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Original Comment by: Henry Borchers
Ok, I do have another comment. As for the Ebert and movies vs video games argument. Citizen Kane is all about choices. That is the whole point of the deep staging. This all comes from the French film theorist Andre Bazin. The point with deep staging is that you have the freedom to look at what you want. Because there are many different levels of spaces to look at, you are choosing to look at one thing or another and making meaning from them. The ending shot of Citizen Kane presents an ambiguous meaning.
However, I have not read the exact argument from Ebert so I can not truly respond. Do you have an exact quote of his?
Ok, I do have another comment. As for the Ebert and movies vs video games argument. Citizen Kane is all about choices. That is the whole point of the deep staging. This all comes from the French film theorist Andre Bazin. The point with deep staging is that you have the freedom to look at what you want. Because there are many different levels of spaces to look at, you are choosing to look at one thing or another and making meaning from them. The ending shot of Citizen Kane presents an ambiguous meaning.
However, I have not read the exact argument from Ebert so I can not truly respond. Do you have an exact quote of his?
Original Comment by: Christopher S. \'coldacid\' Charabaruk
http://coldacid.robloach.net/
I'm with Mory Buckman on the audio quality. You guys need to learn how to properly speak into a mic, and please, don't use MP3 compression. You should really use something like Ogg Speex, which is actually meant for voice recordings and VoIP. That may help to eliminate some of the background hissing.
Also, Henry Borchers is right on about the volume. Normalise the recording before you encode so that the volume is consistent throughout. I had to stop listening about three minutes in because I couldn't keep adjusting my volume. (He's also right about the pop filter.)
Given the magazine, I expected something more professional-sounding from the 'cast.
http://coldacid.robloach.net/
I'm with Mory Buckman on the audio quality. You guys need to learn how to properly speak into a mic, and please, don't use MP3 compression. You should really use something like Ogg Speex, which is actually meant for voice recordings and VoIP. That may help to eliminate some of the background hissing.
Also, Henry Borchers is right on about the volume. Normalise the recording before you encode so that the volume is consistent throughout. I had to stop listening about three minutes in because I couldn't keep adjusting my volume. (He's also right about the pop filter.)
Given the magazine, I expected something more professional-sounding from the 'cast.
Original Comment by: Henry Borchers
You can build a pop filter easily with a coat hanger and nylon. And when I mentioned a compressor I was not talking about a file compression, instead I?m talking about an audio compressor which compresses the audio signal so that the loud parts and the quiet parts are closer together.
I only bring this up because I love the escapist. I refer to it as the greatest thing to come to the internet since internet porn.
You can build a pop filter easily with a coat hanger and nylon. And when I mentioned a compressor I was not talking about a file compression, instead I?m talking about an audio compressor which compresses the audio signal so that the loud parts and the quiet parts are closer together.
I only bring this up because I love the escapist. I refer to it as the greatest thing to come to the internet since internet porn.
Original Comment by: Littlest Ninja
http://www.kickasskungfu.blogspot.com
LOVED it! I'd love to see this make it to iTunes so I can subscribe. Levels were a little wonky. I had iTunes and my computer volume turned all the way up and I still had a really hard time hearing some people.
Please make more!!! I loved it!
http://www.kickasskungfu.blogspot.com
LOVED it! I'd love to see this make it to iTunes so I can subscribe. Levels were a little wonky. I had iTunes and my computer volume turned all the way up and I still had a really hard time hearing some people.
Please make more!!! I loved it!
Original Comment by: Shawn Williams
http://www.neenerneener.net
What about an RSS feed for the podcast? Or is it somewhere, completely obvious, and I'm blindly wandering past it? I tried to get my almighty iPodder to snag the rss feed, but it can't seem to spot it. Is that coming, or am I terribly blind?
http://www.neenerneener.net
What about an RSS feed for the podcast? Or is it somewhere, completely obvious, and I'm blindly wandering past it? I tried to get my almighty iPodder to snag the rss feed, but it can't seem to spot it. Is that coming, or am I terribly blind?
Original Comment by: BacksideNine
http://www.boardroom.com
aorry it took awhile here.
music: im sure the indie rock scene will gladly give the throw downs on tunes. Something mellow, iron and wine or OH OH OH Portishead.
Or you could go all coast to coast on us and use some Blue Oyster Cult: dont fear the reaper. Bump music should be as varied and random as the articles.
So long as its not the same Clinic song for every podcast, i will nod in approval.
So when is the next one due out?
http://www.boardroom.com
aorry it took awhile here.
music: im sure the indie rock scene will gladly give the throw downs on tunes. Something mellow, iron and wine or OH OH OH Portishead.
Or you could go all coast to coast on us and use some Blue Oyster Cult: dont fear the reaper. Bump music should be as varied and random as the articles.
So long as its not the same Clinic song for every podcast, i will nod in approval.
So when is the next one due out?
As always, thanks for the feedback. There are some great ideas here for equipment, and we are looking at options. Because of that, and the holidays, we are going to be a while in getting the next one out.
coldacid - Yeah, the production quality wasn't quite where we wanted it to be either. So, we wanted to open it up to the more casual blog area and get some feedback, so thanks.
Shawn - We have an RSS, but we haven't set it up as yet. We were waiting until we get the pod where we want it to be, technically and format-wise, before we set it up.
Ninja - Glad you liked it. Yeah, the volume is a problem, but hopefully once we figure out some new equipment, that will get worked out.
Nine - thanks for the thoughts on music. Will ponder these.
coldacid - Yeah, the production quality wasn't quite where we wanted it to be either. So, we wanted to open it up to the more casual blog area and get some feedback, so thanks.
Shawn - We have an RSS, but we haven't set it up as yet. We were waiting until we get the pod where we want it to be, technically and format-wise, before we set it up.
Ninja - Glad you liked it. Yeah, the volume is a problem, but hopefully once we figure out some new equipment, that will get worked out.
Nine - thanks for the thoughts on music. Will ponder these.
Original Comment by: Shawn Williams
http://www.neenerneener.net
Oh, uh, I'm a jerk - I also meant to say that I really liked it.
There were some technical problems, like everyone has already harped on, but I loved the discussion, loved the interaction between you guys. But when do we get to hear Alex's comments?
http://www.neenerneener.net
Oh, uh, I'm a jerk - I also meant to say that I really liked it.
There were some technical problems, like everyone has already harped on, but I loved the discussion, loved the interaction between you guys. But when do we get to hear Alex's comments?