Jamjar Cinema Podcast!

I was told during my regular work about a fantastic community project in Whitely Bay called JamJar Cinema, a 40+ seater cinema in the heart of the town where you can go a watch a variety of pictures for far less than regular cinema prices! (thankgod!) So I went on http://www.jamjarcinema.com and I liked what I found! Its a community project where all the money it makes gets reinvested into the cinema! A really noble and good idea! So Me and one of my contributors Wayne had to see it for ourselves! We went on a very rainy Wednesday night to go meet Dan Willis who runs it and to sit and watch Bill and Teds bogus journey. Yes we had to forget the ending, based on the fact that I had seen it like 200 times, but I still found myself enjoying it simply for the nice nostalgia that it brought. Plus, I got to have a rather nice bottle of desperado while watching! 

heres the video blog we recorded while I was at the cinema!

It ‘s a great little indy cinema, the only thing it cant provide is food but when Dan told me why I completely understood how difficult and impractical it is for a small cinema like JamJar. But its a great place, the best compliment I can give it is that If I had a flat and money to spend, it would look similar to jamjars lounge area. I was very impressed especially when Dan on the podcast told me how much he spent on making it work!

If you’d like to hear us talk about jamjar with Dan the latest episode of the Geek Apocalypse podcast is online at http://www.geekapocalypse.com or you can find us on itunes! 

James Cook Podcast online

I recorded a great podcast last week With Writer/director James Cook and his producer Karen Taylor about their brilliant new sci fi project Cassini II! What I didn’t say in too much detail is that I had the opportunity to watch the 15 minute teaser which I have watched a couple of times. It is brilliant in that it reminded me of the revived battle star galactica series and when you see that they made this teaser with no money, at a venue I knew but barely recognised, they did an amazing job.

James and the crew are releasing a website soon where you can find out all the info in regards to supporting the project and other ways to help them. in the meantime, the podcast with James and producer Karen is online on our site http://www.geekapocalypse.com/shows and on itunes so please do give a listen as its a really interesting in depth podcast that we have done in recent memory.

The next podcast we will be releasing is with the great JamJar Cinema runner Dan Ellis! Really excited to let people hear about this excellent project Dan is doing in whitely bay! loving the podcast at the moment been a great month 🙂

thankyou to everyone for their continued support, really is aprreciated and as always ,keep spreading the word!

Hesse Vlog Episode 2!

We recorded a podcast this week with Jamjar Cinema thats being realised the start of next week, but we also did a Video Blog there in the cimena where Steven talks going to Screencon, his accident two weeks ago and A podcast milestone! Also as usual some Geek Apocalypse news!  Hope you enjoy!

Screencon 2013 pictures/podcast

Last weekend in particular the 12th October was a brilliantly geeky day. And when I say day..we literally bleed all that we could from the wound that was that saturday! I had to get up at 6.30am! on a saturday!  I kept thinking this is why I do not want to be a milkman. to quote Robin Williams, ‘I was a vampire on a day pass’ That’s how weird my mind works but in a sense, I’m still impressed that I think like a dork at such an early time of day. (picture is with my mate Mark Percy who is hosting and will be on the podcast soon!)

I met my friend Drew at around 9 in Newcastle as luckily he was talking just as much as me about how excited he was to meet the guests and go to the con. Its a shame we never got the chance to record the talk where drew realised that the only Red Dwarf cast member he had not met was Chris Barrie, while the only one I hadn’t met was Craig Charles! we amused ourselves at how much of a geek we were being by saying it was a decades long quest we were completing! (we play Lords of Waterdeep together, and as I say we are geeks, deal with it! Don’t hit me!) So we head on the metro to the park hotel in Tynemouth and on the small walk from the station we spot a Bentley driving past us to which i say to Drew ‘you know, Chris Barrie drives a Bentley you know?’ to which drew spent the next five minutes repeatingly asking ‘Do you reckon that was really him?’.  like I say we were excited!

(funniest image ever! the guy in the middle is like ‘Im not going to get between this!’)

The first thing we noticed when we got there was hot packed it was, which made me happy. Anyone reading this in America or London or any major city that has regular cons will be going ‘get over it Steven’ or simply shouting ‘NERD’ but you don’t understand. We never have conventions here and ScreenCon earlier in the year started this interest and now conventions are thinking of coming regularly. I never thought growing up that I would have the courage or even the opportunity to go to something like this! I did feel bad where I went straight to the front of a 200+ people line and went ‘I’m media I’m looking for Dan please?’ I would just like to underline I would of queued! These are my people! But we had interviews to be had and I was sooooo excited!

The first thing we did is take a look around and I have to say I think Screencon did a great job with the stalls and organisation. Plenty of things to have a look around! including some great film props that drew and I were worried we would break and go to jail for!

(Darth Vader signing Darth Vader!)

I am privileged to get the opportunity to talk to the some of the guests at the con. we managed to talk to Pam Rose (star wars,batman,superman) about george lucas, her role in star wars a new hope and working with David Tennant! Paul Gerrard (Battle LA,Wrath of the titans) about being a concept designer, how to promote yourself as an artist and exclusive talk about future projects Teenage mutant ninja turtles and Hellraiser. Ian Whyte (AVP,Harry Potter,Game of thrones, prometheus) talks to us about being the predator in AVP,Harry Potter,his career in basketball, working with Ridley Scott and upcoming projects Hercules with the rock and the bbc soap doctors! We then talk to Caroline munro (jamesbond, dracula) about the spy who loved me,british horror, horror studios recent comeback, and advice for young actresses! And if thats not all, we talk to Chris Barrie (red dwarf, tomb raider, brittas empire) about Red Dwarf Dimension Jump Convention, an exclusive response about the new series and All things red dwarf, with Chris doing a very special ending to the podcast!! now breathe!

you can find the podcast here www.geekapocalypse.com/shows or on itunes! 

Heres some photos of me doing the interview with a special thanks to Drew for helping with the podcast and the event itself. After the event we went to Newcastle Gamers to play board games till three in the morning! So bit of a long day. Also I was still recovering from fractured ribs! Your welcome!

 

me and Chris Barrie, such an awesome guy!

 

 

 

 

Me and Paul gerrard who is doing a full podcst in future!

 

 

Me and former eagle! Ian Whyte! man he is tall!

 

 

‘my favourite photo, ‘we see you stormtrooper! Protect the princess!’

 

 

Me and the Beautiful Caroline Munro! 

 

 

 

the lost interview but simon is on the podcast in two weeks! The next podcast we are releasing is with James cook about his sci fi project Cassini II which sounds amazing and is well worth a listen! We are also recording a video blog Tomorrow so please checkout our youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/geekapocalypse and subscribe!

 

Misery is more certain than happiness.(fucking boring though.)

I realise as I watch things recovering from my accident last week that I really need the connection of people. I have not seen any friends in a week and it made me realise how important it is to have some sort of social network to be able to talk to. I don’t mean the, lets like a post or comment on things and tweet how adorable the cats being, I mean genuine real human interaction.

I’ve been watching, reading an awful lot about the human mind, how complex it is and how little we know. And it got me thinking about how we actually think and process everyday life. What fascinates me is the idea of risk, alot of people I know are terrified of risk because they can not predict the outcome. To me thats missing the point? surely not knowing is the best part about trying to get to know someone or trying to do something you really care about. Also we takes risks everyday, saying hello to a complete stranger is a social risk, crossing the road everyday is a risk, leaving a secure job for something better is a risk, but without risk as far as I can see there is very little reward. Or rather their is very little to be personally satisfied about.

This leads me to think about misery. I see so many people being self defeating about life. It wont work out, or I’m not worth anything or I won’t be able to do what I want to. I listened to a Larry king interview where he said  ‘learning is so fascinating;so saying this is it and that’s the way it is is self defeating! saying i wont like this.have you tried?’ This to me somes it up brilliantly. If you don’t try how will you know? If you don’t take risk how will you ever fail? if you don’t fail how will you make mistakes? if you dont make mistakes how will you ever learn from them?

this lead me to think about misery, if you don’t take risk, misery is all you’ve got left, Because you can easily make yourself miserable by stop trying, by stop caring, by stopping completely. its the only thing you can be certain of ‘tommorrow im going to be miserable and sit all day and do nothing’. you can do that everyday and justify it by saying you need it really easily. But what will you achieve? and thats why risk is so important, without risk, you arent able to be completely happy, to connect with someone the way you really want to. Thats why arguing, saying what you feel, being honest, is far more important than the certainty of misery. 

how about ‘today I’m going to try do something about it one bit at a time?’

fuck you misery, I’m trying for happiness.

Interview with NTG online now!

 

I did an interview with Next Level Guy a while ago talking about being a geek and got to answer some questions about it for their website via a video interview! so here it is here,please have a look as I really enjoyed it 🙂

http://www.nextlevelguy.com/hitting-the-next-level-by-being-a-geek-overload-with-steven-heslewood/