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Q&A // GLOZELL GREEN
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GloZell Green is best known for her hilarious YouTube videos, especially "My push up bra will help me get my man" and her many "translation" videos in which she analyzes the lyrics of anyone from Ke$ha to Justin Beiber. The 45-year-old YouTube superstar received her B.F.A. in musical theatre from the University of Florida. After college, GloZell left her home in Orlando and moved to Hollywood to pursue her dream of becoming an actress/comedienne.
With a rough start in Hollywood, GloZell began studying some of her favorite comedians' work — namely, Jay Leno. She attended more than 600 consecutive tapings of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, studying Leno and taking notes. GloZell's notes and interviews with the show's audience provided material for her blog and led to the birth of her video posts in early 2008.
Today, her Leno days are behind her and she currently works as an actress, comedienne, television personality and vocalist. GloZell spoke with Jayplay about her viral YouTube videos, life in Hollywood and her inspirations.
What inspired you to get on YouTube and make your first video?
Well, at the time, I was making videos on Blogger and it was really slow, so I was asking the whole 10 people following my blog where I could upload my videos. So then I started putting my videos up through YouTube, and then one day, my friend was like, "Do you know you've got people looking at you on YouTube?" And next thing I knew, "My Push Up Bra" was going from 1 million views to 2 million to 3 million. So then I started paying more attention to the whole YouTube thing, and now I hardly ever look at my blog.
What's the process of making your videos today? Any planning or preparation, or do you just wing it?
I just look at the artist's lyrics and go from there, but I don't plan it or anything. It's all foolishness basically. Ke$ha gets drunk, rolls around in glitter, maybe makes out with a guy and then writes a song about it. So then I just sit down and read it, and even her fans love it. Sometimes I just talk about the music videos, and so it's all made up. I mean, when you have over 1,000 videos and post as much as I do, you just don't have the time to write, analyze and think everything over. It's not that serious, you know? It's just YouTube.
Who is your hero?
OK, this may seem kind of bizarre, but as far as the Internet world, Perez Hilton, because he has gone from being a blogger to an Internet star. Now, I don't agree with everything he says and does, but he shows it can be done — that someone who's not an actor or singer, but just a blogger, can gain a fan base and become famous. So it just makes me think if he can do it, I can do it.
How have you gotten to where you're at today?
What keeps you motivated?
I watch and talk about what I like. I like the Hollywood industry, television, celebrities and pop culture. So I'm just talking how I normally would anyway. I just happen to tape it and post it and it surprises people. And where would I be without the Internet or YouTube? I'd just be a crazy girl talking to myself. You're crazy until you start making money and you're crazy until you start becoming famous. I mean, if I weren't known like I am today, i'd really just be an old, crazy lady.
Wow. I have been lucky enough to meet a lot,
so that's tough. I'm trying to think of someone
Of all the famous people you've met so far, who's your favorite and why?
that younger people would know. Angelina Jolie's father, Jon Voight, was really nice.
What advice do you have for college students who are aspiring actors or comedians?
But as far as ever? Michael Jackson. It won't get any better than that in my lifetime. I wouldn't mind meeting Lady Gaga, though. That would be cool, as long as she's not in Alejandro scary mode.
Talk about what you know and stay true to what you want to do, because along the way people will ask you to do all kinds of things — crazythings — and sometimes you compromise, but you've got to stay true to yourself. Especially as a comic, if you talk about your life and things that have happened to you and try not to be like someone else, then you'll make it. There's room for everybody. How many stations or networks are on television? Millions? You can get on one.
Speaking of that, are the rumors true that Oprah's giving you a television show on her network?
Not that I know of, nope. Right now, I'm just my own ghetto Oprah on the Internet. Maybe she'll be calling me. I'll be sitting by the phone waiting, O.
Every day, have fun. That's what I do, and people think I'm way younger than I am. Everyone has their gifts and their talents. If you just do what you're supposed to do, you'll go far. I mean, I'm not skinny, I'm not cute, I'm not blond or whatever else, but somehow I'm popular, and popular with a group that's 20 years younger than I am.
Final words?
You can see Glozell's videos at http://www.youtube.com/glozell1
// SARAH CHAMP
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BY ALEX GARRISON agarrison@kansan.com
The Student Senate finance committee proposed cutting all funding From the required campus fees to four community health services - the Douglas County AIDS Project,
Matthew Blankens, a graduate student in social work from Clearmont,
Headquarters, GaDuGi SafeCenter and Willow Domestic Violence Center — on Tuesday.
By Thursday, dozens of students had expressed their disapproval of the measure.
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Calif., and a former senator, printed and distributed 250 fliers promoting students to contact senators. The budget would remove all funding from the Willow Center starting next year and all funding for the
Proposed reallocation of student fees
$11.41 from student fees to block allocation per semester
ARGUMENTS IN BRIEF:
- Plan to set up a taskforce to find ways to fund these services outside the activity fee
  *Sources: David Cohen, treasurer; Aaron Dollinger, chief of staff*
- They say they don't want these services to lose funding but believe they should not be funded through the Student Senate activity fund
Wants to cut all funding for the Douglas County AIDS Project, Headquarters, GaDuGi SafeCenter and Willow Domestic Violence Center from the student activity fee by fiscal year 2012; funding for these services is currently $2.11 of $11.41 (18 percent of total).
Student Senate finance committee:
The Douglas County AIDS Project, Headquarters, GaDuGi SafeCenter and Willow Domestic Violence
- Funding cuts are coming from federal and state levels — even if student contributions are relatively small, every little bit helps, especially in preparation for Gov. Brownback's proposed budget, which cuts state funding to community mental health centers completely
- Wants funding to remain at $2.11 per student,per semester
Sources: Sarah Terwelp, executive director of the Willow Center; Olivia Burchett, outreach coordinator of DCAP
Weather permitting, the balloon will lift off from one of several possible launch sites on public land around the city. As the balloon rises, the camera will take hundreds of pictures of Lawrence and Douglas County. The students will use the balloon's flight data for several research projects on remote sensing, mapping, image processing and the effects of high-altitude on photography. Because the mission depends on obtaining good photographs,
A team of 18 geography students is preparing to build and launch a weather balloon 20 miles into the sky.
The self-destruction of the balloon will release the parachute, as it returns to earth. GeoHawk team member Ryan Callihan, a graduate student from Lenexa, said the team would track the vehicle's entire flight, but could not predict the landing exactly.
Take a look at the sky on April 8 and you just might see a balloon flying over Lawrence. They call it Project GeoHawk, an assignment in Geography 726, Remote Sensing II.
"We have no idea where it's going to land," he said. "It could land 300 miles downwind or in
The balloon will expand in response to the decreasing air pressure as it rises, and the team expects it to pop at about 100,000 feet.
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"The cameras worked great," said Kelly Miller, a senior from Waterloo, Ill. "If we can get that quality from the flight it will be amazing."
BY IAN CUMMINGS icummings@kansan.com
some team members boarded an airplane on Thursday for a test flight, removing one of the aircraft's windows to experiment with a variety of camera settings and lenses.
The entire apparatus will be about 23 feet long, with the balloon measuring four feet wide and six feet tall, pulling a tail strung with a parachute, radar reflectors and two boxes of electronic equipment. The equipment, which includes GPS trackers, will measure internal and external temperatures, air pressure and the orientation of the contraption. A camera will dangle from the end, pointed downward,
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Group hopes to end use of fake IDs in Lawrence
Miller said that the vehicle, along with its data, could be destroyed if it lands in Clinton Lake or on Interstate 70. She said Olympus, the camera manufacturer that lent the students two Flagship E-5 cameras, also accepts that possibility and had been promised copyright of any images taken with their equipment.
ALCOHOL | 3A
Kansas Citv."
The New Traditions Coalition works to promote awareness of alcoholism through new initiatives to stop underage drinking.
TECHNOLOGY | 3A
The future of cars is here
A guest speaker discusses the prospects of new electric cars.
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