Podcast appearances and mentions of Boris Vallejo

Ecco the Dolphin is cute in Japan but swole in the US, much like the dramatic growth a mushroom provokes in Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Question: would Caitlin try to make Ecco into a hat?What We're Playing01:06 Caitlin: Avowed (Obsidian, 2025)02:53 Caitlin: Monster Hunter Wilds (Capcom, 2025)11:10 Mark: Mullet MadJack (Hammer 95 Studios, 2024)22:23 GOOF: Ecco the Dolphin (Appaloosa Interactive, 1992)Boris Vallejo's "macho" dolphin: https://www.borisjulie.com/product/ecco-the-dolphin/Japan's "cute" dolphin: https://videogameartarchive.com/image/14980490044338:42 Feature Game: Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo EPD, 2023)Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Our societies, our norms, our values are all shaped by stories from the past. Devdutt Pattanaik joins Amit Varma in episode 404 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss his life, our society and why we should take mythology seriously. Note: This is Part 1 of a 12-hour episode, being uploaded in two parts now because Spotify and YouTube don't allow uploads over 12 hours. So if you are on another podcast app, just play the full version if it is there! (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out 1. Devdutt Pattanaik on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, YouTube, Amazon and his own website. 2. Myth = Mithya: Decoding Hindu Mythology -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 3. The Girl Who Chose -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 4. The Boys Who Fought -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 5. Ramayana Versus Mahabharata -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 6. My Gita -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 7. Bahubali: 63 Insights into Jainism -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 8. Sati Savitri -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 9. Business Sutra -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 10. Ahimsa: 100 Reflections on the Harappan Civilization -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 11. Olympus -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 12. Eden -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 13. East vs West -- The Myths That Mystify -- Devdutt Pattanaik's 2009 TED Talk. 14. Today My Mother Came Home -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 15. The Incredible Curiosities of Mukulika Banerjee — Episode 276 of The Seen and the Unseen. 16. The Life and Times of Mrinal Pande — Episode 263 of The Seen and the Unseen. 17. Sara Rai Inhales Literature — Episode 255 of The Seen and the Unseen. 18. The Life and Times of Shanta Gokhale — Episode 311 of The Seen and the Unseen. 19. Yuganta -- Irawati Karve. 20. Women in Indian History — Episode 144 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ira Mukhoty). 21. The Jewel in the Crown -- BBC TV series. 22. Heat and Dust -- James Ivory. 23. The Sexual Outlaw -- John Rechy. 24. Bombay Dost and Gay Bombay. 25. The Double ‘Thank You' Moment — John Stossel. 26. The Kama Sutra. 27. Liberty -- Isaiah Berlin. 28. Thought and Choice in Chess -- Adriaan de Groot. 29. The Seven Basic Plots -- Christopher Booker. 30. The Seven Basic Plots -- Episode 69 of Everything is Everything. 31. The Hero with a Thousand Faces -- Joseph Campbell. 32. The Big Questions -- Steven Landsburg. 33. 300 Ramayanas — AK Ramanujan. 33. The egg came before the chicken. 34. The Evolution of Cooperation — Robert Axelrod. 35. The Trees -- Philip Larkin. 36. Who We Are and How We Got Here — David Reich. 37. Early Indians — Tony Joseph. 38. Tony Joseph's episode on The Seen and the Unseen. 39. A Life in Indian Politics — Episode 149 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Jayaprakash Narayan). 40. The BJP Before Modi — Episode 202 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vinay Sitapati). 41. Jugalbandi -- Vinay Sitapati. 42. Perfect Days -- Wim Wenders. 43. The Loneliness of the Indian Woman — Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya). 44. The Loneliness of the Indian Man — Episode 303 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Nikhil Taneja). 45. Mary Wollstonecraft and bell hooks. 46. If India Was Five Days Old -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 47. The Road to Freedom — Arthur C Brooks. 48. The Master and His Emissary -- Iain McGilchrist. 49. This Be The Verse — Philip Larkin. 50. Human -- Michael Gazzaniga. 51. The Elephant in the Brain — Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson. 52. The Blank Slate -- Steven Pinker. 53. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life — Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen. 54. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants — Peggy Mohan. 55. Understanding India Through Its Languages — Episode 232 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Peggy Mohan). 56. The Reformers -- Episode 28 of Everything is Everything. 57. The Golden Bough -- James Frazer. 58. Myth And Reality: Studies In The Formation Of Indian Culture -- DD Kosambi. 59. Srimad Bhagavatam -- Kamala Subramaniam. 60. Boris Vallejo on Instagram, Wikipedia and his own website. 61. The Last Temptation Of Christ -- Nikos Kazantzakis. 62. The Last Temptation Of Christ -- Martin Scorcese. 63. Jeff Bezos on The Lex Fridman Podcast.  64. The Poem of the Killing of Meghnad -- Michael Madhusudan Dutt. 65. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil — Hannah Arendt. 66. The Crown -- Created by Peter Morgan. 67. Profit = Philanthropy — Amit Varma. 68. Imaginary Number — Vijay Seshadri. 69. The Buddha's Footprint -- Johan Elverskog. 70. A Prehistory of Hinduism -- Manu Devadevan. 71. The ‘Early Medieval' Origins of India -- Manu Devadevan. 72. Unmasking Buddhism -- Bernard Faure. 73. The Red Thread -- Bernard Faure. 74. The Power of Denial -- Bernard Faure. 75. The Thousand and One Lives of the Buddha -- Bernard Faure. 76. A Modern Look At Ancient Chinese Theory Of Language -- Chad Hansen. 77. Hermann Kulke, Umakant Mishra and Ganesh Devy on Amazon. 78. The Hours -- Michael Cunningham. 79. The Hours -- Stephen Daldry. 79. Ancestral Dravidian languages in Indus Civilization -- Bahata Ansumali Mukhopadhyay. 80. Myth -- Laurence Coupe. This episode is sponsored by Rang De, a platform that enables individuals to invest in farmers, rural entrepreneurs and artisans. Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new course called Life Lessons, which aims to be a launchpad towards learning essential life skills all of you need. For more details, and to sign up, click here. Amit and Ajay also bring out a weekly YouTube show, Everything is Everything. Have you watched it yet? You must! And have you read Amit's newsletter? Subscribe right away to The India Uncut Newsletter! It's free! Also check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. Episode art: ‘Tell' by Simahina.

Our societies, our norms, our values are all shaped by stories from the past. Devdutt Pattanaik joins Amit Varma in episode 404 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss his life, our society and why we should take mythology seriously. Note: This is Part 2 of a 12-hour episode, being uploaded in two parts now because Spotify and YouTube don't allow uploads over 12 hours. So do listen to Part 1 first -- and if you are on another podcast app, just play the full version if it is there! (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out 1. Devdutt Pattanaik on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, YouTube, Amazon and his own website. 2. Myth = Mithya: Decoding Hindu Mythology -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 3. The Girl Who Chose -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 4. The Boys Who Fought -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 5. Ramayana Versus Mahabharata -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 6. My Gita -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 7. Bahubali: 63 Insights into Jainism -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 8. Sati Savitri -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 9. Business Sutra -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 10. Ahimsa: 100 Reflections on the Harappan Civilization -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 11. Olympus -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 12. Eden -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 13. East vs West -- The Myths That Mystify -- Devdutt Pattanaik's 2009 TED Talk. 14. Today My Mother Came Home -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 15. The Incredible Curiosities of Mukulika Banerjee — Episode 276 of The Seen and the Unseen. 16. The Life and Times of Mrinal Pande — Episode 263 of The Seen and the Unseen. 17. Sara Rai Inhales Literature — Episode 255 of The Seen and the Unseen. 18. The Life and Times of Shanta Gokhale — Episode 311 of The Seen and the Unseen. 19. Yuganta -- Irawati Karve. 20. Women in Indian History — Episode 144 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ira Mukhoty). 21. The Jewel in the Crown -- BBC TV series. 22. Heat and Dust -- James Ivory. 23. The Sexual Outlaw -- John Rechy. 24. Bombay Dost and Gay Bombay. 25. The Double ‘Thank You' Moment — John Stossel. 26. The Kama Sutra. 27. Liberty -- Isaiah Berlin. 28. Thought and Choice in Chess -- Adriaan de Groot. 29. The Seven Basic Plots -- Christopher Booker. 30. The Seven Basic Plots -- Episode 69 of Everything is Everything. 31. The Hero with a Thousand Faces -- Joseph Campbell. 32. The Big Questions -- Steven Landsburg. 33. 300 Ramayanas — AK Ramanujan. 33. The egg came before the chicken. 34. The Evolution of Cooperation — Robert Axelrod. 35. The Trees -- Philip Larkin. 36. Who We Are and How We Got Here — David Reich. 37. Early Indians — Tony Joseph. 38. Tony Joseph's episode on The Seen and the Unseen. 39. A Life in Indian Politics — Episode 149 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Jayaprakash Narayan). 40. The BJP Before Modi — Episode 202 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vinay Sitapati). 41. Jugalbandi -- Vinay Sitapati. 42. Perfect Days -- Wim Wenders. 43. The Loneliness of the Indian Woman — Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya). 44. The Loneliness of the Indian Man — Episode 303 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Nikhil Taneja). 45. Mary Wollstonecraft and bell hooks. 46. If India Was Five Days Old -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 47. The Road to Freedom — Arthur C Brooks. 48. The Master and His Emissary -- Iain McGilchrist. 49. This Be The Verse — Philip Larkin. 50. Human -- Michael Gazzaniga. 51. The Elephant in the Brain — Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson. 52. The Blank Slate -- Steven Pinker. 53. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life — Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen. 54. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants — Peggy Mohan. 55. Understanding India Through Its Languages — Episode 232 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Peggy Mohan). 56. The Reformers -- Episode 28 of Everything is Everything. 57. The Golden Bough -- James Frazer. 58. Myth And Reality: Studies In The Formation Of Indian Culture -- DD Kosambi. 59. Srimad Bhagavatam -- Kamala Subramaniam. 60. Boris Vallejo on Instagram, Wikipedia and his own website. 61. The Last Temptation Of Christ -- Nikos Kazantzakis. 62. The Last Temptation Of Christ -- Martin Scorcese. 63. Jeff Bezos on The Lex Fridman Podcast.  64. The Poem of the Killing of Meghnad -- Michael Madhusudan Dutt. 65. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil — Hannah Arendt. 66. The Crown -- Created by Peter Morgan. 67. Profit = Philanthropy — Amit Varma. 68. Imaginary Number — Vijay Seshadri. 69. The Buddha's Footprint -- Johan Elverskog. 70. A Prehistory of Hinduism -- Manu Devadevan. 71. The ‘Early Medieval' Origins of India -- Manu Devadevan. 72. Unmasking Buddhism -- Bernard Faure. 73. The Red Thread -- Bernard Faure. 74. The Power of Denial -- Bernard Faure. 75. The Thousand and One Lives of the Buddha -- Bernard Faure. 76. A Modern Look At Ancient Chinese Theory Of Language -- Chad Hansen. 77. Hermann Kulke, Umakant Mishra and Ganesh Devy on Amazon. 78. The Hours -- Michael Cunningham. 79. The Hours -- Stephen Daldry. 79. Ancestral Dravidian languages in Indus Civilization -- Bahata Ansumali Mukhopadhyay. 80. Myth -- Laurence Coupe. This episode is sponsored by Rang De, a platform that enables individuals to invest in farmers, rural entrepreneurs and artisans. Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new course called Life Lessons, which aims to be a launchpad towards learning essential life skills all of you need. For more details, and to sign up, click here. Amit and Ajay also bring out a weekly YouTube show, Everything is Everything. Have you watched it yet? You must! And have you read Amit's newsletter? Subscribe right away to The India Uncut Newsletter! It's free! Also check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. Episode art: ‘Tell' by Simahina.

Our societies, our norms, our values are all shaped by stories from the past. Devdutt Pattanaik joins Amit Varma in episode 404 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss his life, our society and why we should take mythology seriously. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out 1. Devdutt Pattanaik on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, YouTube, Amazon and his own website. 2. Myth = Mithya: Decoding Hindu Mythology -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 3. The Girl Who Chose -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 4. The Boys Who Fought -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 5. Ramayana Versus Mahabharata -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 6. My Gita -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 7. Bahubali: 63 Insights into Jainism -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 8. Sati Savitri -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 9. Business Sutra -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 10. Ahimsa: 100 Reflections on the Harappan Civilization -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 11. Olympus -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 12. Eden -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 13. East vs West -- The Myths That Mystify -- Devdutt Pattanaik's 2009 TED Talk. 14. Today My Mother Came Home -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 15. The Incredible Curiosities of Mukulika Banerjee — Episode 276 of The Seen and the Unseen. 16. The Life and Times of Mrinal Pande — Episode 263 of The Seen and the Unseen. 17. Sara Rai Inhales Literature — Episode 255 of The Seen and the Unseen. 18. The Life and Times of Shanta Gokhale — Episode 311 of The Seen and the Unseen. 19. Yuganta -- Irawati Karve. 20. Women in Indian History — Episode 144 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ira Mukhoty). 21. The Jewel in the Crown -- BBC TV series. 22. Heat and Dust -- James Ivory. 23. The Sexual Outlaw -- John Rechy. 24. Bombay Dost and Gay Bombay. 25. The Double ‘Thank You' Moment — John Stossel. 26. The Kama Sutra. 27. Liberty -- Isaiah Berlin. 28. Thought and Choice in Chess -- Adriaan de Groot. 29. The Seven Basic Plots -- Christopher Booker. 30. The Seven Basic Plots -- Episode 69 of Everything is Everything. 31. The Hero with a Thousand Faces -- Joseph Campbell. 32. The Big Questions -- Steven Landsburg. 33. 300 Ramayanas — AK Ramanujan. 33. The egg came before the chicken. 34. The Evolution of Cooperation — Robert Axelrod. 35. The Trees -- Philip Larkin. 36. Who We Are and How We Got Here — David Reich. 37. Early Indians — Tony Joseph. 38. Tony Joseph's episode on The Seen and the Unseen. 39. A Life in Indian Politics — Episode 149 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Jayaprakash Narayan). 40. The BJP Before Modi — Episode 202 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vinay Sitapati). 41. Jugalbandi -- Vinay Sitapati. 42. Perfect Days -- Wim Wenders. 43. The Loneliness of the Indian Woman — Episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shrayana Bhattacharya). 44. The Loneliness of the Indian Man — Episode 303 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Nikhil Taneja). 45. Mary Wollstonecraft and bell hooks. 46. If India Was Five Days Old -- Devdutt Pattanaik. 47. The Road to Freedom — Arthur C Brooks. 48. The Master and His Emissary -- Iain McGilchrist. 49. This Be The Verse — Philip Larkin. 50. Human -- Michael Gazzaniga. 51. The Elephant in the Brain — Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson. 52. The Blank Slate -- Steven Pinker. 53. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life — Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen. 54. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants — Peggy Mohan. 55. Understanding India Through Its Languages — Episode 232 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Peggy Mohan). 56. The Reformers -- Episode 28 of Everything is Everything. 57. The Golden Bough -- James Frazer. 58. Myth And Reality: Studies In The Formation Of Indian Culture -- DD Kosambi. 59. Srimad Bhagavatam -- Kamala Subramaniam. 60. Boris Vallejo on Instagram, Wikipedia and his own website. 61. The Last Temptation Of Christ -- Nikos Kazantzakis. 62. The Last Temptation Of Christ -- Martin Scorcese. 63. Jeff Bezos on The Lex Fridman Podcast.  64. The Poem of the Killing of Meghnad -- Michael Madhusudan Dutt. 65. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil — Hannah Arendt. 66. The Crown -- Created by Peter Morgan. 67. Profit = Philanthropy — Amit Varma. 68. Imaginary Number — Vijay Seshadri. 69. The Buddha's Footprint -- Johan Elverskog. 70. A Prehistory of Hinduism -- Manu Devadevan. 71. The ‘Early Medieval' Origins of India -- Manu Devadevan. 72. Unmasking Buddhism -- Bernard Faure. 73. The Red Thread -- Bernard Faure. 74. The Power of Denial -- Bernard Faure. 75. The Thousand and One Lives of the Buddha -- Bernard Faure. 76. A Modern Look At Ancient Chinese Theory Of Language -- Chad Hansen. 77. Hermann Kulke, Umakant Mishra and Ganesh Devy on Amazon. 78. The Hours -- Michael Cunningham. 79. The Hours -- Stephen Daldry. 79. Ancestral Dravidian languages in Indus Civilization -- Bahata Ansumali Mukhopadhyay. 80. Myth -- Laurence Coupe. This episode is sponsored by Rang De, a platform that enables individuals to invest in farmers, rural entrepreneurs and artisans. Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new course called Life Lessons, which aims to be a launchpad towards learning essential life skills all of you need. For more details, and to sign up, click here. Amit and Ajay also bring out a weekly YouTube show, Everything is Everything. Have you watched it yet? You must! And have you read Amit's newsletter? Subscribe right away to The India Uncut Newsletter! It's free! Also check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. Episode art: ‘Story' by Simahina.

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The Ultimate Sin —en español: El pecado definitivo—es un álbum de Ozzy Osbourne. Fue lanzado al mercado el 22 de febrero de 1986 y remasterizado el 22 de agosto de 1995. Fue certificado doble platino el 26 de octubre de 1994.1​ Al igual que en su anterior disco, Bark at the Moon, el guitarrista es Jake E. Lee, proveniente de las bandas Ratt y Rough Cutt. El bajista fue Phil Soussan, quien coescribió el exitoso sencillo "Shot in the Dark". Fue el primer disco de Osbourne donde participó el batería Randy Castillo, que moriría de cáncer años después. Las letras fueron escritas en su mayoría por el bajista Bob Daisley, quien abandonó la grabación debido a un desacuerdo con Osbourne, quien prefirió contratar a Soussan. La portada del disco es obra del pintor peruano de arte fantástico Boris Vallejo. En abril de 2002, el disco fue borrado del catálogo de Ozzy, por lo que ya no se encuentra disponible a la venta. Se ha especulado que esta medida se tomó debido a problemas legales entre Osbourne y Soussan por los derechos de autor de la canción "Shot in the Dark". A pesar de su éxito inicial, The Ultimate Sin ha sido eliminado del catálogo de Osbourne y no fue reeditado ni remasterizado junto con el resto de los álbumes de Osbourne en 2002 (al igual que Just Say Ozzy y Live & Loud). Corrieron rumores de que la continua lucha legal entre Osbourne y el bajista y compositor Phil Soussan sobre la canción de Soussan, "Shot in the Dark", fue la responsable de que el álbum no se volviera a emitir. Sin embargo, dichos informes carecen de fundamento, ya que el único proceso legal conocido entre ellos fue sobre un problema contable que se resolvió a principios de los años 1990. La única versión de CD disponible de The Ultimate Sin es la versión remasterizada de 1995. Todas las canciones compuestas por Ozzy Osbourne, Jake E. Lee y Bob Daisley, excepto donde se indique lo contrario. "The Ultimate Sin" - 3:45 "Secret Loser" - 4:08 "Never Know Why" - 4:27 "Thank God for the Bomb" - 4:53 "Never" - 4:17 "Lightning Strikes" - 5:16 "Killer of Giants" - 5:41 "Fool Like You" - 5:18 "Shot in the Dark" (Osbourne, Phil Soussan) - 4:16 Ozzy Osbourne – voz Jake E. Lee – guitarra​ Phil Soussan – bajo Randy Castillo – batería​ Músicos adicionales Michael Moran – teclados​ Producción Producido por Ron Nevison Ingenieros adicionales – Martin White, Richard Moakes​ Remasterizado por Brian Lee y Bob Ludwig (edición de 1995) Listas de éxitos

Folks, episode 79 comes out this Saturday! 1983s Deathstalker, with Candor Pastry Stout, generously provided by @courtavebrew. Check out Boris Vallejo's cover art. It's so cool. Back in the 80s, pre internet, this was click bait. You saw this at the video rental store and thought, Wow, this must be awesome. Then you rent it, watch it, and that scene never happens. This Conan wannabe built a following, but not for the reasons the filmmakers thought. It's a total hoot, and fun discussion. Candor is a thick Pastry Stout rested on Coconut, Pecan Sandies and cacao nibs. Join us this Saturday, you won't want to miss this one.  Thanks for listening! Check out our website SUBSCRIBE: to the show on Apple Podcast  or Google Play. You can also find us on Audible, Stitcher, Spotify, and Listen Notes. Follow us on Instagram , Facebook, and Twitter! We'd love to hear from you, so comment on our show wherever you are listening. And always, support your local brewery.

The final part of our 2023 opening look at THE STATE OF THE HOBBY. This week, we asked the community about their collecting goals for 2023, and also what advice they'd have for newbies entering the hobby – think of it as a Cards 101 update, if you will. Ian speaks Vulcan, and we open some Lego. That's how we roll. Our ‘tasting notes' - featuring any images and links we discuss - can be found via our Facebook page. ALSO - the video of us recording this is available on our YouTube channel here https://www.youtube.com/c/MarvelCardCollectorsPodcast Artist Intro – HUGE thanks to the master BORIS VALLEJO for this week's opener – you can find Boris on his Instagram feed here; https://www.instagram.com/borisvallejoartist/ Do please support our featured artists, appreciate their work, and tell them we sent ya! =========== As always friends, YOU can help us by; - suggesting content you want to hear - sharing the podcast with friends - liking, starring & leaving a review on our FB page, or wherever you listen - getting involved by leaving voicemails & sending in emails/messages/comments Our email; TheMCCPod@gmail.com LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL; https://anchor.fm/mccp/message

Le podcast Court Numéro 1 se met à l'heure de Roland-Garros ! Tous les soirs, durant 15 jours, Ilias Grandjean, Eric Salliot, Anthony Rech, Florent Serra et Amandine Hesse vous embarquent dans les allées du célèbre tournoi parisien. Au programme : le débrief des matchs du jour, les présentations des rencontres du lendemain et surtout, vous entendrez tous les protagonistes de ce tournoi : coachs, joueuses et joueurs. Cette immersion quotidienne sera rythmée par des rencontres et des histoires totalement atypiques. Au programme de ce samedi la finale dames entre Swiatek et Gauff, le deuxième couronnement de la polonaise, intraitable à Roland-Garros. On revient aussi sur la victoire du jour en juniors garçons du français Gabriel Debru avec en invité son entraîneur Boris Vallejo.

Not all heroes wear capes.  Some wear leather jackets with chains, long hair, and lots of eyeliner!  Today we look at three times heavy metal musicians said "We're not gonna take it" and defended the freedom of speech, but were they "Breaking the Law" and just "Howl(ing) at the Moon"? 0:42 Twisted Sister vs Congress 17:07 Reviews and news 19:58 Ozzy Osbourne's Suicide Solution 26:20 Judas Priest, Better Than You 28:28 Subliminal back-masking 1-star review shirt! and shirt raising money for Ukraine Red Cross at yourbrainonfacts.com/merch Links to all the research resources are on the website. Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs.  Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter,  or Instagram.  Become a patron of the podcast arts! Patreon or Ko-Fi.  Or buy the book and a shirt. Music: Kevin MacLeod, It's not unusual for the business side of the music business to include trips to the courthouse.  Usually, these are for copyright infringement, someone else ripping off your schtick.  In the halcyon days of 2005, the band Slipknot was moved to sue, of all people, Burger King for their commercial with a fake band, all in scary masks and costumes, called Cock Rock.   The best way to describe the 1980's would be to say, you had to see it to believe it.  Weird times, man.  If we weren't panicking about Russia, we were moral-panicking over Satanic things like heavy-metal music and Dungeons and Dragons, the things that make life worth living and were supposedly at the core of wildly rampant crises of child sex abuse and teen suicide.  In the red corner, the busy-body buzzkill today is Tipper Gore, then-wife of then-congressman Al, who had it in her head that rock music was a huge threat to the bedrock of society.  Feel free to picture Helen Lovejoy [sfx clip].  And in the blue corner, an unlikely hero in the form of Dee Snider, front man of oh so typical larger than life hair metal band Twisted Sister.     The trouble started when Tipper bought her 11-year-old daughter a copy of the album "Purple Rain," the smash-hit album from the *R-rated film, both courtesy of *Prince.  And Tipper was shocked, *shocked to hear inappropriate lyrics.  She clearly did not know his body of work.  "Darling Nikki" was a bridge too far, and if you know, you know.  With bra cups brimming with righteous indignation, Tipper gathered like-minded, and I'm assuming bored, wives of senators, cabinet members, and prominent businessmen to for the Parents Music Resource Council or PMRC.  But this wasn't censorship, the PMRC wanted everyone to know.  It was just about helping parents make informed decisions.  They wanted to see music rated like movies, with warnings for the R-rated stuff.   Critics pointed out that that was easier said than done.  The Motion Picture Association of America rated about 350 movies a year. By contrast the Recording Industry Association of America saw 25,000 songs a year being released in those days.  To focus their efforts, the PMRC threw down the gauntlet on the "Filthy Fifteen," a list of songs from the likes of Madonna and Sheena Easton to AC/DC and Judas Priest, that were part of what Gore called "the twisted tyranny of explicitness in the public domain." I did a Thundercats burlesque number to one of the songs.  Care to guess which one?    While the PMRC wasn't an official government anything, the record industry needed to stay on their good side.  They were lobbying for a tax on blank cassettes, absolutely besides themselves over the idea of losing money to tape dubbing.  Four members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation were all married to PMRC members.  This was enough for the RIAA to cross the street to get away from the principles of free expression in hopes of getting the blank-tape tax.   When the Senate committee called for hearings on this issue.  Arguing for totally'not'censorship, you guys, were PMRC members, child-health experts, and religious figures.  Standing up for their rights as musicians was an interesting trio – Twister Sister's Dee Snider, folk singer John Denver, and I would not insult him by trying to affix a label, gonzo rock god Frank Zappa.  We don't know how many musicians were invited, but they were the only ones who showed up.   Anyone else who was invited missed the chance for a lot of press – the hearing room was packed with reporters and tv cameras til the fourth estate were packed in like sardines.  PMRC husband Sen. Hollings played their hand right away, referring to the music in question as "porn rock," saying "If I could find some way to constitutionally do away with it, I would."  I bet he's fun at parties.  Sen. Paula Hawkins waved off concerns about artists' rights of free expression under the First Amendment as she waved away the idea of parental responsibility, and bemoaned rock music becoming much more explicit in the 30 years since Elvis.  A 2012 study by Elizabeth Langdon at Cleveland State University found that music has indeed grown more explicit in its sexual content, but "the sexual attitudes and behaviors (and related outcomes) of adolescents do not appear to be following suit at the national level."    When it came time to make their case before the government, Tipper Gore and Susan Baker, wife of then-Treasury Secretary James Baker, testified on behalf of the PMRC.  Album art, a much bigger part of the whole music buying and enjoying process.  Remember liner notes with all the lyics?  It was like Christmas!  Those albums that had Playboy, Boris Vallejo, or Saw vibes on their jacket were used as evidence.  A local pastor read salacious lyrics about bondage, incest, and "anal vapors"...to unrestrained tittering and laughter.  A child psychiatrist testified that David Berkowitz, the serial killer called "Son of Sam," was known to listen to Black Sabbath. sigh  You shouldn't be allowed to get a degree without understanding the difference between correlation and causation.     Then the defense took the stand.  Rally, lads!  Zappa was up first, looking as not Frank Zappa as I ever saw, with short hair and a suit.  "I've heard some conflicting reports on whether or not people on this committee want legislation. I understand that Senator Hollings does." Sen. James Exon butted in, saying he might support legislation that makes the music industry "voluntarily" clean up its act, which Zappa astutely pointed out is “hardly voluntary." [sfx clip]   "The PMRC proposal is an ill-conceived piece of nonsense which fails to deliver any real benefits to children, infringes the civil liberties of people who are not children, and promises to keep the courts busy for years, dealing with the interpretation and enforcement problems inherent in the proposal's design.  It is my understanding that, in law, First Amendment issues are decided with a preference for the least restrictive alternative. In this context, the PMRC's demands are the equivalent of treating dandruff by decapitation."   He took dead aim at the inherent conflict of interest and said the whole issue was a facade for "trade-restraining legislation, whipped up like an instant pudding by the Wives of Big Brother."  Chef kiss.  The senators were less impressed.  Thankfully the next at-bat was Ivory soap clean, openly devout Christian John Denver, or as Dee Snider later described him, "mom-American-pie- John-Denver-Christmas-special- fresh-scrubbed guy."    Despite his broad appeal, Denver was no stranger to censorship, which he warned the PMRC was approaching.  "Rocky Mountain High," one of his biggest hits, was banned from some radio stations for drug references that weren't actually there.  "What assurance have I that any national panel to review my music would make any better judgment?" Denver asked the senators.  A "self-appointed moral watchdog," he argued, was antithetical to the ideals of a democratic society, the sort of thing you saw in Nazi Germany.  Denver then excused himself from the hearing because he had a meeting with NASA in hopes of becoming the first civilian in space.  Not a word of a lie.  Luckily, he didn't make the cut; the flight in question was the catastrophic last flight of the Challenger.   With the opening acts out of the way, it was time for the headliner, Dee Snider, who quite plausibly believes [1] “the PMRC — or the senators whose wives were in the PMRC — invited me to make a mockery out of me in front of the world."  When Snider walked in, they probably thought they'd gotten their wish.  He was wearing his “dirtbag couture” – jeans, a tank top, sunglasses, and voluminous bottle-blond hair.   But Dee Snider wasn't the airhead they were expecting.  He introduced himself as a married father, a Christian, and neither drinks nor does drugs.  He'd brought his Army and NYPD veteran father with him. (Zappa brought his kids, Moon Unit and Dweezil because they were Twisted Sister fans.)  He addressed Tipper personally for her misinterpretation and misrepresentation of his song "Under the Blade," which they claimed was about S&M and rape, citing the lyrics “Your hands are tied, your legs are strapped, a light shines in your eyes/You faintly see a razor's edge, you open your mouth to cry.”  Snider countered was about their bassist Eddie Ojeda having surgery, literally going under the knife.  "Ms. Gore was looking for sadomasochism and bondage and she found it," indicating the bondage was a metaphor for fear. Snider later wrote for the Huffington Post that he enjoyed the "raw hatred I saw in Al Gore's eyes when I said Tipper Gore had a dirty mind."    Snider highlighted another accusation from Tipper Gore, "You look at even the t-shirts that kids wear and you see Twisted Sister and a woman in handcuffs sort of spread-eagled."  This was a complete untruth.  Twisted Sister "never sold a shirt of this type; we have always taken great pains to steer clear of sexism in our merchandise, records, stage show, and personal lives. Furthermore, we have always promoted the belief that rock and roll should not be sexist, but should cater to males and females equally."  He challenged Tipper to produce any such shirt and when asked about it again by Senator Al Gore, Gore clarified for the record that "the word 't-shirts' was in plural, and one of them referred to Twisted Sister and the other referred to a woman in handcuffs." Snider stuck to his guns insisting Tipper was referring to Twisted Sister before Senator Gore changed the subject.   During Snider's testimony, Senator Ernest Hollings from South Carolina asked him about different perceptions of obscenity and vulgarity. He read part of a Supreme Court verdict in the Pacifica Case involving the Federal Communications Commission (famous for the role George Carlin's "Seven Dirty Words" played in it). In the case, the Supreme Court ruled that "Patently offensive, indecent material presented over the airwaves confronts the citizen not only in public, but also in the privacy of the home. The individual's right to be left alone, plainly outweighs the first amendment rights of an intruder."   They still hadn't figured out who they were dealing with.  Snider pointed out there was a difference between the airwaves”  as opposed to a person going with their money to purchase an album to play in their room, in their home, on their own time. The airwaves are something different."    Sen. Al Gore opened his questioning of Snider by asking what the initials of their fan club “S.M.F.” stood for.  [x] "It stands for the Sick Motherf------ Friends of Twisted Sister," Snider testified. "Is this also a Christian group?" Gore asked, to a smattering of laughter. "I don't believe profanity has anything to do with Christianity," Snider said.  I could watch replays of that hearing all day.   [y] "The beauty of literature, poetry, and music is that they leave room for the audience to put its own imagination, experience, and dreams into the words," Snider testified.  "There is no authority who has the right or the necessary insight to make these judgments. Not myself, not the federal government, not some recording industry committee, not the PTA, not the RIAA, and certainly not the PMRC," Snider said. [sfx clip?]   When it was said and done, it's unlikely that many minds were changed by the hearing. Although, despite the protestations to the contrary, quite a few senators and witnesses had explicitly argued in favor of government action.  No laws were passed, but they still got results.  The RIAA agreed to work with the PMRC on labeling objectionable content with a bold black and white sticker reading "Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics."  So the rockers kinda lost, but they were awesome and I'm counting it as a moral victory.   That black and white sticker was worse than a Scarlet Letter.  Huge retailers like Walmart would not sell "labeled" records, period, cutting out a huge slice of the marketplace for "labeled" artists. Some smaller stores were threatened with eviction if they stocked "labeled" records.  The city of San Antonio barred "labeled" artists from performing.  Maryland and Pennsylvania debated requiring retailers to keep it in an "adults-only" area of the store.  Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra was prosecuted in California over "Distribution of Harmful Material to Minors."   But musicians would have the last laugh.  The explicit lyrics sticker very quickly went from mark to shame to selling point.  Retailers realized the money they were missing out on and began stocking the albums.  Teens and young adults would often buy albums *because they had the warning.  In fact, if you were hard-cord or counter-culture or punk in any way but didn't have a warning label, scoff!  There was also a shed load of reaction music, including Danzig's only mainstream hit. [sfx clip] Nowadays, not only have our buying habits changed, but our standards have too.     MIDROLL   CW: The following section is about news events subsequent to suicides, without going into too much detail about the suicides themselves.  If that's not where your head is today, no worries, we'll catch up next week.   In 1986, Sharon Osbourne called her management client and husband Ozzy Osbourne that he had to get on a plane as fast as possible and get to LA.  Like a phone call from a movie, she refused to tell him why, but demanded he go now.  Ozzy landed in LA into the loving embrace of a batallion of reporter's microphones and those stupidly bright news camera lights, asking him how he responded to the suicide.  What Sharon could have taken 10 seconds to explain to him was that the previous year, 19 year old John McCollum was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his California bedroom.  The album Blizzard of Oz which he'd allegedly been listening to for at least six hours straight, was still spinning on the stereo turntable.  McCollum's parents believed Osbourne was responsible, that his song “Suicide Solution” was a proximate cause of their son's death.  Okay, that was about 20 seconds, but I stand on my statement.   In their lawsuit, McCollum's parents claimed that there were hidden lyrics in the song that incited John to kill himself, with messages like “get the gun and try it, shoot, shoot, shoot.”  Osbourne countered that the song wasn't about a solution as in an answer, but a solution as in a liquid, specifically the one he was at the time slowly killing *himself with, and which has killed AC/DC's Bon Scott, alcohol.   [ozzy 1] "Suicide Solution wasn't written about, 'Oh that's the solution, suicide.' I was a heavy drinker and I was drinking myself to an early grave. It was suicide solution," Ozzy said later.  "Wine is fine but whiskey's quicker. Suicide is slow with liquor. That's what I was doing for a long while.”     The plaintiff's case was that the song Suicide Solution should be exempt from the first Amendment's freedom of speech.  In the US, you're free to express any viewpoint or feelings, up to a point – it is not legal to directly incite specific, imminent actions which cause harm to others.  That's hard to prove and virtually every attempt to hold an entertainer responsible for allegedly inciting action has failed.  One notable exception, and a replacement for the tired old ‘you can't yell fire in a crowded theater' example is that of radio disc jockey The Real Don Steele, who told listeners to hurry as quickly as they could to a certain Los Angeles address to win a prize.  This is 1970, only two years after seat belts became mandatory, and people were getting in crack-ups, and one motorist who had no idea what was happening was killed.  In a case still taught in law schools everywhere, his family sued and the California Supreme Court ruled in their favor.  I really could do a whole episode just on radio promotions going terribly, terribly wrong.  At issue in the McCollum case was not whether there actually were hidden lyrics, but whether such lyrics are protected speech or incitement to violence.  If successful, the McCollum lawsuit would have had sweeping consequences for artists in every medium, potentially holding them liable for the actions of those who watched, read or listened to what they'd created.  At the very least, it would have made Ozzy too big a liability for any record label or concert promoter to associate themselves with, and it's not hard to imagine that that pariah status would spread to other metal bands.   [ozzy 2]“I feel very sad for the boy, and I felt terribly sad for the parents. As a parent myself, I'd be pretty devastated if something like that happened. And I have thought about this, if the boot was on the other foot, I couldn't blame the artist."   The suit wasn't just about Suicide Solution; they also blamed the song Paranoid.  Data point of one, but I can disprove that one by sheer force of math; it's probably my most-listened-to Ozzy or Sabbath song, with the very Un-Sabbath Laguna Sunrise as a close second.   Plaintiff's counsel Tom Anderson claimed McCollum had been a normal, happy well-adjusted young man, who listened to ″Suicide Solution″ for hours before killing himself, and that a low-frequency hum on the record, only audible if you were using headphones as McCollum had been, had caused him to be more susceptible to the song's hidden message.  Attorneys for CBS, Ozzy's record label and party in the suit, argued that Osbourne was no more responsible for a listeners' actions than Shakespeare would be for Hamlet's soliloquy, Tolstoy for Anna Karenina throwing herself under the wheels of a train, or the producers of “M.A.S.H.” for choosing “Suicide Is Painless” for its theme tune.  When Judge John Cole dismissed the case, spoiler alert, he left room for the plaintiffs to appeal over the mysterious hum, which they did; the appellate judge upheld the dismissal.   This wasn't the last time a fan's suicide resulted in legal action.  The family of another young man brought a similar lawsuit against Osbourne in 1986. Their case was also unsuccessful.   5 years later, CBS was back in court, though this time it was Judas Priest who found themselves in the dock, but with a pseudoscience twist.  In December 1985, 20-year-old James Vance and 18-year-old Raymond Belknap of Nevada, concluded a day of drinking, drugs, and heavy metal with an alleged suicide pact by means of self-inflicted shotgun fire.  Belknap died instantly, while Vance survived for a further three years, though without the lower half of his face, before eventually succumbing to complications.   The two families subsequently alleged that Priest had placed subliminal messages throughout 1978's Stained Class album, inciting fans to kill themselves.  The worst offender on the album was Better By You, Better Than Me, where messages like ‘Let's be dead' and ‘Do it' were smuggled in by means of backmasking.  Let's hop out of the shallow end for a deep dive here.  Backwards-masking or backmasking an intentional recording in which a message is recorded backward onto a track that is meant to be played forward.  It goes all the way back to the 70's, the 1870's, when Thomas Edison discovered the novelty of playing recorded music backwards.  The beat generation of the 50s started to purposely include reverse audio into their music and artists continued to play around with it for decades.  The Beatles deliberate [...].  This splashed fuel on the Paul-is-dead urban legend/conspiracy theory with supposed messages like “Paul is dead, miss him, miss him,” in “I'm So Tired” and “turn me on, dead man” in Revolution 9.  Audiophiles kept an ear out for it, but it didn't come to wide public knowledge until the 80's.  These days, Easter eggs and hidden goodies are shared on social media and YT, but back then, it was conservatives ruining cassettes and vinyl records by playing them backwards in church, community meetings, local access television, whatever venue they could get.  They claimed that the backwards speech could subliminally influence the listener when listening to the music in the normal way.  They found backmasking in everything from Elvis to Led Zepplin.  Supposedly Stairway to Heaven contained Satanic commands like “here's to my sweet Satan,” “serve me,” and “there's no escaping it.”     Audio Engineer Evan Olcott claims that backmasking or finding phonetic reversals is purely coincidental in which the spoken or sung phonemes, a fancy word for individual speech sounds, seem to form words.  Our brains make sense of our environment, or they try, any road, and that can mean convincing themselves that garbled sounds are actually words.  There's a key to claims of backmasking and it's priming, telling the listener what they're going to hear.  [sfx example]     Backmasking is supposed to work subliminally, meaning literally below the threshold of sensation of consciousness.  In theory, subliminal messages deliver an idea that the conscious mind doesn't detect.  For those too young to remember Tyler Durden's projectionist hobby, the prime example of subliminal messages is a single frame of text slipped into a video, which *has been used on TV by both corporations and political candidates.  Whenever one of these comes to light, there is always much contention, yet thoroughly negligible results.  If you can find a properly organized scientific study that bears out claims that messages you don't know you saw can influence people's behavior, call us here in the studio.  Until then, I plant my banner on the hill of It's Utter Crap.   At the time, Priest guitarist Glenn Tipton said: “It's a fact that if you play speech backwards, some of it will seem to make sense. So I asked permission to go into a studio and find some perfectly innocent phonetic flukes. The lawyers didn't want to do it, but I insisted. We bought a copy of the Stained Class album in a local record shop, went into the studio, recorded it to tape, turned it over and played it backwards. Right away we found ‘Hey ma, my chair's broken' and ‘Give me a peppermint' and ‘Help me keep a job'.”   At one point, frontman Rob Halford was called upon to actually sing part of the song while on the stand, which he looks really uncomfortable doing without so much as a metronome to accompany him.  “It tore us up emotionally hearing someone say to the judge and the cameras that this is a band that creates music that kills young people. We accept that some people don't like heavy metal, but we can't let them convince us that it's negative and destructive. Heavy metal is a friend that gives people great pleasure and enjoyment and helps them through hard times.”   Eventually, the case against Judas Priest and their label was dismissed.  The judge did agree that you could hear words other than the printed lyrics, but these were “only discernible after their location had been identified and after the sounds were isolated and amplified. The sounds would not be consciously discernible to the ordinary listener under normal listening conditions”.   And that's… Slipknot filed a copyright infringement suit claiming Burger King misappropriated their images. The King fired back that Slipknot didn't invent masked rockers, the post-apocalyptic gas masks aesthetic, or white guys with dreadlocks and, therefore, had no copyrights to claim. Ultimately, I guess they all realized they had more important things to do and the case was dropped. 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This week we look at the trend of late for ‘the hobby' to circle the wagons when a perceived predatory newbie steps up. At what point is this suspicious welcome bouquet actually damaging to the Marvel cards scene? How can the hobby welcome those attracted by the current spike in Marvel cards popularity and visibility, without tarring & feathering those attracted to the shinier cards that are popular, while ALSO policing those making moves from the sport & investment side (which many perceive as ‘the dark side'). Lots to chew on, we get into it. Our ‘tasting notes' – featuring any images and links we discuss - can be found via our Facebook page. Artist Intro – HUGE thanks to the master BORIS VALLEJO for this week's opener – you can find Boris on his brand new Instagram feed here; https://www.instagram.com/borisvallejoartist/ Do please support our featured artists, appreciate their work, and tell them we sent ya! =========== As always friends, YOU can help us by; - suggesting content you want to hear - sharing the podcast with friends - liking, starring & leaving a review on our FB page, or wherever you listen - getting involved by leaving voicemails & sending in emails/messages/comments Our email; TheMCCPod@gmail.com LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL; https://anchor.fm/mccp/message

Pourquoi tant de joueurs brillent chez les juniors et ne confirment pas chez les professionnels ? Pourquoi seuls 60% des vainqueurs de tournoi de Grand Chelem chez les jeunes intègrent le Top 100 chez les grands ? Cette semaine Court n°1 se penche sur la transition difficile de juniors à professionnel. Avec les explications de Boris Vallejo, ex-entraîneur de Marin Cilic et actuel coach de l'espoir français Arthur Cazaux.

 Come with us listeners, back to the mist-shrouded 1980s, when hair was big and the Walkman was king, and sword and sorcery films were abundant. Why were there so many sword and sorcery films in that decade? Perhaps it was the lucky convergence of a number of things: the rise in popularity of Dungeons and Dragons, the prevalence of fantasy art such as the Hildebrandt Brothers, Boris Vallejo, and of course, Frazetta, the Marvel Conan comics, and other factors. While there were a number of terrible movies produced in the genre during this period, there were also some excellent or at least entertaining ones. Your crew will be discussing six of their favorites.Excalibur (1981) is a John Boorman film, and it looks absolutely beautiful. A retelling of the Arthurian legend, it has a dreamlike feeling, in an England that is moving from a magical realm to one ruled by Christianity. Highlights include Nichol Williamson as a very otherworldly Merlin, and a fantastic soundtrack that features classical music including Wagner. It is well worth seeing if you haven't!Highlander (1986) is something that started as a good idea, but suffered in the execution. Immortals scattered across the globe must battle until there is only one left -"There can be only one." When an immortal kills another immortal they gain the energies of that person and all the people they have killed. It had nice production design and an interesting cast that included Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, and Clancy Brown, but the story is lacking in parts. Still, it has its high points.Krull (1983) is an odd mix of science fiction and fantasy, with a Prince on a quest to save a Princess from an invading alien known as The Beast. He gathers a rag tag band of thugs, sorcerers and even a cyclops to help him on his rescue mission. He also acquires a magical weapon called the Glaive, which is essentially a large throwing star that always returns to his hand. Clearly influenced by Star Wars as well as fantasy films, Krull is definitely cheesy, but fun.Dragonslayer (1981) has what is still one of the best-looking dragons in all of cinema history, Vermithrax Pejorative. The film follows a young sorcerer's apprentice who tries to rid a village of a terrible dragon. This was a Disney production and featured work by ILM and Phil Tippett. The dragon was animated with Tippett's Go Motions process, and full-size pieces were also used (and a World War II flamethrower was used for the dragon's breath!). This is a cool and unique film well worth seeing.Conan the Barbarian (1982) is probably the premiere sword and sorcery film of the 80s. Nothing quite says sword and sorcery like Conan. Directed by John Milius and with a story from Oliver Stone, this film has a very hard, almost nihilistic edge. Conan sees his parents and village slaughtered in front of him as a child, is chained to the "wheel of pain" from adolescence into young adulthood, forced to become a gladiator, and freed to find his own way, in which he seeks revenge. It's hard to imagine anyone other than Arnold Schwarzenegger playing the Cimmerian. He was perfect for the role. The film also has terrific production values. It just looks like a fully realized world. The battles are exciting and most of the time it actually is Arnold in those scenes -they couldn't find a stunt man to double for him! If you haven't seen it, or it's been a while, check this out.Conan the Destroyer (1984) was the follow up to the first film and unlike the first film, this one was PG. It's obvious they wanted to reach a younger audience, but Conan loses some grit because of this. The production design also suffers some in this film. Still, there's much to enjoy, as this is a more straight-forward adventure where Conan builds a band of adventurers to obtain a magical item for a queen who offers to bring back his lost love, Valeria. Go into this one with reduced expectations and you'll probably get a kick out of it.We know there are many other sword and sorcery films from the 80s and we have certainly left out one of your favorites. Feel free to let us know what movie you would include on your list of favorites.For our Sensor Sweep, we have a completely unrelated item that Engineer Bob is excited about: the Godzilla pinball machine! Stern Pinball has partnered with Toho International to produce a line of Godzilla pinball machines. Godzilla and his kaiju allies fight off invading monsters like Ghidorah, Gigan, and Megalon. Players can also interact with the machine using a QR code reader.  There will be three versions -pro, premium, and limited edition - and they will range from $6,899 to $10,499. So if you got the dough -check out this link: https://sternpinball.com/game/godzilla/That's all this time. Send your missives to us at our various locales: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Planet8CastFacebook: www.Facebook.com/Planet8PodcastA dream to some, a nightmare to others!

Maïlys Vallade nous raconte sa douloureuse arrivée au dessin, et comment l'art l'a sauvée. Une discussion sensible autour de la puissance de l'expression artistique. Suivre le fil 00:00:50 Son parcours00:18:48 Ses inspirations00:20:45 Ses projets00:51:05 Son aspirations  Les références Le film Jurassic Park de Steven Spielberg L'écureuil d'or à Angoulême L'école Olivier de Serres Le studio d'animatronics d'ILM Stan Winston studio à ILM, qui a des cours en ligne Un autre studio d'animatronique : le Phil Tippett Studio L'école Penninghen L'EPSAA L'école Emile Cohl L'école des Gobelins Le cristal du film de fin d'études à Annecy L'école de La Poudrière Le prochain film de Rémy Chayé Calamity L'animateur Liane-Cho Han Un acteur majeur du dessin animé en France Sacrebleu Productions Le monteur Benjamin Massoubre Le décorateur Patrick Suau Ses inspirations : Franck Frazetta, Boris Vallejo, Giger, Moebius, Joseph Koudelka, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Stanley Kubrick Son film de fin d'études The lighthouse KeeperChristophe Blain, Hayao Miyazaki, Les studios Ghibli, Tomi Ungerer Son film Garuda pour Annecy Les films Adama de Simon Rouby, Ernest et Célestine de Benjamin Renner, Tout en Haut du Monde de Rémi Chayé Le chef animateur Patrick Imbert Les studios Pipangai, 2 minutes Son film L'Hermite Le réalisateur Serge Elissalde Le film Le Petit Prince Le livre Qui a tué mon père d'Édouard Louis  Où trouver Maïlys Sur son site Sur son blog Sur son instagram A propos de l'animateur Je suis Alexandre Soubrier, réalisateur de films graphiques. Vous pouvez me trouver sur twitter, facebook, instagram, vimeo. J'ai même un site sur lequel je poste quelques réalisations et sur lequel vous pouvez me contacter. Le court extrait de musique vient du magnifique album de Wax Taylor "Tales of Forgotten Melodies".

Lords: * Tim * https://giantsquidstudios.com/ * Nathan * https://twitter.com/MommysBestGames * http://mommysbestgames.com/website_store/index.html Topics: * Are there any negatives to having an easy mode that takes the player through the entire game? Should the "best ending" be locked somehow in easy mode? * Why are we drawn to art that updisturbs, depresses, or scares? (And yes, "catharsis" is a weak answer!) * How Super Mario 35 (and maybe battle royales in general) solved the worst unsolvable problem of multiplayer * John asks: "Licensing issues and content guidelines have led to a homogenized aesthetic on YouTube that leads to all produced-in-bulk videos for children having the same sound effects and music." * What's different (better or worse) about playing games with kids? Do you play games with your kids? * What sports would be more interesting with low/0 gravity? Or with higher gravity? * Tim's vegan commune cooking disaster stories Microtopics: * Shoot 1-Up. * Controlling all your spaceships at the same time. * The big thing about Galaga. * The forever scrolling timeline of new content that you're fed all the time. * The funniest Boris Vallejo painting. * Being bummed to find out that Boris Vallejo was looking at people and painting them rather than just imagining them. * Name-dropping Tom of Finland. * Staring at pink blobs all the time. * Making sure you're not wearing your good socks because they're about to be blown off. * Looping the game twice with no deaths and no bombs. * Jamestown. * Being forced to do something unpleasant to feel a sense of satisfaction when you are given what you want. * Not supporting an easy mode as well as you should have because you assumed those people could just play co-op. * Bringing in a playtester who has never used a mouse before. * Not valuing your own fake accomplishments as much because other people accomplished the same fake accomplishments more easily. * Save the Date, by Chris Cornell. * Having to wake up to play Super Hard mode. * The necessity of hand-tuning all the enemy AI in shoot em up difficulty levels. * Psychoanalyzing the entire human race at once. * People turning to media to experience strong emotions. * Whether it's easier to elicit good or bad emotions in the viewer. * The safety of seeing a horrible thing that will definitely never happen to you. * Being unusually upset by the Boston Marathon bombing because you recently ran a marathon. * Knowing that an album is going to fuck you up because it is too proximate, and choosing not to listen. * A scary movie taking months to purge from your brain. * The relief of when the demons show up. * People lining up at a party to play That Dragon Cancer. * How movies basically never hurt children. * Wanting to know what's in the box but also knowing that what's in the box will ruin your life for months. * How you lose half the time in multiplayer games. * Super Mario 35. * The various ways video games can make you feel like you're winning harder. * Taking turns feeling good at video games. * We Didn't Playtest This At All * Everybody choosing a number and everybody who chose 5 being the winner. * Trying to win at Scrabble based on style points. * Coming up with as many secondary win conditions as possible so that everybody can win even if they lost. * Choosing a safeword to indicate that it's time to switch topics. * Making all your own opulently animated scenes. * Playing games as a way to develop social relationships. * Empowering your son to express himself even though he's making a shitty Pokemon deck. * Finding non-combat activities to do with the Pokemon that are not very good at combat. * Buying SNES Classic to play games with your son and then realizing that there are more worthwhile games to play than those that merely entertain. * Games which give you value that you can take out into the world. * Wanting to show your kid the good stuff so that they can have a better life than you did. * Learning music theory by listening to Justin Bieber. * Worrying that you'll pollute your kid's natural interests with your taste in video games. * A very nice video game world for other people to explore. * Staring at people and saying "papaya" until they're like "why do you keep saying papaya" * Skateboarding in low gravity. * Full contact basketball with trampolines. * Immersion Blender Night. * Immersion blended salad. * Immersion blended vegan lasagna. * Learning the hard way that flambe does not burn off that much of the alcohol. * A gargantuan stock pot of chocolatey oatmeal that is far too salty for human consumption. * Improvising around your cooking mistakes. * Promising to talk about Paddington 2 next episode. * Going to the Giant Squid web page and checking out Tim's bio. * Barf-sealed copies of Pig Eat Ball.

The utter dankness of Fantasy Art is vastly under appreciated because as adults we seldom get a chance to use our imaginations. Well, the artwork of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell are like keys to unlocking a part of the mind and spirit that enables one to escape from his or her daily routine in a very stoke inducing, and previously unimagined way. Strider examines a few of his favorite works from two of his favorite artists. Remember, there is no right or wrong when imagining. Enjoy! Sources: Borisjulie.com, Wikipedia.org, 'The Fantastic Art of Boris Vallejo' by Boris Vallejo by Lester del Rey 1978 Ballantine Books See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s episode is an epic lovefest for two of the greatest science fantasy magazines ever published: Epic Illustrated and Heavy Metal. Like an entire generation of readers, Dwight and Swain became huge fans of Epic and ‘Métal Hurlant’ back in the mid 80s. The most revered science fiction, fantasy and comic book storytellers of all time were featured in their hallowed pages: Moebius, Michael Moorcock, Jim Starlin, Wendy Pini, Boris Vallejo, Luis Royo, Jon J. Muth, Richard Corben, Jo Duffy, Enki Bilal, Marie Severin, Jeffrey Catherine Jones, H.R. Giger, Simon Bisley, Pepe Moreno, Harlan Ellison, the Hildebrandt Brothers and many, many more.In the conversation, Dwight and Swain give their first impressions of the magazines, namecheck their favorite artists from that era, and of course, discuss the 1981 ‘Heavy Metal’ movie as well as a one-time rumored David Fincher/James Cameron produced sequel.The hosts of Sidebar Forever are of the opinion that Epic Illustrated and Heavy Metal closed the gap between amazing book cover paintings and amazing comic book art. They were tastemakers and showed the world what great fantasy stories could, and should be. By the way, four decades later, Heavy Metal magazine is still being published. As always, thanks for listening to the podcast. For more episodes of the show, visit us at sidebarforever.com or wherever you get your podcasts. SIDEBAR FOREVER ©2020 Dwight Clark, Swain Hunt and Adrian Johnson

Magnus Dahl och Johan Wanloo har läst Tom Sciolis ”American Barbarian”. Är serien bara trams eller rent av en Nobelpriskandidat? I nästa LÄS HÅRT... ... läser vi den klassiska julklappsboken ”Da Vinci-koden” av Dan Brown. Ja, du läste rätt. Sätt på dig säkerhetsbältet och häng med! Annat som nämns  Klas Östergren, Ray Garton ”Frankenstorm”, Hari Kunzru ”Red pill”, Lyrikvännen, Doctor Who Magazine, Boris Vallejo, Shannon Watters mfl ”Lumberjanes”, Noelle Stevenson, Ed Brubaker ”Gotham Central”, Robert Kirkman ”Walking dead”, Peter Madsen ”Valhall”, Tim Seeley ”The Art of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe”, George Johansson ”På okänd planet”, Susanna Clarke ”Piranesi” + ”Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell” + ”The Ladies of Gace Adieu”, George RR Martin, Franquin ”Spirou”, Jack Kirby, Robert Crumb, ”The Freak Brothers”, ”Casper the Friendly Ghost”, Jim Lee, Jamie Hewlett & Alan Martin ”Tank Girl”

Marshall sits down with professional fantasy artist April Solomon. The two discuss how April fell in love with drawing dragons and werewolves, the power of traditional art materials and the techniques she’s learned over the years, art festivals, what her art schedule looks like, and more. If you’re interested in supporting April be sure to check out her patreon - https://patreon.com/aprilsolomonart Visit thegreatcoursesplus.com/draftsmen get an entire month of unlimited access for FREE! Call and Ask Your Art Questions: 1-858-609-9453 Show Links (some contain affiliate links): April is on patreon and instagram as Aprilsolomonart and twitter as Aprildragonlady April's Dragon Art - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/dragon-paintings-and-drawings-by-april-solomon-s2e32.jpg April's Werewolf Art - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/werewolf-paintings-and-drawings-by-april-solomon-s2e32.jpg (for specific art talked about in podcast watch episode at proko.com/461) David Solomon - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/waterfall-artwork-by-david-solomon-s2e32.jpg Pageant of the Masters - https://www.foapom.com/ The Fantastic Art of Frank Frazetta (v. 1) - https://amzn.to/39aRppq John Singer Sargent Books - https://amzn.to/33eHj38 zoo books - https://amzn.to/35ZR0Ea D&D Art and Arcana - https://amzn.to/2UWCS8z American Werewolf of London - https://amzn.to/3pQGtTM Graphite Negative Space Art - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/graphite-negative-space-art-technique-s2e32.jpg Myers Briggs Scale Perceivers Judge - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/myers-briggs-personality-types-chart-s2e32.jpg Drew Struzan - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/drew-struzan-famous-movie-posters-artwork-s2e32.jpg Painting Marshall bought From April - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/pink-lynx-commisoned-by-marshall-by-april-solomon-s2e32.jpg April’s Influences (Jeff Easley, James Gurney, Donato Giancola, Daniel Dos Santos, Scott Fischer, Gregory Manchess, Rebecca Guay, Boris Vallejo, Frank Frazetta, Norman, Rockwell, Howard Pyle, John Singer Sargent, James Jean, Terryl Whitlatch, Joe Weatherly, Drew Struzan, J.A.W. Cooper, Paul Bonner, John Howe, Sulamith Wülfing, Julie Bell) - https://youtu.be/G4rly3_86vM?t=2387 CTN Convention - https://ctn-live.com/ Designer Con - http://www.designercon.com/ Dragon April sold to Drew & Dylan Struzen - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/red-dragon-art-commisoned-by-drew-struzan-by-april-solomon-s2e32.jpg Donato Giancola - https://proko.com/draftsmen-media/donato-giancola-throne-of-eldraine-kiss-art-s2e32.jpg Aprils patreon page - https://patreon.com/aprilsolomonart Learn to Draw - www.proko.com Marshall Vandruff - www.marshallart.com April Solomon - www.aprilsolomonart.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A cheesy flying beast is terrorizing New York, snatching people off rooftops, while some kind of mysterious string of murders are being investigated by a pair of rogue cops, meanwhile a small time crook tries to extort the city. Also discussed: police brutality, cult violence in the early eighties, what good jazz is, and science fiction/fantasy artist Boris Vallejo. Next Week: Charlotte's Song or Mermaid's Song (2015)Trigger Warnings: Gore, Violence, N word, Nudity, Cult Violence, Guns, Police Violence

Stacy Dellorfano joins us to discuss Leigh Brackett's "The Best of Leigh Brackett", the OSR, Boris Vallejo, women writing for male audiences, early antiheros, Eric John Stark as the outsider, Pocahontas, using life experiences in monster design, the balance of crunch and fluff, underwater adventures, Lovecraftian horror, and the future of Contessa Con in the quarantine era, and much more!

Our first birthday on the day this drops, so who better to celebrate it with than legendary award winning artists Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo. ‘Nuff said! Our ‘tasting notes’ - featuring images we discuss - can be found via our Facebook page, and an edited video version of some of this interview soon on our YouTube channel – like and subscribe, link below. Their website is here; https://www.borisjulie.com/ Snarky Puppy, that we referenced towards the end; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBAJP-3ebDA&list=PL21Jtb5uMrQeH5kUnB7mfwikZZ9NQCIGK =========== As always friends, YOU can help us by; - suggesting content you want to hear - sharing the podcast with friends - liking, starring & leaving a review on our FB page, or wherever you listen - getting involved by leaving voicemails & sending in emails/messages/comments Our email; TheMCCPod@gmail.com LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL; https://anchor.fm/mccp/message

Giant's interview with Leo Gonzales, a tattoo artist and fine art painter based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Recorded in Mr. Gonzales' home on June 30, 2019. Topics discussed include: Growing up in Pojoaque, NM, drawing at 2 years old, replicating Disney characters, Garfield, Prince Valiant, Dungeons and Dragons, The Hobbit, browsing book and album covers, frequency range, music/audio books as background noise, mindfulness, Cat Stevens, Kansas, KISS, Lorelei, Sikhs, Logical Nonsense, the punk scene, drugs, The Dark Nineties, tagbanging, Santa Fe vs. Albuquerque, backyard parties, hand poke tattoos, rites of passage, The Decline of Western Civilization, tattooing at school, The Hat, judging people by their tattoos, Dan-O Sanchez, self tattooing, dedication to the craft, apprenticeships, art school, Boris Vallejo’s advice, learning directly from artists, recognizable style, tattoo conventions, Guy Aitchison, Grime, Mike Davis, recognizing tattoos not clients, the pitfalls of getting your own drawings tattooed, quality vs. story, word tattoos, Hardware, assholes in business, good customer interactions, Richard Stell, Lucky 13, Ten In One, Stay Gold, Steve Truitt, body modifications, suspensions, public lynching, fatherhood, Warhammer, 5x Golden Demon Champion, miniature figures, Shawn Warcot, Stranger Things, hiking, the satisfaction of physical exhaustion, skateboarding, Shoggoth, making intestines, Asian Water Monitor, snake breeding, cross platforming. @cthuleo

D'où vient le besoin de créer ? Nous avons tous des choses à exprimer, plus ou moins puissantes, et souvent on ne sait pas comment les communiquer. Alors on va voir des gens à l'écoute à qui l'on raconte nos histoires. Mais parfois ce n'est pas suffisant : on a besoin de faire sortir le monstre qui nous hante, d'y passer toutes nos heures perdues, notre corps et notre âme. La création, c'est un peu ce fantôme invisible qui vous empoigne le coeur, et vous agite les neurones. Celui qui vous fait percevoir le monde différemment. Celui qui vous rend différent. Celui qui vous pousse à enfanter de votre originalité. Parfois cet enfant devient vos parents, et vos parents l'enfant. Je suis sûr que vous comprendrez mieux en écoutant mon invitée Maïlys Vallade, plasticienne. Suivre le fil 00:00:50 Son parcours 00:18:48 Ses inspirations 00:20:45 Ses projets 00:51:05 Son aspirations Les références Le film Jurassic Park de Steven Spielberg L'écureuil d'or à Angoulême L'école Olivier de Serres Le studio d'animatronics d'ILM Stan Winston studio à ILM, qui a des cours en ligne Un autre studio d'animatronique : le Phil Tippett Studio L'école Penninghen L'EPSAA L'école Emile Cohl L'école des Gobelins Le cristal du film de fin d'études à Annecy L'école de La Poudrière Le prochain film de Rémy Chayé Calamity L'animateur Liane-Cho Han Un acteur majeur du dessin animé en France Sacrebleu Productions Le monteur Benjamin Massoubre Le décorateur Patrick Suau Ses inspirations : Franck Frazetta, Boris Vallejo, Giger, Moebius, Joseph Koudelka, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Stanley Kubrick Son film de fin d'études The lighthouse Keeper Christophe Blain, Hayao Miyazaki, Les studios Ghibli, Tomi Ungerer Son film Garuda pour Annecy Les films Adama de Simon Rouby, Ernest et Célestine de Benjamin Renner, Tout en Haut du Monde de Rémi Chayé Le chef animateur Patrick Imbert Les studios Pipangai, 2 minutes Son film L'Hermite Le réalisateur Serge Elissalde Le film Le Petit Prince Le livre Qui a tué mon père d'Édouard Louis Où trouver Maïlys Sur son site Sur son blog Sur son instagram A propos de l'animateur Je suis Alexandre Soubrier, réalisateur de films graphiques. Vous pouvez me trouver sur twitter, facebook, instagram, vimeo. J'ai même un site sur lequel je poste quelques réalisations et sur lequel vous pouvez me contacter. Le court extrait de musique vient du magnifique album de Wax Taylor "Tales of Forgotten Melodies".

Conan the Freebooter (Lancer Books, 1968) by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, was part of the first comprehensive paperback edition of the Conan saga. Conan the Freebooter  was the eighth volume published, although it is third in the internal chronology--later printings of the series numbered the books in chronological order. When Lancer went out of business in 1973, Ace Books picked up and completed the series, keeping it in print until the mid 1990s. As with the other Lancer/Ace Conan books, series editor de Camp filled in gaps in Conan’s timeline by expanding Howard’s unpublished notes and fragments, re-writing non-Conan stories, and writing entirely new stories. For the purist, the Howard-only stories in Conan the Freebooter are “Black Colossus” (1933), “Shadows in the Moonlight” (AKA “Iron Shadows in the Moon”, 1934), and “A Witch Shall be Born” (1934). In 1955, L. Sprague de Camp rewrote the then unpublished Howard story “Hawks over Egypt” as “Hawks over Shem”, changing the setting from Cairo in AD 1021 and adding the fantastic elements to turn it into a Conan tale. “The Road of the Kings” received the same treatment, being transferred to the Hyborian Age from the Ottoman Empire in AD 1595. Both of the original Howard stories were suppressed after de Camp’s rewrites and would not see print until they were collected in the small-press hardcover The Road of Azrael (Donald M. Grant, 1979). John Duilo contributed possibly the worst Conan cover ever, an anatomically nonsensical depiction of Conan’s battle with the great gray man-ape from “Shadows in the Moonlight”: The sad thing is that Duilo was normally an exceptional illustrator, as evidenced by the moody romanticism of his Western art and the sleazy verve of his men’s magazine covers. The later Boris Vallejo cover interpreting the climax of “A Witch Shall be Born” is much better, but static in comparison to the furious energy of Frank Frazetta: In both “Black Colossus” and “A Witch Shall be Born” we see Conan as a cunning strategist who leads thousand of men into battle. It’s easy to imagine Gary Gygax and company playing out these Hyborian Age conflicts in the pre-Dungeons & Dragons miniatures wargame Chainmail (1971) or in the later Swords & Spells (1976) ruleset. Other story elements from Conan the Freebooter that stand out as being proto-D&D include Shevatas the “thief among thieves” from the prologue to “Black Colossus” and gray man-ape of “Shadows in the Moonlight” is certainly the “APE, Carnivorous” of the AD&D Monster Manual (1977). As always, Robert E. Howard’s stories remain the motherlode of swords & sorcery inspiration…. Reading Resources: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan of Cimmeria Book 1) The Bloody Crown of Conan (Conan of Cimmeria Book 2) TPB (trade paperback) The Bloody Crown of Conan (Conan of Cimmeria Book 2) (Kindle ebook) These books are part of the Del Rey/Ballantine 3-book trade paperback series collecting the Conan stories in the order they were written by Robert E. Howard, often going back to his original typescripts. Also included are many of Howard’s Conan story drafts, note, and fragments, but none of the posthumous revisions and new stories by de Camp, Carter, et al. “Black Colossus” and “Iron Shadows in the Moon” both appear in the first volume and “A Witch Shall be Born” appears in the second volume. http://freeread.com.au/@RGLibrary/RobertEHoward/REH-Conan/@Conan.html is an online public domain repository of all of the Conan stories that were published during Robert E. Howard’s lifetime and several posthumously published works that are out of copyright. Additional Reading: Sword Woman and Other Historical Adventures collects Robert E. Howard’s original versions of “Hawks over Egypt” and “The Road of the Eagles”, untouched by L. Sprague de Camp. Gaming Resources: Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells (PWYW RPGNow affiliate link) Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells Addendum (PWYW RPGNow affiliate link)

Episodes: The Good Deed, The Prisoner     Current Series: Wander Over YonderIt's back to two 15 minute episodes as the Cracken Crew talk about a pair of shows that take Rube Goldberg devices to a cosmic level and how sometimes being a henchman is a tough and thankless job. This episode includes: Jordan's opening falls flat, You shouldn't feel bad about liking what you like, Teen Titans Go : Teen Titans :: Thundercats Roar : Thundercats, It's hard to connect to googly-eyes, "Cal-Arts influence" is a bad term to use in arguments, Side-tracked by He-man, Did you emphasized 'one' and 'piece' on purpose?, Jordan forgot to write down names, A quick tarot lesson, Mud of despair, Wander & Sylvia have a great relationship, He's not Prinsoner #6, So many great visual things that we have to explain audibly, Think Sesame Street pinball, Check out The Thief and the Cobbler, Jordan gets nautical terms messed up, This is totally for kids, Hater's Skull Ship Shopping Mall with Food Court, Hater is a fan of Boris Vallejo, thoughts on the episodes and questions!Next time we talk about the episodes The Bad Guy and The Troll.You can follow us on Twitter @CrackenCast.Dan can also be found on his Twitch stream Game Apartment 1C.Brian explains and recommends the Fantasy Flight Games Living Card Game Android: Netrunner.Jordan talks about Crystal and Luke's new podcast, MCU Complete Me.Our Theme Song was made by Kendall Halman. You can find more by him at his bandcamp or on his own podcast feed.

An interview with world famous fantasy and sci-fi artist Boris Vallejo at Illuxcon 2017. http://media.blubrry.com/sfasf/content.blubrry.com/sfasf/Episode_14_SFASF-Boris_Vallejo_interview.mp3  

In retrospect, the publication of Philip José Farmer’s The Maker of Universes (Ace Books, 1965) marks the beginning of the most productive and rewarding phase of Farmer’s writing career. It can hardly have seemed that way at the time, as Farmer was toiling away as a technical writer in Scottsdale, Arizona to support himself and his family. Even though Farmer had been a published writer as of 1946 and had even won his first Hugo Award in 1953 (as “Best New SF Author or Artist”), commercial success had eluded him so far. Robert Wolff, the initially aged, paunchy, and disillusioned protagonist of The Maker of Universes is obviously a stand-in for Farmer at that point in his life---fortunately Farmer and his wife Bette appear to have been very happy together in real life, as their marriage lasted over 67 years until his death in 2009. The Maker of Universes is one of Farmer’s most personal works, with callbacks to the whole range of his youthful enthusiasms, from Ancient Greek and Native American myths and legends, Edgar Rice Burroughs-style pulp, and Lord Dunsany’s sense of mystery and wonder among others. Interestingly, in Farmer’s introduction to the 1980 Phantasia Press special edition of The Maker of Universes he cites Gulliver’s Travels, Alice in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass as stronger influences on the book than the more obvious high adventure of Burroughs. Farmer would later write in his introduction to the THOAN, Les Faiseurs d’Univers RPG, that he had first received “impressions” of the World of Tiers while he was laid low with a fever at the age of 18 and believed them to be actual visions from an alternate universe. One has to wonder if Farmer is being utterly serious or so drily tongue-in-cheek as to make no difference…. The cover of the original Ace Books paperback features a wonderfully composed if not entirely accurate depiction of Podarge the Harpy by the versatile and prolific Jack Gaughan The Ace Books reprints from 1977 onward featured Boris Vallejo’s unmistakably beefcakey rendition of Robert Wolff along with an accurately wing-armed Podarge Given The Maker of Universes’ galloping pace and mad invention, it’s no wonder that Gary Gygax found it a particular inspiration for Dungeons & Dragons. Like many other Appendix N works, The Maker of Universes makes no particular distinction between science fiction and heroic fantasy, much to its benefit. The motley crew that eventually assembles around Robert Wolff and Kickaha the Trickster is recognizable as a proto-adventuring party and the World of Tiers itself is the classic dungeon writ (very) large, with each successive level an environment of greater threat and adventure.

This time, Robert and Erik talk Miniatures. Big, medium, and small. Pewter, plastic, and paper. We discuss miniatures that help with tactics and establish a shared understanding. We talk scale, brands, painting, transportation options, and the sexism of fantasy and how it translates to miniatures. Here are link to the various people and products we mention: - Pathfinder tokens (https://paizo.com/pathfinder/miniatures/pawns) - Reaper Miniatures (https://www.reapermini.com/) - Miniature Market (https://www.miniaturemarket.com/) - Robert's Favorite foam miniature carrying case (http://us.battlefoam.com/) - Female Centric Miniature line (http://www.oathswornminiatures.co.uk/) - Boris Vallejo's official website (http://www.borisjulie.com/) - Matthew Colville's Youtube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/mcolville) Games Shops in PDX we know about: - Guardian Games (http://www.ggportland.com/) - Rainy Day Games (http://www.rainy-day-games.com/) - Portland Games Store (http://www.theportlandgamestore.com/) - Time Vault Games (http://www.timevaultgames.com/#&panel1-1) - The Game Lodge (http://thegamelodgeoregon.com/beaverton-tigard/index.html)

Just like every other time, we have returned! We're like the phoenix, only less predictable. On this episode, we discuss the prepubescent 80's boy spank material The Tree Woman by Boris Vallejo. Additional topics include Bob Ross' love of cocaine and Stryper, and pre-modern hair removal techniques, and the Giger Bar.

Do you know somebody who loves to argue? I'm one of those people. So is Julia Kelly. We're great together. Julia is the most renowned caricature artist west of the Mississippi. She built her business from scratch and is currently starting business #2. I guess I caught her at a good time. When I asked her to do an interview with me. She made an interesting request: "Let's wing it!" She's been on some pretty awesome podcasts including: Entrepreneur on Fire, Double your Freelancing, and Afford Anything. She says: the less scripted the show, the more fun the interview. My old college buddies would agree: Justus loves "doing it live". So I agreed to do the episode with ZERO PREPARATION. Typically I prepare for interviews with rigorous research and outline a list of topics to talk about. In this case I did no such thing. Shoot, I didn't even take notes until after we recorded the conversation. The result was a fascinating conversations that covers art, business and everything in between. Enjoy :D [00:00] This is an unconventional episode. Julia explains why. [01:55] How Julia introduces herself as A Bookkeeper A Caricature Artist [4:30] How to be a success without trying very hard Morning rituals and meditation are for the birds How to be successful without them: Show up, do good work, and keep your word. Sine qua non noun an essential condition; a thing that is absolutely necessary. [07:00] Some ways Julia and Justus are different [10:00] Why Julia is moving into the bookkeeping business Recurring revenue, predictability, stability Partnership [13:30] Julia shoots down the concept of “following your passion” It’s a fleeting feeling [16:00] How Julia developed the craft of caricature art Time on task is the most important aspect of developing artistic ability Got a job at LEGO Land The job had a 6-hour training program where everything was done in a marker No erasing Don’t be a perfectionist (“If it’s 80% good, ship it!”) [24:00] Julia’s and Justus’ artistic influences Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell fantasy art Tom Richmond caricatures Court Jones “ridiculously amazing” Philippe Faraut contemporary sc Justus mentions Barry McCann Rondanini Pieta by Michelangelo The Sforza Castle of Milan The Last Supper The Statue of David in Florence Julia Kelly’s Bust of JRR Tolkien [32:30] The story of the Captain’s hat and lessons Justus learned from an experiment in fame Fame is cheap Anonymity is priceless [37:30] Julia’s struggles with identifying her strengths Jonathan Haidt’s The Happiness Hypothesis Haidt’s The Righteous Mind Haidt’s Strengths Assessment [40:30] Julia’s friend who knows Tom Cruise Confidence is extremely valuable. Fake it ‘til you make it [42:30] Julia’s story getting started freelancing Market focus made all the difference [45:30] Selling to trade show marketers Tracking ROI is important “Connect what you do to the outcomes they want.” Attract traffic Create follow-up opportunities Create the right marketing language and identify with their needs Get one customer and drill them for what sold them Get feedback to improve (Peter Dunbar echoed this in episode 8) [53:30] What lessons from caricature art transfer to bookkeeping Pricing for bookkeeping is more custom, so don’t advertise fixed prices Longer sales cycle for bookkeeping [56:30] Successes and failures in bookkeeping 3 client since August Cold email works! [57:30] How to cold email effectively using LinkedIn Julia sends 70 canned emails a day The 556th email hit! [1:00:00] Justus tells a story about canned cold emails that worked on him Follow up 4 times! Follow up again! Yet Another Mail Merge Google Sheets Extension [1:04:00] Julia’ Bookkeeping goals and differentiating factors 7 figure business Totally remote Flat monthly fees [1:05:45] Julia’s ideal client is hands-off, casual, comfortable with remote bookkeeping, and wears plaid Rapidly growing startups are a good fit in many cases [1:08:30] Julia wants everyone to go read Slatestarcodex and talk to her about it. Check Julia out at jkexpressions.com rigits.com   Also, Julia thinks GMO’s are safe. That is all.

ATUALIZAÇÃO (2019-03-26): Recentemente esse módulo foi financiado em português junto com Nest e Boa Vizinhança, que comentamos do Fate Masters 45. Lá damos maior detalhes sobre a aquisição dos três em português junto à Pluma Press ATUALIZAÇÃO (2017-09-04): aqui fazemos um mea culpa sobre esse episódio do podcast. Houve uma série de citações ao D&D (o famoso Irmão Mais Velho) e seus jogadores que realmente foram de muito mau-gosto. Na época, estávamos voltando de um hiato onde tivemos equipe reduzida e portanto estávamos, por assim dizer, sem rítmo e tarimba quanto ao podcast, o que levou a esse tipo de atitude de nossa parte. Recentemente houve uma série de críticas sérias a nós quanto ao episódio, e as aceitamos totalmente. Essas críticas apenas refletem críticas que recebemos anteriormente na época da publicação do podcast que já nos tinha levado a mudarmos nossa atitude quanto a esse assunto. Nota: Nome do autor do email editado por respeito à privacidade do mesmo Somos gratos pelo puxão de orelha, pois acreditamos que, acima do nosso lema Quanto mais Fate melhor, Quanto mais RPG melhor. Pedimos encarecidamente desculpas sobre o que ocorreu, e saibam que os Fate Masters tem sempre procurado melhorar cada vez mais o podcast em qualidade. Sempre lembrando que qualquer crítica adicional, o contato pode ser feito via email fatemasterspodcast@gmail.com e pela hashtag #fatemasters na Comunidade Movimento Fate Brasil do Facebook Fabio Costa, o Mister Mickey (editor) Vocês pediram! Vocês imploraram! E os Fate Masters atenderam! Na chegada do mais novo Fate Master, o Cicerone do Fate Horror Luiz Cavalheiro, o Velho Lich Rafael Meyer e o Mr. Mickey Fábio Costa, os Fate Masters analisam um dos queridinhos da comunidade Fate ao redor do mundo entre todos os materias, em especial dos World of Adventure, Masters of Umdaar. Falamos de cenários pulp pós-apocalipticos, soluções elegantes para randomicidade pra Fate usando Geradores, descrição de cena no sistema de Tactics, e muito mais. E como você pode aproveitar tudo isso para fazer sua fantasia medieval/pós-histórica/pós-apocalíptica heróica pulp. E plantamos a treta em relação ao Irmão Mais Velhor. E teleportamos o Congresso Nacional para Umdaar. Lembrem-se: qualquer dúvidas, críticas, sugestões e opiniões você pode enviar na comunidade do Google+ do Fate Masters, na comunidade do Facebook do Fate (com a hashtag #fatemasters), e pelo email fatemasterspodcast@gmail.com Além disso, temos agora nosso Espaço no Google Space para você ouvinte comentar, trocar idéias, sugerir pautas e tudo mais. Link para o programa em MP3 Participantes: Fábio Emilio Costa Rafael Sant’Anna Meyer Luiz Cavalheiro Duração: 71min Cronologia do Podcast: 00:00:17 - Abertura e Apresentação do Novo Fate Master Luiz 00:01:48 - Apresentação do Cenário 00:05:16 - Os Romances Planetários e os Romances Pós-Históricos: o fundamento de Masters of Umdaar 00:08:13 - Pulp pós-apocalíptico, Terceira Lei de Clarke e o Ocaso da Civilização: elementos de Umdaar 00:10:58 - A Arte e a fluidez de Umdaar 00:15:50 - A Aventura Introdutória de Masters of Umdaar, as Espadas Estelares de Su’ul (Starblades of Su’ul) e a descrição de cena em formato Tactics 00:19:35 - Análise das regras de Masters of Umdaar para criação de personagens, incluindo as regras de Geradores para as escolha aleatória de bioformas (raças) 00:25:30 - Sistema de Motivação como uma alternativa à idéia de Alinhamento e Poderes como Façanhas, incluindo escolha aleatória e as ‘Listas de Compras’ e a Rule of Cool 00:33:04 - Sobre o Outcome Surge 00:35:39 - Começando a diversão do narrador com o Cliffhanger, uma nova versão das Disputas, com consequências potenciais sérias! 00:41:49 - Aspectos Escaláveis como meio de aumentar o drama 00:44:33 - Sobre os Artefatos, de todos os tipos, incluindo coisas como usando artefatos que o personagem tomou de inimigos caídos, artefatos amaldiçoados, aprimorando artefatos, etc… 00:51:48 - Escopo de aventuras em Masters of Umdaar e sobre a criação de Umdaar por cada narrado 00:54:28 - Crossovers entre Masters of Umdaar e outras coisas (incluindo Bastard!!!) 01:00:00 - Usando as regras de Umdaar para outros cenários, incluindo um presente dos Fate Masters aos jogadores de OSR, e Cúpula do Trovão como um Cliffhanger 01:03:28 - Que adaptações faríamos para Umdaar 01:06:58 - Considerações Finais Links Relacionados: John Carter Krull Conan Lensman Duna Numenera Ark II Terceira Lei de Clarke Monólito do Passado Fate Horror Dungeon World Daring Comics Secrets of the Cats Elric House of Bards Jayce e os Piratas do Espaço Bastard!!! Power Slave Boris Valejo Discworld Doc Savage Indiana Jones Rolemaster Anima: Beyond Fantasy Link para a comunidade do Google+ do Fate Masters Comente esse post no site do Fate Masters! Assine no iTunes Trilha Sonora do Podcast: Conquer por Shane Ivers Ambient Pills por Zeropage Ambient Pills Update por Zeropage

Legendary fantasy artist Boris Vallejo shares a story from early in his career in this clip from A Riddle of Steel: The Definitive History of Conan the Barbarian. www.ConanDoc.com Facebook

Douglas Tirola's outrageous documentary DRUNK STONED BRILLIANT DEAD: THE STORY OF THE NATIONAL LAMPOON, is an inside look at the rise and fall of the legendary humor magazine that launched dozens of careers and broke thousands of taboos. From the 1970s thru the 1990s, there was no hipper, no more outrageous comedy in print than The National Lampoon, the groundbreaking humor magazine that pushed the limits of taste and acceptability - and then pushed them even harder. Parodying everything from politics, religion, entertainment and the whole of American lifestyle, the Lampoon eventually went on to branch into successful radio shows, record albums, live stage revues and movies, including ANIMAL HOUSE and NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION, launching dozens of huge careers on the way, including John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Christopher Guest, Richard Belzer, Gilda Radner, Brian Doyle-Murray, Bill Murray, Joe Flaherty, Harold Ramis, Michael O'Donoghue, Doug Kenney, Henry Beard, George W. S. Trow, Chris Miller, P. J. O'Rourke, Michael O'Donoghue, Chris Rush, Sean Kelly, Tony Hendra, Brian McConnachie, Gerald Sussman, Ellis Weiner, Danny Abelson, Ted Mann, Chris Cluess, Al Jean, Mike Reiss, Jeff Greenfield, and John Hughes. As well as cartoonists, photographers and illustrators appeared in the magazine's pages, including Neal Adams, Gahan Wilson, Michael Sullivan, Ron Barrett, Peter Bramley, Vaughn Bode, Bruce McCall, Rick Meyerowitz, M. K. Brown, Shary Flenniken, Bobby London, Edward Gorey, Jeff Jones, Joe Orlando, Arnold Roth, Rich Grote, Ed Subitzky, Mara McAfee, Sam Gross, Charles Rodrigues, Buddy Hickerson, B. K. Taylor, Birney Lettick, Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo, Marvin Mattelson, Stan Mack, Chris Callis, John E. Barrett, Raymond Kursar and Andy Lackow. Director Tirola tells the story of its rise and fall through fresh, candid interviews with its key staff, and illustrated with hundreds of outrageous images from the magazine itself (along with never-seen interview footage from the magazine's prime). Director Tirola stops by to talk about the supernova of comedic satire that was The Lampoon and its influential legacy. For news and updates go to: magpictures.com/nationallampoon

The Guts In this episode Jason and Joel discuss Jason’s Corman-movie fetish via Barbarian Queen and whether or not Boris Vallejo is Russian, Peruvian, both… or neither. And in Trailer Trash we delve into Drew: The Man Behind the Poster, Out of the Furnace, 47 Ronin, and The Monuments Men.         Drew: The Man Behind the Poster…Read more →

First, some follow up from last episode. The artist who did the covers of the Gor books was Boris Vallejo, not Frank Frazetta. We spend about half the episode talking about his art. And sort of how it relates to parenting. Kind of. A little. Here's the centaur picture, which is totally relevant to parenting, as is the hawkman picture. As it turns out, the author of the Gor series wrote a book about sex. Then we talk about Mario Kart. What is this episode about? Jon and Moltz continue to talk about Boris Vallejo until Lex tells the story of how he stole a Playboy. Speaking of porn, Moltz uses OpenDNS to filter his son's devices. Jon tells the story of how his daughter overcame her fear and touched White Snake. Oh, sorry, a white snake. And we end still not knowing what this episode was about. Which is a metaphor for life. Please take a few minutes to complete a short survey that will help keep this podcast and other podcasts you might enjoy running and might win you a $100 Amazon gift card. Follow us: @ttcashow. Lex Friedman can be found @lexfri, John Moltz can be found @Moltz and Jon Armstrong is @blurb.

With Arrow returning to the small screen this week, Matt and Brett decided to read one of the hooded vigilante’s recent comic book exploits: Green Arrow/Black Canary: The Wedding Album by Judd Winick, Cliff Chiang, Amanda Conner, and Andre Coelho. Joining them is comedy writer Mary Iampietro. Mary drops some serious knowledge about comic book painters Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell, and the trio all talk way too much about The Real World. Superhero wedding invites I came for the fight Emo Batman in the stairwell Speedy makes her point Wedding party Black Canary, ready to fight Who needs the Comics Code Superhero strip club Superhero lingerie Black Canary mourns Gruesome autopsy Granny Goodness Black Canary in the arena Use the chamber pot Super impotence Green Arrow’s new costume Best Superman panel ever Oliver Queen, King Douche You can listen to Mary Iampietro on the video game podcast Unlimited Lives, which airs on the UCB’s SiriusXM channel. You can also see her sketch team Alamo perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City. Get your own copy of Green Arrow/Black Canary: The Wedding Album on Comixology or from Amazon. Music: “Sleeping in the Beetle Bug” by Of Montreal "Mary Iampietro / Green Arrow/Black Canary Wedding Special #1-5 (2007-2008)" originally appeared at http://mattandbrettlovecomics.com/podcast/2013/green-black-wedding.html

Welcome to Dark Discussions podcast. Your place for the discussion of horror film, fiction, and all that's fantastic. Stated on their website, AnthoCon is northern New England’s only speculative fiction convention (which) showcases imaginative brilliance in speculative fiction and art, with an additional focus on the convergence of images and literature. Dark Discussions attended the convention as members of the media to mingle with fellow attendees, meet the various guests, and interview folks both famous and up and comers who’ve written novels, short stories, comics, and presented art in all the subgenres of the fantastic: horror, science fiction, fantasy, techno-thrillers, thrillers, and mysteries. In Episode 030, cohost Philip interviewed best selling horror authors Jonathan Maberry and Gord Rollo. With the latest episode of Dark Discussions, we interview other authors and artists who have spectacular genre work that all listeners of the show should not only know about but also partake in their works. Publishers like Evil Jester Press, Pink Narcissus, Raw Dog Screaming Press, and By Light Unseen Media promoted their novels and anthologies. The next generation of authors were selling their works and signing their books. Fantasy artists from the ilk of such famous artists as Frank Frazetta, Simon Bisley, and Boris Vallejo sold originals and copies of their artwork. Hand in hand with all this was a presentation of the history of absinthe followed by a tasting from the convention’s sponsor Lucid absinthe out of New Orleans. Put on your reader’s cap and grab a pen so you can start jotting down the names of all the horror and genre books that should be next on your reading queue. As always we welcome your comments: darkdiscussions@aol.com (written email or attached mp3 files) WWW.DARKDISCUSSIONS.COM

Just what is the gayest 16-bit game of all time? CHO ANIKI! But, that's a bit of a foregone conclusion. And at BearsInGames, we like betting on the underdogs. So we're counting down the top five gayest games during the wonderful era that brought us the Blast Processing of the Sega Genesis, the Mode 7 scaling and rotation of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and the... Johnny Turboness... of the Turbografx-16! Watch in awe as we look at beefcake Boris Vallejo paintings, chubby bear giants in metal briefs, bear thugs with crotches the size of cantaloupes, rescuing Madonna during her Like a Virgin phase, the precursor to Soul Calibur, bad 90s press junket commercials with far too many crotch shots, secret passages into XXL London, the single gayest secret character of any game ever, and the best sprite-based animation you've ever seen! Plus even more Haggar!