“Super Knocked Up,” a web series filmed in the Capital Region, has won “Most Original Web Series” at the 1st Geekie Awards. The award ceremony will take place Aug. 18 in Hollywood and will be streamed live online.
“Super Knocked Up” is the story of Jessica James (played by Jourdan Gibson), aka Darkstar, the toughest, most feared super-villain on Earth, who hooks up – and gets ‘knocked up’ – by her arch enemy, the amorous superhero Captain Amazing (Mark Pezzula). When she gets pregnant with his baby their lives change forever. The show can be seen across various platforms, including Youtube, JTS.tv (Just The Story), and Koldcast.tv.
Super Knocked Up is now in its second season. The Geekie Award follows other accolades for the show. It was named an official selection of the 2013 Hollyweb Festival and the 2013 Marseille Webfest and won a visual effects award at the 2013 LA Web Fest. Next month, James and show creator Jeff Burns will speak on a web series panel at San Diego Comic Con.
Leigh Hornbeck interviewed Burns and the stars of the show for a story that ran in September last year.
Story link: http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=20019411
SKU link: http://superknockedup.com/
Geekie Awards link: http://www.thegeekieawards.com
— Leigh Hornbeck
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Here’s the story by Steve Barnes:
The nearly nude dancer climbed atop me as if I were a jungle gym.
She tossed her hair and gyrated her hips downward, pressing her buttocks into my lap.
“Spread your legs wider. Let me get in there,” she said before swinging around and rubbing her chest across my face. When she leaned back, I had breast sweat on my askew glasses. A photo taken by a friend shows a red oval outline on my forehead that could be an injury or giant ringworm. In fact, it is a lip print from the dancer.
I went to the nude juice bar Nite Moves in Latham at the behest of the Comedy Central show “The Colbert Report,” which was eager to exploit the humorous potential of a tax dispute between the club and New York state. My role in the segment of the show, which aired Thursday night, was to review the dancing from an artistic perspective.
I seem to have been insufficiently compensatory for my dancer’s services, performed in the club’s main room, because she said, “You need to read up on strip clubs and strippers.” A buddy handed her more cash.
Although chastised and apparently clueless about tipping nuances, I still recognized that what I’d been watching was art.
The state Court of Appeals disagrees. In a split decision released Oct. 24, New York’s highest court ruled 4-3 against Nite Moves, which has been arguing that its dancers’ performances are akin to ballet and thus entry fees and payments for lap dances are not subject to sales tax. The club’s outstanding tax bill is about $400,000.
Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/entertainment/article/Colbert-lap-dances-and-art-4022012.php
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