NYC Producer and Director Jeremy X. Halpern Goes Mobile Across America To Burning Man 2009
By: Gabrielle Sierra Aug. 18, 2009
Jeremy X. Halpern hits the road in true Kerouac style and explores the mysteries of the Burning Man Festival (www.burningman.com) in the newly comissioned "Weirdos.TV Mobile Lab". He will make his way from New York City to Black Rock City, and all the way back again, documenting his travels and encounters for his Internet TV Show www.Weirdos.TV. As Hunter S. Thompson famously quipped "When the Going Gets Weird, The Weird Turn Pro."
Live midnight broadcasts will continue throughout the voyage; each night beginning August 24th, the show will be streamed LIVE from a different location along the route. Broadcasts during Burning Man (from August 31st through September 7th) are not to be missed! The climax will be in Las Vegas on September 9th. The return voyage is completely unknown-Jeremy X. will be soliciting requests for places to bring the Weirdos.TV caravan.
The entire voyage will be video-taped from every possible angle, creating a mocku-rocku-documentary to be screened in New York City at the end of the year. Even in transit, viewers can continue to watch the show live every night, as well as being a guest on the show via phone (at 800-934-7367) or webcam (Weirdos.TV@gmail.com on Google's GTalk). No one yet living knows what will transpire at the weirdest TV show known to humankind drives across america to find out if normaility really exists, and how to stamp it out forever!The 1-800-Weirdos.TV Mobile LABoratory is a refurbished 1965 AirStream Safari trailer, equipped with computers, solar power, multiple video cameras, and stylish psychedelic decor! The travel version of the Weirdos.TV show will feature impromptu guests plucked from the stops along the highway, as well as the usual gang of freaks on the phone and webcams. All the facets of these United States from deep rural to deep urban will be included on the Grand Tour of Weirdos.TV.
Jeremy X. Halpern (1-800-Weirdos, Sole Proprietor) also founded Verge, a multimedia performance group in 1987; they performed their first gig at CBGBs in 1988. As an actor, he has performed on stage and in films and video including acclaimed Iranian director Amir Naderi's "Sound Barrier". As a theatre director, he has masterminded such bizarre epics as "Speak of the Devil (A Satanic Cabaret)" and "Battle of the Dead Celebs". As a composer, he has invented soundtracks for the Faux-Real Theatre Co's "Funbox Times Square', as well as having scored many short films for the Girard Street Production Company.
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