March 2015 Archives

New video: my interview with Food Scientist: Rachel Zemser (YouTube) and Food Scientist: Rachel Zemser (Facebook)
shot in San Francisco, March 2015
an episode of the Justin Hall Show patreon.com/justin

Footage and Images:
🙌 Supermarket footage from Casa Lucas Market, Five Markets, Bristol Farms underground, Whole Foods Noe in San Francisco, California
🌀 brand matrix from Behind the Brands, Oxfam, behindthebrands.org
🍪 Keebler Cookies Commercial, 2011, YouTube.com
🌱 Green Giant Swedish Commercial, YouTube.com
👵 Betty Crocker Marble Cake Mix Commercial, 1958, starring Adelaide Hawley Cumming, YouTube.com
🍼 "Food for America" 1941, Prelinger Archives, Archive.org
🐻 California Department of Public Health Food and Drug Branch Food Safety Training Program: episodes: Produce 2 Regulations, Juice 6 Processing and Packaging, Produce 5 Storage and Transport, Archive.org
🍫 "Snickers Bar World's Biggest Recipe 5lbs HOW TO COOK THAT candy bar" by Ann Reardon, YouTube.com
👾 "After Effects Preset: Bacteria" by EJ Hassenfratz, Vimeo.com
📚 covers from Food Technology magazine, IFT 50th Anniversary Issue September 1989, published by the Institute of Food Technologists, ift.org
🍺 "Miracle of the Can", 1956, by Caravel Films, Prelinger Archives, Archive.org
🍞 The Baking Industry, 1956, by Holmes (Burton) Films, Prelinger Archives, Archive.org
🍫 Chocolates photo by Justin Sewell, Flickr.com
🐽 Truffle photo by Dennis M, Flickr.com
🌿 Olive Oil footage from Al Majd TV, Archive.org

Music:
🎵 "Kleasy" from Talon Slalom by BlevinBlectum
🎵 "Suspiria" from elevenandtwelve by nisei23, Free Music Archive
🎵 "Nothing Like Captain Crunch" from Slam Funk by Broke For Free, Free Music Archive
🎵 "Our Ego [Feat. Different Visitor]" from Slam Funk by Broke For Free, Free Music Archive
Thanks:
📷 Kenyatta Cheese for overclocked Lumix GH2 camera
💡 Howard Rheingold for lights
🎬 Ilyse Magy, Rachel Cassandra, Howard Rheingold for feedback
💪 My Patreon patrons for encouraging support

🔬 Rachel Zemser is http://theintrepidculinologist.com and @culinologist
🎤 Justin Hall appears courtesy of http://links.net

-* Thanks to my Patreon supporters for additionally motivating me to keep the videos coming *-

I faltered in my forward health; I caught a cold last Monday 2 March and basically it knocked me out. I was either coughing, leaking, wheezing, honking, aching or stoned for most of the last week.

I postponed an interview for The Justin Hall Show. For video work, I managed to spend much of my upright computer time simulating the way "checking email" looked in 1994 by rebuilding the Eudora Mac interface in Apple's Motion 5. That has resulted in a much improved 5 seconds of footage in my 2315 second film; .2 percent. Bit by bit, I'm gonna finish this thing! Whether or not I can find the Mishawaka Font.

I took refuge in some media:

Astra Taylor's new book called The People's Platform I'm reading to broaden my views on technology. That isn't exactly soothing escapism though, so I accompanied that with video game culture homage Wreck-it Ralph and finished the new chapter of Space Marshals on iPad the same day it came out. I guess I enjoy video games, though I forsook the learning & community at this year's Game Developers Conference. Last spring I made a video about a gaming conference; this spring I made a video about a cannabis business conference.

Poking through my archives for ever more footage to adorn my documentary, I found tiny video files - interviews that I did in 2000 when I was employed at Gamers.com.

Probably the best media artifact here is the recording from Dragon Con in Atlanta, Georgia July 2000 - for fans of science fiction, fantasy, comic books, and other elements of fan culture. I found this paragraph describing a third millennium A.D. machine box ride with both the armies of Christ and the children of Satan:

It turns out that the Salvation Army is having its 135-year anniversary in Atlanta at the same time as Dragon*Con. So there's 20,000 suited servants of the lord sharing the streets with Stormtroopers. They are both in the same Hyatt hotel too - I get on an elevator with two ladies from Denmark in their sixties, dressed in Salvation army garb with shoulder epaulets, and then two young ladies board wearing dog collars, large black feathered wings, vampire teeth and red contact lenses. It's an ideal nonviolent culture clash.

Here's the video; apologies for the profoundly low audio/video quality. GWAR!

That video is here and the other videos are in this playlist of gaming videos. More videos to come! As long as my body sustains my mind!!

I'm nostrils-deep in polishing this documentary about my time on the web. I want to track down a font, from an email program called Eudora - the font is called Mishawaka, and here's the story so far.