overcast #037 [67:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (703)

Last Saturday, Male Restroom Etiquette turned two years old. Given that anniversary, and the fast approaching Machinima Film Festival 2008, the timing of a recent package I received seemed appropriate. Lars Fuchs of AMAS interviewed Phil (me) on December 18, 2006 – right around a month after the 2006 Machinima Film Festival; the project that the interview was part of ended up getting shelved, and it never saw the light of day… until now.

It’s interesting to hear when I am talking about the legality situation regarding game companies and machinima… I had a slightly more optimistic view of the situation back then than I tend to offer up now. The “talks” with EA that I refer to several times… since the time of that interview, those talks dried up completely, for the very reasons I was starting to get inclinations about back then. That was a really big motivator in my full on commitment to the indie platforms for my own work. And while I’ve had a bit of an epiphany that reconciles the two worlds just a bit, my dedication remains largely with those platforms. It’s interesting to hear this little time capsule, where the seeds of that migration were so evident but not yet sprouting.

Thank you for listening! In two weeks we’ll be back with a new episode, plus the sideshows begin! Bring on the feedback, we love it!

This Week’s Itinerary:

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• Music Credits for this show:
  • Opening music is by Nine Inch Nails, from the album The Slip, the track title is “Demon Seed.”
  • This musical selection is used under the Creative Commons license graciously chosen by the artist. Please consider supporting them with a music purchase if you enjoy what you hear.
• Machinima Film Festival
• Ricky’s biographical tome on Phil: Part 1 and Part 2

 

 overcast #036 [52:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (677)

In this most unique of episodes, Ricky takes us on a sonic journey through SIGGRAPH 2008 in L.A. If you’re a fan of Ricky’s “Wonderful World of Sound” series, you’ll find this episode to be a treasure trove of field recording goodness. Serving as punctuation between the recordings are some short bits of experimental music, improvised and performed “live” by Phil, specifically for this episode. So kick back, don your best pair of headphones, close your eyes, and enjoy. For even more of the experience, check out the links to Ricky’s Renderosity.com SIGGRAPH journal.

We’re going to be trying something a little different. Right now we’ve been shooting for bi-weekly shows, every other Friday. In October, we’re going to try augmenting that schedule by adding what we’re calling “Sideshows” (and that only because “Snacks” is already in use by The Awful Show, my inspiration for trying this out). Basically, the idea is that we want to try to provide content Monday, Wednesday, and Friday… every week. We’ll continue to do the longer, produced podcasts every other Friday, but in between those episodes you’ll start seeing some other material, generally of shorter duration and more focused in nature. Interviews, spotlights, and so on. We’ll kick off the overcast “sideshows” starting October 6th, 2008.

Thank you for listening! What do you think of what we’re doing? We want to know.

This Week’s Itinerary:

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• Music Credits for this show:
  • All music composed / performed by Phil “Overman” Rice, and is released under Creative Commons Share-Alike license along with the podcast itself.
• SIGGRAPH 2008 website
• Ricky’s SIGGRAPH Journal at Renderosity.com:
  • Day One
  • Day Two
  • Days Three and Four
  • Day Five
• Machiniplex3: “SIGGRAPH 2008: A Most Extraordinary Conference”
• Quasi the Robot (YouTube video of Quasi)
• On the Subway, Arriving at Convention Center
• Exhibition Hall
• Media Room – The Day’s Schedule
• Students Interview
• Speedlab 1
• Speedlab 2
• Subway – On The Way
• Going to the Theater
• Animation Festival
• Walking the Hallway
• The Pantry Restaurant
• Morning of the Last Day – On Way To Subway
• The End
• More SIGGRAPH 2008 Coverage