Dave talks about his recent trip to UCLA for a project and the book “Ready Player One”. Sid blabs about his amusing Father and television, and describes the sinister pull of “Game of Thrones”. Recorded February 24, 2014.

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• Dave on Systematic Episode 83: Creative Productivity
• Dave on Lean Into Art Episode 96: Heartfelt Goals

UPCOMING EVENTS

• New England Give Camp April 4-6!
• The Hippo Best Of 2014 4 DAYS LEFT

Recorded January 6, 2014.

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This podcast dedicated to the memory of Gromit, Sid’s cat who died after Christmas at 16 years old.

• Toddland Rich Folks’ Pyjama Jacket
• Tovolo Round Ice Cubes
• Japanese Soul Cooking
• Mastrad Purefizz Soda Siphon
• R.Stevens robots and skulls pixel socks
• Silver certificate-inspired print from King’s Wild
• Rocksmith 2014

Some of the movies that Sid got for Christmas:

• Man of Steel
• Pacific Rim
• Argo
• Silver Linings Playbook
• The Wolverine
• Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows

. . . and toys:

• Daft Punk imported figures

Recorded December 23, 2013.

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• Vintage Scoot
• Windfire Designs Circle Tool
• Han and Chewie t-shirt from Tee Fury
• Engineer Compass
• Sid’s review of the HoldFast strap
• Sid featured on Westcott’s website

Today’s geekery covers games Sid and Dave are playing, particularly Halo (Sara Ceaser explains why she lets SId play) and Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Christmas movies, recent and upcoming events. We also debut our first pass at a “collective-building” segment during which we mention what we know is going on creatively. Recorded December 9, 2013.

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Collective News

•  Die-cast licensed Firefly USB Drive in development by designer Alen Yen for delivery February 2014.
• Humorist Teresa Santoski’s new weekly blog posts; Christian devotional Prayers for Oppa is also now available on Amazon.
• Guitarist Ian Ethan Case is mentioned on WBUR’s Here and Now DJ Sessions w/ Julie Lavender
• Writer Sabina Chen has been making delicious-looking bars of soap.
• The first Women in Tech Hangout (WiTH) will be December 10, 630PM at DynHQ in Manchester.
• The NH Creative Club will be hosting a 3D Printing Networking / Tech event at the SEE Science Center in Manchester on December 10, 530PM to 900PM.

Upcoming Open Studios we know about. A discussion of the purpose of the podcast…perhaps it is about the collective connections we’re making? Recorded December 2, 2013.

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• America’s Stonehenge
• Picker Holiday Market Saturday December 7th, 12PM-5PM
• The Button Factory open studios, December 7 and 8, 11AM-5PM
• The Big Year, movie about birdwatchers featuring Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, and Jack Black
• Gate City Piano Karaoke w/ Elise MacDonald, December 4 at 8PM at the Nashua Community Music School

*ahem* @sidceaser, I hear you didn’t have time to add notes to the anime podcast because you’re cataloging your comic book collection.
— @TeresaSantoski

Today’s show covers collecting, comic books, nostalgia, and finding people we think are doing cool projects.

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• Arduino: Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
• Comic Book grading
• Thanksgivukkah history, food ideas
• Edward James – Photographer : Portrait of Sid & outtake 1, outtake 2, outtake 3
• Dave’s cousin John Su – The John Su (website), John Su on DeviantArt, his high school Japanese final project Final Fantasy A+ (amazing), Shoo Fly animation
• Alen Yen’s Toybox DX (Japanese robot collection)
• Eisner Award-winning creator Evan Dorkin / The Eltingville Club
• Video Game High School – by Freddie Wong, 20-something filmmaker on YouTube

“How did you get into Anime?”  Here’s the “all anime” podcast session that Sid, Dave, and Teresa had after the official one wrapped. We ramble on for 2.5 hours about our introduction to Japanese animation and subsequent experiences with it. For the nerdiest of nerds! Recorded November 18, 2013.

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SID

• Age 7-8: Force Five: Dangard Ace, Starvengers, Gaiking, Grandizer, Spaceketeers; Star Blazers
• Mr Big Toyland Commercial
• Robotech – scifi series dubbed for American audiences in the 1980s from three separate Japanese sources
• 1989: Feature-length Akira animation (English-dub trailer)
• Laserdisc bootlegs: Supernatural Beast City (NSFW), Crying Freeman, Yotoden, etc
• First legit purchase: Bubble Gum Crisis – Singers by day, power armor wearing vigilante heroes by night
• Ghost in the Shell (movie version) – cyborg special forces maintain order in a politically-complex geopolitical stage
• Ninja Scroll – Samurai versus highly-skilled demon ninjas
• High School of the Dead (warning: bizarre titillating fan service)
• Sid’s Plastic Erotica toy photography series influenced by fan service
• Art Anime: Robot Carnival (trailer) – Cloud (segment)
• Plastic Little (pervy!)
• Golden Boy (pervy!)
• Cowboy Bebop – a highly-regarded sci-fi character driven television series
• music composer Yoko Kanno (sampler)
• The disappointment of anime after Cowboy Bebop: Escaflowne, Trigun, Last Exile
• Macross Plus – two companies pit their top test pilots, friends from youth, against each other in high-stakes transforming space fighter trials.
• My Neighbor Totoro

TERESA

• Early years: G-Force opening, Samurai Pizza Cats opening
• Japanese voice actor Koyasu Takehito, who voiced one of the Samurai Pizza Cats
• InuYasha
• Rurouni Kenshin
• US OVA (Original Video Animation) versions InaYasha,  Trust & Betrayal
• Favorite! Revolutionary Girl Utena (opening)
• Dragon Half – a short-lived series cancelled when its creators were jailed for drug use
• Saiyuki – (Opening sequence)
• Saiyuki English Dub w/ voice actor Vic Mignogna; sample reading of The Gospel of John; Vic singing as Dark Mousy
• Prince of Tennis opening; live action musical version!
• The disappointment of Howl’s Moving Castle, because of deviations from the original book plot. The ending song, Promise of the World, she likes, though!
• Cromarty High School – comedy anime about a high school full of delinquents
• Favorite! Revolutionary Girl Utena (series opening)
• Fushigi Yuugi (YouTube playlist)
• Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu
• Princess Jellyfish (episode 1)

DAVE

• Pre-Anime influences in US: Bugs Bunny, Speed Racer Race for Revenge episode with robot car
• Early Anime influences after moving to Taiwan: Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, which was known as Ke Xue Xiao Fei Xia (“Scientific Flying Fantasy Warriors”) in Taiwan where I first saw it, and is still popular there (here’s more news footage of a 30-year anniversary event in Taiwan). Mazinger-Z in Mandarin, Space Battleship Yamato in Mandarin.
• Spaceships influences: Terran Trade Authority books, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Dave’s spaceship drawings.
• Robotech opening, Macross opening (compare!)
• First comic book in college: Appleseed by Masamune Shirow
• Best anime from college era: Dagger of Kamui (Ninja epic set in Japan and America), Wings of Honneamise (ragtag disrespected space agency attempts to launch spaceship), Lupin III: Cagliostro Castle (heist movie set in 1960s)
• Big influence: Macross 1984 movie Do You Remember Love final battle song, favorite cheesy ending credit song Tenshi No Enogu
• TV/OVAs: Dirty Pair, Fist of the North Star (Warning: Gory!)
• The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya – a strong-willed girl creates a high school club to investigate paranormal activities
• Yakitate!! Japan – an idealistic boy strives to create a bread to represent Japan, battling opponent after opponent in baking competitions
• Samurai Champloo – from the creators of Cowboy Bebop, a girl is helped by two rival swordsmen to find the samurai who smells like sunflowers.
• Favorite song: One Summer’s Day from the Hayao Miyazaki movie Spirited Away
• Joe Hisaishi orchestral concert Live at Budokan 25 Years Concert…awesome!
• Miyazaki film: Porco Rosso and a favorite ending credit song
• Favorite! Space Battleship Yamato 2199
• Full Metal Alchemist – one of the better series we’ve seen
• Favorite! Giant Robo (remake) – two worldwide organizations battle each other over control of the world with giant robots and highly-trained operatives
• Favorite! Nodame Cantabile – two students with very different attitudes at a music school find their path toward music excellence and a destiny together
• Favorite! Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex – television series that is more true to Masamune Shirow’s original manga.
• Favorite! Avatar: The Last Airbender (though not Japanese)

OTHER TOPICS

• Translation companies: ADV (defunct), AnimEigo, Streamline Pictures (defunct), Manga Entertainment, Funimation
• Humanity and Machines, e.g. Chobits – by CLAMP (opening sequence)
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (snippet) OAV
• Rachel Leigh Cook “This is your brain on drugs“
• Magazine: Animerica (defunct)
• Disney releases of Hayao Miyazaki’s movies (trailers)
• We all love Spirited Away and Kiki’s Delivery Service
• New Miyazaki film: The Wind Rises
• Where to watch anime online: KissAnime (fansubs), CrunchyRoll (licensed and available soon after airing in Japan)
• Not anime, but weird and interesting: Train Man: Densha Otaku (movie) (television series)

Our guest is award-winning columnist Teresa Santoski, who has just published her first book, “Prayers for Oppa”, a Christian devotional for performers and fans of east Asian pop music: K-pop, J-pop, Chinese pop…you name it! Recorded November 18, 2013.

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DAVID LYNCH / TWIN PEAKS

• The David Lynch Weather Report
• Twin Peaks-inspired clothing

Teresa Santoski / Prayers for Oppa

• Teresa’s website and twitter account @teresasantoski
• Publisher of Prayers for Oppa Westbow Press
• Also available on Amazon
  
• Twitter account for Prayers for Oppa: @PrayersForOppa

U-KISS

• Video: 0330
• Video: Neverland
• Video: Stop Girl
• Eat Your Kimchi interview with uBEAT, a U-KISS subunit that coincidentally features all of the English-speaking members
• Official website
• International fansite

Morning Musume

• Video: Brainstorming
• Video: Go Girl ~ Koi no Victory

Berryz Koubou

• Video: Rival

Hello! Project

• Official site for Hello! Project which includes Morning Musume and Berryz Koubou.
• English language Hello! Project news site

Rising from the grave in time for Halloween, Sid and Dave re-restart the podcast series for 2013. Again. Hopefully.

• Barcamp Manchester is November 9, Saturday
• Ian Ethan plays the double-neck guitar!
• “Infinite Race” video by Ian Ethan:
• The Picker Building‘s “Holiday Market Open Studios” is December 7 from 12-5PM
• Holdfast MoneyMaker leather camera strap
• Dave’s productivity tools
• Kenta Koga, our one fan
• Sid’s rearrangement of his studio: photos

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After a 9-month hiatus, we kick off 2013 with a lengthly review of Dave’s recent activities and Sid’s recent self-interview video with the Red River Theater in Concord. Recorded January 18, 2013.

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• Sid and Sara Red River Theater self-interview video on the importance of independent cinema.
• Muppet Sid and favorite childhood movies
• Dave’s new Productivity Tools page
• Gumroad is a dead-simple digital download store