More Bad Metaphors

John and I have been busy with things, but we have managed to create two more Bad Metaphor podcasts and you’re more than welcome to listen to them. The next two in the series are Number 4: Sunday, and Number 5: Technology. We’re working on others now and should bring down the time between them a bit as well. It’s a lot of fun doing the podcasts and it’s great to get feedback. Thanks to everyone for listening and if you haven’t listened yet, maybe take a listen. If you go to Bad Metaphor on Odeo, you can also send us an audio message.

April 22, 2006 , ,

Bad Metaphor 3

I’ve uploaded the third Bad Metaphor podcast by John and myself today. It’s about publicity this time and John and I talk about being famous as well as famous people we’ve met (or not). It’s fun to do a podcast and I’m trying to figure out ways to do it more quickly, but I find I always need time to edit and craft these things. A little secret about the podcast for loyal readers: up to this point we’ve put up only about half of the podcasts. Some other topics haven’t worked out, so we decided not to use them. I think that’s a good thing since it’s more important to have quality than quantity. I’m following the advice from the Frogbody blog (by Carson McComas) which has a superb list of 20 Ideas for a Great Podcast.

February 19, 2006 , ,

Bad Metaphor

I’m very happy to announce the launch of the Bad Metaphor podcast. I’ve been playing with all of the parts of it for a while and it’s time to release it into the world. The process was slow, but there was a lot of learning along the way which was very fun. The podcast means that I have yet another domain, which is at the logically named badmetaphor.com and I’m running that site with the wonderful and powerful blogging system known as Typo on Textpattern‘s servers. It’s cool to be on the cutting edge with things that are changing quickly.
The podcast itself has slowly evolved over the last few months and now it’s a collaboration between me and my son, John, who is 9. The final push came during a podcaster meetup in Halifax when I was able to meet and talk with podcasters from the area. Tod Maffin was intrigued by the possibilities of a 9 year old asking questions. That made it click for me so, John and I recorded the podcast and now it’s launched.
The earlier inspiration for the podcast came from m-c Turgeon who does the Vu d’Ici / Seen From Here podcast. It made me realize that what’s important isn’t creating an elaborate production, but to have fun and share your voice. It’s taken me back a bit to my earlier days when I was able to host a few radio shows on a college radio station. But now it’s a lot more exciting because it’s getting easier and easier to share what you create and that’s going to change the world. So check out Beginnings and subscribe to follow us on the journey.

January 14, 2006 , ,

People Like Us

One thing that I’ve realized is that while I have a bit of a background and interest in sound I don’t have a lot of sound-related stuff on the ‘blog. I do have images and lots of film stuff, but not much sound stuff outside of more traditional music at all. I’ve been fascinated the last few days with a radio show from WFMU, “DO or DIY with People Like Us”
hosted by People Like Us who is Vicki Bennett. The show is a neat collection of offbeat music and collages created by People Like Us that I just love listening to.

I first heard People Like Us as part of the Illegal Art exhibition where her hauntingly beautiful track “Swinglargo” is included. I then saw the video “We Edit Life” that she was commissioned to make for Lovebytes. What she cuts and mixes together is clever and fun and with obscure references that I sometimes pick up and sometimes don’t, but always enjoy. She’s also profiled as a Featured Commoner as she’s a supporter of the Creative Commons project and is one of the people who suggested a sampling license. She has a very wide range of recordings available for download on her site, so you can listen and then buy some CDs. I’ve got to listen some more myself and buy some CDs. (But People Like Us also makes me want to do more with sound on my own too…the last thing I did was silent!)

November 18, 2003 , , , , , ,

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