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HAPPY NEW DECADE!!!
2010 is FINALLY here! I am so grateful and happy to have survived 2009, and to be celebrating with my friends. Life is good. Its finally turned around. 2010 is going to be a great year! Peace, Melissa ...
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Need Support for the Holidays – Shop MULTO!
Purchasing a new computer, gaming system or cell phone? Have some complex electronics you need hooked up and configured? Haven’t got a clue where your HDMI cord goes? Have a website that needs a makeover or tech support? Well hire Melissa! She’s available for those pesky technical issues people can’t bear to face around th...
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Challenges in Video News Production
Print is toast. Television is learning to play well with the megalithic Internet, while the film industry fights pirate sites offering fresh footage from post houses and studio leaks. But even websites are starting to feel the pinch from mobile media news needs – now now now. How can you deliver nimbly and quickly to ... ...
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Vidly Test #vidly
Check out the above test from Vidly.com – a twitter enabled site that allows users to tweet HD quality video! Peace, Melissa ...
FROM 0 TO 90, Film, Filmmaking 101, News, Production Notes, Rays of Light, Vodcast Magic
Reel & Fundraising Updates
I’ve been reaching out to find work and to help fundraise for the different documentary projects I’m invovled in – please check out first contact email below: I’m a filmmaker, who mostly focuses on editing. I have a strong webisode, narrative and documentary editing background and would be very interested in any freelance ...
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Fundraising Through Crowdsourcing
I am raising funds for my documentary, From 0 to 90, through a couple of crowdsourcing sites: Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/multo/from-0-to-90-obamas-first-90-days-documentary IndieGoGo: http://www.indiegogo.com/From-0-To-90-Obama%27s-First-90-Days This will be an interesting test of both sites and their ability to push donors to...
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Blog Action Day 2009
Today is Blog Action Day 2009 for Climate Change. With so much to do and so much to change, I’d like to make my post about sustainability, the Lifeline and positive action. I’ve been a part of the Lifeline project since May 2009 and its been lifeline changing, in many ways. I’ve always been an ... ...
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Updates!
Just finished a bunch of backed up work: - Stephanie Courtney EPK - Chocolatina iSi Webisode (oohYum.tv) - bio reel for Emily of the Lifeline - more shoots & edits on All The Ladies Say - fun shoot with Chris in the cemetary This summer has been hectic, with moving, paring my life down, prepping for the trip, editing and shooting. ... ...
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Incredible Updates!
Great things are happeing. The documentary I’m working with Rokafella and Kwikstep is really coming together and the press is starting to notice: Check us out on NY1! Also prepping for The Lifeline – the incredible journey ahead of me, planning furiously, and editing our intro reels. Finishing up old projects, getting small gigs, clea...
News
The LifeLine – My Life for the Next Year +
I will be doing the most amazing project of my life very shortly. Actually, I have already started, pruning my lif and projects down, shedding my possession and unecessary gear, coming closer to inner peace and exhuberant joy. I have found my mission, so it seems. I have no doubt. I had an instant “yes” ... ...
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ALL THE LADIES SAY Screening
“All The Ladies Say” Screening B girls get down! Wednesday, June 3, 2009 Time: 4:00pm – 10:00pm Location: Bronx Museum Street: 1040 Grand Concourse Phone: 7186816000 Web: www.bronxmuseum.org The BronxMuseum will host Full Circle’s film screening/launch for ... ...
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Day 90 – Obama Doc Needs YOU!
Hi: I have been shooting for the last several months, covering President Obama’s first 90 days in office, for my documentary “From 0 to 90″. This entire documentary is groundbreaking for several reasons: 1. EVERY interview has been sourced through social networks – Facebook, Twitter, Friendster, Myspace, Hipster, Tribe, Tr...
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From 0 to 90 – A Barack Obama Joint
From 0 to 90 is the working title of an interactive documentary, produced by Melissa Ulto. With interviews in person and online, Ms. Ulto seeks to cover the first 90 days of Barack Obama’s presidency, both nationally and internationally. From bail outs to Iraq, Obama has a hard road ahead as president. Will the problems he’s ... ...
News
This Year’s Lesson!
I love Ladies Who Launch. As an alum, I get their daily tip. And today’s tip, wow, talk about a lesson for me this year: From Victoria Colligan, Founder and CEO, Ladies Who Launch Too many business deals fall through not because of bad ideas, bad people or unfavorable circumstances, but because of clarity – a lack ... ...
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XMAS 2008
So another year is over and what have you done? The wild, magic, lovely and insane year I’ve had in the city I love more than any man has put me through the crucible again, and I’m come through diamond bright and petal soft. I’ve built and lost a studio. I’ve interviewed some of the most ... ...
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See me at vBrooklyn tonight!!!
vBrooklyn Directions Get detailed directions from Google or Polytechnic University’s Website. Wunsch Hall Polytechnic University, Brooklyn Six MetroTech Center Brooklyn, NY 11201 718 260-3600 A,C,F to Jay Street/Borough Hall 2,3,4,5 to Borough Hall M,R to Lawrence Street Q,B to Dekalb Avenue ...
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Day Without A Gay!
http://www.daywithoutagay.org/ If you can’t call in, don’t shop!!! Peace and much love, Melissa ...
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Where’s My Money, Pimp?
Biz dudes are so shifty. They really love taking creatives – seems they don’t respect talent because they believe its intangible. But without talent, there’d be no design, entertainment, architecture, etc… Its cheap until they bid on it at Sotheby’s, doing rich boy art trading cards, with no appreciation beyond what...
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The Struggle
I’m burning, pushing back, hoping for the best but expecting the usual. Oh, my heart is heavy. I seem a bit lost now, sucker punched, or perhaps now just waking from a knock to the head, groggy and dull. Sapped. Back two steps. Tripped and falling. Its been rough, wild, complicated and miscommunicated. Trust is so ... ...
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Eh? :)
Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net Terrence and Phillip are not amused…hee hee…eh… Peace, Melissa ...
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“The Fall” in love…
I saw “The Fall” tonight, and fell in love with filmmaking all over again. The magic of storytelling and moving pictures is fully alive in this movie. I watched in awe and joy, the same way I watched movies as a child. I was in wonderment, thrilled, laughing, crying, charmed and wowed. ... ...
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Check Out The Ripple6.com Demo!
Online.tv produced this piece for Ripple6.com, for demo-ing their product, and I think we did a pretty swell job! Peace, Melissa ...
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So Busy…But Here!
Astral Love I’ve been so busy lately – starting up the studio, finishing up construction, taking on new clients – I haven’t had a weekend off in months, and I actually have a wrinkle now – in between eyes, from squinting, yelling and frowning at my contractor! I need a vacation, but not yet…so much to ... ...
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Announcing Online.tv Studios!
Our Reception Area For the past six months, I’ve been working on the creation and launch of Online.tv: Online.tv is a complete digital video solution provider for the web video era. Online.tv combines the world’s largest network of online specialty HD video channels, online third party video super-distribution, advanced scalable techn...
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Busy and Belize
On the Ocean… I am crazy busy. In a once in a lifetime kind of way. So its spectacular, hard as hell, exhausting, complex, full of excitement, worry and love for what I am doing. And for the people who’ve made this happen and keep making it happen. I am blessed… Conch Fisherman I’m building ... ...
