Unfamous Internet Star -- aka Vote for Jenny!

UPDATE: The YouTube Sketchies 2 contest is over. There were over 5,000 video submissions, and after Jenny and WhateverHollywood made the top 50, they then made the top 20, and then the top 10. And finally... they got third place! That's third out of 5,000!! And the first and second place finishers were YouTube Goliaths, so this was a fantastic showing. Thanks to everyone who voted! Congrats to Jenny, Ellyn, and Alyssa!!

I've written before about my sister's Hollywood career but I haven't posted yet about her fantastic new Internet career playing the part of Apple on WhateverHollywood.com. More on that in a bit, but first, she needs your help!

The Whatever Hollywood girls have entered the YouTube Sketchies content and have made it to the final 10! They now need your vote to put them over the top. At stake is $25,000 in cash and $15,000 in production gear which would help ensure that WhateverHollywood stays alive. Their task was to create a video about "living the dream" that used the word "indubitably" in it.

To vote for Jenny, please follow these easy steps:

1. Visit the Sketchies YouTube page
2. Search for "UNFAMOUS" in the "Search for a video" box at the lower right of the page
3. Click on the video that shows up
4. View and vote Thumbs Up for "UNFAMOUS"
5. Vote again! (You can vote once a day until the contest ends -- April 15th!)

Here is their submission and I think it's great. It tells the tale of three Hollywood outsiders, poor & unfamous, living the dream -- all in a catchy tune.



WhateverHollywood is a site about Apple, Suri, and Shiloh, the characters played by my sister and her two friends Ellyn and Alyssa (who are sisters). Jenny's easy to spot -- she's the blonde -- and her character, the aspiring actress, is based loosely (or not so loosely perhaps) on her life with her friends who aspire to be a TV host and a singer/songwriter respectively.

Their site, powered by Movable Type of course, is full of other great videos, skits, and "behind the scenes" rolls. One of my favorites, which I thought was hugely clever, was their "Internet Killed the Hollywood Star" video which I think sets the tone for their whole effort -- and cutely frames the Internet v. Hollywood confrontation.



I really do believe we are in a fantastic transition period where talent like my sister will find that the path to Internet fame is more fulfilling than that of Hollywood fame. It takes as much effort, but at least they have control over what they do, without being at the whim of an industry that can be fickle and brutal. Chronicling their trials and tribulations of trying to break into Hollywood is not only cathartic, in the end it may be more rewarding.

Lots of other great videos about spray tans, cell phones, and low-carb pizza at their site. Enjoy!