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From the set of Cooling Off.

Alexandra Dreyfus “blogs it out” at the beach.

By simplykimmie13

How Do YOU Want It To End?

With lonelygirl15 coming to a close there are still a lot of unanswered questions. Where did Lucy come from? How did Jonas’s parents make all that money? Whatever happened to that teddy bear Thor? Now is your chance to tell us what you’d like to see happen in the series finale. Do you have two characters you ever wanted to see hook up? Who should live and who should die?

Submit your ideas in the form of videos, artwork, or anything else your imagination can spring forth. Be creative!

The winner of the most creative idea (funny, unique, wild) will receive a voicemail message from one of the actors or characters of your choice praising them for their visionary ideas. Available characters are: Daniel, Jonas, Sarah, Jennie, Watcher (Virgil or the other guy) and of course, Lucy!

This DOES NOT mean we will use your idea. We are more interested in what whacky ideas you can come up with. Or, you can just use this as an opportunity to actually tell us what you want to see.

Deadline: Wednesday, July 9. Just make sure it’s in my inbox by midnight Los Angeles time.

Submit your entry to amanda@eqal.com.

Lee would be thrilled to know that one of his gnomes just sold on eBay for £37. The successful bidder was ‘TheLoneliestTraveller’, which means that the gnome will be jetting all the way to Azusa, California. We hope he’ll be very happy - please send us a photo when he’s settled in.

There’s no need to worry about the travelling gnome’s carbon footprint as the £37 is being donated to Garden Africa.

As many of you know, Silke and Ted (Dream and Watching One), two longtime community members who met on the website, were married on July 4. (Watch our “Congratulations” video to the couple.)

CONGRATULATIONS!!

We are so overwhelmed by the outpouring of emotion that the community has expressed with the end of lonelygirl15. Since our announcement yesterday, there has been a lot of great discussion about lonelygirl15, the new show, and what this means for the community. I personally wanted to clarify a few possible misconceptions you might have as a result of our post.

First, in our minds LG15 is a Universe taking place around the story of The Order, an evil secret society that has discovered the existence of very rare girls that carry a special blood trait. Blood from these “Trait Positive” girls can extend the life of anyone who can transfuse the blood into his/her body. lonelygirl15 is the first show living within the LG15 Universe and KateModern was the second. We plan on telling MANY more stories within the Universe, including upcoming shows in Europe and the new one in the US.

Second, the new show is not going to be a fusion of lonelygirl15 and KateModern. Instead, it will take “the best things from each show,” meaning that we will apply what we’ve learned from producing them over the past two years – writing, interactivity, 12 in 12’s, etc. There might be some familiar characters in the new show, but we do not intend on combining the two series.

Finally, the heart and soul of the LG15 Universe is www.LG15.com and will remain so with the new website. The LGPedia, forum, Community videos, and InsideLG15 will all continue to be a part of the site.

We look forward to the LG15 Universe and it’s mythology living on for years to come with new characters and storylines. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them in the comments below.

- Amanda

We have some exciting news to announce! Over the last several months, we have been working to rebuild the LG15 website. Our programmers and designers have been working tirelessly to code and design a new social network platform. In August, we will relaunch LG15.com as a full-functioning social network with profile pages, chat, forums, comment boards, blogs, groups, and other tools. In the future, we will be integrating third party sites such as YouTube and Twitter into the platform so that you can manage your accounts from LG15.com as well as import your videos, photos, and messaging into your profile pages. We are very excited and eager to show you what we have built. During the month of August we ask you to beta test the site, send us your feedback, and invite friends to join the new and improved LG15 community.

We will also be premiering a new LG15 Universe show based in the US. It will bring together the best parts of lonelygirl15 and KateModern, including some of your favorite characters. To make room for the new storyline and characters, we’ve decided to bring the lonelygirl15 storyline to an end. We are working with amazing writers and actors and are very excited about the new show. To this community, it will feel less like a new show and more like another chapter in the LG15 storyline that picks up where lonelygirl15 and KateModern left off. To new members of the community, it will be a new story that they can get into from the start so they can experience the show without the need to watch over 500 videos. Get ready for an exciting lonelygirl15 finale on August 1!

This is very exciting for all of us and we are so happy to share it with you. It has been a long road and many of you have been there with us from the beginning. We are excited to have you continue with us on this journey. Remember, we are counting on you to test the site during August and September and report your feedback so we can fix all the bugs before the new show launches.

- The LG15 Team

This week Jonas (Jackson Davis) visited the fictional Lake Clandon in Going Down. Do you know where this was actually filmed? There are no clues or drops at the location, but we did leave the marker on the tree and the black rock sitting next to it. Hopefully no innocent bystanders are scared by them!

As usual, there was a lot of goofing off between takes. Here’s Jackson practicing his karate moves.

While we were filming Born Free director Marcello Daciano decided he’d like to sit down for a few minutes…in the middle of the street. That’s me trying to drag him away.

Melanie Merkosky (below) gets into character while filming A New Direction.

The Hymn of One book isn’t a clue - we just used it to prop up the camera.

This was a great week of filming and we hope you enjoyed all of the videos! You can download these pictures (taken by Kevin Schlanser) on the lg15 flickr account.

We had so many incredible entries. Thank you to EVERYONE who sent something to us - we really enjoyed watching your videos, looking at your pictures and reading your poems. It was great to see how many of you loved KateModern and you made us remember some of the great things we’ve been through over the last year. It was extremely difficult picking a winner as the standard was incredibly high - you should all be very proud of what you’ve done. We’re going to make sure all of the KateModern cast and crew get to see your work.

But there has to be a winner, and the winner is….

(drum roll)

Chris Schretzenmayer (stretchandmayonaise)

 

Congratulations to Chris - he wins the goody bag - but you’re all winners to us. Thank you for an incredible year.

Lots of love,
Team KM.

PS
Buddy bundle?

Brendan Gallagher:

KateModern I love!
Come on everybody,
Come and gather round,
Pick up the broken pieces,
And I will tell ya what’s going down,
There was a show
A show like no other,
It started with with an art video,
Then a pretty face
An Aussie and Ralph little
This is when I knew
When I had found my new love
Now I miss it so
Because it ended on the 28th
Buts that not what you need to know!
You can still watch all the videos
On the LG15 site
But that’s is not what this song is for,
This song is to tell everyone
How much I love KateModern
Which I absoluty love,
When waiting on the videos
I leave a comment on Chaz’s page
And of course I sharing the love,
Just waiting for the comment back
Then I rewatch some video’s
Then recheck my page
When I see that comment from
One of the lovely cast
My heart fills up with love
And then I shout for Joy
Then I throw my hands in the air
And shout I love KateModern
And nothing will part it from me
Yet then Kate dies
At the hands of the evil Terry
Which then we find a new young cute blond
But her sister had been taken
By the Order of Course
And she was sacrificed
We know her name is Lauren
And part of the drug trail
After a incident at the bunker
She comes to live with Charlie and Lee
They make some lovely Happy food
Which fills me with Joy
Then I love the video that Lauren
Makes with the pills
Then Jonas comes to visit
Then Steve goes over there
Then Paris comes around
And Charlie is framed
But this is what I love about
KateModern
There is a lot of twists and turns
Even a puzzle or two!!
But then its came it an end
So just like KateModern
My song is ending now
But I have one last thing I have to say
I love KateModern
And thanks to all the cast and crew
For making me have a Year to have a new thing to Love!!

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Ross Gills: A girl was once full of nightmares.
She couldnt sleep at night.
Every one of her visions gave her quite a fright.This girl was Blonde.
She feared for her own fate.
This girl was trait positive.
This girls name was Kate.Her friends feared for her health.
So they tried to help her.
She kept awaking in the strangest places with all her memory a blur.Eventually she was killed.
Who twisted this fate?
Who destroyed this young girl?
Who killed Kate?

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 Alex Ayling: July 07 came one day
That KateModern made its debut
Bebo.com place where it came from
Character number 1 is where I start from
We were introduced to a girl called Kate
A potential artist following her trait
Positive, in order for the Order to get in order
Her blood had to be taken in a vile manner
Later introduced to her flatmate Charlie
High-fly, party-girl, hardcore Aussie
Sangas in the left, camera in the right
Get a handful of Fosters and we’ll party tonight
T and G, Tariq and Gavin
Had the software they’d bin developing
Time went by then 2 became 3
T+G= L-E-E
Lee the Liverpud-LEE-an
Screwed the pair, and what happened was he
Cost the two gravely, him and Gnomey
Little did he know he’d leave him for Sophie
Superfan no.1 can’t deny that
Can’t argue with truth, can’t argue with fact
Can’t spurn the wool, or mix the tricks
Can’t stop the bus running 436
Can you hear the song, do you believe?
Are you one with the hymn just like Steve
Used to be, before he opened his eyes with a jerk
Later on came Celestial Network
Julia the traitor she became
Married Rupert and changed here name, ended up
Carrying ‘The Claws’ and Heldens kid
Hench your bets and make a bid
That Toe fo sho came to flow
In video number 3-1-0
Found out he was in fact Lee’s bro
But in the end, its was time to go
Terrence showed up, and came Terry-gate
Later admitted to killing Kate
In the end though came his comeuppance
Rest in Pieces, later Terrence
Lauren was discovered by Chaz and the gang
It was on that day her journey began
Con-cocked the kidnap with the FTO
And Michael Jackson can’t dance better than you
4eva and a day I heart K-A-T
E-M-O-D-E-R-N u see
Heart live-events or competition spree
To own a DVD or a script for free
Hendy, cittiecat, Jenna shoutout to you
Richard, Zoe, Ken, from me to you
KM’s at an end, no longer in peril
And cheers for making us fall in love with Meryl

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Kerry Smyth:I’m Not KateHere I am, saying hello
Just to show I’ve made this video
Drawings and pigeons to the sound of ‘Below’
And I guess I just wanted you to knowI’m finding it harder to sleep
All these secrets I’ve been trying to keep
It’s so much bigger than a friendly lie
When I open my mouth it just multiplies

It’s all become so complicated
I can’t understand these things I created
I’m trying to make something of my fate
But my name is not even Kate

We always try to put a frame around things
We don’t realise the trouble it brings
We think we know the truth about everything
It’s cool stuff, but it does your head in

I need someone to take away this pain
I’m having those dreams again
And things aren’t really making much sense
I’ve got the evidence

Maybe tomorrow will be a better day
There’s so much on my mind, so much to say
All I can do is try to find the right way
But my name is not even Kate

Everything has a beginning and an end
I’ve met this guy, and he’s been a good friend
The past few days are just a blur
He’s trying to help me remember

My specialist doctor never did much good
Maybe he did, but I misunderstood
There’s got to be something I have missed
I need to get to the bottom of this

I’ve never been so close to answers before
You don’t have to worry about me anymore
I know I can figure all of this out
You can trust me, I’m Kate now

Clarkey2008

Dan Scanlon

Josh Mears

Trisha Pham

Antonio Coria

Hannah Brennan

Kerry Smyth

PJ

Something borrowed, something blue, an LG15 wedding just for you…

Congrats to Silke and Ted, known as Dream and WatchingOne on lg15.com! Here’s a fun video from Yousef and Amanda.

Thanks Katie!

Al (hopefulsemblance) thinks he might be the biggest KateModern fan around.

A lot of you love KateModern. Leslie (longlivebree) does too!