The podcast finally returns in its monthly format and is…pretty much the same. Actually we do have a very interesting interview with Matt and Yug from Australian Gamer in which they talk about their levels of geeky-ness, video games and their perfect Sunday. But to get to that you’ll first have to sit through Kyle, Liam and Will blathering on about the flaws and failings of Grand Theft Auto IV and Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Banania is a fictional space opera radio show created myself, Toby, Robert and Dom for our sound and voice class at Deakin University. It tells the tale of an alien race who launches an invasion of planet Earth for our banana supplies – but unfortunately the story doesn’t have an ending.
While there is no episode three, this was almost going to be episode one. You see, a requirement of the assignment was that the show ran for exactly six minutes. When we assembled a rough edit we found that we recorded a nine minute show – you’ll see when you hear it how we edited it down. We plan on returning to the project to create that nine minute version next semester.
Also note that the show makes use of glorious stereophonic sound, owes much to the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy radio series and received top marks.
Ognam, Narration & David Attenborough by Dom Everyone else by Toby Sound tech stuff by Robert and Kyle.
Joss Whedon, creator such TV series as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly is well known for writing strong female characters and received an honour from Equality Now in 2006. Since then Equality Now have been running an annual charity event called Can’t Stop The Serenity where they screen the film Serenity and raise money and awareness.
There are several screenings happening across Australia this weekend in Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane, Launceston and Melbourne. The Brisbane screening is sure to particularly awesome as it’s been held at GenCon where Alan Tudyk will be attending.
This weekend in Brisbane is RivFur; the annual Queensland furmeet. The gathering of anthropomorphic geeks is taking place from Friday to the Saturday (July 4th to July 6th). In its second year of existence, RivFur is free to attend, aside from the costs of certain events held on the weekend, such as the lasertag.
Having been running since the late 60s in America, GenCon is a massive gaming convention that is finally having an Australian event. The four day con is happening at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre (corner of Merivale and Glenelg Street, Southbank) from Thursday (July 3rd) to Saturday (July 6th).
GenCon has all the usual features of a geek convention (costuming, art, special guests etc) but the main attraction is the gaming side of things: tabletop, miniatures, LARP and more. It sounds totally awesome in a totally nerdy kind of way. Tickets are purchased at the event and it’s $22 per day or $66 for all four days.
