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A pro bono web marketing track and weekly webisode released movie is causing change in Northern Manhattan’s Inwood/Washington-Heights area through a weekly clips/tips/picks E-mail newsletter build toward the motion picture’s premiere - in its entirety - on Halloween. This premiere also includes a live component of a web marketing magic show with Houdini Séance. Join us and become a part of the next movie with filmming to take place at the event by signing up for the newsletter at the Platinum Pias Awards website.
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Yianni Stamas, Dean and President of VFW Academy: College of Digital Marketing says "you're not in the business you think you are, you're in the business of marketing that business. And there's no business that's not in show business."
An interesting aspect of the cinematic venture is how it was made. The motion picture series' creative process starts out with what is in its original form - documentary footage. This footage is recorded with professional and consumer cameras on a constant and spontaneous basis in and around Northern Manhattan. In short, if something interesting happens, the nearest available camera is picked up and the thing is filmmed. |
This material is then re-engineered to tell the fictional self-documented first person account of a promoter prestidigitator P. I. who uses his vlog (video blog) to help improve the quality of life in his New York City neighborhood while simultaneously solving mysteries.
He does this in conjunction with videotaping advice from his digital round table of suspense-horror-thriller celebrity role models. These role models also happen to be the stars of many of the retro b movies he is a fan of and collects as a hobby.
WebMarketingTrack.com Theatre presents a VideoFilmWeb.com Inc. production YIANNI STAMAS' MANHATTANMAGICIAN.COM: VLOG DETECTIVE - THE CASE OF THE MISSING ACTIVIST. Yianni Stamas (Time Warner's decade running "Diary"), Ali Baynes ("Unsolved Mysteries") Jason Schilling Kendall ("Inwood Astronomy") Richard Kiel (steel toothed villain "Jaws" in two James Bond movies), E.G. Daily (voice of "Babe: Pig in the City" and appeared in Rob Zombies's "The Devil's Rejects", Charles Fleischer (the voice of Roger Rabbit and seen in "Zodiac" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street"), Bern Nadette Stanis (Thelma on TV's "Good Times") and Carla Laemmle (Bella Lugosi's "Dracula" and Lon Chaney Sr.'s "Phantom of the Opera"). Produced, written and directed by Yianni Stamas.
"The Case of the Missing Activist" is the tale of the Manhattan Magician who uses his lens and personal editorials to probe into the dematerializing of an eccentric proponent for change in the upper metropolis named Creepy Clown NYC. Prior to to the activist's vanishing in a building explosion in midtown, the edgey individual sometimes simply called"The Clown", claimed to be using hypnotic reverse psychology techniques to accomplish achieving improvements to the quality of life of Northern Manhattan.
For example, rather than telling a child "don't play in fire hydrant spray you could get killed" the clown would say "I command you to play in the spray so you are killed." But as the character of the Manhattan Magician's wife points out during the picture as a way to question the clown's unconventional mentally backwards methods "how can you get someone to do something good by telling them to do something bad?"
What were the real motives and who were the enemies of this bizarre performance artist with the initials CCNYC? Was Creepy Clown NYC a good clown or a bad clown? And was his evaporation self-imposed or the work of a dark conspiracy trying not only to supress the cosmic buffoon if in fact he was a do-gooder, but to also block World Peace by sabotaging the formula for Charles Fleischer's Moleeds and Gamma Ray theories? Only the Manhattan Magician can find out and reveal these secrets through his exploratory personal audio/visual journal and descent into madness.
Now the advertising sleight of hand slueth must find out what really happened to the clown in order to make Inwood's quality of life better so he can start a family with his wife - or risk losing everything - including his...mind!
Taking a behind-the-scenes look at the project, the series got its inspiration when filmmaker, educator and web marketing track expert Stamas (who plays “The Manhattan Magician”) and his wife Ali Baynes (who portrays his onscreen spouse) bought a two bedroom condo in Northern Manhattan with the intention of starting a family. Stamas was horrified by the community issues he documented with his cameras all around him, especially the recreational cooling down used by both adults and children of fire hydrant spray which in turn would lead to the blinding of the windshields of passing cars thereby causing accidents that ultimately resulted in the death of children.
So Stamas, after trying unsuccessfully to talk to city officials and wearing out the three phone buttons 3 and 1 and 1, decided to take on “the 10 community issues of Inwood”, embarking on a pro bono web marketing track campaign with weekly two minute videos being E-mailed to opt-in recipients to build awareness about the problems.
As he steadfastly used the web marketing track skills from his business to increase visibility, subsequent support was provided by several celebrity role models, NY1 cable, The Manhattan Times of Inwood as well as Bette Midler’s Northern Manhattan ecological organization “The New York Restoration Project”. This web and media buzz lead to NYC’s mayor himself taking action that has saved lives through preventative measures.
Now as the premiere of “Yianni Stamas’ ManhattanMagician.com: Vlog Detective & The Case of the Missing Activist” nears its screening premiere on Halloween, the fire hydrant issue – once glorified in the Broadway show “In the Heights” (while simultaneously statistically being the number one urban killer of kids) – is at the moment as of last Summer a thing of the past in Yianni’s neighborhood. This is thanks to the mayor and the D.E.P. (Department of Environmental Protection) responding to the call-to-the-web-marketing-track-action.
The next issue Yianni is taking on is being brought into focus for him largely because he and his wife just had their first child. This is prompting Stamas to examine his own challenges of parenting as well as again turning his lens onto the streets of the Big Apple, this time looking at some of the questionable aspects of urban parenting he sees all around him. These include allowing young children to walk around in the middle of the night unsupervised, loitering and drug use, littering as a trash disposal strategy plus procreation as a form of birth control.
Yianni considers himself a filmmaker and media artist first and a reluctant community activist second. Though, he perceives the need for activism and issue consciousness building which is why he continues to make local problems the focus of his work.
By day Stamas runs the production company he founded in 2001, VideoFilmWeb.com Inc., providing ongoing niche customized web marketing track support for his clients, several of whom he has been working with for more than a decade. These include the faces you know from film, television and the Broadway stage as well as New York institutions like Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Dramatics NYC, the salon chain with 9 locations throughout Manhattan.
Yianni's current campaign for Dramatics NYC which is typical of his combining show biz and web marketing is called PickYourStylist.com and consists of putting online fashion video portfolios of stylists online. This campaign was recently featured in "Time Out New York" "best of". And interestingly enough, Stamas' media studio exists downstairs in one of the Dramatics NYC locations on Second Avenue at 47th Street where Mariah Carey recently stopped by for a photo shoot and celebrities like Tina Louis of TV's "Gilligan's Island" frequent.
A pro bono web marketing track and weekly webisode released movie is causing change in Northern Manhattan’s Inwood/Washington-Heights area through a weekly clips/tips/picks E-mail newsletter build toward the motion picture’s premiere - in its entirety - on Halloween. This premiere also includes a live component of a web marketing track magic show with Houdini Séance. Join us and become a part of the next movie with filmming to take place at the event by signing up for the newsletter at www.WebMarketingTrack.com. |
