Hi folks

After Garth’s hard drive crash, it took us a while to get all 4 eps back in order. (turned out the grease between the chip and the heatsink and dried out, which caused overheating, which caused shutdown, which caused the Raid0 to rebuild, which caused some sound files to be cut into 64kb segments and shuffled like a deck a cards.) The server is running normally again. (ooo but it sounds like the seeds of a story idea)

For the lack of a nail a horseshoe was lost
For the lack of the horseshoe, the horse fell
For the lack of a horse, a rider was lost
For the lack of a rider, a message was lost
For the lack of a message, a battle was lost
For the lack of a battle, the war was lost
For the lack of the war, the kingdom was lost
All for the lack of a nail.

Anyway…

I now have 4 fresh CD’s that I get to listen to in my car. We had my mom as “suit computer voice”. She has a great ‘motherly tone’ but you could hear that the technobabble was tripping her up and it was destroying the suspension of disbelief. So we recorded Madelyn Gilbert instead and plugged that in and I think its a good addition to the show. Garth has found some additional ways to plug in comments from the suit that help illuminate the story that I hadn’t thought of. Garth has some cool sound effects sequences in ep 4 that I enjoy listening to over and over.

We’re close enough to the end that I’m not going to post these beta versions.
(You can get them at the party)

Garth makes the shows in 5.1 surround sound and he has a groovy cool tool that automatically mixes it down to a decent stereo mix. So we HAVE a 5.1 mix, but no plans in distributing it at this time.

Haven’t heard pricing from Metropolispost so I’m back to looking at a studio in West Valley to get down the 4 or 5 acted parts.

When we first started making these shows in the early 90’s, the only avenue for listening was ‘live radio on Sunday night’ which meant a person only had 1 chance to listen and understand what’s going on. this meant that everything had to be overemphasized. Today’s world of IPOD’s, P2P, and super large hard drives means that people can easily rewind and review. So now, I expect people to go back and listen closer to sections. The end result is that I am adamant about not putting in the little 30 second blurb at the beginning of each ep that says “Last time on Searcher and Stallion…….” That worked fine when I was a kid watching “the Six Million Dollar Man”, but now I figure people will just go back and listen to the whole last episode.

Hehehe speaking of which, It was Kendall’s idea that the title sequence of S&S was patterned after the greatest title sequence of all time “The six million dollar man”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39co0zKbQAQ

And in ep 2 of “Dreams and Wings” when the Searcher shifts from jogging fast to “doubletime” in my mind I envision Searcher running like Steve Austin.

With the Army’s “Future Warrior 2010 program”, the concept of soldiers wearing futuristic super powered suits is not that far off. In Salt Lake City is a company called Sarcos that is working on a supersuit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ4J69EEpu4
(Can you imagine a 4′10 gal lifting a 2000 lb bomb over her head and attaching it to the underside of a bomber on an aircraft carrier!)
As soon as some one figures out how to provide the insatiable power such a suit requires………………….

As the 3 of us keep reminding ourselves, we need to get this show done while its still science fiction, and not science history.

Scott Howard