Lotsa stuff to look at

Plenty of stuff for you to gawk at today…

I’ve started a “promo blog” for the Phosphor Dot Fossils DVD project here. I’ve left room for comments, though I’m not expecting anyone to actually make any, and I can’t put my hand on my heart and say it’ll be updated more than once a week. 😆 I figured it’s about time to start beating the drum, and maybe getting a finger on the pulse of how many people are interested in the thing.

The unexpected “re-discovery” of a long-lost DVD of my 2003 demo reel has enabled me to add something to ye olde work blawg that I’ve wanted to add for ages, but thought was lost for good: several news packages that I edited a few years ago. Oddly enough, I found a second DVD which contained the same stuff, only with a running commentary that I had recorded in 2003. This version of my demo reel was a bit of a vanity piece – I made several copies and handed them out at CGE ’03 just in case I made any valuable contacts. I can brag just a little bit here – Howard Scott Warshaw, creator/producer/host of Once Upon Atari (and, oh yeah, designer of Raiders Of The Lost Ark, E.T. and Yars’ Revenge for the 2600), liked it quite a bit. I’ve included the commentaries here just for curiosity’s sake. All of the packages were actually slated with the reporter/photog credits and original airdates, so credit is given where credit is due. Hopefully the talent involved doesn’t mind me posting this stuff after all these years – they should be proud, because it’s some of their best work too. (All of the reporters involved have since moved on to bigger and better markets – coincidence? 😆 )

I’ll have some new stuff to add to the work blog soon, including that little History Channel thing I keep dropping vague hints about. 😉 Stuff I’ve produced since leaving the station will probably be featured at a new site I’m busy working on for my stay-at-home-video-editing-dad venture, and before long the TV work blog will probably become more or less a collection of specimens frozen in amber, unless I go back to post more gems from the archives as I rediscover them. As weird as it is to keep that material hanging around, I really do think it’s a treasure trove of local broadcast history, and not necessarily just mine either.

Tonight’s Lost: holy crap. After all the hints dropped about what happened to put Locke in the wheelchair, this caught me off guard about as much as Juliet’s ex catching the bus (ha!) or Michael shooting Libby and Ana Lucia. And I don’t know what to make of that zinger right there at the end – I suspect we’re looking at the same thing that Eko saw as his brother, if ya know what I mean. I’ve gotta say, I really enjoyed seeing Locke and Ben’s verbal sparring – watching the fellow castaways either argue with or stand in awe of Locke is getting a bit old, but putting these two together is gold, simply because they each have so many layers between what they say and what they mean.

I’m hoping the trailer for next week’s is misleading – given the buildup and the hints about more Ethan Rom-like infiltrators, I was expecting it to concern Nikki and Paulo, the two highly-touted “new regular cast members” who have faded so far into the background as to become decorative furniture.