“Hyperfast-paced pop culture” – Wired
Title: Epic Fu (Formally Jet Set Show)
Role: Executive Producer / Writer / Director
Company: Smashface Productions
Series: 150+ Episodes
Epic Fu (formerly known as JETSET) was a web series created by Steve Woolf and Zadi Diaz. The show premiered on June 1, 2006 and ended in 2011, running for five years and a total of 171 episodes.
Airing weekly on the Epic Fu web site and various online distribution channels, the show drew its content from current news stories centered on emerging art, music, technology, and Internet culture.
Compared to Rolling Stone and MTV by Advertising Age, and described as a hyperfast-paced pop culture newscast by Wired Magazine, each episode of Epic Fu ran an average of 5–10 minutes and was generally divided into four main sections: news, music, interviews, and community.
News: Every episode of Epic Fu began with host Zadi Diaz at her desk introducing the week's top stories. The news section often included stories highlighting how technology and the web was affecting our culture in art, music, style and politics. News stories were also submitted by audience members.
Music: The show typically included a music video intermission called "Music Video Spotlight" also known as "Sh!t We Like," which highlighted an independent or unsigned band or musician.
Interviews: Interviews appeared in the second half of the show and were generally conducted on-location. Guests included web personalities, technologists, artists, musicians, political figures, inventors, authors, television personalities, and off-beat types.
Community: The Epic Fu community contributed regularly to the content of each episode in the form of news links, correspondent pieces, and response videos to "Campfire" discussions. The central hub for the show's community was called MIX, involving over 4,000 of the show's fans, and was located on the Epic Fu website. There, fans uploaded photos, videos, music, submitted ideas, and began discussions on forum threads. EPIC FU also used social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to connect with fans. The show regularly initiated collaborative projects to involve its community. Some of those were a collaborative film, flash game battles, Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), and participation in an eco-challenge called Seven Days Without Plastic. Participating members are incorporated into the show.
The show won several awards during its run, including two Webby awards for Best Variety Show and Best Variety Host.
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