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So, I'm back to listening to Friends in your Head on the regular, and today I was listening to Girl With The Dragon Tattoo...
"Welcome to Wendy's can we take your order?"
Podcast Through Car Speakers: "Rape, Rape, Fincher has an interesting take on rape..."
"Yeah, um, sorry about all the rape talk...can I get a Spicy Chicken Sandwitch Combo?"
I was thinking...
"Matrix Regurgitation"
Will humanity be able to survive without 4 Spiderman movies this year?
Hey Everybody
About three, maybe four years ago I had an idea for a website/web application that would function as a sort of Linkden for creative people, who need electronic press kits which can be easily thrown together and maintained by a lay person who has one of more creative offerings to promote but doesn't want to learn wordpress. There's also some other functionality planned down the line, to make it a site that truly offers artistic types agency of their careers, hence, the title artistic agency)
The problem was I did not know a thing about programming at the time.
Since then I've attained a software development degree and built the alpha version of the website, located at http://artisticagency.herokuapp.com/.
It's based on the idea that the account holder, you, are the atomic unit of the site, with press kits for each thing you offer. As most creative people I know do at least a few creative things... https://giphy.com/gifs/season-12-the-si … UczxOxi3ZK
Anyway. At the moment the site is basically just full of placeholder profiles to look over how the interface flows. I'd love for anyone interested to give the site a glance and offer some feedback, or better yet sign up and create a profile and see how that experience flows.
Currently it's a ruby on rails project, but I'm learning Node.js, and thing that might be a better fit.
http://artisticagency.herokuapp.com/new
Any and all feedback appreciated.
I'm a bit late to the party here, and the specific question has already been answered, but my thoughts are as a long time Apple fan (I've had apple computers in the house almost constantly since the mid 80s) is that Apple is currently fumbling around in the dark a bit trying to find it's footing.
If someone asked me directly if it was a good deal I'd say that unless you need MacOS for some reason the Dell XPS line is almost there in terms of physical build quality, provides more computing power, and is offered at a better price, and that the optional XPS touch screen in probably more useful in the overall than the touch-bar.
If a friend was currently looking for a media production machine and didn't explicitly need some Apple Exclusive software or to build IOS apps, I'd say an XPS that can dual boot into Windows and Linux would be a much better deal than a Macbook at this point. If I understand everything correctly, currently with Apple you'll spend a little more money for a less powerful machine that is much harder/impossible to repair, the upshot being it can boot into Windows, MacOS, and or Linux, so you're basically bullet proof on software needs.
There's half a dozen ways to generate an escape character without the key relying on the touchbar to display it when required. Control + [ should throw an escape in any situation where you need to.
Here's hoping Apple's engineering team comes up with some more interesting inovations on the laptop line in the future.
Thank you kindly. There is a media player and download links now.
Since I don't have Down in Front anymore, I started listening to other movie podcasts, and finally learned enough to make my own.
I haven't gotten it on iTunes yet, waiting for a piece of art...but I have a halfway descent website up, where you can listen to all the episodes. http://www.rated80s.com/
I'd love any feedback! The forum there works, but isn't finely tuned yet, but feel free to go nuts, as long as your not a hox woman robot posting her whatsapp number and porn site links...actually, anything would make me happy!
Regards,
JW
My fix would for this to be a video game instead of a movie.
When I started i wanted to find a way to record fancy audio visualizations from the audio track to upload to youtube. After a few months of having that in the back of my mind I finally figured I could do it with FFMPEG, and I was right...So, I use ffmpeg to convert the audio stream into visualizations over a still image and then upload to youtube for random discovery. The response seems to be pretty good...hopefully this will be a long term route for people to find my podcast.
On the technical end, if you can do all the fancy stuff as you record (compression, deessing, noise gates, limiters, more compression, side chain compression) you can treat it like a radio show and save a TON of time not fussing with post.
Not sure what your set up is like, and I'm pretty sure the rest of the world does things differently than I do, but I use Linux with a real time kernel and Jack to work on the audio on the way to the disk, makes a professional quality recording without much if any post. I use Ardour as my DAW.
A facebook page with the option to promote seems like a cheap way to get people's attention. Haven't thrown any money at that yet.
As for a forum, vaniall forum is free, though a bit tricky to set up, but it plays nice with wordpress.
Convince your podcast crew to work conventions and build strong relationships with other podcasts, perhaps a podcast network. Oh, you said they are on a network, good job.
I have only made seven episodes of my main podcast, so I might not know shit about shit. 
Hey Everybody,
So, since Teague made a point of extolling the virtues of producing things in the goodnight goodnight episode, and because I have a few more free hours every week than I used to now that my favorite podcast ever is no more, I have started a couple of projects.
First the 90'n90 project. This is an in-progress attempt to preform 90 stone cold sober stand-up comedy sets inside of 90 days, to rehab my act and lose my alcohol performance crutch. It can be kept up with here. with a description of the project located here. It's turned out to be a lot more involved and interesting a project than I had foreseen. I am 16 sets deep 14 days into the 90'n90 project, but have only managed to write up 5 of the shows so far, so I have a bit of catching up to do on that.
The other project is a Podcast I have wanted to launch for a long time, called The Oral History Of Stand-up Comedy. We just recorded and released our first episode for today, and though this episode has a very Seattle focus I hope it will have broad appeal to anyone interested in stand-up comedy.
The goal of the project is to get an accurate picture of the inception of Standup as a popular artform from the people who were there at the time when it evolved from a thing that you had to be in an industry city to learn how to do, to a nation wide art form with clubs and open mikes in all major cities in the country. In a future episode I'm going to get to interview a guy who was good friends with and often drove for...LENNY BRUCE! Hot damn!
Feedback on the podcast would be very much appreciated. It's my first go at anything attempting professional audio production.
I bought www.whitman.space to house all my personal oddball projects, so on the off chance these interest anyone here they can always go there for the latest and greatest.
Thanks for taking a look at this post, and if anyone knows how to troubleshoot wordpress being unable to change permalinks please let me know. I have SSH and sudo access to the server which my friend is being nice enough to do hosting on, and there doesn't seem to be a permissions problem with the .htaccess file...and it's driving me nuts.
Goodnight! Goodnight!
Wow.
I must say that I am taken aback, and more than a bit sad to see the end(-ish?) of what has absolutely been my favorite podcast ever since I stumbled upon it's existence somewhere in a reddit.com/r/movies thread and fired up an episode along side a file of The Chronicles of Riddick. To have randomly stumbled across an infotainment source composed of people I'd be right at home hanging out with, having the sorts of conversations I cherish any time I find myself lucky enough to be having one....has been really special.
Having had access to "four friends in my head" while traveling thousands of miles through the country, often through areas where I feel like a complete alien, having been able to contribute in small ways from time to time in the chat, has meant a lot.
DiF has been a bigger than is probably socially acceptable part of my life since the moment I found it.
Thank you to everyone who has sunk time, and money, and html code, and various other sorts of effort into this strange but remarkable project which week after week produced an informative, entertaining, engaging, challenging, and hilarious product which has most certainly affected many people in many positive ways which the creators could never have predicted and will probably never know anything about.
You glorious bastards accomplished something pretty great, and I can't wait to see what you get up to next.
In the mean time, Teague, I'm going to make good on my various threats to start my own DiF type podcast. But, I probably wont be calling it Poly-Glamorous...but who knows. Maybe I will.
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Best Picture? Can someone confirm this isn't satire? There's literally a scene where Marky Mark explains to the audience that an elevator is an elevator, by saying "It's an elevator!" in obvious afterthought "our audience might not understand this concept ADR..
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Good Episode. I listened to it while doing dishes...yes I let that many dishes pile up.
There is a book that I read, well actually I listened to the audiobook, so I had it read to me, like a baby...
The Devil's Knot (Audible Link)
It, like most good books about misunderstood modern historical events, is written by an investigative journalist. It also goes a bit too deep into the theory that Mark Byers kill the kids, but does a bit better of a job as presenting it in a way that says "this guy might not have done it, but certainly he should makes a better subject than the boys, and if the cops were doing their job..."
As for America having confusing city naming conventions, I agree and it needs to stop. I'm looking at you Kansas City Missouri and you Kentucky Bend.
It takes him almost 9 minutes to express the idea that since the Bible is devoid of comedy that comedy gets no respect in Western culture and isn't treated as art...which I am not sure is entirely true, but I do believe his is right, dramatic film is generally too serious these days and that comedy isn't valued enough as a seasoning in most projects. Gone Girl has a lot of comedic moments worked into in it, despite being an insanely intense film.
From 14 minutes on he's spot on though. Comedy is an artform with rules, that works best in the hands of someone experienced enough to know when to violate those rules for maximum effect.
Missing 80's action movies with huge influence trilogy: Robocop, Lethal Weapon, Predator.
Fun commentary....
When child sacrifice was finally abandoned, they did the best they could to clean most of it from the texts.
So about 32 OR 33 A.D.?
Speaking of Sci-Fi films where we nuke a space base to win, I'd love an episode on stargate.
Glad you guys did this one. Very much enjoyed this episode. The movie is such a well directed mess, which had some potential. Listening to the commentary I was struck with the thought towards the end that the film plays like the terminator would play if all Reese exposition scenes were cut for time.
avatar wrote:And then there were five: Gravity, Hobbit 2, Lone Ranger, Iron Man 3, and... Star Trek Into Darkness (WTF!)
Oblivion & Elysium got screwed.
I am surprised that Elysium didn't make it. Also surprised that Lone Ranger did make it...
Star Trek won't win but glad it made it.
I watched Elysium and don't recall the effects at all, except that they bolted what look like the hydraulics for a trunk SUV onto Matt Damon and called it a robot-body...which I found unconvincing.
"Everything that could be an action beat will be a 30 minute action sequence."
--Mandate for the movie.
This thing goes on forever, which is typical since Transformers 2 I guess? It's probably a good movie to have running on a second monitor while you are trying to design a perpetual motion machine but want to have something in the background to keep you from going insane.
I finally got around to seeing Catching Fire, having thought the first movie was very interesting despite it having a slightly hard to swallow premise. My problem with Hunger Games: the Hunger Games wasn't that I found it difficult to believe that humans would not be likely to spend their time watching children beat each other to death with rocks. The fact that the the original movie made over 400 million dollars domestically selling just that premise means there is obviously something to that concept.
My problem with the original Hunger Games, which I did not fully comprehend until last night, was that the premise is that the method the fascist government of the capital has devised to inform their citizens of the hopelessness of their situation is to place their children in a winner take all gladiator contest and fill the contestants and the members of their district with hope...Joseph Goebbels would I think be as confused as I am by this approach to control. Why this all works is, I am told, explained better in the books, but I don't see any way it could actually make straightforward sense. None the less, part one is a very entertaining movie, and nobody can honestly deny the appeal of taking a bunch of ghetto children and putting them into some sort of Lord of the Flies Thunder Dome and putting the whole thing on TV.
Catching Fire concerns itself with the inevitable fallout of a fascist state having a program in place to annually make a hero out of an oppressed person.
The president of the capital is very upset that Jennifer Lawrence is accidentally responsible for the sparks of a revolution that she seems to know nothing about and has little to no interest in joining. In order to stop her from inciting a revolution they outfit her the country's top fashion designer, a speech writer, and a political consultant, and send her on a nationally televised speaking tour, placing her directly in-front of the people the government is oppressing and scared shitless of.
Oddly, this fails to quell the spirit of rebellion and is a good example of why the British Government didn't do the same thing for Thomas Jefferson before the revolutionary war.
I was quite depressed to discover that instead of doing that the story actually involves simply sending Jennifer and her not-boyfriend back into a new more scary Hunger Games where she fights more scary type people. I found it lazy, found the first act way too long and essentially useless, and I found the fact that they refuse to let Jennifer grow as a character until the last 30 seconds of the movie, and do so by not actually having her face any real loss, to be a cop out.
In no way but story is this a less than stellar movie. The acting is great, the effects are great, and the whole thing is pretty engaging, but the source material seems to be...well it seems to be very stupid and poorly paced and lacking of logic and arguably cowardly in some respects. Once all is said and done the whole thing should probably be re-titled the Fridge Logic Trilogy. At least there are no racist robots.
On a side note, the theater I saw it at said on the tickets board that the showing was "SOLD OUT", but had no problem selling me two tickets to a basically 2/3rds full theater, so in the movies defense, fascist institutions do often think their subjects are idiots, and will make decisions to that effect that can do nothing but hurt them.
Anyway, I like the movie, I wish it made more sense.
I don't get the impression the bird they use in the show is actually a raven...
I stand by my theory that the only reason they could have made the change was specifically so I would snap and assassinate Senator Ted Cruz.
You know what's a bit strange about the first book? The ghost birthday party thing gets a ton of attention, and then is pretty much completely abandoned in the other 6 books.
Skip to 2:05, and strap on your Holy Shit Goggles.
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