There's trouble ahead

Monday morning, Northpoint, while re-arranging my desk and looking over some of last nights shows I was approached by a man I'd never before seen. This is not unusual for Northpoint and I always do my best to help but this guy looked somewhat official as he started putting posters up around the building.

After a light interrogation where I was asked where Miss Widdershins would likely to be and I confirmed all the data I had available on what today's Designing Worlds schedule was, the gentleman left...leaving me wondering...what has Saffia done this time? And more to the point, how much bail is it going to cost?

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What makes a show successful?

I have a firm belief that a quality product is better than a substandard product, "sure," you're saying to yourself "who doesn't?". Hopefully no-one, that's why iPad sales outweigh the sales of lower quality no-name iPad-a-likes (you know the ones that pop up with Android 1.6 on them and are basically big calculators with poor touch screens).

In that regard, Treet.TV does quality programming, Paisley, Saffia, Pooky, etc know how to make a show and know what to do with that show, this week we (Texas and I) were looking at a new show from a new member of our production team. I can't tell you the name of the show yet or even the producer, but I had 2 edits of this show. One was an edit of low quality that was passable, and the other was an edit that was great.

I'd already made my mind up that the show was going to be aired on seeing the lower quality version. But the producer wanted to get a higher quality, she wanted it to look great and for the visuals to POP! This puts her right up there in that quality producer category, this puts her up there with the best and it's clear that whatever she does, she wants to do it right.

Soon this project will be officially announced and you'll be able to see for yourself

It's a weird week

ok, so I've been playing Empire Avenue this week and that's kinda fun, trading shares in Second Life avatars on there is a bit of a break from my normal stuff and it has renewed my interest in Twitter and blogging.  So there's pluses all around.

If you know me at all you know I do a lot of inworld work for Treet.TV.  Most of the stuff is behind the scenes, though I do get to host occasionally.  This week while producing GOHA's sunday night show I got to do something I hadn't done before and that's host with a very old friend.

I've worked with some great people at Treet in front of the camera, Kert Upshaw, RacerX Gullwing, Salem Nightly/Blood, Sante Klees, Baldi McMillan, Saffia Widdershins, Elrik Merlin, Zen Paine and even Pooky Amsterdam, but all of these people I've known for around 2 years or less.  Vivienne Coppola I've known for the best part of four years and working with her on GOHA was hilarious.


Check out that video and see what I mean, they'll be another night of fun and "britishness" this Sunday (27th March 2011) at 3pm PST Treet.tv/live.

RFL

Relay for Life is a serious thing, and I wholly support it.  But what better way of supporting a Charity than while having fun doing it?

Giant Snails are back and they're relaying for life...go on have a giggle, donate money to a good cause...you know you want to

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The Daily PWN: Weekly Review - Virtual Wiz

In this special episode, Matt Ryan has a sit-down with one of the Treet.TV founders, Wiz Nordberg. They discuss mobile gaming, virtual worlds and the future of controllers.

Games Covered:
Crosswords - http://www.standalone.com/iphone/crosswords/
Plain Sight - http://www.plainsightgame.com/
Strategery - http://strategerygame.com/
Second Life - http://secondlife.com/
Pocket Metaverse - http://www.pocketmetaverse.com/

For more information about Wiz Nordberg and Treet visit:
http://treet.tv

The Daily PWN - The PWN Continues

All right, Mr Belvedere. This interview was an interesting one to get, I've been associated with GOHA since it was in Season 2 and I've done a lot of work with them, captaining a side in the 3rd Season, Commissionaire of The Euro League in the 5th Season, Designer of Hockey Jerseys for both the Euro League and an All Star event. I've known Jack longer than 90% of my friends lists. He was best man at my wedding and he's an awesome guy.

GOHA is one of the easiest sports to pick up in Second Life and conversely one of the hardest to master. There are levels of play and teamwork and tactics just like in the real world. With them currently expanding the league and working alongside Linden Labs with the Community Partnership Programme we thought it was the ideal time to interview the creator of the game.

This is the return of "Auggie Cam" yes, my camera is the medium shot of Jack Belvedere staring intimidatingly at you :).

The other part of this show? Well that was handled with fits of giggles between myself and Matt, we're absolutely serious professionals when it comes to a take. But sometimes Matt's tangents can be insane and I feel it's my job to keep him on message. That said anyone who can hear us singing during breaks would run screaming. We're not entering American Idol anytime soon. Our rendition of "Still Alive" from the Portal game is...well it's definitely something.

The Daily PWN - Millionaire, Mario, Memory and Metaverse Music | Treet TV

The Daily PWN - Millionaire, Mario, Memory and Metaverse Music | Treet TV