“the overcast”
a machinima podcast
http://theovercast.com/
Visit theovercast.com for the debut episode in Overman’s approxi-weekly machinima-themed podcast. This week the show talks about some current and semi-current events in the community, and reviews three current machinima works. And don’t miss the exclusive audio of The Machinima Race, featuring more machinima insider jokes than you can shake a shtick at, and plenty of Americans-trying-desperately-hard-to-sound-British-and-failing.
Hope you enjoy the format. Be sure to leave a comment at the site and let me know what you think.
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All the defending I’ve done of rating and review systems, railing against the notion that machinima audiences are just some “herd” who will abuse them… fighting what I believe to be The Good Fight.
And then I come across a “review” comment posted at Sims99, one of the more popular machinima sites with a rating system in place: (more…)
A full-time student. A journalist. A construction subcontractor. A registered nurse. A computer support technician. A university professor. A waitress. A songwriter. An author. A photographer. Insert your occupation here.
Our Real Life professions are as varied as our names, our cultural backgrounds, our personalities, and our GPS coordinates. (more…)
Johnnie has posted an update to the BloodSpell Production Blog regarding last night’s festivities in Edinburgh. Apparently, they brought in St. Patrick’s Day in style, and managed to pull off a BloodSpell preview screening in spite of some technical challenges, which aren’t uncommon for public machinima events. I had an all-nighter of my own, but on Thursday instead, rushing to get the rough cuts of Episodes 2 and 3 finished sound-wise, and then Hugh and I were scheming furiously on Friday morning to get the files to him over my sheepishly poor upstream. (more…)
I’ve posted my first update to BloodSpell’s production journal, talking about the first week of work on this project.
And given that, not a lot of time for much else right now. Sure, there’s other stuff going on, but I think it’s best not to comment on it at this time.
I would highly recommend checking out Britannica Dreams‘ latest production, called “A Mermaid’s Tale” and based on the Hans Christian Andersen story. A really gorgeous piece of work, starring one startlingly good-looking Sim. Michelle and Kheri really are the masters of Sims 2 customization, and this film demonstrates it well on many levels. I found out on MPrem that they used a special mod for the lighting effects; for you Sims 2 filmmakers, definitely worth looking into. Check out their forum, where you can ask them all about it.
As part of a management seminar for work this morning, we all took a personality test. I don’t recollect which one it was (no, it wasn’t Myers-Briggs), but in a way it was like all the rest in that vaguely horoscopic way. I’m someone who is terminally impaired in terms of zodiacal awareness, so I’m the kind of guy that will accidentally stumble upon the horoscope section of the newspaper, not be certain of what sign I am, and browse through several of them thinking, “Yeah, that could be me.”
That’s kind of the way I felt about the kinds of generalities the test presenter / speaker was passing off as Confucian wisdom. And ultimately, the test told me something I didn’t need a Scantron page to tell me… that I’m a jerk.
Okay, it didn’t say that at all. But isn’t it odd, our human preoccupation with categorizing things into neat little boxes? We even do that with each other. There are people who never get past skin color as a method of classification, and others who won’t take a dating step without verifying astrological compatibility. Michel Foucault lamented about the widening definition of insanity civilization has used to distance itself from the different or unusual. Hell, our own governments draw jurisdictional lines based on categories which, if they are not meaningless to us as people, damn well should be. (more…)
