What is TeamJaded?

Make It Happen:
TeamJaded is a vlog-blog dedicated to DIY culture, information and innovation. We’re talking about creative people making things happen independently and outside of the mainstream. Currently, we, Abby Berendt and Jeremey Lavoi, are traveling across the nation to find these people and share their stories.

We update our blog from the road as often as possible, and give behind the scenes looks into our shoots with videos posted every week or so.

Story Shoots in Progress:
Sisterz of the Underground
Lowcard
Austin Craft Mafia
Chuck Perkins
Okay Mountain
Poor Pony
Lost Film Fest
Bling Kong
ABC NoRio

The Big Idea:
TeamJaded’s final goal for “Make It Happen” is to create a full-length documentary about D.I.Y. across the nation. At the end of the year we will wrap up this trip and edit together the stories (as individual 5-10 min spots, and one 30 min teaser). With that done, we hope to get people psyched on our project by showing the teasers and hosting fund raising events; hopefully raising additional funding to support a second round of shoots to complete the documentary.

Want to know more? Click here.

Have a story idea?
Email us: info [at] jadedmultimedia [dot] com.

For bios, info, and reels from the creators of TeamJaded, go to JadedMultimedia.com
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Sunday, March 23, 2008

World's Ends Meet

This is the view from down the street from our new digs in the Mishstro. The pic is totally borrowed from here. Thanks!

We’ve been back in San Fran for a couple of months now, and you’re all probably wondering what happened with the updates, vlogs, trailer, and well everything…

Have you heard of Maslo and his hierarchy of needs?


We’re stuck on survival at the moment. S.F. is one of the most expensive cities to live in, and if you’ll look to your right you might notice that we’ve been in the business of accepting donations since the get go… but this is not us asking for more money. The point is we just don’t have much cash flow; so making it in “the city” hasn’t been the easiest thing in the world.

We are making it though, for the moment. Jeremey is “freelancing” himself full-time to a dot com start-up called Seesmic and making just enough money to get by with no time to spare for anything else except eating and sleeping, and sometimes not that. Abby is actively on the hunt for work in the worst economy in our lifetime. Meanwhile, she’s also busy laying the groundwork for TeamJaded to ramp up production and more importantly post-production.

So expect new video content, it’s coming. We’re working on prioritizing our Post List and hopefully getting some time to dig in soon. Thanks for being patient with us.

In the meantime we gotta send shout-outs to some of our friends making it happen:

Roughneck, Decade of Aggression finally premiered last week, so expect it in a skate-shop near you at some point in the future.


Lowcard #22 is out and it’s bound.


Sisterz of the Underground just celebrated their 7-year anniversary. Happy anniversary ladies, we’re sure the party at Club 6 was a blow out.



And here is some random Seesmicness, Free Ingrid:

1 comments:

lo said...

Hang in there Team Jaded. Dang-it-all if you didn't spend the Winter marching through the corporate sprawl that is America only to be beat down by that same gluttonous classism you fought so hard against and that is crippling our economy.