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Podcasts

Yet More Podcasts…

Jones was, well, “Jones’n” to do another podcast, so last Friday we not only recorded a new episode of the Benheck.com podcast, but did a whole new one for Jones’ “Fistful of Reviews” movie site. This new podcast stars Jason Jones and Dale Nauertz and they discuss movie stuff. Well, mostly rip on things in movies they’re sick of (movies about characters “beginning”, superhero films) but it’s still pretty funny, especially the part where Dale asks “Why can’t we get a “Rocky Ends” movie???

Each is around an hour in length and yes, in MP3 format this time. Also look for the “Echoes of the Past” documentary trailer, hopefully later this week.

Article Links:

Benheck.com Podcast: Episode 2 (mirror)

Benheck.com Podcast: Episode 2 (local copy)

A Fistful of Reviews Inaugural Podcast #1

…and yet another Sonic Boom podcast, of which I am now an official co-host.

Podcasts

Now – a Benheck.com Podcast!

I woke up this morning and thought “I should do a Benheck.com podcast!” I’ve been on several podcasts before but never really thought about doing my own until now. Seemed like a good idea. So I called up Jason Jones, a friend of mine with whom I’ve had countless discussions about videogames and said “Let’s do a podcast… What time is good for you? 4 PM? OK, I can figure out how to record one by then.”

He came over with his SOCOM Navy Seals USB headset and we just went for it. Topics include:

    1) Next generation gaming graphics (why are they so shiny?)

    2) HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray vs What if they both flop?

    3) and The Nintendo Wii (the dissenting view not often seen online)

It runs about 1 hour (slightly more than the 30 minutes I had hoped) but should be a pretty interesting listen for anyone who keeps up with games and technology. We go mostly from a layman’s perspective, that is, what will the mass market think of Blu-Ray, the Wii, etc. Some profanity, but nothing worse than say a PG-13 movie (no F bombs)

Hope it’s not too boring! Please feel free to email me with any feedback or suggestions for future topics. If people enjoy this we’d probably do bi-weekly shows. I found it to be a fun time. Future shows would be a bit more polished with a snazzy intro and stuff like that.

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Server 1 Download (mirror)

Server 2 Download (local copy)

Movies

It’s a Wrap!

Fear not, I have returned safely from our documentary shoot in northern Michigan. Here’s a photo of the intrepid, fearless crew involved with this project…

The Echoes of the Past crew, circa 2006

This is an assortment of different crews, from One Man Down Productions, to the Dead Workers Party and myself and Dale Nauertz from the “Port Washington” team. All in all we got along well and collected quite a bit of interesting footage and interviews. The trailer for this project will be released the same day as my “super portable”, so stay tuned!

Article Links:

http://www.onemandownproductions.com/

http://www.deadworkers.com/

Movies

Ghost Town Documentary “Echoes of the Past”

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This week I am heading out to film our long-planned documentary on a haunted ghost town someplace in the Midwest. We’re calling it “Echoes of the Past”, with a subtitle being the location we’re visiting (name to be released after we’re done filming)

As far as my involvement, I am co-director, director of photography and I also came up with the basic outline for the piece. The shoot runs Thursday through Sunday, editing will take place this fall.

The target is a 1-2 hour documentary filled with interviews, history of the town and a finale involving an all-night stay in the allegedly haunted ruins of the town and nearby graveyard. We’re rolling about 7 cameras for that so we should get good coverage. While not specifically a “ghost hunting” type of thing, we’re bring temperature meters, infrared flashlights and various recording equipment.

Look for a trailer to be released in the weeks following the shoot (second half of August), probably around the same time I finish my long delayed, super-complex “uber-portable”

For more information and podcasts, or if you’re interested in possibly taking a look at or picking up the final product for release, please visit the One Man Down Productions website.

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Port Washington DVD’s

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I am burning and selling a small batch of Port Washington DVD’s. If you liked the film why not donate some money and get a swell boxed copy of your very own? Play it on your big screen TV / home theatre system, not a MP4 compression-o-matic computer version. (Though those are available)

It’s a 2 disc set that contains the movie, 2 audio commentaries, text commentary, behind the scenes, bloopers and outtakes, “making of” special effects deconstruction, storyboard-to-sequence comparisons, pre-production and more! Includes full color case labeling so it’ll look swell in your collection.

For the bargain price of $20 US, including shipping! (to aforementioned US) Wow, you can’t really beat that. Well, you can, perhaps with a big stick, but oh well. Anyway, if interested simply click below – thanks!

Oh yeah. Hook me up with that Port Washington DVD action. Yeah.  

 

Podcasts

I’m in another podcast

Recently I took part in a interview / videogame discussion podcast. You can listen to it here:

Latest Ben Heckendorn Podcast (Notice: Some profanity)

It goes WAY off topic in parts but should be fairly interesting regardless. There’s also some new podcasts from One Man Down Productions coming, in which we discuss the plans for our upcoming documentary and I do impressions of Angie Harmon (yes that’s correct)

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Heckendorn Returns 1.5

OK well I’m back from my amazing north woods adventure, which actually had more action than the movie I reference in this update title. Anyways, here’s what’s up:

The teaser trailer for the documentary I’m helping with – “Echoes of the Past” – will debut in late July/early August. For more information please visit One Man Down Productions.

That’s about it for now but fear not – some interesting stuff is on the way. Stay tuned!