Stranger Things

[DKT]

Heh. We must be on the same wave-length. I just did the same thing.

[FNH]

I thought it was a real good watch!  I rank this at least as good as any Twighlight Zone.

Have I got all of the Easter eggs?

Scott was one of the phone voices.
Scott appeared in a photo frame.
One of the characters was named Hutchins, as in Scott's arch-competitor JC.

Any more?

[DKT]

Missed the picture frame. 

I'm pretty sure J. C. Hutchins was one of the voices on the phone, in addition to Scott's. 

[sirana]

only watched it today, the site is down and only today I got the glorious idea that I could directly go to the feedsite.
I really really liked it, but more for the promise it makes than the first episode.
The production values are stellar and the acting is high quality (especially the older priest and Gordon, didn't like the younger priest's performance that much).
Yeah, the story was pretty straightforward and lacked something really original (don't know if that is a fault of the story itself or the adaptation), but there were some things I liked.
To make the beginning a very crude (dare i say youtube like ;-) youtube video is very clever.
The Stranger Things theme is wonderfull and the whole intro and credits stuff looks very much like professional tv.

But for me what really makes this a wonderful project is the fact that a bunch of guys just took a video camera and produced this episode that (to me at least) is more appealing than 95% of what is on tv. 
If that is what one can produce and distribute without any corporate backing, I see very dark clouds on the horizon for disney, viacom ect.

[DKT]

I got an email from Sigler this morning with the link to the story:

http://m.podshow.com/media/222/episodes/26848/infection-26848-09-19-2006.mp3

Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet but I definitely will. 

[Russell Nash]

The cello music from the theme song was used on NPR's Radio Lab episode Beyond Time.  Just thought it was cool.

[DKT]

Does anyone know when the next episode of the show is coming out?

[SFEley]

The cello music from the theme song was used on NPR's Radio Lab episode Beyond Time.  Just thought it was cool.

Nifty!  I got to hear Zoë Keating, the musician, in concert a few weeks ago.  (Earl Newton drove up to Atlanta to hear her too, and stayed the weekend with me.) 

Her live technique is amazing.  It's her, the cello, a laptop and a couple of sample machines operated by floor pedals.  She does the sampling in real time and plays the loops back, layered on top of each other, as she transitions to each new theme -- so the effect is that of a full cello ensemble, even though it's just her. 

She also did some improvised duets with violinist Paul Mercer of Ghost Project; so at that point she was improvising all this sampling and layering.  I've never seen or heard anything like it.  The music was extraordinary.

[Bdoomed]

I downloaded one of the previews, but I have nothing that plays the m4v format. 
Anybody want to recommend a good free m4v player that runs in windows?

If you don't like Quicktimes (you can't play Fullscreen if you don't buy the pro version, for example) VLC-player is the ultimate video player around. Free, small, open source and plays everything you throw against it. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

WOW!!

I had something that would play video but not sound in quicktime. I checked all the plugins at apple and it still wouldn't work. I downloaded this and it played everything first try.

yea VLC media player is the best.  Not only will it play ANY type of video (i havent found something it wont play), but also it is the only program ive found so far that can take screen captures of video. (right click video, screenshot, will save in specified directory in preferences)
its great for getting AMAZING screenshots of The 300!

Anyways, ive been waitin a while for this next Stranger Things... the last ones werent particularily well produced.. well, at least not as well produced as the first episode, which was stellar!

[Russell Nash]

Anyways, ive been waitin a while for this next Stranger Things... the last ones werent particularily well produced.. well, at least not as well produced as the first episode, which was stellar!

On something without a professional budget, quality is going to shift back and forth a little.  I think we should be more amazed at the high level they sometimes reach, as opposed to pointing out when they don't reach that level.

[Mr. Tweedy]

Actually, production-wise, I was most impressed with the third episode (Sins of the mother).  The effects for the holo-terminal were very cool and, I think, fully up to pro standards.

It was also the most original of the three stories thus far.  "Sacred Cow" was decent, but that story has been done, in various forms, about a million times.  "Sins" was the only one where anything really surprised me.

I bought Zoe's EP of iTunes.  Pretty cool.  Very atmospheric, although I'm sure it's better live.  It seems very much like soundtrack music.  That is, if I let it play while I'm doing something else, it seems entrancing and hypnotic, but if I actively listen to it, it seems too repetitive.  I played it for my daughter to go to sleep to last night.  She seems to like it.

[Bdoomed]

Anyways, ive been waitin a while for this next Stranger Things... the last ones werent particularily well produced.. well, at least not as well produced as the first episode, which was stellar!

On something without a professional budget, quality is going to shift back and forth a little.  I think we should be more amazed at the high level they sometimes reach, as opposed to pointing out when they don't reach that level.

i meant the audio messups in sins of the mother and discontent. not the actual visual production, but the audio overlays (or lack thereof)

[Russell Nash]

The cello music from the theme song was used on NPR's Radio Lab episode Beyond Time.  Just thought it was cool.

Nifty!  I got to hear Zoë Keating, the musician, in concert a few weeks ago.  (Earl Newton drove up to Atlanta to hear her too, and stayed the weekend with me.) 

Her live technique is amazing.  It's her, the cello, a laptop and a couple of sample machines operated by floor pedals.  She does the sampling in real time and plays the loops back, layered on top of each other, as she transitions to each new theme -- so the effect is that of a full cello ensemble, even though it's just her. 

She also did some improvised duets with violinist Paul Mercer of Ghost Project; so at that point she was improvising all this sampling and layering.  I've never seen or heard anything like it.  The music was extraordinary.

KT Tunstall just did a demonstration of this technique for a video on the BPP website.