Julia Sherred
Geeky Pleasures’ Joe Peacock Interview – August 19, 2011
If you missed Julia 'Jules' Sherred's Geeky Pleasures interview with Joe Peacock, on August 19, 2011, you can stream it on the site or download it. Things discussed during the interview include: Fark and working at Fark; Tangent alert; User experience, online communties and entitlement; Tangent Alert; Facebook vs Google+; Tech Issue #1; Joe’s notes and blog; First world problems; Joe’s books: Mentally Incontinent, Mentally Incontinent, his third book and self-publishing; Tangent alert; Tech Issue #2; Akira and the Art of Akira; Tech Issue #3; Drawing and art; Personal creativity; Geek community and pandering to it; Tangent Alert; Tech Issue #4; Pets vs Kids; Tangent Alert; Geek Girls; Canadian bear and cougars, and Tom Feister and Studio Revolver; Working out, weight lifting and judging people based on appearances and size; Crossing the boarder, drugs and alcohol; Boxing, football, wrestling, MMA and why, and the military and combat; Tech issue #5; Human behavior and psychology; Joe and Jules’ super secret project discussed. There is some a lot NSFW language and the interview may be offensive to some listeners. Read the full article for more information.
Read moreGeeky Pleasures' SpinTunes Interview - August 5, 2011
If you missed Julia 'Jules' Sherred's Geeky Pleasures interview with SpinTunes,musicians, past and present, on August 5, 2011, you can stream it on the site or download it. Things discussed during the interview include: What is SpinTunes; Coming into SpinTunes as someone new to the community; SpinTunes as a community, not just a song writing competition; Competition vs creative outlet; Being a judge, judging your peers, being judged by your peers vs being judged by a stranger; The overall judging process; Worst challenge aka the facepalm challenge; Meeting and interpreting the challenge; Best or favourite challenge; The creative and song writing process; What is the biggest thing they’ve taken away from participating in SpinTunes; and the dos and don’ts of a song writing competition. There is some NSFW language. Read the full article for more information.
Read moreGeeky Pleasures' Pat Kilbane Interview - July 29, 2011
If you missed Julia 'Jules' Sherred's Geeky Pleasures interview with Mad TV Alum, author of The Brain Eater's Bible and geek, Pat Kilbane, on July 29, 2011, you can stream it on the site or download it. Things discussed during the interview include: Pat’s beginnings in Ohio and his degree in French; Language, profanity and culture; His start in stand-up comedy and move to Hollywood; Seinfeld, commercials, Mad TV and Saturday Night Live; Doing accents and impressions; More talk about profanity and venacular; Many things that are The Brain Eater’s Bible; Geek culture and pandering to it; Following your passions; Geeky Pleasures and the hows, whats and whys; Navigating, surviving and succeeding in the creative/ entertainment industry; Science fiction and fantasy, and the things they love and hate to see in movies and books; Hollywood and ego, and keeping grounded; The act of creating; Self-erected barriers, baggage and fear, and overcoming them; and then they wrapped things up with some shameless self-promotion. There is some NSFW language. Read the full article for more information.
Read moreGeeky Pleasures' Deborah Vankin Interview - July 24, 2011
If you missed Julia 'Jules' Sherred's Geeky Pleasures interview with Deborah Vankin, on July 24, 2011, you can stream it on the site or download it. Things discussed during the interview include: What POSEURS is about; What demographic the graphic novel is aimed and why; Deborah’s experiences covering the LA night life and how it influenced this graphic novel; The deeper themes of the graphic novel; How the writer-artist collaboration works; Deborah’s SDCC experience; Independent publishers and working with them; What else she is working on and graphic novels that have influenced her own work. Read the full article for more information.
Read moreGeeky Pleasures’ GeekGirlCon Interview – July 8, 2011
If you missed Julia 'Jules' Sherred's Geeky Pleasures interview with the women of GeekGirlCon on July 8, 2011, you can stream it on the site or download it. Things discussed during the interview include: Why have a GeekGirlCon; some of the guest who will be appearing at GeekGirlCon; some of the vendors who will be at GeekGirlCon; women in geek culture; geeked out a bit; shared a bit about the things they enjoy in their respective areas and more. There is some NSFW language. Read the full article for more information.
Read moreGeeky Pleasures’ Phil Plait Interview – June 10, 2011
If you missed Julia 'Jules' Sherred's Geeky Pleasures interview with Phil Plait on June 10, 2011, you can stream it on the site or download it. Things discussed during the interview include: the end of the shuttle program and what is next for space exploration; O’Neill Cylinders, Dyson Spheres and space elevators; asteroid impacts, aliens and solar flares; Death From The Skies and Bad Universe; raising children to be critical thinkers; Phil’s space junk, w00tstock and conventions; the antivax movement; they geeked out about science fiction, Star Trek and Doctor Who; plus more. Read the full article for more information.
Read moreGeeky Pleasures' Marian Call Interview - May 18, 2011
If you missed Julia 'Jules' Sherred's Geeky Pleasures interview with Marian Call on May 18, 2011, you can stream it on the site or download it. Things discussed during the interview include: Marian’s business model and how she find the energy to tour in the way that she does; they talked a lot about Anchorage, Alaska, and the arts/music scene there; they talked about what it is like to live in Alaska and the accuracy of how the media portrays living there; they talked about the internet business models in general and what makes someone succeed/fail and how does one measure their success; they talked about Marian’s upcoming tour, including her upcoming concert at ThinkGeek headquarters; they discussed her upcoming album release and a few more things. Read the full article for more information.
Read moreGeeky Pleasures' Dan Freeman Interview - May 11, 2011
If you missed Julia 'Jules' Sherred's Geeky Pleasures interview with Dan Freeman on May 11, 2011, you can stream it on the site or download it. Things discussed during the interview: Reasons for profanity in The Minister of Chance; Dan’s history in radio and Death Comes To Time; Technology and the doors it has opened for media creation; Reasons for creating The Minister of Chance; Independent content creation and the internet, plus pros and cons; Casting the actors and how they came aboard; Producing and editing The Minister of Chance; The real life messages/ social commentary in The Minister of Chance; What’s next for The Minister of Chance; Time it takes to record and produce; Post-production process; Timeline for new episodes once funds are secured; Long terms goals; The acting process in an audio role; How The Minister of Chance been received; Other possible mediums for The Minister of Chance; and more. Read the full article for more information.
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