Monday, February 16, 2009

Ephemera 2009 (6)

--Explanations in PLAIN ENGLISH. I do like Common Craft.

-- Sweet Frakkin' hotcakes 0n BSG's "No Exit" ep. I seriously look forward to the equivalent episode on Lost. Yes, sometimes you can puke up five years worth of exposition and it can be satisfying. You can also enjoy the semi-serious discussion on "why Tom Zarek was right" here. Be sure to hit the "BSG" tag for more feedback from various contributors.

-- Dear NBC: Kings is the best thing you've made in, say, five years. Please stop fucking up the marketing. It works both as sci-fi and/or biblical allegory. Seriously. You're shanking it.

-- My, that Kindle post got you riled up. I'm actually going to do a follow-up (and yes, Mike, we'll talk about the Sony Reader), but in the meantime this article is a good start. Substitute "horse" and "car", indeed.

-- And smoothly transitioning, I'm pretty impressed by the online presence of both Tor books and Subterranean Press.

-- Bought The Translated Man off Lulu, and I'm digging it immensely. There's an interesting discussion to be had (and I may have it with Lee Goldberg when I have lunch with him soon) about self-publishing. One one hand, we're pushing independent film production. On the other, we're highly ambivalent about novels that have not gone through the traditional editorial process. (Bonus points: I really can't get over how much i09 should suck, when it sucks much less than that.)

-- On the other-other hand, collections of posts & memoirs such as Wil Wheaton's Sunken Treasures fall under a different category perceptually.

-- Sure, Watchmen will be shiny. But the movie I'm most anticipating in 2009?



Go to Apple for the mind-blowing high-def.

-- The intersection of gaming and storytelling is heating up, and I have to admit that although there are tech-ier sites out there, I kind of like the noob friendly vibe at Gameplaywright.

-- All right, everyone's blogging about this ...



... and I'm pretty much in line with Bill Cunningham here. Longer Post Later -- we're due for a major review of 4th Generation Media theory, and how it now combines with open source insurgency theory -- but this is how it's going to happen. Pros dabbling, and stumbling into the new world. This is the "viability" demonstration of the insurgency. No, this is in no way a viable product. But it's the structure of a viable production.

-- In the Comments: your favorite podcast. Mine is still Planet Money. I adore people who can take complex ideas from a field I know absolutely nothing about and explain them so cleanly and entertainingly. Fiction podcasts also allowed.

LEVERAGE post tomorrow. Realized I couldn't have the discussion I wanted without spoiling.

63 comments:

Todd said...

I'm rather in love with Radio Lab, despite the fact that it only does five or so episodes every six months to a year.

Like the Escape Pod/Pseudopod/Podcastle trio, as well as the Classic Tales Podcast.

Anonymous said...

Is Kings really good. I am hoping it is (as more good TV is better) and I like the idea/pitch, but the marketing isn't really doing anything for me.

Anonymous said...

I saw that trailer for '9' in front of Coraline. The idea of a bunch of Sackboys running around in post-apocalyptic Earth fighting Jessica Joslin's Wunderkammer creatures given malevolent life seems like the most awesome thing ever. I suspect that it will end up either sucking, or only making 10 dollars at the box office.
I also hope the entire film's score has hefty doses of that lone balalaika-esque acoustic guitar.

Anonymous said...

I have to say, without your recommendation it would never occur to me to watch Kings. So clearly you are right about their marketing.

My favorite podcast? I listen to a bunch, but I like stories, so I'll throw in This American Life and The Moth.

-Betsy

Anonymous said...

RE: The "Escape from City 17" mock trailer.
Aside from a flat performance by one of the leads, the whole thing is a bag of awesome with a side of "Holy Crap, That Rocked" dipping sauce.
I seriously need to get off my ass and get something done.

Unknown said...

podcast: Rick Kleffels Agony Column ..
don't listen to all of it, but there's lots of great interviews with even greater authors there ..

Unknown said...

Until this moment, when your post made me look it up, I thought that Kings was a Dynasty style primetime soap so yeah, NBC, this will probably be taught in college classes as the way NOT to market a television show even if Kings manages to become a hit.

SH said...

Favourite podcast? The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe.

Anonymous said...

I think the difference between indie film and self-published books is that there still is a gate-keeper/crap-sifter factor in indie film. Indie films have to submit to festivals. Also, indie films have trailers, which offer a pretty good idea of whether the film would be a good use of time.

Books are just so much more of a time such than films, and a non-communal experience. I can go see a film that turns out to be bad and still have a great conversation with friends about it afterwards. Bad books are just several wasted hours.

Anonymous said...

Any thoughts on both Hardison and Eliot developing feelings for Parker in Season Two?

-MrsB

Keith R.A. DeCandido said...

My favorite podcast is The Chronic Rift, but I'm biased, as I'm one of the hosts. :)

I should mention that I plugged KFM on the podcast last month.....

Kat said...

Thanks for the heads up on 9. I'm curious to find out who did the music.

Podcasts? Hmmm, off the top of my head: Wormwood is in serial format. Combines horror, mystery and occult. Salty Dog's Blues N Roots is a blues podcast out of Australia. Those are the two I hate to miss.

Anonymous said...

Will definitely check out The Translated Man. All of a sudden, POD publishing is exploding, which is nice, since I decided to go that way with my first novel as well. I should be so lucky to count myself int he company of Wil Wheaton.

Now, if I can just figure out how to advertise my book, I'll be all set!

Anonymous said...

The music in the 9 trailer is the coda to Coheed and Cambria's "Welcome Home."

Anonymous said...

9 looks amazing, yes. I've got a lot of concerns because of their musical choice for the trailer, though.

Stellar Drift said...

Not sure what 4th media is, but that video doesn't impressive me - not anymore.

8 years ago people made fan vids like Duality - since then there've been things like Revelations (better graphics than most TV shows, of course it took them years to do it.) or IMPS (Their website here)


Perhaps this new one was made more efficiently.



Favorite Podcast?

Mark Kermodes movie reviews on the BBC - having a doctorate in horror fiction no less, he is not restricted by commercial sponsors, an will tell you if he thinks a movie is utter rubbish and everybody involved should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves or if its sublime. He loves movies, didn't have a TV for decades, when dragged of to front row seats at Wimbledon by the BBC he'll bring a portable DVD player, and even if getting kicked out of the Cannes film festival for standing up and swearing at the screen in french he'll unpretentiously admit to having shed a tear during High School Musical 3 and that Pirates of the Carrbean is one of the worst films ever made.
On with Simon Mayo every friday to do reviews, he is an acquired taste that more and more seem to acquire - and no, I don't work for the BBC.

Get your first Kermode podcast here

Mike Cane said...

>>>(and yes, Mike, we'll talk about the Sony Reader)

Please please puh-leeze don't use the "it sells to techies" argument. I scragged Paul Biba over at Teleread about that. And Paul is a nice guy and we've even met in person but I still went on Twitter and said he went fucking insane daring to say that.

Kings -- marketing FAIL. Confusing, stupid posters with orders from a "King." Finally a postery-poster with an URL. And when I went to the site (a few weeks ago), it still confused the hell out of me. Don't know if they've been doing TV spots as I don't watch much of that.

Oh, look at this bizarre CAPTCHA: colonme

Anonymous said...

Major BSG addict here: No Exit- not only impressive that they injected so many answers in one episode, but how much the could still hold back- Kara's identity, the dying leader (who I am nmore conviced than ever is NOT Roslin), who is Daniel, Baltar's uncanny miracle working... and only five eps to wrap it up in. The show is definitely going out on top imo.

*9 looks brilliant and a bit "The Nightmare Before Matrix". Not a bad thing.

*Loved the HL2 clip, the possibilities are impressive, though I can see the $500 didn't go into the acting. Fascinating


BTW, we have had a few LEverage eps no on Oz tv and I am enjoying it immensely. I now forgive you for cutting the entertaining snark and road stories quotient on KFM ;-)

Andy M said...

Favorite Podcast: I'm a big fan of The Moth. It's a 5-10 minute anecdote from an unusual source, and the editors choose interesting stories with good twists and eclectic speakers. I would also have said Planet Money.
And Ron Moore's BSG podcast is great at revealing how a showrunner makes choices in writing, rewriting and editing to make a show effective.

Thomas D said...

Escape from City-17? Wow. Instant nerdgasm.

My (current) favorite podcast is Pulp Gamer's Out of Character show. General discussion about board, card, and role-playing games. It's very professionally produced.

Anonymous said...

Hello and good day,

I like Podcasts- actually I love podcasts.
Two months ago I bought an Iphone and now I it is hard to imagine to live without it.
I get 2 or 3 podcasts per day and I really enjoy it!
I like "Kings" and "9" very much, but there are many german podcasts, which I prefer- I am from Germany :-)
Can you tell me, where I can find other interesting, english podcasts???

It would be very kind of you!

Thank you and have a very nice day!

Anonymous said...

Look at this — I skip town for five freaking days and Gameplaywright gets name-dropped at Kung-Fu Monkey. Good deal.

For the record, the two of us at GPW are aiming for a low-tech site, if only because we don't have the man-hours to compete with your Kotakus and your The Escapists anyway. You described us as "noob-friendly" — I've just been wondering the last few weeks if we spend too much time explaining the familiar. I mean, if you're even reading something like Gameplaywright you probably already know your Mary Sues from your MacGuffins and your DPS from your drop rate, right? I continue to wonder.

Our first Gameplaywright book, Things We Think About Games (introduction by Wil Wheaton) is a self-published thing we pass under the radar by printing in little POD-powered batches ahead of time. Because that self-published stigma is still out there, moreso for words printed on demand than for action sequences released to YouTube. My hope is that, with our next book, we can do POD without pretending.

As for podcasts: aside from the ubiquitous NPR 'casts and the already-mentioned Moth, I dig The Bugle, weekly from Andy Zaltzman and The Daily Show's John Oliver. It has funny.

Anonymous said...

Echoing Will (not that I've been out of town for five days) — thanks for the plug!

Geoff Thorne said...

My favorite podcast comes from the frozen north.

DECODER RING THEATRE is making some top shelf, old school radio drama with THE RED PANDA ADVENTURES, DECK GIBSON FAR REACH COMMANDER and my personal fave, BLACK JACK JUSTICE.

well-produced, well-written, well-acted and, like everything good in the world, absolutely gratis.

decoderringtheatre.com


It's pulptastic.

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