Our next-to-last episode! That's right, ONLY ONE EPISODE LEFT!Today we talk about Virtual Environments: Coffetivity and The Madeline, The PRISM Proof Search Engine, Transhumanist Rich Lee's Cyborg ClubbinSubscribe in iTunesOr listen here: Transcript for this episode:“Hello?Oh, I just lost you guys. Huh.Let's take a moment and stop here and see if we can get Adam back.Hey, everybody, here we are.Welcome back, welcome back.For those of you wondering who we are, we are Artechnik Podcast, a podcast about the intersection of art and technology, and I'm Jeff.I'm Adam. I'm Adam.I'm Aaron.Separately from Adam.Well, hey, guys. It's been a little bit since we talked last. I don't know who has what in the way of updates, but I have a couple of things.Most importantly, Adam, I took your advice from last time.What did I say?Well, last time we... Kind of. Kind of, yeah.Last time we were talking about messages to our younger selves and things that we could do over and things that we should do or we could have told ourselves to do when we were younger. And you put down the challenge of, it's not too late. Why don't you just do it?And so I did. My thing was that I would not play music and stuff in front of an audience of actual human beings.“And so Marty, who I was staying with when I was in Athens and she was on the show, for those of you who don't know, Marty, our musician friend, encouraged me to play for her and sing a song for her. And so I did. And it was one of those, it was a dark stormy night, quite literally.And we were supposed to go see the Shakespeare. And then suddenly the storm gets so big, the power goes out, and we light a bunch of candles and sit around and talk and end up playing music. And so rather shyly, I did end up playing my song, and she and her husband Noel both really, really enjoyed it, both the lyrics and the singing and everything else and the playing and stuff.And Marty said, you need to go to Hendershot's on Monday and do their open mic. And I said, to hell with you, I won't. She says, yes, you will.And I did. And I'm really glad that I did. And it was received pretty well.“And then I ended up playing it again somewhere else. And I was just really happy that I did that. And I appreciate you for laying down that challenge because it was definitely in the back of my brain when I said, OK, I'll do it.That's my update.Well, cool. That's good. That's good to know.Very, very.What about you, Aaron?”“I am in the middle of my six week run of Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat at the Center for Puppetry Arts. We had three performances today on a Saturday, and the kids, they're having a good time. They really like the show.We're having a good time doing it. You know, it's hard when you're doing 13 shows a week, but we're still enjoying it. It's a great show.”“If you're in Atlanta between now and July 27th, come on out and see it. Stand by the stage door afterwards and say hi. I know you from Artechnik.I like the pictures of you in the blue. And I know I've got a couple of kids from the camp I was running in Athens who will be coming to see your show.Oh, fantastic. Yeah. It's a weird Czech blue covert puppetry style.”“There is overt puppetry, which is like Avenue Q, where you can clearly see the puppeteer you are intended to, and you perform with the performer being a part of the visual. What we can be seen, we're wearing these blue velour outfits instead of the Czech black traditional black velour, where you stand in the shadows and hold the puppet into the light. So technically we can be seen, but after about five minutes, your brain edits us out.So of course, we are Czech blue, and I've named it covert puppetry rather than overt puppetry, because while we are there, we aren't seen anyway.And why do they go with blue exactly?”“Because the cat is a black puppet. The cat, to draw him like he's in the book, has to be predominantly black fur. So if you do check black and have the puppeteers disappear, then the cat would as well.So they were like, well, all of the backgrounds in the book are this sort of baby blue color. What if we tried the style with that? So it was a grand experiment, and it seems to be very successful.The kids are not like, but it wasn't a puppet show. I could see the people. But it is very strange, because normally we have these hooded sacks over our heads with a little piece of scrim to look out of.If you're doing it, check black. But they were like, well, we're going to see them anyway. So just having a weird blue sack over their head seems weird.“So all of the hoods have, on the front of the little baseball brim that holds the hood a little bit away from your face, we have a nose and whiskers. And then on top of the hood, we have these soft fabric ears that stand up on our head. And we have for the very beginning of the show little blue, but dark blue, light blue striped hats that fit on top.And so they look like the cat in the hat hat, except they're...
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Jul 4 2013Less than 1 minute