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High Water Media’s affiliate, the excellent band Seize Them!, have made their 9.8.07 performance available for free download, in both .mp3 and FLAC formats, at the downloads section of seizethem.com. Recorded and performed live at the Jam Factory, High Water Media’s recording facility.

The band encourages you to share their music far and wide, in accordance with their taping and trading policy.

High Water Media is very proud to be involved with Carolyn Sills, of the amazing band Boss Tweed, and her entry in Showtime’s Homegrown Humor Video Contest, “Little Brooklyn Country Boxes“.

Carolyn and Gerard Egan wrote a great country version of “Little Boxes”, the song used as the theme for the series Weeds, and came up with a really fun concept for the video. High Water supplied the direction, videography, editing, compositing and final encoding. We’re all very excited by the results.

You can find the clip on its contest page by clicking here. Please give us some support by leaving a comment or a rating. Thanks!

Best of luck to Carolyn!

photo by QXZ

High Water Media has begun the stickering campaign for the excellent rock band Seize Them!. Folks all over Astoria, Queens will begin to feel subtly drawn toward the internet, their nameless craving satisfied only by discovering Seize Them!’s music.

The band took over the High Water Media music studio today for several hours of practice ahead of next weekend’s house party performance. New songs are coming together, and we hope they’ll be able to get several of the new things onto the EP-in-progress.

Tomorrow High Water Media is going to take advantage of the probable Labor Day sale at the local Guitar Center to pick up a more powerful PA for the studio and perhaps some speakers as well.

It’s all coming together. Sandbags are filling.

photo by QXZ

It’s a busy time for the Biggest Little Media Empire To Have Recently Sprung Out of Thin Air.

First and foremost, of course, is the establishment of highwatermedia.com, the web presence of (you guessed it) High Water Media. Here we sit in our basement studios, tinkering with Wordpress blogs and placeholder pages, activating stores that won’t see business for months to come. As everyone knows, the creation of a website is what makes a business entity real and the actual filing of LLC forms and such is a mere future formality providing tax and debt shelter.

Make no mistake, High Water Media is a business. Soon it will even be a legal business with the imprimatur of the Great State of New York and all that comes with it (mostly a confusing tax situation, as far as we can tell)

What the public is more interested in is the product, of course, and that is what we turn our attention to now.

We have just returned from North Carolina where we shot nearly sixteen hours of footage for the forthcoming, as yet untitled, feature documentary film about aspects of the Everything2.com community. Will and Leah Woods were our hosts and subjects, and many thanks to them. The footage looks great and has been added to the pile begun when we interviewed Tedd and Christa Terry up in Boston back in February. Shooting will continue through January of ‘08 and then editing begins in earnest.

Next up on the production block are two short video projects, one a contest-entry music video for Carolyn Sills of Boss Tweed fame, and the other a promotional video for up-and-coming comedian Dean Weber.

Seize Them!, a band of delightful young men from Astoria, Queens, continues recording their first EP this month. New songs are being written and a few of them will debut at a private house party at The Jam Factory a mere week from right now. Seize Them! recently printed up logo-bearing stickers and the ST! street team of minions has already begun infecting the New York City psychescape with the appropriate promotional memes.

So there we are.
Keep your feet dry, people.

Cannonball, jackknife, bellyflop.

High Water Media has donned its waterwings and taken to the sea.