No homegrown music this week, just some more blatantly ripped off semi-commercial stuff.
Kristopher Young was born in 1974 with roots in Philadelphia and New York City. He moved to Portland, Oregon in 2004 to focus on his writing.
His background is diverse; he’s vegan, is trained in branding and scarification, put himself through school designing databases and has a Master’s Degree in Media Ecology (the impact of mass communication on society) from New York University.
Kristopher founded Another Sky Press in 2005 and continues to play a significant role as chief editor. Click was his debut novel.
Big changes coming here to this network. A complete rewrite and redesign of Alterati, Piltolite, Greylodge, and PODLAFF is coming this winter. We will probably be off-line for a month or so as we roll it all up and begin to roll out the new stuff. Alterati, PodLaff and Piltolite will be merging into something new, currently code-namedHukilau.However, right now, we can say no more. We will continue to put out GSpots every 2 weeks, and will leave up an archive page of the last 4 0r 4 episodes, while we hammer and saw behind the curtain. We are aiming for a 2010 relaunch of the new project and we think you’re going to LOVE it. Until then, be well and we’ll see you in the new year.
Songs, in order:
Babylon System
Nude Dressed
SmiteDemDub
BIO: Chris Arkenberg is a strategic researcher and futurist watching for patterns at the intersection of human culture and technology. He’s currently working as a visiting researcher at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, Ca., where he’s researching the emergent field of Brain Computer Interface for the Institute’s 2009 Technology Horizons program. He did undergrad in psychobiology at UCSC, then worked a 2yr stint at Gateways metaphysical bookstore, followed by a 10-year stretch working 3D & management for Adobe Systems, Inc. On the side, he’s an electronic music producer under the moniker N8UR, while also enjoying and engaging his local community in Santa Cruz, Ca. His blog is URBEINGRECORDED .
In anticipation of the upcoming performance of The Abattoir Pages, Joseph Matheny in conversation with John Harrigan about anything and everything that comes to their mind.
Joseph Matheny in coversation with Klint and Jillian from Esozone, talking about the new “open source and unconference model” being used this year.
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After EsoZone Portland 2009, we will release the “EsoZone Protocol,” a set of guidelines similar to an open source software license that will enable organizers to host an EsoZone in their own city as long as they are free and follow the “unconference” model.
Joseph Matheny in conversation with Jon Lebkowsy about the beginnings of the public Internet, hacking, phreaking and the rise and fall of the “C” word (Cyber) , social media and a host of other remembrances of recent history.
9/9: BOOK SOUP
Event: “Random Obsessions and Strange Stories
from Special Guests”
West Hollywood, Calif.
Wednesday, 7 p.m. Details: Rich Ferguson, Stefan Kiesbye, Lenore Zion
of TheNervousbreakdown.com and Joseph Matheny. We’ll be recording it in video and audio to release as a GSpot in the near future.
Music by Landen Belardes Directions:Store details.
Joseph Matheny interviews Danielle Hatfield (yes, one of THOSE Hatfields!) about Twitter, the Internet and life in general. A good casual conversation, not too stuffy or formal at all, just the way we like it, with a side of Louisiana hot sauce!Also another episode of In Your Ear-New Yorker Magazine archived short stories read aloud and discussed
by current contributors.
Also another episode of In Your Ear- Discussing the Geek Survival Guide – home of survival tips you will probably never need. http://gsguide.blogspot.com/
Joseph Matheny interviews “another Joe”, AKA Bazooka Joe, from Solipsistic Nation and formerly of the smallWorld. They talk about music, podcasting and get into a weird Joe to Joe cross interview feedback loop.
Also, another episode of In Your Ear, this week reviewing “Variant Frequencies” a podcast of (mostly) short fiction in the horror/subgenre sci-fi vein. From Puske: I pay special attention to the podcast novel which they debuted – “The Failed Cities Monologues” http://www.podiobooks.com/title/the-failed-cities-monologues/) – link is to the podiobooks version.
Pritzger prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, founder of the Southern California Institute of Architecture and the renowned architectural firm Morphosis, comes to the Festival to share his passion for space, light, and cinema.
Joseph Matheny discussed the state of independent film and ponders some solutions to the “Internet dilemma” with his friend and partner, Michael Mailer. Also, a new episode of “In Your Ear” with Psuke.
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Michael Mailer (born 1964) is a film producer and the oldest son of writer Norman Mailer. He has produced over 17 films. He has one sister Kate and two brothers Matthew and Stephen an actor. He is the co-founder of Bigel/Mailer films. He is married to Sasha Lazard and they have one son Cyrus. (wikipedia)
Steve Diet Goedde was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri and learned the basics of darkroom work and photography from his father, who was an amateur photographer. By the age of 13, Steve was obsessed with taking photographs and started educating himself about photographers that inspired him, most notably Richard Avedon, Lillian Bassman, and Diane Arbus.
He moved to Chicago in 1985 to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he studied filmmaking and painting. He refused to study photography stating that he had already acquired his aesthetic and visual style. Read the rest of this entry »
In this episode of the GSpot: Wes Unruh brings us reflections on the movie Synecdoche, New York, Joseph Matheny talks to Jeremy Kasten about why this is a perfect time to make an independent film, with poetry breaks provided by Jim Morrison from the great beyond.
Coming in the near future: Joseph Matheny talks to R.S. Carbonneau about The Marvel and other works, Altertube/GSpot video segments makes a comeback this summer with JM covering the red carpet scene at one of the more “indie” of the major film festivals, the LAFF and more. Stay tuned.
Big changes coming here to this network. A complete rewrite and redesign of Alterati, Piltolite, Greylodge, and PODLAFF is coming this winter. We will probably be off-line for a month or so as we roll it all up and begin to roll out the new stuff. Alterati, PodLaff and Piltolite will be merging into something new, currently code-named
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