special blogs on opry.com and shared during tonight’s show.
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