{"id":5499,"date":"2013-05-21T21:55:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T02:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=5499"},"modified":"2013-05-22T10:48:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T15:48:20","slug":"im-forcing-science-and-podcasting-on-baltimore-for-balticon-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=5499","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Forcing Science and Podcasting on Baltimore for Balticon 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m headed up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balticon.org\/program.html\">Balticon 47<\/a> this weekend to talk about science and podcasting and more science and more podcasting. How can you resist?<\/p>\n<p>You cannot, that&#8217;s how. Or not how. Or &#8212; look, just come see me make a fool of myself at any of these fine panels:<\/p>\n<p><b>Your Lying Eyes<\/b>. Saturday, 5:00 PM, Salon A.<br \/>\nYou think you see in high resolution, but you don&#8217;t: your eyes &#038; brain fill in a lot of gaps. Find out how visual illusions teach us how we see. A talk on how our visual system really works and how visual illusions let researchers learn more about how we see what we see.<\/p>\n<p>I love this talk, as it&#8217;s an excuse for me to wave my hands furiously about the brain and show cool visual illusions.<\/p>\n<p><b>Disasterpiece After Dark<\/b>. Saturday, 9:00 PM, Derby<\/p>\n<p>Normally we keep our live podcast shows at about a PG or PG-13. This is where we indulge in pitching terrible movies that are for the over-18 set.<\/p>\n<p><b>Disasterpiece Theatre<\/b>. Sunday, 12:00 noon, Derby<br \/>\nDisasterpiece Theatre is an exercise in true Hollywood movie magic. Each week, we take a theme and try to come up with the movies the industry would be most likely to make. The magic happens when we create something dark and terrible; a hideous and inexorable vision of the cinematic future, and you know true despair. <\/p>\n<p>The live version of our <a href=\"http:\/\/disasterpiecetheatre.com\/\">movie podcast<\/a> is always fun. Come tell us what terrible movies you&#8217;d like to see us suggest, and then see what we come up with!<\/p>\n<p><b>Talk To Me: How To Conduct Podcast Interviews<\/b>. Sunday, 1:00 PM, Chesapeake.<br \/>\nThe do&#8217;s, don&#8217;t&#8217;s, and how-to&#8217;s of conducting a podcast interview. What technologies are available to let you interview people from across the globe?<\/p>\n<p>I have strong opinions about how to do interviews. Will my other panelists agree? Do I care if they do or don&#8217;t? Who knows!<\/p>\n<p><b>Live Interview with James Gates Jr.<\/b> Sunday, 3:00 PM, Salon A.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a good chance you&#8217;ve seen Dr. Gates talking on NOVA about string theory, supersymmetry, and unification theories. As a former experimentalist, I&#8217;m way out of my depth on this one, so there&#8217;s no telling what I&#8217;ll ask.<\/p>\n<p><b>Dramatic Voice Acting<\/b>. Sunday, 6:00 PM, Derby.<br \/>\nThe popular Dynamic Voice Acting panel returns to talk about how to best show off your vocal talents.<\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegearheart.com\/?p=693\">first podcast voice acting credit<\/a> was this year, so clearly I&#8217;m an expert. Also this is my fourth panel in six hours. What was I thinking?<\/p>\n<p><b>Multi-Creatives<\/b>. Monday, 12:00 PM, Chesapeake.<br \/>\nThe demands of multiple artistic pursuits. Learning to do it all without losing your mind.<\/p>\n<p>I was on this last year, and my advice this year is the same: <i>you will lose your mind<\/i>. Embrace it. Recognize that you can&#8217;t do everything, but then ignore that realization and try to do it all anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m headed up to Balticon 47 this weekend to talk about science and podcasting and more science and more podcasting. How can you resist? You cannot, that&#8217;s how. Or not how. Or &#8212; look, just come see me make a fool of myself at any of these fine panels: Your Lying Eyes. 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