{"id":410,"date":"2012-07-07T20:36:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T19:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/?p=410"},"modified":"2012-07-07T20:36:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T19:36:33","slug":"impending-zombie-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/impending-zombie-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Impending Zombie Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So DS106 weekly assignment for last week was: <em>a group radio show<\/em> which sounded interesting. I joined my Camp bunkhouse (W\u00e4sc\u00e4lly W\u00e4bbits (sic)) buddies: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/@mikeberta\">Mike Berta<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/@chanda0703\">Chanda Cowger<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/@benjaminharwood\">Ben Harwood<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/@kevin_murphy4\">Kevin Murphy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/@CiaraNorquist\">Ciara Norquist<\/a>, the task was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In each group, each person is \u201cresponsible\u201d for 5-7 excellent minutes of the radio show. If they want to work in pairs, the minutes add up (2 people = 10-14 minutes, etc.) Ideally, the final shows should then be between 25 and 50 minutes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mike Berta came up with the title of our show: Impending Zombie Apocalypse ala War of the Worlds, which I must say worried me a bit. A lot of DS106ers seem to be steeped in US movie culture and I am not. I am also not much of a horror fan.<\/p>\n<p>I decided I would think of a few angles I could take and opened a google doc where I wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019d like to do a segment on \u2018other zombies\u2019 eg not movie or fiction including some of the following:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Zombie (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zombie_(album)\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zombie_(album)<\/a> Fela, political music, power effect etc<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puffer_fish\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puffer_fish<\/a> Puffer Fish personal recollection<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Online Cyber Safety - Business Software Alliance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bsacybersafety.com\/threat\/zombies.cfm\">http:\/\/www.bsacybersafety.com\/threat\/zombies.cfm <\/a>zombie drones -computers<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"drones - Salon.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/05\/08\/fear_the_zombie_drone\/\">http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/05\/08\/fear_the_zombie_drone\/<\/a> maybe link to computer games to train military&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thinking I could avoid the imaginative.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Berta suggested: How about segments where we are reporting from our location what is happening.<\/p>\n<p>This went down well with the group. We collected a bunch of links to audio, etc on the google doc and went our separate ways with the odd tweet, mail and update to the doc keeping us in sync.<\/p>\n<p>I started working on a script of sorts, I focused on the music of Fela, and kept references to zombies vague, hoping that they could be interpreted metaphorically as well as literally. I tried to get in some links to ds106 but kept them vague too. This is what I came up with. Recorded in a straightforward way in GarageBand.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-410-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/john_j_zombie.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/john_j_zombie.mp3\">http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/john_j_zombie.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>I got my daughter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cmdjohnston\">Christine<\/a> to help with the recording, she was a great help as shew has a good ear for what will work and how to use voice. Recording a fictional piece (even writing one) was a bit of a stretch, I&#8217;ve recorded plenty of podcast but always non-fiction and without much attempt to build atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>It was then up to Mike Berta to put this together is some way. I had quite a busy week so didn&#8217;t pay a lot of attention, but Mike got an edit finished and it was played on DS106. As it was played at 3am here I didn&#8217;t hear it. I did download the mp3 file <a href=\"http:\/\/ds106.us\/wp-content\/audio\/sum12-radio\/CMM-zombie-free-radio.mp3\">Zombie Free Radio DS106<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was impressed by how well all of my bunkmates contributions came out and even more <strong>impressed by how Mike had managed to weave them together into a coherent and compelling whole<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Later I listen to the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/ds106.us\/wp-content\/audio\/sum12-radio\/CMM-tuesday-radio-shows.mp3\">Tuesday show<\/a> which also had the Bunkhouse 2 contribution. This was surrounded by Alan Levine&#8217;s discussion, atmospheric build up and live chat with conversations with Jennifer Orr from Bunkhouse 4 and our own Mike Berta. Fascinating to see how very loose directions, make a radio show, between spatially and culturally diverse folk can come together.<\/p>\n<h3>Tech Tips<\/h3>\n<p>I was verery interested in how Alan wove together audio from iTunes, his browser, and live skype. We have done similar things over at <a title=\"Radio Edutalk - EDUtalk\" href=\"http:\/\/edutalk.info\/pages\/radio-edutalk\">Radio EDUtalk<\/a>, but he added a killer feature, the skype folk could here iTunes in the same way as the radio broadcast. I tweeted out to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cogdog\">cogdog<\/a> and got pointed to this amazing post <a href=\"http:\/\/cogdogblog.com\/2012\/07\/06\/rube-goldberg-broadcast-machine\/\">My Newest Rube Goldberg ds106 Broadcast Machine: Ladiocast + Nicecast &#8211; CogDogBlog<\/a>, looking forward to implementing this for next sessions <a title=\"Radio Edutalk - EDUtalk\" href=\"http:\/\/edutalk.info\/pages\/radio-edutalk\">Radio Edutalk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A great assignment that I had more fun than I expected and has me thinking about lots of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So DS106 weekly assignment for last week was: a group radio show which sounded interesting. I joined my Camp bunkhouse (W\u00e4sc\u00e4lly W\u00e4bbits (sic)) buddies: Mike Berta, Chanda Cowger, Ben Harwood, Kevin Murphy and Ciara Norquist, the task was: In each group, each person is \u201cresponsible\u201d for 5-7 excellent minutes of the radio show. If they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/impending-zombie-apocalypse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Impending Zombie Apocalypse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RLlC-6C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}