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Filibus is a gender fluid sky pirate, who originally appeared in a 1915 Italian science fiction film.
The film is available from #NewEllijayTelevision along with *lots* of other Sky Pirates films on our Sky Pirate playlist: https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/p/nQmSoz1U7RUUVqSLQdeGn2?playlistPosition=6&resume=true
@ajroach42 do you link to the non-YouTube version in the description on YT? Maaaaaaayyyyybe have some non-YT exclusive content as well to drive folks off of there, but that might feel odd.
>Most of what I produce still only goes on #NewEllijayTelevision, and if it *also* goes to youtube, that's a concession that I'm making to the convenience of others, in order to hopefully, eventually, guide them towards our community centered alternatives.
Youtube downranks videos that have links in the description unless they come from popular platforms, so it's a balancing act to figure out which things get a link and which don't.
Most of what we produce does not go on youtube, except for perhaps as a trailer.
I like this phrase because it helps to remind me why things are the way they are right now.
Doing things in a community centered way is harder than succumbing to capitalist extraction.
Our newest program is both on our Community Television Network/VOD service *and* on youtube, because there is a portion of our target audience that we can only reach through youtube.
It would be better for our community in the longterm, but much harder in the short term, for me to eschew youtube entirely, so I've made the choice to publish in both places.
It was a hard choice, and one I question regularly, because having my videos on youtube gives other people one fewer excuse to leave youtube (or one more excuse to stay)
But! I didn't and would not make the choice to only publish to youtube. Most of what I produce still only goes on #NewEllijayTelevision, and if it *also* goes to youtube, that's a concession that I'm making to the convenience of others, in order to hopefully, eventually, guide them towards our community centered alternatives.
Our Deluxe Edition Filibus #SkyPirate action figure is now available!
https://www.mountaintowntoys.com/product/filibus-sky-pirate-fun-size-heroes/
It's injection molded in the southeastern US by me and Sundog, and hand painted by my wife. It's packaged on a printed canvas cardback with original artwork (by me!) and a resealable bubble.
This is a thread.
Filibus is a gender fluid sky pirate, who originally appeared in a 1915 Italian science fiction film.
The film is available from #NewEllijayTelevision along with *lots* of other Sky Pirates films on our Sky Pirate playlist: https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/p/nQmSoz1U7RUUVqSLQdeGn2?playlistPosition=6&resume=true
But we don't just have a single television show!
My ass runs a whole television Network!
We broadcast live 24 hours a day right here: https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/hPrMTPpUuP8ZLoaqHTkLmd
It's called #NewEllijayTelevision because it's a new way to make television and I hope it will bring about a new version of my adopted hometown of Ellijay.
Don't let the name turn you off, though, it's got a bunch of stuff from all over the state and country and it is absolutely targeted at a national audience.
(To that end, we're working on some things! But I'll talk about those thing in Feb.)
You can find New Ellijay Television at http://newellijay.tv or @video
There's honestly a ton more original stuff up on #NewEllijayTelevision and that's without also getting into the programming we syndicate from other creators, much of which is *also* excellent.
But that's enough TV for now.
In addition to the Expedition Sasquatch podcast, of course, there's also the occasional Expedition Sasquatch TV show.
https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/p/gZRM5o243CznqRojZDGNj2?playlistPosition=1
Which uhhh... I mean, it's also very funny, honestly and more of those will come out eventually.
You get to see me in that. I yell at an intern. It's okay, they were actually the director.
But we don't just have a single television show!
My ass runs a whole television Network!
We broadcast live 24 hours a day right here: https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/hPrMTPpUuP8ZLoaqHTkLmd
It's called #NewEllijayTelevision because it's a new way to make television and I hope it will bring about a new version of my adopted hometown of Ellijay.
Don't let the name turn you off, though, it's got a bunch of stuff from all over the state and country and it is absolutely targeted at a national audience.
(To that end, we're working on some things! But I'll talk about those thing in Feb.)
You can find New Ellijay Television at http://newellijay.tv or @video
If you're seeing my #publicDomain work, or seeing #NETV #NewEllijayTelevision for the first time, or even if you're already familiar with what we do and the ideas behind #communityMedia let me take this moment to make a small pitch:
New Ellijay Television needs advertisers to keep it going. Let me advertise your art project, indie website, small business, album, or other thing.
We'll stick you up on the Sponsor section of NewEllijay.News and run your 30 second spot at least 4x a day on our live stream and our cable network.
If you're not making much/any money on the thing you make, but you just want to get the word out, I'll run the ad for free.
If you're making money on the thing, and you want to get the word out to make more money, our packages for fedifolks start at $50/month.
Let's talk.
Alternately, if you like seeing our stuff but you don't want to/don't need to/can't afford to advertise with us, consider some other ways of helping us keep going:
Direct sponsorship: https://newellijay.tv/sponsor-us/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/ajroach42
Toys: https://mountaintowntoys.com
Books: https://hemlockbazaar.com
Games: https://ajroach42.itch.io/
Very infrequent newsletter: https://buttondown.com/ajroach42
Or just tell people about what we've got going on. Boost a post or two. It goes a long way.
Alright! I have several more newly public domain movies and some cartoons transcoding away right now.
While those are running, I'm going to talk about some older #publicDomain materials on #NewEllijayTelevision
First up Protéa (1913). This is a french spy film from the early 1910s that is absolutely wacky. For decades the only circulating copy was like 22 minutes long and incomprehensible.
Now we've got nearly an hour of the original, and the full story can be followed!
Allright! Now for the intermission.
If you can't decide which of these you'd like to watch, you can catch a rotating assortment of them on the current New Ellijay Television livestream.
We're about halfway through "Murder!" right now.
If you're seeing my #publicDomain work, or seeing #NETV #NewEllijayTelevision for the first time, or even if you're already familiar with what we do and the ideas behind #communityMedia let me take this moment to make a small pitch:
New Ellijay Television needs advertisers to keep it going. Let me advertise your art project, indie website, small business, album, or other thing.
We'll stick you up on the Sponsor section of NewEllijay.News and run your 30 second spot at least 4x a day on our live stream and our cable network.
If you're not making much/any money on the thing you make, but you just want to get the word out, I'll run the ad for free.
If you're making money on the thing, and you want to get the word out to make more money, our packages for fedifolks start at $50/month.
Let's talk.
Sundog mentioned a moment ago that the AJC is going to stop it's print publication.
https://retro.social/@djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology/115600041119909279
And this started me back down the alternative newswire rabbit hole that I've been circling as I think about the future of #NewEllijayTelevision and what #communityMedia needs to become in order to meet this moment.
We have the infrastructure to reboot something like the Underground Press Syndicate ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Press_Syndicate .)
It would be easier and cheaper and more valuable today than it was in the 60s and 70s. We could have a digital and print distribution that actually spans the globe.
We could enable local news and media organizations to expand their reach well beyond their current limitations, and I'm positive that there is a way to make it self sustaining, and even profitable (What that way is, I don't know! I'm just certain that there must be one.)
Sundog mentioned a moment ago that the AJC is going to stop it's print publication.
https://retro.social/@djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology/115600041119909279
And this started me back down the alternative newswire rabbit hole that I've been circling as I think about the future of #NewEllijayTelevision and what #communityMedia needs to become in order to meet this moment.
We have the infrastructure to reboot something like the Underground Press Syndicate ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Press_Syndicate .)
It would be easier and cheaper and more valuable today than it was in the 60s and 70s. We could have a digital and print distribution that actually spans the globe.
We could enable local news and media organizations to expand their reach well beyond their current limitations, and I'm positive that there is a way to make it self sustaining, and even profitable (What that way is, I don't know! I'm just certain that there must be one.)
Customer walks up to the counter at the bookstore "Andrew, wow, you haven't changed"
"... I'm so sorry, I have no idea who you are"
[Long story about a thing I remember happening, that I do not remember this person being present for.]
"I remember that, I don't remember you being there."
"I was like 12"
[Oh my god, this is a *child* that I used to *baby sit*, cue internal screaming.] "Right! Oh God, how are things?"
"I just graduated college."
[*screaming intensifies*]
ten minutes go by, different person at the counter.
"Oh my god, Andrew! How's it been, it's been what, 10 years?"
"Do I know you?"
"Hold on, let me find a photo of us together."
"That sure is a photo of me and you! And it was taken ... is that my living room? Uhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
"Yeah, that was new years 2015."
"Oh! Oh shit. You're ... [Name]? You were there with ... [long pause] [Other name?] Wow, I've been following your work! You just finished [thing she just finished!] I don't think I would have recognized you under basically any circumstances, but it's great to see you!"
"Yeah! Are you still working on that film preservation project?"
[cue 15 minutes of me geeking out about #NewEllijayTelevision
"Do you keep up with any of the old crew?"
[Cue ten minutes of me explaining that most of the old crew has been living in Ellijay and running shit up here for the last 5 years]
"Jesus, it's like you've got a little cult."
I've been thinking a lot about the current state and future of #NewEllijayTelevision
For those that aren't in the know, I run a community television station with the goal of providing an alternative to Fox, Disney, and OAN for our small town. We do news, politics, music, sitcoms, and public domain archives.
The whole thing runs on open source software, from our video editor to our video on demand platform to our website, our roku app, and our cable playout.
We're broadcasting 24 hours a day online, on roku, and on cable.
I believe that operating community media is an essential revolutionary act, and I'm passionate enough about it that I wrote a book (well, a big zine anyway https://communitymedia.network )
In spite of how important I know this work to be, it's also difficult to fund and keep running, so I'm going to be talking about that.
If Jimmy Kimmel wants to stay on air, he's welcome to bring whichever late show he was responsible for to #NewEllijayTelevision but he will need to commit to being significantly more inflammatory
