AUSXIP Network - Site News

AUSXIP Videos Site is Born

Hi folks,

I'm very pleased to announce the birth of a new site on AUSXIP. Previously videos were spread out all over the various AUSXIP Sites and not easy to locate from one central area.

I have created AUSXIP Videos which is basically a mini youtube for AUSXIP videos on AUSXIP. There is a mixture of embedded video from various video sharing sites such as youtube, google, vimeo etc and also hosted videos. If you have a music video and/or video related to Lucy, Renee, Xena etc and you would like to share it on AUSXIP Videos, please refer to the contribute section of the site http://www.ausxip.com/video/contribute/ on how to do so.

You will be able to locate the video you want via the menu which is broken down in categories:

• Lucy Lawless
  • Interviews
  • Movies
  • Music
  • Promos
  • TV Shows
• Renee O'Connor
  • Fan Events
  • Interviews
  • Movies
  • Promos
• Adrienne Wilkinson
  • Interviews
  • TV Shows
  • Promos and Trailers
  • Video Reels
• Xena Warrior Princess
  • The Battle For Mount Olympus
  • Xena Music Videos
• Spartacus Blood and Sand
  • Interviews
  • Trailers
• Erin Cummings
  • Interviews
  • Promos and Trailers
• MaryD's Favourites
  • Hallelujah Versions

There are lots more videos to be added but in the meantime there are around 80 online. More will be added in the coming days. I will be converting the wmv and other formats including all the music videos.

Site is located here: http://ausxip.com/video

Enjoy!

What's New for AUSXIP in 2010?

As you can see things are being re-organised around here which is pretty much normal when it comes to AUSXIP. Changing and growing.

I've got some new sections/sites that will be born in 2010 that I'm working on and of course news and multimedia from our favourite people will continue to flow.

I will be going on my annual vacation mid January and Mesh will be taking over looking after the babies for a few weeks.

January sees the premiere of Spartacus Blood and Sand - a must see show. Lucy is INCREDIBLE in this as are the rest of the cast. Sex, Violence and Nudity? Yes BUT there is a story, there is great acting, there is a fantastic plot and of course there is Lucy! There are some naughty bits and some 'oh my, did they just do that' bits but it's NOT to be missed. Check out my reviews for episode 1 and episode 2. I have seen episodes 3 and 4 but not reviewing them becuase I can't review them and not spoil things. Starz has been very kind enough to give me access to these videos and also the promo images which I'm thankful for and appreciate it. In addition I've written a Lucretia and Batiatus character review which I will be be posting soon.

February sees the 15th Annual Xena Convention in Los Angeles where I will be attending and hope to catch up with my mates and have a jolly good time. Can you all believe it's been 15 years?! Headlining the event are our dynamic duo Lucy Lawless and Renee O'Connor with a plethora of fantastic ladies (and a couple of gents). Check out Creation Entertainment for tickets!

March is the annual AUSXIP Charity Auction to benefit AUSXIP's chosen charity, The Starship Foundation and one of Renee's charities. That's going to be AWESOME. We have some really cool unique stuff for this year's auction.

And that's just for starters. Thank you again for supporting AUSXIP in 2009 and let's hope 2010 is one great year!

MaryD

Announcing The Official TX Video Challenge #7

The following is from Moderator Gabsfan from AUSXIP Talking Xena with a new video contest!

The 2010 Best Love Music Video Challenge

"It's All About the Love"

Create a XWP Love Music Video and you could receive a Gold, Silver or Bronze Award in the 3rd Annual Best Love Music Video Challenge, the 7th Official Talking Xena Video Challenge!

Read all of the details on AUSXIP Talking Xena

Xena Site Updates + New Banner

Okay I've done some reorganising of the site. I've noticed more and more of Xena related articles have started to appear on my blog "This That & Other Stuff" which wasn't the intention of the blog so I've reorganised the site somewhat. I've moved the Xena related news out of the blog and into it's own section (where it should have been in the first place.)

All Xena related articles have now been moved over to AUSXIP Xena Warrior Princess and it has a spiffy new banner as well :)

Basically the AUSXIP mothership has just shifted a little. You will be able to find the most recent entries in the following categories

Xena News,
Beyond The Xenaverse - Cast & Crew News
Convention News
Fandom News
Merchandise News
AUSXIP Site News

AUSXIP Turns 13 And The Year In Review

This time 13 years ago (well yesterday) I sat down to tape a show for a friend. 13 years later...incredible to think that an idea has turned into this whole network of sites. I was going to revert the main ausxip page to it's original design but I've spared you :)

What happened on AUSXIP in 2009?

January saw me at the 2009 Xena Convention and Lucy's extraordinary Pleasuredome concerts. Incredible energy and it was such a fantastic con and concerts. Meeting up with friends again was one of the highlights!

In February the message board Talking Xena was officially brought back into the AUSXIP family to become AUSXIP Talking Xena once again after an 7 year break. The mods and former owner EZ Ryder had made it a great meeting place for people to chat about Xena, Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor and the rest of the Xena family. It was with that in mind that I agreed to bring TX back into the fold and have it become AUSXIP's official message board. With Spartacus about to be shown in the US, there is now a Spartacus forum as well.

March was the Annual AUSXIP Charity Auction to benefit Starship Children's Hospital and the Renee Outreach Fund. Thank you for once again supporting this! On my recent New Zealand trip I got the chance to meet all the Starship crew and they are just amazing. So supporting them is a no-brainer.

The major downer of the year was AUSXIP's hack meltdown. I'm not going to into that other than to say it was an experience I would rather not repeat.

In May (and in the middle of the meltdown) we had Cat and Nora's AIDS SF to LA auction. Thank you again for supporting the girls as they worked hard to raise money for this very worthy cause. They made the trek from SF to LA and I'm in awe of them both.

I crossed the ditch in September to support Starship and watch Lucy perform on the Starship Swing Supernova - that was ABSOLUTELY brilliant and I had a great time reporting back. Auckland is incredible and had a terrific time. It was my first (and not my last) NZ trip..hard to believe but true.

November saw Adrienne Wilkinson's Official charity auction and some new auction software which got it's first run on the site. That was very well supported and thank you to everyone once again!

Some more sites were added to the AUSXIP Network including my new Blog- MaryD's Blog This That & Other Stuff and The Daily Cheer in addition to the following sites:

AUSXIP Spartacus Blood and Sand
AUSXIP Crystal Chappell Website
AUSXIP Jessica Leccia Website
AUSXIP Andy Whitfield
AUSXIP Erin Cummings
AUSXIP Otalia
AUSXIP Venice

AUSXIP also partnered with a fantastic site, MichaelHurstNow.com, to bring you all the latest Michael Hurst and Jennifer Ward-Lealand news.

It's been a busy year! What's in store for next year?

We have the 2010 Xena Convention which I will be attending. It's Xena's 15th anniversary with Lucy, Renee and a whole bunch of other guests which promises to be fantastic. If you haven't bought tickets yet, hop on over to Creation Entertainment and get them.

March will once again see the annual AUSXIP Charity Auction and hopefully it will be a great way to raise some money for Starship and Renee's charity.

I'm quite sure lots of things will happen in 2010 that AUSXIP will report on...it's fun. As long as it continues to be fun; AUSXIP will be around.

All throughout the year your support via contributions of news, articles, pictures and other multimedia has been fantastic and very much appreciated!

Battle On!

MaryD