Finally, three months after the convention, this episode is edited down and is ready for your consumption. Consume!
Podcast Notes:
This episode has two components, the first recorded on Friday, 19
September 2008 when we sat down with a good friend of mine, Keith
Daniell. Keith has been staffing with Anime Weekend Atlanta for the
past 14 years, save for one year. Jason Brown, Marc Smazik and myself
discuss with Keith the origins of Anime Weekend Atlanta from his
perspective of working as a groundling and up to the rank of Assistant
Director. We also share some of our early memories of the convention
and how we've noticed changes at the convention, everything from the
growth and the change in attendees (WARNING: There are a few instances
in which what we say could probably be followed up with "Get off my
lawn!"). Our second part we sit down with some other friends on
Saturday evening (20 Sept. '08): Chad Bonin, who writes for Toon Zone
and runs the nerd-culture blog, Gaijinside and Scott Laney, another
contributor/editor at Gaijinside. Chad gets his Cartoon Network fanboy
hat on as we briefly discuss the announcement of the end of the waning
Toonami programming block and we chat about events and activities we'd
done and went to at the convention as well as some preliminary opinions
about how the convention went this year.
Promos:
Our first episode with promos!
OSMcast!
- I ended up on the Podcaster's Roundtable with two of the gents from
OSMcast!, a podcast all about everything geeky. Generally, these types
of podcasts aren't my thing but theirs is truly exceptional.
Anime World Order
- The reason why after a curious Google search that I decided maybe
there's something to this anime podcasting thing. It's also their fault
that I said, I can probably do this, too and gathered my motley crew
and created the Akihabara Renditions podcast. This promo's less
of a promo, compared to the other one listed on their site, but I feel
that it captures the feel of the show more.
Special Thanks:
To our guests Keith Daniell, Chad Bonin, and Scott Laney, all of whom we'd love to work with again!
To Paul Chapman/the Alimighty Gooberzilla of Greatest Movie Ever Podcast
and Daryl Surat, Clarissa Graffeo and Gerald Rathkolb all of Anime
World Order for not only hosting the podcaster's roundtable at Anime
Weekend Atlanta but also inviting podcasters in the audience to join in.
Additional Links of Interest in this Episode:
And, as always, any comments are welcome, you can use either the
comments section or send us an e-mail to akibaren (at) gmail (dot) com!
