Out On The Stoop

What is Peer Tube?

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Tue, 4 Nov 2025 14:48:00 -0800

I was curious about this video host so I found a video that explains it. Folks might need an alternative to other hosting platforms.

AudioMo 2025 The Body Building Magazines

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 22:03:00 -0700

AudioMo Day 13 Body Building Magazines There have been body building magazines since 1889. There are two types of publications.

This is a look at the magazines influences that inspired Peplum movies.

This is my AudioMo captioned 30-day audio about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections.

For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/ #AudioMo #Peplum #MovieHistory

AudioMo 2025 Body Building Phenomena 1950s

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:53:00 -0700

AudioMo Day 12 The 1950s Body Building Phenomena

There have always been body builders and physical fitness movements. This is a quick mention of some of the influences. I made a mistake in the first part. I should have said vegetarian instead of vegan.

I'm really tired. It has been a long day.

This is my AudioMo captioned 30-day audio about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections. For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/

#AudioMo #Peplum #MovieHistory

AudioMo 2025 Studying the Craft

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 21:04:00 -0700

Day 11 Performing under the name of Mark Forest, this is the tale of how a Brooklyn bodybuilder used Peplum to finance his study of his passion and craft.

This is my AudioMo captioned 30-day audio about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections. For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/ #AudioMo #Peplum #MovieHistory

AudioMo Day 10 - The Loves of Hercules

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:51:00 -0700

Day 10 The Loves of Hercules Hercules does seem to have access to a lot of affection.

In this movie, it is queen sized

This is my AudioMo captioned 30-day audio about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections.

For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/ #AudioMo #Peplum #MovieHistory

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Mon, 9 Jun 2025 18:58:00 -0700

Day 9 What In A Name? How many names can a movie character have?

That depends on where you live, what language you speak and did you see it on the big screen or on television.

This is my AudioMo captioned 30-day audio about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections.

For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/ #AudioMo #Peplum #MovieHistory

AudioMo 2025 More About Steve Reeves

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Sun, 8 Jun 2025 20:45:00 -0700

It is Day 8 of AudioMo and in this captioned audio, I talk a little bit about Steve Reeves career and his last appearance in Hercules Unchained.

That is the U.S. title of the film. The Italian title is Ercole e la regina di Lidia aka Hercules And The Queen Of Lidia.

This is my captioned 30-day audio challenge about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections. For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/

AudioMo 2025 Hercules Mythological True Story

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Fri, 6 Jun 2025 11:17:00 -0700

The actual myth story of Hercules is more like a trashy soap opera.

This is the speed version that has been constantly changed by Italian and Hollywood filmmakers.

This is my captioned 30-day audio challenge about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections.

For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/ #AudioMo #Peplum #MovieHistory

AudioMo 2025 - The Maciste Effect

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Thu, 5 Jun 2025 09:56:00 -0700

The Maciste film series started in 1915 and lasted until 1926. This is a look at some of the people that might have been influenced by the character.

This is my captioned 30-day audio challenge about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections.

For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/

AudioMo 2025 Cabiria and the Birth of Maciste

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Wed, 4 Jun 2025 20:27:00 -0700

The year was 1914 and the movie Cabiria is a world wide hit.

It is an two hour adventure tale with volcanos, pirates, betrayals and introduces the grand-daddy of Peplum, a character called Maciste. There are copies of the movie on YouTube.

This is my open captioned 30-day audio challenge about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections. For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/

AudioMo 2025 - What Are Sword and Sandal Movies

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Tue, 3 Jun 2025 08:55:00 -0700

A quick explanation of Sword and Sandal movies. They are one of the reasons why Peplum movies exists.

This is my captioned 30-day audio challenge about Peplum movies and the historical and cultural connections.

For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/

AudioMo 2025 - What is a Peplum Movie?

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Mon, 2 Jun 2025 08:30:00 -0700

Peplum movies are a sub-genre of Sword and Sandal movies.

Sword and Sandal movies can have American or British actors.

There is a grand scale, sometimes a biblical or moralistic theme and good triumph over evil but it might take a few centuries to kick in.

Peplum movies might have one or two Americans but mainly an Italian cast.

At least in the early days.

This is #AudioMo, a 30-day international challenge of sound and community. This is my captioned audio/slidecast about Peplum movies, and the historical and cultural connections.

For more info about #AudioMo, please visit https://write.as/audiomo/ #AudioMo #Peplum #MovieHistory

AudioMo 2025 and Peplum Movies

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Fri, 30 May 2025 10:50:00 -0700

It is that time again. A bunch of folks get together and for June 2024 create audio recordings sharing who they are, what they are hearing or what they want to talk about.

My topic this year is the Peplum movies between 1958 to 1969.

Simply, a Peplum movie is set in old Greece or Rome, has a hero or demi-god who saves people from the bad people. But not always. There are a couple of films set in Egypt.

There is a lot of interesting things about how that genre of movies came to be created. There are connections from multiple directions and most do not involve oil or a tunic. A very important director of Spaghettis westerns got his start in Peplum movies.

Fifteen years ago, Ernmander started AudioMo as a way to have community and conversation. This is the ultimate diversity project. Blind folks, sighted folks, storytellers and the bashful all try to have a piece of audio to share with other. Mainly participants from the UK, Europe and a handful from the U.S.

I wanted to contribute but I noticed something. Audio isn't accessible to deaf, hard of hearing or new speakers of English.

It isn't easy to embed text into the audio unless you are using a specific service to create the SRT text file and upload for display..

And to my knowledge, there aren't audio specific embedded captioning that you can click a button and display captions. There could be, I don't know of any at this time.

Yes there are audio players that can display transcripts. But not in real time as the audio.

So what I do is use PowerPoint to hold one photo, record audio and then use video editing software to have it transcribe and display open captions on the screen.

You can also combine the audio, video into Microsoft ClipChamp to add captions. That rascal is finicky. But it works. I then post the video on YouTube.

I can share the video via Mastodon, Bluesky and other social media portals. It use to be on Twitter. There are still a few folks that participate there but many people chose not to visit that site anymore.

Anyway, I have a few challenges this year but I hope to make it to the end of the month.

As I mentioned, Ernmander is the ringleader of this and you can check out his blog posts on it at

https://write.as/audiomo/

AudioMo - Just One More Thing...

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 17:00:00 -0700

A few more words about detective resources:

The Thrilling Detective - excellent for all things sleuthing in literary or media form.

Murder, She Watched - deep in the whozit and whatsit for Jessica Flecture fans and also has a lot of info about television detectives.

The Columbophile Blog - lots of folks hugging their inner raincoated detective.

AudioMo Day 21 - The Thin Man Media Connections

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 16:55:00 -0700

The book Thin Man by Dashiell Hammitt was the inspiration of the classic movie series about Nick and Nora Charles.

In this detective husband and wife trope, Nora is rich and Nick does not mind it a bit.

Nick is a former private detective with friends on both sides of the law. In this recording, a very brief timeline from the book, the movie series and the television show.

This is #AudioMo, an 30-day international challenge of sound and community. This is my captioned audio about the TV detectives before Columbo.

For more info about AudioMo, please visit https://audiomo.vivaldi.net/2024/03/11/what-is-audiomo/

AudioMo Day 30 - Columbo

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 16:01:00 -0700

Last day of AudioMo 2024. Have to talk about the inspiration for the challenge, Columbo.

This is #AudioMo, an 30-day international challenge of sound and community. This is my captioned audio about the TV detectives before Columbo.

For more info about AudioMo, please visit https://audiomo.vivaldi.net/2024/03/11/what-is-audiomo/

AudioMo Day 22 - McMillian and Wife

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 15:51:00 -0700

The book Thin Man had a lot of influence on TV writers and producers.

One of those examples is McMillian and Wife, which was a part of the NBC Mystery Movie.

This show aired in rotation with McCloud and Columbo.

This is #AudioMo, an 30-day international challenge of sound and community. This is my captioned audio about the TV detectives before Columbo.

For more info about AudioMo, please visit https://audiomo.vivaldi.net/2024/03/11/what-is-audiomo/

AudioMo Day 29 - 77 Sunset Strip

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 20:27:00 -0700

77 Sunset Strip was the most successful of the Warner Brothers clone detectives.

This is #AudioMo, an 30-day international challenge of sound and community. This is my captioned audio about the TV detectives before Columbo.

For more info about AudioMo, please visit https://audiomo.vivaldi.net/2024/03/11/what-is-audiomo/

AudioMo Day 28 - Peter Gunn

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 11:39:00 -0700

Peter Gunn was stylish, always in trouble and yet had a stable relationship with those that were close to him.

This makes him unusual as a detective.

This is #AudioMo, an 30-day international challenge of sound and community. This is my captioned audio about the TV detectives before Columbo.

For more info about AudioMo, please visit https://audiomo.vivaldi.net/2024/03/11/what-is-audiomo/

AudioMo Day 27 McCloud

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:45:00 -0700

Continuing on the theme of a detective out of his or her element,

McCloud was part of the NBC Mystery Movie of the Week along with McMillian and Wife and Columbo.

This is #AudioMo, an 30-day international challenge of sound and community. This is my captioned audio about the TV detectives before Columbo.

For more info about AudioMo, please visit https://audiomo.vivaldi.net/2024/03/11/what-is-audiomo/

AudioMo Day 26 The Two Mark Sabers

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:42:00 -0700

There is a bit of transatlantic confusion. There is the Mark Saber from the UK that work with a U.S. police department.

Then there is the Mark Saber from London who is an independent private investigator who takes on hard to solve cases.

In this version, he has a Canadian fellow doing a lot of the leg work.

This is #AudioMo, an 30-day international challenge of sound and community. This is my captioned audio about the TV detectives before Columbo.

For more info about AudioMo, please visit https://audiomo.vivaldi.net/2024/03/11/what-is-audiomo/

AudioMo Day 25 Dial 999

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 16:22:00 -0700

It has been a hectic week but I'll catch up on the weekend. What happens to an RCMP detective (Royal Canadian Mounted Police for the yanks) when he goes to work for Scotland Yard?

Seems Mike does a lot of footwork and a views of what the city looked like in the olden days.

This is #AudioMo, an 30-day international challenge of sound and community.

This is my captioned audio about the TV detectives before Columbo.

For more info about AudioMo, please visit https://audiomo.vivaldi.net/2024/03/11/what-is-audiomo/

AudioMo Day 24 Sherlock Holmes 1954

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:46:00 -0700

This was the first Sherlock Holmes television series intended for an American audience.

This Sherlock is more open, social and hasn't laid hands on that seven percent solution.

This is #AudioMo, an 30-day international challenge of sound and community.

This is my captioned audio about the TV detectives before Columbo.

For more info about AudioMo, please visit https://audiomo.vivaldi.net/2024/03/11/what-is-audiomo/

AudioMo Day 23 Colonel March of Scotland Yard

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 20:49:00 -0700

Boris Karloff had a number of television series as well as being a guest star on other television programs.

This is the only one that I know of where he plays a detective in a regular series.

This is #AudioMo, an 30-day international challenge of sound and community.

This is my captioned audio about the TV detectives before Columbo.

For more info about AudioMo, please visit https://audiomo.vivaldi.net/2024/03/11/what-is-audiomo/

AudioMo - Day 4 The Edge of Night

noreply@blogger.com (Gena) — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 21:17:00 -0700

Not all soap operas were about love and pains of the heart.

The Edge of Night was a daily mystery soap that covered the crimes in the fictional city of Montecello.

Who says organized crime and love don't mix?