IN March of 2021, Deanne & Susan Esthera joined forces and created a livestream together; because we were still living in COVID era, Deanne broadcasted from Tampa, Florida, and Susan broadcasted from Boston, Massachusetts, creating a digital convergence with green screens.
Below you’ll see the flyers, and for the last of which Susan made a live appearance in Tampa and surprised everyone.
WHEN DJ Deanne first moved all of her livestream shows to Twitch, I was a little sad because I thought the social outreach wasn’t as great as Facebook, but with Facebook LIVE becoming more and more problematic for streaming, the social outreach was a moot point, and the following on Twitch continued to grow.
As it turned out, Twitch had other perks that Facebook did not have: the ability to RAID other streamers with similar streams and build a bigger community of likeminded individuals.
Shortly after Deanne joined the Twitch community, she joined another—the #QuadSquad, and among the three other members of the QuadSquad were  Susan Esthera & Rick Corbo.
While Susan didn’t commission the creation of the QuadSquad logo, she was the first member I showed the logo to after creating a more concrete icon for the Thursday Twitch foursome to place on one of Deanne’s flyers.
AFTER Deanne launched the House Arrest livestream, she decided she wanted to do an earlier Thursday event to kick off the weekend, an event she decided to film (weather permitting) in her backyard to give it a real tropical cabana feel.
Below you’ll see some of the various flyers for the livestream.
DEANNE and I have been friends for quite some time, but when COVID-19 hit, something unexpected presented itself, an opportunity to build something together (which led me to hone my graphic design skills further and ultimately launch FORGE). After some encouragement, Deanne decided to venture into the unknown realm of live-streaming… and with that House Arrest was launched.
