$150 for my Spanish book At least I save a grand taking this at community college instead of Penn State.

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Hip hop hooray, hoes! ./shutdown season 1 has hit 1 million views! ($%()$#QVU()#$&^.

Our spotlight on the front of Stage6 hasincreased our numbers significantly. Thanks, Stage6! So far our most
popular videos are episode 7: DDR Hero part 4 at over 500,000 and episode 3: Drastic Measures part 1 at 250,000 views.

Don’t forget to watch the first half of the season finale. Part 2, the conclusion premieres in just a few days. David is hard at work at the editing bench churning that out for y’all.

Thanks for watching the show and contributing to our growing success!

Michelle Osorio
Co-Creator, ./shutdown

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At the Picturing the Process exhibit @ Museum of Photographic Arts 25 year anniversary.

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Visiting Grandpa. He is a chatroom fiend!

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Probably best known for being featured in the animated film An American Tail, the song Poor Wandering One was written by Gilbert and Sullivan for the opera, The Pirates of Penzance which premiered in New York City in 1879.

This was my one and only performance as Mabel in the 1998 production by the Huntington Beach Academy for the Performing Arts. It was a morning performance, which is why I am sometimes really reaching to hit the high notes.

Nonetheless, I’d say my voice was at its prime at this age (I was 16 years old). The note I hit at about 4:45 is probably the highest note I’ve ever managed to reach onstage while still sounding good.

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I had just turned 14. I’m not sure if this was taped in August or September, but I think this was the first day of musical theater class where they asked us to perform our audition song again.

I ran out of breath at the end because my heart was pumping so hard from nervousness. I got much better during these years. I will later upload a performance at the end of junior year of high school. You’ll see much improvement.

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Back to homework I go!

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./shutdown hit 700,000 views today. Season finale is a bit delayed, but David should have it out by today or tomorrow. shutdowntv.com

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It’s weird. I’m 26 and once again I’m back in school after taking a break during the Summer and Fall of 2007 to begin production on the ./shutdown web series. Now, I am enrolled in yet another mass media class (my 3rd now) at Penn State and I will be taking my third (and final!) Spanish class at a local community college. Just got confirmation from Penn that it will transfer. w00t!

It’ll be another couple of years before I graduate, I think. I am only taking two classes per semester, but I am really worried about whether I will be able to pull it off. Right now with just one online class at Penn and a full time job I’m only having to stay up about an hour later. However, starting next week I will  be going to my Spanish class two evenings a week. In February, David and I will start writing season 2 of the show and then in March we’ll be starting production again.

I am dreading March and April the most. I honestly don’t know if I will be able to handle two full time jobs plus school part-time. I consider the show a full time job since production time means editing every night and shooting almost every weekend. Yet, at the same time I am very frustrated that I can’t handle school full time anymore. I am really in a rush now that I have decided I want to go to graduate school.

Ah well. Take it one day at a time, as they say.

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Actor Heath Ledger found dead in his Manhattan apartment. http://tinyurl.com/2r8554

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./shutdown episode 7 is in the front page spotlight of Stage6.com. The video’s passed 100,000 views already there. w00t!

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