After co-writing, producing and directing the clever horror movie Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Scott Glosserman (C'99, Friars) has completed his next project (as a producer and co-director) of a different type of horror — me, you, and thousands of other users taking over responsibilities for Britannica and The World Book.

In his documentary Truth in Numbers?, Scott takes us on the journey about the phenomenon that Wikipedia has become.

Check out his trailer after the jump and learn more about tonight's (Thursday, 2/17) Los Angeles screening and Q&A after the jump!

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You're a struggling actor or an assistant to someone in LA and until you hit it big, you're on a tight budget.

Well one Penn alum has created something that will be very helpful to all you LA transplants.

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Emily Rosenbaum (C'95, Grad Ed '96) is a supermom of 3 kids and a popular blogger with a very interesting experiment.

Over the next 2 months, she will not be serving herself an actual meal, but will just be eating whatever her 3 kids leave behind on their plates.

More about her experiment after the jump!

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Another story of 2 alumni changing careers, and  working together after Penn.

Dana Kanze (W'01, Kappa Alpha Theta, Penn Fund caller) and Mason Sexton (C'01) founded Moonit.com, an online media property that offers relationship compatibility based on astrology.

After the jump, learn more about how this now engaged couple:

• met at Penn
• changed their careers 
• and how they came to find this new online business!

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Before you sci-fi fans all rush out to see the new P R E D A T O R S movie tonight, be sure to check out the film’s website and games I’ve been producing for the past few months.

On the site you can do some really cool things, like..

• Blow up your facebook friends’ heads HERE
• Destroy any website HERE
• Become P R E D A T O R or P R E Y HERE

...And check out this really cool augmented reality project I produced earlier this year HERE


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As part of my ongoing "Fashionista" series, I want to introduce to you an alum who is on the constant lookout for fresh new up and coming designers.

So much so, that she's started a new website where you too can get the inside scoop...

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Here's a gem for our "Penn Performers" week...

Wanna win a trip to LA and meet with a Hollywood casting director, talent agent and headshot photographer? 

Thanks to a Penn alum, the chance is now yours!

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Earlier last fall, I posted about how Lindsey Rosin (C'07, The Excelano Project, The Writers House, Kappa Alpha Theta) joined forces with her father Charles Rosin (Executive Producer of Beverly Hills 90210 for the first five seasons) to create www.showbizzle.com, a new form of internet entertainment that combines daily updates of original, scripted video content with a social network aimed at emerging actors, writers, directors, fans of the biz – basically anyone with a computer who is looking for some fun entertainment. (see Lindsey in photo to right directing this week's episode you can see HERE)

Earlier this week, showbizzle relaunched with even more features including:

• A 23 week series set in Hollywood told from the first person point-of-view of Janey, an aspiring screenwriter who likes to hang out at her favorite coffee shop and listen to the crazy stories that her friends are only too willing to share. As Janey puts it, “there’s always somebody hooking up, screwing up, breaking up…all while chasing their first big break.” The series is set in Hollywood in 2009. Season One will feature 29 cast members, with new episodes available on a weekly basis.
• “Inside the Bizzle” is an ongoing conversation with top industry insiders such as David Semel (“House”), Elizabeth Heldens (“Friday Night Lights’) and Ted Cohen (“Friends”) about their careers, how they succeeded and their heartfelt advice for people getting started.
• “Bizzle Bits” is a place to watch behind-the-scenes footage about the show.
• “The Digital Showcase” is a stage to promote professional and upcoming talent.
• A community section as a resource for emerging talent, starting with the 21 contemporary monologues available for free download on the website. It will also feature some of our favorite member-submitted videos on the Digital Showcase, then let the members vote on their favorites – and give a community member the opportunity to be paid to do original material on the site.

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From Scott Shrake's (GSAS'96) Huffington Post blog, to Rachel Goldberg's (C'96) National Protrusion site, it seems like our alumni have much to say about today's political climate.



And now it's time to add another humorous political site from our alumni to the mix: Al Bingham's (C'92, Mask and Wig, Philomathean Socitey, Friars) The Purple Crayon.



Per Al, this site is all about "political humor that makes no distinction between Red State or Blue. The pen may be mightier than the sword but The Purple Crayon is more colorful."



Some highlights of his site include:

• Passing the Clintons' tests


• NYTimes Launches Missile: Navy Vet McCain Takes Out Satellite Lobbyist


• Purr-fect Storm: Socks the Cat Joins Growing List of Superdelegates to Endorse Obama

Apparently other media sources are reading Al's blog. Per Al,

"I think the NYTimes is worth reading, especially the Caucus Blog. Also firstread.msnbc.com. Assuming you're interested in politics, of course. If you're not really interested in politics then you should check out The Huffington Post's humor site 236.com (most of the news, some of the time) ... especially on the days when they're cross-posting libelous material from The Purple Crayon - my political humor blog - albingham.typepad.com. Apparently folks from Politico.com, CNN, MSNBC and a bunch of people in the House and Senate read The Purple Crayon from time to time... which is an indication of how low the media and politicians have sunk in the Stewart-Colbertian sense."

Check out Al's site here



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In addition to singing well and being the creator of a popular improvised musical troupe, add "blogger" to Jonah Platt's (C'08, Off the Beat Musical Director) list of achievements.

Started in January of 2007, Jonah's site Media Maven Musings offers trustworthy, humorous and Penn-educated (wink) opinions on all things tv/film/music related. The site has had nearly 100,000 unique views since its inception, and has been linked to from dozens of sites around the web, including USAToday, Showtime.com, and many more.

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In addition to my weekly Tuesday Tips and Now and Then Thursday series, I want to now introduce yet another series sure to be popular quickly: Website Wednesdays. (yes another illiteration associated with a day of the week). This series will cover the many, many websites developed by our undergrads and alumni.

As you've noticed on this site, I do a lot of posts having to do with music. ...So for my first post of this new series, I want to share Showmethesetlist.com, a start-up site from Corey Lorinsky (W'07, Sigma Alpha Mu, Wharton Venture Initiation Program) and Daril Vilhena (C'09).

Per Corey, this site "enables users to catalog the music concert experience like never before. The web site allows users to create individual pages for each live show. Concert-goers post song setlists, discuss and review performances, as well as create online galleries full of photos, videos, scanned ticket stubs, gig posters, actual setlists and more. It's like creating a virtual scrapbook page for each show, except much cooler."

Check out an example of a full entry here

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For the most part I enjoy some a capella groups (i.e. Off the Beat).

Not everyone is like me.

Ivygateblog.com editor Jim Newell (C'07, 34th Street Editor and Chief) DESPISES all capella groups ...so much in fact that he has started a "Worst A Cappella Group in the Ivy League" tournament based on bad submissions.

I hate to say it but he has a Penn a capella group in his first round.

Click here to vote in Jim's head-to-head a capella group grudge matches

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Most brothers fight with their young siblings.

While Austin Lavin (C'06) may fight with his younger 16 year old sister, it's probably over something having to do with the new web business they started together, http://www.myfirstpaycheck.com/.

Per Austin, this job posting site for high school and college students is a valuable resource for Penn students looking for part-time work. "

When I first wanted to get a job," says Austin, "I realized I had no idea how to get started, but I fell into employment and a string of part-time work. When my younger sister, Celeste, set out to find her first job, she realized that she didn't even know where to begin, and I realized that almost all students were clueless so we created myfirstpaycheck.com to pass on what we've learned about first jobs and connect job seekers to potential employers."

You hear that undergrads? More ways to earn money to afford that 40,000 education!

Undergrads, click here to check out some of firstpaycheck.com's Philadelphia job posts

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The more I write about alumni and undergrads, the more I'm realizing that not only is there a lot of talent out there, but our Penn folk have some powerful opinions and voices.

One such alum is Caroline Rothstein (C'06, The Excelano Project), a spoken word poet currently living in New York City. Her poetry is honest, real, personal, and political.

...Listen to the power behind her poem below, "They Call Me Granola" (put your headphones on..not safe for work). This is great...:

This past year, Caroline also self-published a book of her poetry called "What I Learned In College." Books are $5 and can be purchased by emailing Caroline directly at caroline.rothstein@gmail.com.

In addition to spoken word, Caroline keeps a blog that she began upon moving to Atlanta. You can find her adventures throughout the United States and deep into the streets of Manhattan.

Listen to more of her poetry HERE

Learn how Caroilne got started in "spoken word" HERE

More alumni specializing in "the spoken word" HERE

More 2006 alumni alumni news HERE

Read "Life Worth", an excerpt/poem from Caroline's chapbook* "What I Learned in College"HERE

*A chapbook is a book of poetry. It's typically a book that a poet puts out on their own, so mostly self published/printed, etc.

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"Life Worth"

He’d just bought a pair of shoes
Hundred dollar sneakers, shopping bag, right hand

He walks down Central Street in Highland Park, Illinois –
a brand name sidewalk with affluent stores
He knocks on the pharmacy window to buy Gatorade and a bag of pretzels but they wave him away –
It’s 4 PM on a Sunday and they are closing up shop

A senior at his high school pulls an illegal U-Turn
An elderly man stops short to avoid collision, skids onto the curb,
and throws my brother into the side of a store building
His head cracks open, his eyes close shut,
and his sneakers fling into the air as his spleen develops cuts
They do brain surgery, put him on respirators,
Rabbi Mason prays by his ICU bedside but he never wakes up
I’m crouched over his bedside begging him,
Yelling at him “Josh, wake up! Josh, please, wake up!”

He was only shoe shopping,
Walking side by side teenage girls that purchase emaciation on a hanger,
Which is really just a metaphor for
Shirts sewn in sweat shops by starving children
And studies say that executing killers costs more than
Keeping them in prison for the rest of their lives
And funeral prices are on the rise:
Cremation packages start at 2000, the average casket is 6000
28 dollars a month to purchase an orphan on the internet
13 bucks for a Japanese picture bride to weed the fields and strip sugar cane
Not too much for a mail order bride –
Choose her nationality, her body shape, and human pedigree
And since this is an unregulated business,
I don’t have fancy statistics to insert here: ____
About how many women are bought by strangers yearly
As we get a price check in aisle five
To bargain lives that we further judge when they die

My family goes to trial so the killers can pay for our loss in insurance
There’s no way to judge but the judge sits there asking me:
How much was his life worth?
My fifteen year old brother had 20, 000 dollars in savings
From selling beanie babies at a hundred times their cost
On an ebay auction block
650 dollars to buy an African teen on a Southern auction block
How much is a life worth?

We purchase human beings from fruitless trees
We consume materials and will them to our offspring
We hang child labor on manikins
We dangle death next to cash registers
We kill children in store front windows

And judge their worth in finances even though
The only bank in heaven is the locked vault of karma
The only currency in heaven is a set of intangible beliefs
The only worth in heaven can’t even be proven
How much is a life worth?

He was fifteen years old walking happy on a sidewalk
He was fifteen years old shackled standing on an auction block
He was fifteen years old starving sewing in a sweat shop
How much is a life worth?

Josh, wake up, Josh, please wake up
How much is your life worth?
It’s worth waking up every day to face the misery of death’s reality
It’s worth becoming straight edge
to never miss a single moment of sobriety
It’s worth my living breath to overcome death
Josh, you are what my life’s worth

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"Porn is awesome. Many women my age understand porn is just sexual stimulation — not competition.”

Got your attention?

This quote comes from undergrad aspiring journalist and college magazine editor Jessica Gold Haralson (C'08) in this month's Playboy college edition. Jessica was invited to speak at a college roundtable of journalists from colleges with an interest in sexuality.

Jessica is quite the emerging writer with a unique voice. She started a campus smart-sex magazine, works at Penn’s Kelly Writers House, and is currently interning at smart smut publication Nerve.com. She edits the Nerve Video Blog and is a research assistant for Nerve culture blog Scanner. In addition, she serves as an editorial/PR assistant to Philadelphia-based journalist Stephen Fried.

Last year she started Quake Magazine (her erotica publication) and per Jessica, "it is no longer a print publication, but look out for an online version this winter."

Be sure to bookmark that one!

If you’d like to know more, please shoot her a line at jgh@sas.upenn.edu. She would love to hear from you!

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This Sunday's Emmys mean glitz and glamour.

But to one alum it's all about the swag. And who doesn't love a good bag of swag?

That's what Jenna Seiden (C'95) thought when she and her business partner decided to start swagtime.com, a business dedicated to celebrity swag. Their philosophy is simple, “What was exclusive is now inclusive”.

For those unaware, per Jenna, '"SWAG" stands for the products and services that celebrities are getting, giving and using." Jenna's site scours everything from the gift bags and gift lounges at award shows, charity galas, film festivals, sporting events, private celebrity functions and more to tell you about these great products and services.

And what would be a swag site without the site actually giving away swag itself?! Sign up with her site and you can win a bag of an event's actual swag yourself!

And that's not all for Jenna. She is also a video games/interactive agent at the highly reputable talent agency CAA. Per Jenna, "I now represent game developers, writers and talent who make console games and I work to take these game IPs and make movies, etc. So by day I'm gamesgirl and by night I'm swaggirl."

...On a related Emmys note, good thoughts go out to Becki Newton (C'00) on Ugly Betty being nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series.

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(Videos above taken of the Dueling Tampons from Reunion Weekend 2007.)

For those subscribers of my daily emails, I hope you’ve been enjoying all the latest news about our creative Penn community.

For those new readers from today's Daily Pennsylvanian article, below are some of the highlights of what’s been going on here since I launched this site last February…

What else do you guys want to see? Click here to post your suggestions!

Enjoy!

Matt Rosler (C’96, Mask and Wig, AEPi)

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POSTS: HIGHLIGHTS (click links below)

+ Lots of Documentary Penn filmmakers..and more stories coming!

+ Lots of alumni working in TV!

+ Lots of Penn musicians …and many more I’ll be reporting on soon!

+ Gabriel Mann (C’95) on Oscars, music on TV shows, launches new album

+ Elizabeth Banks (C’96) in a slew of tv and films

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VIDEOS: HIGHLIGHTS (click links below)

+ Reunion Weekend 2007 (45+ videos)

+ Mask and Wig visits Los Angeles (15+ videos)

+ Featured Alumni in Film/TV/Stage/Literary

+ Featured Alumni: Musicians

+ Vicarious walk down Locust Walk

+ Vicarious walk into Quad

VIDEO CATEGORIES: Recently Uploaded, Los Angeles Penn Events, Performing Arts, Around Campus, Spring Flings, Hey Day, Graduation, Sports, Pennfest: Emerging Penn Talent, Penn Relays, Misc: Humorous/Tips

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PHOTOS: HIGHLIGHTS (click links below)

+ 5 years of Pennfest programs and photos

+ On campus construction through the years

+ Penn actors headshot gallery

+ Penn musician photo gallery

+ Penn Memoribilia from years past

+ “Me and Ben on the Bench” (upload your pic with Ben here!)

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+ Stories about how alumni got their starts after college

+ Los Angeles job posts

+ New York job posts

+ Alumni Quotes

+ Alumni promoting their businesses

+ New Jobs postings on Movers, Quakers and Shakers

+ Upcoming Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia events

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Earlier this week I was interviewed by Penn undergrad Alissa Eisenberg (C'10) for an article about DuelingTampons.com that came out in today's Daily Pennsylvanian.

Click the image above to see the article larger or click here to read the digital version in the DP online!

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