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The Guild Season 5 DVD out tomorrow!

2011-12-12T11:30:00.000-08:00

The Guild Season 5 DVD Will Felicia Day be in your stocking this Christmas? The answer is - with any luck! The Guild Season 5 DVD is out tomorrow, December 13th 2011, and you can order it from Amazon.com right now* It looks like it won't be available from Amazon.ca until March 13th 2012, so this will be the only way to get the DVD for now. Try Before You Buy If you haven't seen Season 5

New trailer, new book for Joss Whedon's 'The Cabin in the Woods'

2011-12-05T11:26:00.001-08:00

(image from http://discoverthecabininthewoods.com/) Something to blog about! It's been a while since I posted but I couldn't not talk about the new trailer from 'The Cabin In The Woods'. Actually, I'm not even going to talk about it, because you should just watch it and then start speculating on your own. Because you don't need me to tell you that April 13th next year is going to feature a

Links for 2011-11-10 [Digg]

2011-11-11T00:00:00-08:00

The Fantasy Genre: Fairy Tales Re-imagined
The line between fairy tale and fantasy may be apparent, but it still separates two halves of a whole. This kind of story is meant to inspire and teach, with serious repercussions for those that don’t heed their warnings. From The Hobbit to Rumpelstiltskin, the fairy tale/fantasy is an integral part of our lives – whether it be to understand how to defeat evil or provide an cathartic escape from our safe, domestic lives.
What is art worth to you? Border Guardians of Ackernon – The University
"Every culture from pre-historic to modern times has produced art that was valued as an instrument that represented and enhanced the culture. Most would agree, when looking at the great works of art from the Renaissance or listening to a Beethoven symphony, our live are enhanced centuries later. But are we living off the past? Similar to our crumbling infrastructure, are we failing to support the renewal of art as our cultures evolves? Every year there is less and less support for the artist who creates...."

Links for 2011-11-02 [Digg]

2011-11-03T00:00:00-07:00

Renaissance Fairs and Role Playing: History Repeats Itself
To understand renaissance fairs, one must also understand LARPing. LARP stands for Live Action Role Play. Put in the most literal terms, it’s when anyone pretends to be something they’re not. They’re acting. But unlike most actors, LARPers (as they’re known colloquially) are not on stage. Sometimes they’re not even in front of an audience. Sometimes they’re just pretending to be someone else in the woods.

Time flies

2011-10-19T14:16:00.000-07:00

A web, taken on my iPhone last week. It's all connected. It used to be just you and me... ...hanging out over here, me writing something terribly earnest about Joss, or The Guild, or Firefly, or something geeky, and you reading it and moving on. I've been a terrible host recently. I never write. I never call. I never send flowers... In good company Louis Gray (I value his opinion on

Getting back on track

2011-08-30T12:15:00.000-07:00

It's...been a while Blogging here has not been my priority as family matters overtook everything this summer. Paul's dad became very ill and Paul flew over to England to help care for him. Jim, his dad, died at home and we all flew over for the funeral. It has been a tough summer in many ways. Reasons to be thankful Family is important, always, but never as important as during difficulties and

Waiting for Dragon Age and Elf Quest? Why not try Ackernon and Standard Action now?

2011-08-02T07:51:00.000-07:00

Felicia Day in Dragon Age (picture from feliciaday.com) I spent my youth reading epic fantasy and sci-fi series and they will always have a special place in my heart. You've probably already heard about the upcoming webseries, Dragon Age: Redemption and Elf Quest. They are due out later in the year and are based on works (a massive role playing game and cult comic book respectively) that already

IAWTV Board Elections: Voting starts today!

2011-07-11T08:51:00.000-07:00

UPDATE: all the submitted candidate videos can be seen on the IAWTV YouTube channel "Board of Directors Campaign Videos" playlist. Voting for five seats on the IAWTV Board of Directors opens today When I wrote about the last IAWTV Board Election in January of this year I had no idea that I would be a candidate for the Board myself in this election. It was a huge honour to be nominated, and a

LA Can't Stop The Serenity - watch Joss Whedon et al at CSTS

2011-06-25T22:40:00.000-07:00

Watch the recorded livecast from LA In case you (like me) missed the livecast from the LA CSTS today with Joss Whedon, Tim Minnear, Felicia Day, Jane Espenson and many more - you can watch it on GeekWeek on Justin.tv: Watch live video from GeekWeek on Justin.tv

Announcing the ‘Women in Webseries Panel’ at Geek Girl Con

2011-06-15T11:36:00.000-07:00

When I first heard about Geek Girl Con, which is being held in Seattle Oct 8 and 9, I had two thoughts: What a fantastic idea – OMGWTFBBQ it’s going to ROCK!! Why has no one thought of it before?? As a sometime born-again geek, brought back into the fold after years of denial (yes, because working in IT is completely not geeky, is it? I was even in denial about that!), the idea of a Con ALL

Joss Whedon to speak at the LA Can't Stop The Serenity (CSTS) event!

2011-06-09T22:37:00.000-07:00

I'm already counting down the days until I attend the 6th Annual Vancouver Can't Stop The Serenity day at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, 1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, BC, on June 25th (11 am until 6 pm). It will my fourth year and I look forward to it for weeks in advance! CSTS is a global sci-fi charity event all about raising money and awareness for Equality Now and other charities. Last

Blip.tv, The Collective and Jane Espenson - #webseries news!

2011-06-01T10:57:00.000-07:00

Blip.tv and The Collective graphic (taken from blip.tv sizzle reel)A big day! This morning Blip.tv and The Collective announced their new partnership live on Livestream: Watch live streaming video from bliptv at livestream.com This is huge news and will change the landscape in the webseries world. From the Blip.tv blog: "This partnership breaks new ground for blip.tv and validates the position

RIP MyBlogLog - is there an alternative?

2011-05-24T10:29:00.001-07:00

Never more will I see this image, RIP MyBlogLog The May 24th Deadline is hereSometimes you cling on to things even though you know that there are probably better alternatives. MyBlogLog was one of those things. I have Google Analytics, but the easy summary dashboard view of MyBlogLog gave me a quick overview of how things were going on my various websites at a glance on one page. I never found

Webseries updates: The Guild, Brains and Ackernon

2011-05-15T09:34:00.000-07:00

Galiene in Action in 'Border Guardians of Ackernon' Border Guardians of Ackernon - live Ustream Q and A today! This week I announced the launch of a new consultancy that combines writing, video and social media and a new client. I've known Paul Best since we met at VCON last year, and I will be helping him to promote the brilliant new fantasy webseries, 'Border Guardians of Ackernon: The

BTS of The Guild Season 5 - Felicia in the bathroom (SFW)

2011-05-10T14:14:00.000-07:00

Picture is unrelatedI know, I know - that headline is horrible! But I figure that since people already get to this blog using some truly eye-popping searches, this won't make things that much worse. We can hope. Anyway, there is actual footage of Behind The Scenes of The Guild Season 5 that includes Felicia in the bathroom along with Sean Becker and a host of people all working hard. Ms Day has

Cameras roll on The Guild Season 5!

2011-04-21T10:32:00.000-07:00

Sean Becker poised for "Action" on The Guild Season 5 (from @theguild Twitpic) It's all happening! After months of speculation and preparation the well-oiled machine that is The Guild is once more swinging into action. And once more we know we will be seeing things we have never seen before. Of course, no one knows any details about the plot for Season 5 outside the inner circle. Felicia Day is

RIP Lis Sladen. You will be missed

2011-04-19T13:29:00.000-07:00

Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah Jane Smith in Dr Who. RIP Sad news today Twitter has been buzzing with news that Elisabeth Sladen, who played Sarah Jane Smith in Dr Who, has died today. Nicola Bryant, who was another Who companion, Peri, tweeted this: Sarah Jane Smith was the first Who Companion I watched as a kid and I loved her fire and 'realness'. Seeing her return to the Whoverse in

Season 5 of The Guild: Shooting starts next week!

2011-04-14T12:41:00.000-07:00

Erstwhile Director Sean Becker - back on form? Today on Twitter, Sean Becker, sometime director of The Guild and other webseries comedy gold like 'The Jeff Lewis Comedy 5 Minutes Hour of Happy Endings', broke the news we were all waiting for today. THE GUILD SEASON 5 STARTS SHOOTING NEXT WEEK! However, the happy news was quickly under threat by the very same Mr Becker, who literally threatened

Want More Guild Updates? Want to be an Extra in S5?? Try Facebook!

2011-04-11T18:54:00.000-07:00

Get all the latest news from The Guild on Facebook Season 5 of The Guild... ...if you're like me, you can't wait to see it! Pre-production is well under way and the opportunities are coming thick and fast for people wanting to be apart of it - but you have to be quick, and you have to know where to look. Twitter is a great place to start but to get the longer updates you need to be following

Dr Horrible: The Book (or 'How I got published with Joss')

2011-04-04T15:43:00.000-07:00

This is all about me... ...so apologies about that. If you're looking for a review about the awesome new Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: The Book, then head over to PinkRaygun.com. Earlier this year I sold a play. And now my name, and words, are in a book. A book all about Dr Horrible. That also has words in it from Joss Whedon, Felicia Day and a whole host of other people, all of whom are way up

Felicia Day's Keynote Speech at SXSW 20011

2011-03-14T12:34:00.000-07:00

Liz Shannon Miller talks to The Guild Creator, Felicia Day talking about The Guild, DragonAge: Redemption, webseries and New Media (Note: there was a 'share' button under the live feed during the session which I hope might turn into a permalink....we'll see! If the video is available after I will embed) Some Screengrabs from Flikr:

Celebrate the Web 4: Vote for your favourite episode now!

2011-03-12T16:19:00.000-08:00

Thirteen Pilots - lucky for some! After seven days of hard work thirteen teams manage to submit their webseries pilot episodes in time for the Thursday deadline. These pilots are now up on CelebrateTheWeb.com where you can view them all on one page. Voting is also on the same page, which simpifies the process enormously. Congratulations to all the teams who took part - all that hard work has

Adama Edition Viper - quick before it disappears!

2011-03-07T22:20:00.001-08:00

Adama Edition Viper Originally uploaded by EdwardJamesOlmos EDIT: sorry if you missed the picture! It's been removed from Flickr now. I have a copy but since QMX are doing an exclusive interview with Edward James Olmos next week I'm not posting it yet. If you have questions why not send them to QMX via Twitter - your question might be asked! The amazing Edward James Olmos (Admiral Adama from

Celebrate The Web 4: Countdown starts now!

2011-03-03T11:09:00.000-08:00

Stephanie Thorpe, Jenni Powell, Kim Evey and Taryn O'Neill opened the Celebrate The Web 4 Festival with a livecast on Ustream this morning. During the show they discussed the launch of a new challenge to webseries creators - to make a pilot in one week using the themes and elements that were only revealed today at the start of the countdown. When the challenge was announced there was huge

Farewell, MyBlogLog - Yahoo sets May 24th deadline

2011-02-24T09:11:00.000-08:00

EDIT: One True Fan to the rescue! As I wrote earlier, the feature of MyBlogLog that I will miss the most is the metrics, but help is at hand. One True Fan have announced that they will be replicating the classic MyBlogLog metrics and these will be available to MyBlogLog and One True Fan users. This is great news - thanks to the One True Fan team! They will be publishing more information soon.

The Guild Season 4 DVD - now in good shops everywhere!

2011-02-22T11:29:00.000-08:00

Monday - YouTube. Tuesday - Your High Street!To celebrate the fact that you can now go into your favourite store and buy The Guild Season 4 DVD, there's a new competition over on WatchTheGuild.com. All you need to enter is a picture of you holding a Season 4 DVD and you could win a picture of the cast signed by creator/star Felicia Day. Get your pics in quick! The competition ends at midnight

The Guild Season 4 on YouTube plus Amazon.ca DVDs are shipping!

2011-02-21T14:58:00.000-08:00

It's Here! After months of waiting, The Guild Season 4 finally hit YouTube today, so let the commenting, liking and sharing begin! Of course, many people have already watched the whole season on MSN and/or Xbox, but a surprising number of people don't watch there. They are in for a treat....! @theguild report that they will be releasing Season 4 episodes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, which

Links for 2010-09-13 [Digg]

2010-09-14T00:00:00-07:00

Mind My Brains Darling!, an exciting new webseries from HigletFilms -- IndieGoGo
Til undeath do us part
Mind My Brains Darling!, an exciting new webseries from HigletFilms -- IndieGoGo
"'Til undeath do us part" Community funding for production of this new Brit rom-com-zom from HigletFilms!

Links for 2010-02-02 [Digg]

2010-02-03T00:00:00-08:00

I am a Browncoat Three
Want to get involved? Get whatever you record video with give your full name and say I am a Browncoat. Upload the film to Youtube with the tag #iamabrowncoat and your video could appear here on the website and in the DVD.

Links for 2010-01-06 [Digg]

2010-01-07T00:00:00-08:00

Felicia Day, Blog: Disappointment
Felicia Day shows her true style and skillfully gets to the heart of what was so wrong with the recent "America's Tweethearts" article. If you think that more focus should be on the people they so artlessly dismissed then please read it and then Digg. Then this will be the top of Google and not that ill-conceived collection of words.

Links for 2009-12-20 [Digg]

2009-12-21T00:00:00-08:00

Demi Moore's Hips and Handling the Truth by Anthony Citrano
"My response to an aggressive letter from Demi Moore's attorney, Martin Singer..." I don't like to see people being threatened for telling the truth. However frivolous the original matter might seem to be (a retouched photo? Who cares?!?), the disproportionate response should worry us all. Look at the evidence and decide for yourself who is right

Links for 2009-12-15 [Digg]

2009-12-16T00:00:00-08:00

It's a Wonderful Life 2009