Are you going to PAX this weekend? If so, I thought I would let you know what I was doing at the show, so you could more easily find me.
I will have a booth in bandland. We’ll be selling books, the new PvP vinyl toys and our first BLAMIMATION shirt. I should be at my booth pretty much all day unless there is an important panel I’m required to attend. Important panels you ask? Oh yes. We got a couple:
Acquisitions Incorporated: D&D Live!
Saturday, 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM, Pegasus Theatre
Gabe, Tycho, and Scott Kurtz begin an adventure with one goal, find a way to bring back Wil Wheaton’s deceased character, Aeofel. This is unscripted Dungeons & Dragons before a live studio audience… and through the magic of TECHNOLOGY, the audience influences the game! Bring your cell phone and guide Jim Darkmagic, Binwin Bronzebottom, and Omin Dran to riches or ruin. Panelists include: Scott Kurtz [Binwin Bronzebottom], Wil Wheaton ["Al"], Gabe and Tycho [Jim Darkmagic of the New Hampshire Darkmagics, and Omin Dran, CEO of Acquisitions Incorporated]
Late Night with Kris and Scott
Saturday, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM, Pegasus Theater.
PAX welcomes its first official late-night talk show featuring Scott Kurtz and Kris Straub, the talent behind PATV’s Blamimations. After Hours with Kris and Scott promises an hour of laughs, celebrity interviews and maybe even a musical guest — it’s a show so spontaneous, we won’t know what’s planned until the show’s over. Concert counter-programming at its finest! Guests include Mike Krahulik, Possibly Bill “Foxtrot” Amend and a mystery guest (or two).
Blamimations ALIVE! with Kris and Scott
Sunday, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM, Pegasus Theater
PA: TV veterans Scott Kurtz (pvponline.com) and Kris Straub (chainsawsuit.com) take you deeply behind the scenes of their hit Blamimation series for one magical hour. Will you help come up with the next breakout hit character? Will you watch it come to life? Will you see Kris and Scott BS for 55 minutes? No, maybe, and yes.
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the show.
September 03, 2010 05:15 AM
Tom the Dancing Bug for Friday, September 03, 2010
September 03, 2010 05:00 AM
If I were in Austin this weekend, I’d check out the live premiere of The Intergalactic Nemesis, which might be described as a mashup of theater, radio drama, silent film and animation. This video will give you an idea:
The stage version of The Intergalactic Nemesis projects the comic book artwork panel-by-panel while three actors perform the voices, one foley artist creates the sound effects, and one keyboardist plays the score, all live.
This looks like a really neat thing to sit in a theater and enjoy! I’m a big fan of taking the trouble to seek out unique experiences like this. I saw something similar once here in L.A.: a touring, contemporary silent film called Brand Upon the Brain!, which had been shot as a pastiche of 1920s silent films and which was shown in the theater with a live orchestra, sound-effects crew, and narrator (in my show, Daniel Handler). It was a terminally weird movie — about sucking people’s brains out, and so on; sort of bizarre-for-the-sake-of-bizarre which is a very hard thing to make enjoyable for a paying audience — but the spectacle and the craft of the music and the sound-effects and the whole bit was enthralling in itself. I didn’t even like the movie and I didn’t regret seeing it.
So I definitely recommend checking out The Intergalactic Nemesis if you’re in Austin this weekend! The show comes highly recommended by some of my Austinite friends who’ve seen these folks perform before. Performances are this Friday and Saturday, Sept. 3 & 4, at the Long Center. Tickets are here!
If you can’t make it to the live show, the full-length radio drama is also available as free downloadable MP3s!
September 03, 2010 04:57 AM
We’re back at the Plains of Virath for more hot Gary-unicorn action! Trying to help someone is almost never a good idea, the odds that you’ll screw up and anger folks is almost always greater than the odds you’ll stumble into someone who appreciates your heroic efforts despite you accidentally burning down their village and/or planet.
I think we have another Repeat Destination poll around here somewhere.
Ah. Here it is!
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September 03, 2010 04:01 AM
I'm anticipating 400 emails in the morning telling me what I got wrong. :) Talk to you guys then!
September 03, 2010 04:00 AM
Rash Medicine Epilogue
It's been a weird week. Just start back here.
Hurricane holiday! Enjoy these precious moments.
September 03, 2010 04:00 AM
