a positive revelution.
revel
(verb) to enjoy oneself in a lively and noisy way
(noun) a community of revelutionaries
(lifestyle) to celebrate... life, love & makin' stuff.
purpose driven enlightainment.
our mission is to heal ourselves, America & world via radical honesty, delusional optimism and funny as fuck multimedia content across movies, music, tv, podcasts and healthy lifestyle products.
We strive to live a fulfilling spiritual life while helping those around us. We appreciate the ridiculous and the simple. Enjoy the hustle but no more of that self harm “pain is good” shit. A healthy hustle. We don't take ourselves too seriously and laugh along the way.
By reveling with faith, we get where we want while enjoying the journey. a Revel Community is made up of like-minded artists, business people and activists with the shared purpose of delivering fresh creations to the world.
This is not just a company, but our life mission.
the Revel movement
social impact foundation
Supporting conscious content that cuts through the noise to find solutions on humanity’s biggest issues. Awareness is table stakes, our world needs entertainment that inspires action.
political activism
The old way is not working. Bringing pragmatism and humanity back to politics. We’ll be on the ballot in 2028 playing to win.
podcasts
Long form dialogue because nuance matters more than ever. Over 100 episodes and counting.
consumer products
Apparel to fuel the movement. Mountains of registered trademarks to vertically scale revel products. Think healthy, punk rock Disney.
record label
In-house producing and publishing. Grammy-winning talent. Released over 20 albums. Artists have ownership.
film & tv production
Feature length projects owned by a co-op of the people who made them. A modern studio that runs off duct tape and magic.
our core nature is to create.
Revel Media is a vertically integrated multimedia company that produces movies, tv shows, comedy specials, music, podcasts and healthy lifestyle products.
We play the long game looking to create iconic artists x intellectual property that will stand the test of time as classics that inspire future generations. The Spiritual Avengers.
Our company is vertically integrated from concept to production to marketing and distribution of our IP, brands, products, revelutionaries, experiences and content creating diversified automated digital and physical revenue in perpetuity for our IP and creator community.
communityism: how bihness should be done.
Revel has developed a proprietary approach to bihness we call communityism (not communism, that has a bad history and is as poorly run as capitalism; both often come with authoritarianism and grifting monopolies). All economic systems are ideological inventions and we need to evolve ours to be a HEALTHY ECONOMY: healthy and prosperous for all stakeholders in communities large and small (creators, collaborators, partners, employees, fans, consumers, environment, health, local water and food systems). our economic system should not slowly kill our souls and our physical bodies. enormous economic growth should be shared more equitably with workers co-owning profits in companies, content, ventures and projects that they help create, build and maintain. this shouldn't be a novel or radical idea. for people to live. healthy. each Revel Community (a project or venture co-owned by crew involved) walks the talk with each production. The Jebus Movie, for example, shares 49% of movie profits with cast, crew and community investors. what you sell should be healthy whether it's content (f*ck horror porn and false bullsht), product (f*ck unhealthy food and poisonous products) or process (bad faith business dealings ala health insurance companies, banks and conmen). Economic activity can be sustainable, healthy and benefit errrbody.
Want to produce a project with
COMMUNITYISM?
Revel Media can provide the following services to help you and your community make a project together that is healthy for all stakeholders and shared by the community that made it. Just like the Jebus Movie.
Communityism services include:
Communityism consulting
Project conceptualization and development
Production of audio and video recordings
Multimedia publishing services
Communityism business development including contracts, financial structure and legal materials necessary to produce a Revel Community.
Communityism event production services
Communityism website development
Executive production services for communityism digital projects
Creative consulting for social commentary and edutainment
Click button above to get a quote or
join one of our ongoing Communityism projects.
hi, I’m coley.
elightainer. revelutionary.
chief doofus of Revel Media.
click to watch my story
i make purpose driven multimedia.
movies, comedy specials, tv shows, podcasts, products and music. All written, performed and directed by myself and made fully independently by community owned co-ops that share profits.
i want to be the Walt Disney of punk rock media spuring generations of Revelutionaries speaking truth to power and evolving our world positively
a positive Revelution that celebrates change.
starting with me I guess. since most artists seem more concerned with money, status and acting too cool for school. while y’all do that, i’ma print truth like a tour de force engine. if you know me, you know how I get down. now at 20+ music albums, 100+ podcasts, 1 feature film, 1 comedy special, 2 tv shows and over 100 TERABYTES of multimedia content made in house. new wave shit. all from soul downloads; not pandering.
been doing this since 1985, check my catalog.
along the way, some insane thangs happened.
some groovy, some god awful; including:
successes
graduated Georgetown University in 3 years with dual major in finance, international business and theater minor; paid off my tuition selling weed
worked on Wall Street only 1 year as a media investment banker to learn media finance then quit within 5 minutes of getting my bonus
chose to chase truth over money
made 20 music albums without marketing myself
made a feature movie without marketing myself
made a tv show without marketing myself
made a comedy special without marketing myself
made 100 podcasts without marketing myself
made a prolific amount of art; went broke.
got mocked & demonized for being a failure
gonna market myself now.
i’ve been laughing at me this whole time too.
struggles
fell 10 feet onto my head in a shampoo commercial
not exactly empathy inducing but had to relearn everything
kinda hilariously on brand
kept makin stuff thru it, albeit janky
almost died of OG Covid March 2020 which took years of medical help and neck surgery to heal recurring brain encephalitis and neck stenosis
that shit killed over 1 million Americans
as scary as it is to admit that shit publicly (half dead ain’t sexy), i decided to own it and tell it to force myself to get back to peak brain power and health to show people you can heal from ANYTHANG
one of the biggest joys of my life is my community service work for Project Free: artists with disabilities and neurodiverse abilities and their all special ed rock band Solar Flair
neat shit
I have been doing community service since a kid - giving turkeys out in the hood for thanksgiving, special olympics, insane lil speeches and protest art in absurd situations
threw Allen Iverson's retirement party (the only Philly gold star I need lol)
opened for Nelly, Wale, Jermaine Dupri, Bun B, Bone Thugs & Harmony, Young Gunz, MTV Fashion Week
i won Vice President of my high school class with a 7 second speech…i promised no long speeches.
sold a couple thousand p's (weed only) to pay my Georgetown tuition and early days of Revel
I have a satirical political party called The Pragmatic Party that promotes bipartisanship and getting shit done, not divisive bullshit
I was born during election week near Valley Forge where the 1776 revolutionary army stayed.
i love my complicated family. with so many marriages ending in divorce, a financially squeezed and traumatized country and need for healthier resources and emotional therapy, we all gotta give our loved ones more grace to grow
lost my Pops who battled CTE during Covid
CTE is like an Always Sunny episode that's scary af. he was funny af til the end tho, picture Frank from Always Sunny but more charming
come from a long line of bad ass women
my Ma was engineer computer genius x taught me Mother Theresa level selfless love
Great Grand Ma Edna lived in North Philly til she was 93 and asked for switch blade for Christmas after a mugging on the subway where she still kept the purse
4 lesbian aunts on forefront of civil rights
my Dad's family came from Ridley and my Pop Pop was auto mechanic named Hoagie tho he forgot the a on his arm tattoo
my other Pop Pop was a World War II pilot on Flying Tigers unit
lessons
service x mastery are best paths to true happiness
turn all negatives into positive
manure into crops
laugh thru it all
heal thyself
remove ego
dance with life's curve balls
who knows
God x Life is f'n awesome
revel with me,
who knows,
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