Reposted from The Geek Side of Life: Live from Balticon 49! This is a panel discussion titled A Song of Ice and Fire: What’s the End Game? It featured Jay Buechler, Christiana Ellis, Nutty Nuchtchas and Jeff Young. SPOILER WARNING: Do not listen to this episode if you have not read all five books in the series and you care about being surprised.
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Balticon 49 Panel: Podcasting 101Here you can listen to the raw audio from the Balticon Podcasting 101 panel, thanks to Scott Pond for recording and producing. You can find his podcast Mental Residue here.
Featuring: Scott E. Pond (moderator), Veronica Giguere, Nunuche “Nutty” Nuchtchas, Doc Coleman, and Jason G. Banks
Topic: Podcasting 101 – Discuss the basics of developing a podcast. What is your target audience? What are you trying to market? How do you grow a style to call your own that draws in fans?
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Each year I have a Balticon Special where I will take professional headshots for podcasters, writers, whomever needs one. The special rate is only $50, for this you get the best shots from our photoshoot (large resolution files and smaller icon sizes) and complete ownership of the photos so you may use them without permission. It is implied that your headshot may be used in portfolio, but if you’d like me not to, as some have, then I will not include them, free of charge.
To get a session booked, hit me up on twitter @nuchtchas (or other social media or email avenues) and we can work out a time. Or find me at the con, first come gets first booking. Day time is the best for natural light.
Below are a just a few shots I have taken in the past.
If you’ve been reading this site you know that I lost a very close friend, PG Holyfield. This is some art I did in honor of him and to help me process his passing. You can find out more about the Children’s Trust and how to help his family at PGHCT.org. Or donate to the gofundme while it’s open at gofundme.com/pgfund. First sketched on paper then redrawn in photoshop. Lengthy details below.
This isn’t exactly a Daily Creativity, since it took me more than a day. Sure sometimes I post things with the title of Daily creativity that take more than a day, but this one was worked on a little bit each day for five days. It may not look like there as that much work put into it, but since this piece was so emotional to me, it was a lengthy process. I erased and redrew about a million times, I had to get the faces just right. I deliberated over the color of everyone’s shirt (which no one notices) and drew how our hands are placed so many times the paper was wearing thin. I wanted to have all of us, and by all of us I mean the cast of the Beyond the Wall Podcast, supporting PG, Viv and myself on his sides, and then Christiana and Chooch behind us supporting us, I chose our positions from a cast photo we took at Balticon in 2013. Then I scanned it into photoshop and low and behold my trusty stylus stopped sensing my pressure. I tried to reinstall the drivers, clean it out and did everything short of replacing the nibs (still working on finding some) before I realized, it’s not happening. All at the same time my other trusty pointing device finally died on me for good. I use a Logitech Trackball, it’s a trackball mouse that is moved by the thumb, great for ergonomics, great for cluttered desks, and I have so much more control with that now over a regular mouse because I have adapted to it. Turns out after enough use the wireless starts clicking on it’s own and double to quadruple clicking, for the last 6 months to a year I have been fixing it by taking out the battery, switching the dongle’s usb port, and clicking buttons till the residual energy is dissipated in the capacitors, but that stopped working that week. This week I replaced the pointing device and realized how much I had worn down my old device, the new one feels so stiff and the buttons are so high in comparison. In the last 6-7 years I have gone through four and a half of these, all but the last were wired and lasted much longer, but you can’t buy wired anymore, and you can’t buy the microsoft version anymore either, and they don’t seem to be planning on making a bluetooth version, which they should. I realized just how much I use my pointing device though, and it kinda shocked me, but like sneakers, there is a milage rating that you need to replace these things. So, back to the picture, I was able to redraw and color all using my back up mouse that I keep in my laptop backpack for students and teachers who need a mouse. I remember finishing up the picture while listening to the Game of Thrones soundtrack which just added to the extra feels.
There is talk of doing a limited print run of this image, the prints would be numbered and all proceeds would go to the Trust Fund set up for his children. Any news on that and I will fill you in.
This is a mashup of Thor and PodcastJunky’s Ban Hammer! All sparked from a conversation on facebook, for the back story, read below. Ink on paper, then scanned and colored in photoshop.
I’m part of a group on facebook, the Podcast Community. It was created by mega podcast fan herself PodcastJunky. What makes this group different than many other groups I’ve found is the fact that you are not allowed to self promote in the group. Many people argue with this rule but it is this rule that makes the group so useful. Because people aren’t spamming the group with self promotion people can ask questions, get answers, and spark some awesome discussion. In the beginning of the group PodcastJunky wasn’t as diligent with the no self promotion rule and it got to the point that people who had contributed some really great conversation left over it. Keeping the self promotion out of it has given me the opportunity to not only get some great information about podcasting, like the newest technology, ways to record, mixer help, software help, where to list my podcast and how to list it, but when I had very specific problems the people who owned the company I was using was in the community and walked me through it. There is a representative of Blubrry (the powerpress plug in many people use for podcasting) and a representative for Libsyn (a website where many podcasts host their files), and they both often answer questions and will look into issue people have. While I don’t use libsyn because of this hands on approach I have recommended it to others.
PodcastJunky is very diligent about the self promotion, facebook added the advantage of letting members report posts to a group admin to help her out with this. As she deletes and records or blocks and bans people for breaking the rules she tells us about it, and references the ban hammer. In one other these conversations someone said Marvel’s secret was out and she was the new Thor… so of course I had to draw it.