Shane and Aleasa Word, along with their five children, are a musically-gifted family who didn't have an outlet for their creativity...

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The seven members of the Word family are musically talented, but had old technology for writing songs and listening to music. They also didn't have equipment that let them come together as a family and watch television - all they had was "Yellowvision." The Gurus not only set them up to make beautiful music together with a digital wall harp and renovated play room, but redid their living room with a 47" HDTV (equipped with FiOS Premiere TV service) that retracts into a cabinet when not being used...

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This time, the tech challenges get tougher.

The brainstorms get bigger.

Weirder.

2.0-ier...

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Guru Lloyd, show producer Kathleen, and production manager Ryan stopped by to see how we were doing with our new music room...

Posted by Aleasa Word | tagged: Word, music, after, video | 2 Comments

Hey everyone!!!  

I'm having a great time being 18, and in love with music!! I've been doing shows every week, and getting great feedback everywhere I go!!...

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Our editor Rob is hard at work putting together our newest episodes, but he was kind enough to give me a sneak peek of some of the Word family's footage -- oldest son Lewis Jordan (a.k.a. Lew Static) dropping some of his latest rhymes on stage just before his family's tech makeover reveal. Enjoy...

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There's a great article on the Words in today's Wilmington News Journal, including a cool photo of the family in the "before" version of what would eventually become their Musical Playroom ("after" version shown here)...

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The talented Word family came up with this jam just moments before, and worked it into the beats the block party DJ was playing -- how cool is that?

So what's your all-time favorite summer jam? The one song that just makes you wanna kick off your shoes, throw some dogs on the grill and give summertime a big ol' high-five?...

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I always knew our show co-creator and producer Andrew Kessler would be going places...but who knew it would end up being outer space?...

Posted by Jim 2.0 | tagged: Word, Jaeger, show, behind the scenes, Irving, photos, Jesserer, Buckley, Zaharko | 16 Comments

Lewis, the talented rapper, producer and 17-year-old son of the Word clan, gives a tour of the new room he can enjoy right along with his other siblings -- LaShayna, 18, Maiché, 9, Shane Jr., 7, and Kennedy, 4...

Posted by Jim 2.0 | tagged: Interactive Wall Harp, Bellows Chair, infrared, Word, makeover, furniture, music, photos, home theater, after, video | 3 Comments