The Femmebots first launched at Art Basel Miami 2009 as a performance art piece in a week-long warehouse art show with the Miami Thinkers collective. Seven women wore iPhones on their chests featuring video mash-ups I edited. I also built the web site for the show, www.miamithinkers.com, designed the e-newsletter inviting art collectors and promoted the event on social media with this little YouTube video below. Underneath the video, you can see the script I was starting to develop for the Femmebots, which I eventually produced at film school two years later.
The year is 2050 on Planet MyAmi. The evil Femmebots are a crew of bad girlz who invented the “Boob Tube,” breast implants that allow them to shoot brainwashing multimedia at anyone who stares too long.
“I really have to thank the private equity B-O-Yz we worked for in Coconut Grove for inspiring this lucrative high tech device,” says Gysela MyAmi, CEO and “Urban Mermaid” of The Femmebots Multimedia Productions. “Their elevator eyes helped me refine my elevator pitch.”
Femmebots strategic planner Pluton, aka, “Witch of Coconut Grove,” added that Mike Meyers’ Femmebots in Austin Powers set a great precedent in the late 20th century. “The fact that I can blast anyone who’s not paying attention is a total time saver. I can’t believe how much easier it is to close deals.”
The Femmebots Crew
Princesa
Born and raised in LA, but a regular on the “catwalks” of NYC, Planet MyAmi and Chicago, this Aztec Princesa is muse to artists, musicians, designers and Wall Street stiffs alike. Homegirl has implemented sales strategies for Chanel and L’Oreal. Oh, and she likes cooking, eating, drinking wine, listening to music, dancing – straight off her Facebook page. LOL.
Virtual Gypsy
“I am an actress, improviser, writer, filmmaker and performer with a broadcast journalism degree living in New York City. Art is why I am here…I want to be part of it and create it and share it with everyone. I love to travel and I adore diversity. I am working on creating an art revolution.”
Devil’s Advocate
A graduate of Florida International University, this Planet MyAmi native is regional sales manager for ADP (yeah, the peeps who write your paychecks!). Words of wisdom from this little devil? “Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that’s where your future lies.”
The Indigo Fairy
I’m a fairy because I tend to become the characters I write about. Oh yeah, I’m a writer. Been doing it since I was 10. And been doing yoga since I was in the crib. My parents used to call it my “exercises.”
Pluton the Witch
I was raised by two writers, in a world in which the arts were essential. A few years ago, I began a metaphormosis, entering a world of spirituality and self-discovery… A few other things about me…I need coffee in the morning otherwise it’s not pretty…
Urban Mermaid, aka, Gysela MyAmi
This flight attendant says: “I WOULD RATHER BE HATED FOR WHO I AM, THAN BE LOVED FOR WHO AM NOT.” Translation: DON’T HATE ME CUZ I’M HOT!!!