77 Comments on thursday july 20, 2006 : field report
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Wow, Joanne can really hold still. Very nice and convincing mannequin posing.
Great job! I loved JC as the mannequin.
Great show. Joanne is making the show hers. I like it. Strike a pose!
way to go Joanne.. I am loving rocketboom!! you are totally making it your own…
Another good one!
Hello (Terve): I lived in Finland, in Isalmii, for a summer, and really miss the country and my friends. Thank you (kiitos) for restoring some good feelings.
Nice, Nice, but a bit degraded video quality or just my early morning eyes.
WOW JC…..the full body shots are SMOKIN!!!!!! Get out from behind the desk more often please :)
Nice Report…
The Finish woman could almost use some subtitles.
JC as a mannequin was cool.
Let’s see JC in a skirt when she goes on a field report:)
That Finnish mannequin really looks like Joanne! Spooky!
…um…..some Finnish trivia that is interesting is that they’re language does not relate to any of the surrounding scandanavian countries….. their language is rooted in Hungarian….
Wierd huh!
please talk more slowly if at all possible. the information density of this programming is just far too great for me to handle otherwise.
nice use of Fisher-Price Pixelvision camera, though. combine that with the tiki audio and you’re totally up to cable access 1985 standards.
Well Joannne if the RB gig does not last you have a fallback career at the Wax Museum. Good Show M’Lady
I LOVE the field reports and I enjoyed this one quite alot.
Plus… it soooo nice to not hear swearing or cussing. Joanne brings a nice and beautiful quality to the show. JoCo is a keeper!
very good mannequin impression. amazing really.
enjoyed the background tunes as well… very soothing, very appropriate.
the throwaway dresses were my favorite. it’s like a poncho with a little style.
Best RB so far IMO. Do agree with the beef above regarding the use of the Fischer Price Camera though. Where are the adverts?
Alright, alright, we’ll see… not bad shooting, field reports can captivate folks, same with Fins.
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Great show. Freaky mannequin. :)
Don’t take your cell phone to the woods.
Keep it coming.
Good work - but please get back to the desk for a bit this has been a strange week.
From Joanne’s linkedIn profile it seems she is a very capable lady. I just hope that you are able to keep her interested and challenged with RB for more than a couple of weeks.
Roll on next week and I hope that is what you are building up for - the field reports this week have been while your studio complex has gone through an upgrade?
Good, but I still think Joanne has less “presence” compared with Amanda. She doesn’t seem to carry the whole weight of Rocketboom, but only being a guest (which she is, of course). But these things take time, and it’s a difficult thing to come in at this time. Let’s see, I wish everybody good luck. And btw: those mannequin were spoooky! :-)
Finnish minimalism in design = good.
Finnish minimalism in film making = bad.
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I am so glad to see what’s her face gone!
Content rules, personalities drool.
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‘Cause that’s the way RB rolls!!
Wow. This one set the tone for the rest of my day… strange brew. Joanne as mannequin made 2001/Space Odyssey feel like Romper Room.
Great!
-s
Joanne rocks!
I checked rocketboom out before but couldn’t stand amanda - Joanne is a huge improvement - she’s got the polish to bring rocketboom to the next level - I’m looking forward to the future!
why when you are on the desk when the keyboard-clicking arrives you congeal yourself in this mannequin fashion to show the transitions?? also you could put the desk with all the drawers that we saw today as a background, i say all drawers in the background but each drawer with a map andy-warholized. for this idea i want u$s 60. thanks. i also think that the best are this field reports, when rb can produce its original content and not when you surf the net for us.
Rockety-bang. I love that. :-)
Finally we get to see Joanne master the pantheon of ideas towards the middle - as far as goes, yes yes. Great show, I like Joanne - she is my friend. When does she officially get the “permanent host” title?
Toodles
Rockety bang, gotta love that. And I like the minimalistic designs too.
“Please try on if you feel lonely”… Weird! Oh those crazy Finns.
But they do make some incredibly hot mannequins!
I didn’t realize Joanne was playing mannequin, rather I thought she was taking a few time outs from that intense and exhausting minimalist interview which only goes to show that the “space” between words can actually say more than words themselves.
Sauma rejected my “word” installation because I’m not Finnish…yet.
I’ve watched this episode several times and I can’t figure out how you got that mannequin to do the interviews. It looks so convincing!
That’s incredible!
A nicely put together show. Even with imperfections, Rocketboom is quite unique and very, very likeable. I’m overstuffed with over-polished, sensationalized mainstream media.
Joanne, you are funny! an amazing model…
This site now sucks monkey balls. Yeah it is that bad.
Love the show. Love the filed reports. Nice to see Joanne getting her groove on. Keep up the good work. When can I get a Rockety-bang t-shirt?
Wedding dresses from vending machines!!! There needs to be a law called “The Defense of Marriage Act” banning this.
What’s with the media quality lately?
The video is choppy, the colour is bland, the dynamic range is small…
The sound is okay, better than the tiki episode, but worse than the studio. it’s understandable since your doing a field report, still, annoying.
When interviewing someone, try to do more interaction with each other, long monologues are dull and we stop listening after 5 seconds.
Keep the spirits up.
brem
Took a few to realize JoCo was the mannequin. Thought Manda had reappeared out of the blue for a moment.
To regain Rocketboom audience so it will become profitable it seems that a little more seperation from the old is needed. Amanda is loved and Rocketboom should leave her alone and move on.
I think a change in the background is needed for JoCo. The click disappearing was FABULOUS since it was Amanda’s little trademark. JoCo needs a few quirks that are unique to her.
Unless she’s just an interim host i think it’s a great time to evolve the way rocketboom is delivered just a wee bit more.
The doll is like joanne colan. look exactly.
Excellent show. RB 2.0 is shaping up wonderfully and I think I’m officially no longer watching to see if it’s going to still be the rockin’ show it’s always been and have fully accepted that Rocketboom is back!! Good job Andrew and Joanne both. You’ve taken a tough trial and passed with flying colors.
By the way: Amanda’s deleting comments over at her blog, then criticising RB for moderating comments. Fucking hypocrite. She used to delete my comments all the time here on RB. Life must be so hard in her daddy’s home in Connecticut.
http://relev8.wordpress.com/2006/07/07/amandas-blocking-comments-that-dont-make-her-giggle
http://amandaunboomed.blogspot.com/2006/07/blogher-calling.html
Get the hook!
I like RB loads more than Tikibar, personally. And another thing I’m sure those behind RB are aware of….there are more of us watching now, some that didn’t see much of Amanda. I know I like what I see, and I have nothing really to compare it to. I don’t think I’m alone.
Keep up the good work!
I don’t think having Joanne play mannequin is really where you wanna go.
We know from the Casual Friday-Tikibar segment that she seems to have exqusite comic timing and great facial expressions. You should put her in one of those “sketch” bits at least once a week.
She seems to have a bit of Sally Phillips/Catherine Tate in her, which is all good.
Pieces like this “Jetsons Go IKEA” reduce her to a mere Katty Kay, just another BBC World talking head.
P.S. Mike R should quit playing Amanda Monitor and get a real job.
I definitely prefer when you guys do news-oriented shows. These kind of field reports probably only interest a minimal percentage of your viewers..
Anyone agrees?
here’s something that would be fun to see in your next show: Battery-Fueled Car Will Smoke You
Kiltak
Rakettibäng! That’s a good one!
I don’t know, man. I felt like I was watching a freakin’ IKEA Catalog. Joanna must have tons of patience.
From wild to mild manner reporter. With a never failing them….Look up in the sky is it a bird Yes (a beautiful one too) is it a plane (depending where you have your being)… its
just a super Idea Rocketboom Gang! (with a elegant twist. TY
Wow ,, great one, cute dolls
love design.
Hey Rick, Very good point that people should take to heart. It took Amanda a long time to get her stride so to speak, and Joanne is hitting her’s quickly.
However, the unwarranted Joanne bashing and Amanda whining really seems to have died down, thank God.
I’m digging the variety. Really don’t care what Amanda is doing at her parents’ pad, but I do look foward to see what she does next.
Great episode RB!
very nice piece. Joanne that still is scary..
Drew said:”we are going to be heading more and more back towards the news format”
I knew it since I saw Joanne interviewing people. Call it intuition or whatever, but I love the U-turn (let me put it this way) you are trying to do.
Nice episode today and Joanne was fantastic as a mannequin.
Hey…it just dawned on me.
This new host is a man baby!
Andrew…you are in nyc. You can throw a rock and hit a girl smarter and prettier than this one.
While I have never have like this type of design…RB made it at least fun for a few minutes.
JoCo…just so you know…you are no dummy in my book.
This is Tuesday for rocketybang!
Wow, two days in a row I have wasted my time.
Joanne is great but her accent is difficult to understand — I agree with the previous poster who encouraged slower speech.
DJO
RB has always deleted some comments. Nothing new there.
Being snarky just because you can doesn’t add to the dialogue. You can go to Snark.com for that. See there is something for everybody. For me I like the ‘boom!
email sternshow@howardstern.com and get amanda on the show
Let me repeat Max’s question, hoping for an answer this time:
Drew, is it true that you’re deleting negative comments from your comment section? If so, it would seem to go against the openness that we know and love and have come to expect from Rocketboom.
is it the same Rick saying to check out the archives and then saying the whole thing is boring?
yeah, I have checked out the archives, and I agree it’s interesting to see the development.
the manequin gag was funny for about 5 seconds. pretentious design was interesting for about 10 years, but only in glossy magazines. this is what happens when greed pushes talent like amanda congdon out of the way. you need one of those odor absorbing bubbles around your site. D+.
boring and bad
The image of Joanne as a mannequin is going to haunt my nightmares.
As for the deletion of negative comments; some of the ones I’ve seen are unecessarily ‘hurtful’ towards one party or the other and hold no sense of logical argument. If moderation means limiting those irreverent trolls, then good riddance.
I like the field reports more than the news. More creative, funny, anything goes. Great job RB! Love it everyday, but especially the first show (trading the pirate eyepatch)and today.
Boring…I prefer seeing shows that connect the story to the net in someway.
Fuck Rocketboom Amanda made your show you are loosing out
please please get better, get sexier, get funnier, just get it
goddamn you’re a good mannequin.
Finnish design is sweet — great looking stuff. Thanks for sharing, Rocketboom.
Joanne — you’re doing a bang-up job. Keep it up.
Joanne, you’re so statuesque in this episode….. You remind me of someone I saw in a department store the other day too… perhaps you’re mani-kin?
Drew, I’d be delighted to assist with writing for the .org site… I could do all the special news flashes! Oh, wait a min. maybe not - I think it’s illegal to flash in public, isn’t it? Well, if you really want me to particpate I guess I could try to stick it out for a while.
Great video! This is what video blogging is all about. Story telling!
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Great Job! Almost looks CG!
:)
WOW, sexy! You just gave me ideas I can do around my neighborhood! You rock girl! ^_^
No chick is a geek like Amanda.
Actually finnish is not rooted in hungarian.
They are both finno-ugrian, but finnish definitely don’t come from hungarian.
I can’t understand one word of finnish nor can they understand hungarian.
It was a good show, go on :)
joanne is really great. I’m glad that amanda is no more. she was just annoying.
now rb is really fun to watch. joanne rules!!!
Way to stand still and not move on… kinda reminds me of Amanda… Kinda applies to a lot of the posters here …
Joanne,
I am loving the new rocketboom! I was afraid it would lose it’s identity after Amanda left, but you are making it even better!
Best of luck!
Michal
Does anyone else think that the famous minimalism is about fleecing Americans for as much money for as little product as possible?
I liked how you posed as the model in all those shots. Very nice!