Maybe this will help, maybe it won’t. Thanks to the ever prolific Doc Popular for the hook up with some custom intro and outro theme music, debuting for the first time in this little inspirational piece.
Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod)
The fun dispensable candy known as PEZ is undoubtedly one of the geeky wonders of the world. We got super excited when we learned that the world’s only PEZ museum was a mere half hour drive down the road. Justine Ezarik aka iJustine was in town, and it turns out that she’s a huge PEZ fan and collector. Only Steve Jobs or a new Apple product launch could keep her away. iJustine and Irina pay a visit, take a tour and get the history of PEZ from Gary Doss, curator of the Burlingame PEZ Museum of Memorabilia.
Episode links: PEZ Museum, PEZ Candy (official site), iJustine
Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod)
We got wind of a big chess tournament happening with some of the big names in hip hop, so of course we had to see what this was all about. Turns out the Hip Hop Chess Federation was putting on the inaugural Chess Kings Invitational, an event with the brightest young minds of chess competing for scholarships and the big belt. Chess, hip hop music and martial arts are the elements that build life strategies according to founder Adisa Banjoko. Irina gets the scoop behind the 64 squares and meets legends PopMaster Fabel of the Rock Steady Crew and The RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan among others.
Episode links: Hip Hop Chess Federation, HHCF blog, Adisa Banjoko, Pop Master Fabel, Emma Bentley, The RZA, DLabrie, Davey D’s wrapup, Chesspark, [full interviews: Adisa Banjoko, PopMaster Fabel, Emma Bentley, DLabrie, The RZA of Wu-Tang Clan, Rugged Monk]
Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod) | YouTube
Podcasters and videobloggers from all around the world converged recently on the eastern Los Angeles wasteland of Ontario, California for the Podcast and New Media Expo. As one can imagine, much incestuous self-referential media making went on among the attendees. And we at Geek Entertainment TV are no different. See which micro-celebrities Irina accosts with her microphone. Odds are, you are probably one of them.
Episode links: Steve Garfield, Women of Warcraft Podcast, The Clip Show, Cinema Psychic, Daily Breakfast, Lab Rats, Total Podcastrophe, The Medical Minute, Nick Starr, Rocketboom, Paul Dateh, Midwest Teen Sex Show
Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod) | Viddler
On the eve of the heavily anticipated launch of Halo 3, Microsoft opened it’s Silicon Valley doors to developers and gamers for a sneak preview of the game that every kid in America wants. Irina catches the zeitgeist of a Halo 3 multiplayer tournament and has a chat with some of Microsoft’s Xbox hardware engineers who made it all possible.
Episode links: Halo 3, Bungie, Xbox 360, Microsoft
Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod/iPhone) | YouTube | Viddler
A million virtual boozers can’t be wrong, nor can they be drunk unless you bring them into reality. Reality is what happened at Booze Mail’s Million Booze March event where virtual boozers came out of the closet to embrace actual reality based booze drinks. If reality scares you like it does us, stick to the uber popular Booze Mail Facebook app and you won’t have to drink real drinks with real people again. Irina shows us why it’s a bit scary.
Episode links: Booze Mail (FB app), Million Booze March (photos), Renkoo, Schlomo
Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod/iPhone)
Here’s a bit more coverage from the NewTeeVee Live conference. Irina asks some new media talent about the old media game.
Episode links: NewTeeVee Live, CNET Webware, French Maid TV, ICM, The Dot Comix, Tiki Bar TV
Formats available: Portable (iPod/iPhone) | Quicktime (.mov)
We dropped into the inaugural NewTeeVee Live conference this week so Irina could ask some burning questions on fashion, content, and of course everyone’s favorite subject, the long tail.
Episode links: Revision3, Laughing Squid, OpenRoad.TV, Xlntads, Heather Gold, Seesmic
Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod/iPhone)
It would really suck if your cell phone, iPod or Zune got you killed while driving which is why Microsoft’s got your back. Their new Sync platform hooks up your bluetooth device to your car, assuming you have a new Ford and a Windows 98 install CD. OK, install CD is optional. It’s all voice activated goodness from there. Velle Kolde of Microsoft Auto shows Irina how to call Bill Gates and find Bootylicious on her imaginary Zune.
Episode links: Ford Sync, Microsoft Auto
Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod) | Ogg Theora (.ogg)
The force is strong with this one, young geek viewer. We caught up with Mr. Cranky Geek himself, John C. Dvorak, while he was brushing up his crank skills with Master Yoda outside of George Lucas’ infamous Industrial Light and Magic in San Francisco’s Presidio. Irina goes into deep history with Dvorak to discover it all started with a fly in the sandwich.
Episode links: John C. Dvorak, Cranky Geeks, ILM
Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod)