The search is over! The Online Musical proudly presents: Where's Waldo?: The Musical! After only a few days on YouTube, the video has brought in over 25,000 views and drawn press coverage from The Washington Post, The Daily What and The Daily Dot among others! Watch it (and the extras!) here!

“Thomas Jefferson: The Musical” tells the entirely true story of how the greatest founding father ever founded the hell out of our nation—history books shmistory books. Somehow the experts have left out the parts about TJ as a disheveled, albeit lovable pimp who originally intended to write a “Declaration of Constitution” at a (super secret) slumber party. Fortunately, Martha Jefferson and Sally Hemmings came equipped with enough phallic jokes to save the day. Enjoy it here and read more at TJmusical.com

When Rebecca Black happened, the Charlottesville Community Players had to respond. Nestled in central Virginia, resisting the bucolic lifestyle of Thomas Jefferson's agrarian republic, this small avant-garde theater group has sprung up and is prepared to perform reactionary plays on the Internet to save our artistic souls.

Needless to say, the staged reading of "Friday" A Short Play in One Act by Jeff Luppino-Esposito was both a critical and mainstream success to theater/Rebecca Black lovers everywhere.

 Watch the video here and expect more to come from this wild bunch!

On September 20, 2010, we posted the first ten minutes of Musical: The Online Musical on YouTube. We then asked the viewing audience-- what do you want to happen next? We did this for 10 weeks and successfully created not only the first-ever interactive online musical, but the first full length musical made exclusively for the web.

The show itself is about a dude whose entire life IS a musical! But no one realizes this (except for him) and no one understands this (even when he tells them). When he accidentally causes the death of the lead character of their life, the musical, the town plunges into ruin. A villain takes over. He has a crippling foot fetish. Naturally, all this leads to conflict.

Watch all ten episodes at http://www.TheOnlineMusical.com

Go to our site to find out more about this entirely student-run project and see exactly how we used ideas from our audience in every single episode!

    Founded by Jeff Luppino-Esposito and Stelios Phili on the firm belief that pop culture news could be both hilarious and insightful, PopSense.com emerged in January of 2008, fearlessly taking on the new media world. 
    PopSense quickly gained a reputation for its commitment to promoting high quality content wherever it existed on the web and for its shamelessly honest approach to the world of pop culture. By the Summer of 2009 the web site was receiving approx. 60,000 regular visitors each month and was produced by 15 staff writers and 3 college interns under the direction of Jeff and Stelios.

In a time of identity turmoil on the web, Jeff and Stelios did what needed to be done to the online music community-- force its members into narrow, insensitive stereotypes. The article (published on Flavorwire) took off in a heartbeat, getting retweeted hundreds of times and garnering over 140,000 page views and growing to this day. By swiftly defining listeners of particular indie bands in less than a sentence, the reactions ranged from wonderfully endless laughter to unjustifiably violent anger. One recent commenter on the article seems to sum it up best by saying, "I'm offended and impressed all at the same time." Thanks Mark, looks like we did something right. [Read the article here]

When the wildly popular (albeit anonymous) blogger 'Carles' of HIPSTERRUNOFF staged his own Internet death by 'selling' his blog, Jeff and Stelios stepped up to fill the void with CarlesIsDead.com. In barely any time at all, this hilarious meme drew a huge influx of viewers, taking on the exact style of Carles' writing and pretending to be Carles in the Internet afterlife. Carles revived himself 4 days later, thus rendering the blog no longer necessary, but in that interim period, it warmed the hearts of ironic hipsters everywhere.