Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Updates and stuff

Hey all,
Been workin and stuff. Studying hard.
A friend of mine knew someone in a band who was looking for someone to run their media show. My friend paired me up with the band and now I have been working with them for a week, and we are working on an awesome show. I happen to be a powerpoint master, so I am giving their show a little bit of juice, just to spice it up a bit. They are called Low Profile, and there will be a show at Cnaan in Jeru. I think thats where it is. More details to follow. So they get someone to help with their show, and I get my dream to manage a real band. ;-) Rehearsals tonight! Yay!
Thats about it. I will write more later! Promise!
Jesse

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Heh Heh...

Hello out there...
It has been wayyy to long since I posted here, so to anyone who still reads this blog of mine, here's to you!
Ok what has happened since the Blev Echad event. humm
Well to start with the event, it was amazing. I haven't been in a crowd that packed all for one cause since I attended the massive rally in Washington DC years ago.
I went outside before the event was getting started just to see the setup we had. People were starting to filter in, starting to linger around the courtyard of the Yeshiva. I went back inside to continue prepping everything, and later I went back outside for another view. It was about and hour and a half into the dancing with the Sifrei Torah, and the place was packed. We had closed off an entire city block in front of the yeshiva and the entire thing was filled with people. I climbed up on the fence to get a better view and still could not see the end of the crowd. In both directions people were lined up to watch the event and to participate in the dancing. There were about 300 kids lined up with candles proceeding the Sifrei Torahs which were under a massive chuppah on wheels. There were also 2 sound and light trucks, providing music and funky lights around the area. Really spectacular.

The broadcast was amazing as well. We had over 500 people watching the broadcast, and of that 500, 250 of them were schools/shuls/organizations that signed up to show live to a larger audience. The total number of everyone who signed up was just under 50,000 people, plus other sites embedded our stream as well. We really have no way of knowing how many people watched in the end, but it was a LOT.

We had people watching from 525 towns and cities in 36 countries around the world. The reach we had really was unbelievable. People continued to replay the broadcast for the days following the event and we were still having thousands of people on the site a day.
You can watch and download the broadcast at www.blevechad.com
You can also download the music video we produced for the event. You can download the song written for us for the video as well. I highly recommend it. Written and composed by Aryeh Kunstler, and produced by Jay Antelis. :-)

In other news 2 of the Rabbis in my Yeshiva, their wives had kids back to back, one girl and one boy. Mazal Tov!

Pesach is coming up and I will be in Chashmoniam for the Sedarim, I am keeping 2 days. Looking forward!

What else is going on... I am working always on my projects, and will give more detail as they become more developed.

Thats all for now,
Have a great week!
Jesse