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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.

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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