Worth Your Consideration #029

• I’d like to begin today’s WYC column with a little bit of rubbing it in for my least-favorite football team in the world, the Indianapolis Colts. Here’s Peyton Manning’s Super Bowl-Clinching Interception Recreated On Tecmo Bowl (courtesy of Best Week Ever).
• And, speaking of must-watch videos, have you seen the third trailer for Toy Story 3? It doesn’t wow me as much as the first two did—I’m past the wow stage anyway, though, and onto the “When is it coming out?” stage—but it is pretty darned nifty, and it sets up even more of the story. I love that we get to meet Ken, and that Barbie compliments him on his ascot. [Via Ain’t It Cool News]
• Now, when it comes to must-see video that ain’t even out yet, there’s one story today that tops the rest (at least for me): Web video producer John Herman and Cinema Suicide head honcho Bryan White are teaming up to produce How To Survive The Strange, which Bryan describes as Bob Vila, Vampire Hunter. It debuts in May, and there’s an open casting call on March 15. Learn more here.
• In far less appetizing news, I present the Taco Bell Cheesy Double Beef Burrito Stuffed Sausage Log. Um, what is the opposite of “Yum”? Anyone know?
• Palate-Cleanser, Part One: Christopher Nolan will help reboot Superman, hopefully with the same (or similar) results as his Batman reboot.
• Palate-Cleanser, Part Two: There appears to be some recording going on at Nine Inch Nails HQ.
• Palate-Cleanser, Part Three: Disney Princesses Letting It All Hang Out.
• And, last but not least, let’s talk about our old pal Kevin Smith. The Internet is in an uproar over the mistreatment of the Clerks director by Southwest Airlines. Many are mad at Southwest, some are mad at Kevin, and a few are even mad at Heather Armstrong, who had “the nerve” to compare her washing machine experience with this latest debacle. Me, I don’t care. Companies in the service industries do wrong by their customers all the time, and there ain’t a one of them that is totally innocent, least of all a company as big as Southwest. Me, I’m much less excited to hear Kevin Smith tell Southwest to go fuck themselves on SModcast than I am to hear more about his bold ideas on how to create fan-financed films.

Geek Force Utterz 167: Continuity

In which ECC geeks out about bringing old stories into continuity with new stories, and about having a less busy week on the horizon.

Geek Force Utterz #132 - Sunday Launch

I stayed up late last night to relaunch echristopherclark.com, and today’s episode of Geek Force Utterz is all about how that went, and what I still have left to do. Listen in via the embed above, or by visiting Utterli.com.

Geek Force Utterz #114 - I’m Gonna Make a Movie

This morning, after cutting Chapter 4 of my novel down from 49 pages to 36, I got to thinking about what was next. And, aside from continuing to work on the novel, I decided the one of the things that should come next is a film. Or, rather, a webisodic mini-series that I am calling a film just so that everyone I know who doesn’t know what a Webisodic is will understand what I’m talking about. To learn more about the project I plan to shoot this summer, listen in to today’s episode of Geek Force Utterz via the embed above or by visiting Utterli.com.

Geek Force Utterz #107 - Ducking

In today’s episode of Geek Force Utterz, I’m all over the place. Listen in as I talk about the delayed launch of 01824’s next chapter, about GF5’s coverage of Jimmy Fallon, and about the problems I had with ducking in Garage Band last night. The episode is available, as always, via the embed above, or by visiting Utterli.com.

Geek Force Utterz #074 - Creative Commons Photos

One of the great, unexpected joys of working on 01824 has been selecting the photos that run with each installment. I had always envisioned that there would be a visual component to the series, but I had never imagined that it would be so much fun to find and feature the artwork of others. But thanks to Flickr’s easy-to-use Creative Commons search engine, the process has been a breeze.

Today’s episode of Geek Force Utterz has more on this subject, including my shout-outs to Chris Brogan and Steve Garfield, both of whom were huge inspirations. You can listen in via the embed above, or by visiting Utterli.com.

Geek Force Utterz #073 - Writing Day

I’ve got the day off from my main gig, so today is a writing day for me. And in today’s episode of Geek Force Utterz I talk a little about the crutches I rely on as a writer. Listen in via the embed above or by visiting Utterli.com.

Geek Force Utterz #069 - Launching 01824

Aside from releasing Those Little Bastads on my own back in 2002, the publishing ambitions of my adult life have been fairly traditional. I imagined for myself an agent, a publishing deal, and my book screaming for attention on a shelf dominated by Mary Higgins Clark. No matter how much of an entrepreneur I might have been in my adolescence—the release and distribution of the five-issue comic book series Blood Red being the pinnacle of that early career—I was determined to say that I had grown up, that I had moved beyond the vanity that the traditional publishing industry seemed to equate with all self-publishing endeavors.

In today’s episode of Geek Force Utterz, I talk for a few minutes on what changed my mind, on what made me decide to release 01824 through my own Website, and on how the debut of the series made me feel on premiere night.

Listen in via the embed above, or by visiting Utterli.com.

Geek Force Utterz #068 - Why 01824?

Last week began with the announcement that Harry Potter and my new Webisodic series 01824 would be taking the places of View Askew and Apple in my Geek Force Five. I’m starting off this week by launching a column on Potter (to arrive this afternoon) and by debuting the first chapter of 01824 (to premiere this evening).

Today’s episode of Geek Force Utterz finds me talking about why I chose to launch a Webisodic series and why I think hometowns are important to us. You can listen in via the embed above, or by visiting Utterli.com.

Geek Force Utterz #067 - NH Media Makers (January)

Declaring war on winter, I attended the January meeting of New Hampshire Media Makers in Newmarket this morning despite the fact that it was still snowing like a bastard outside when I left. And, as always, I was glad that I made the trek. Today’s episode of Geek Force Utterz is about how everything seems to be coming together for me lately, and about how Media Makers meetings (and other such meet-ups) can be great for creative types seeking inspiration and direction. Listen in via the embed above or by visiting Utterli.com.