Keramcast vs the Second Column Podcast

Well, well, well what do we have here?  Keram Malicki-Sanchez and Aimee Lynn Chadwick, hosts of the Keramcast.com visit the studios of The Second Column, a weekly comedy podcast that features four improvisational actors who trade stories and jokes with their favorite comics, actors, writers and musicians in Los Angeles.

Keram Malicki-Sanchez and Aimee Lynn Chadwick visit The Second Column podcast

In this photo: Joe Donatelli, Sean Kearney, Michael Costantini, Keram Malicki-Sanchez, Aimee Lynn Chadwick, Carlos Jaime

An hour+ of madness ensues as the six podcast veterans share devilish tales about funky Ecuadorian mountain cuisine, making out with Winona Ryder and double rainbows. Listen now to this very special episode of The Second Column and see what happens when the Keramcast is not playing on its home field.

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KeramCast.com Episode 19 – The Rise of Indie Games

Independent video games are going through something of an Enlightenment period with the propagation of free development platforms, starter kits and online marketplace happily stocking up on the latest titles assembled in basements, garages and coffee shops. The time is right for this emerging medium that brings together graphic design, music, storytelling and interactivity in a world hungry for new content, interaction and storytelling forms.

In this very special edition of the KeramCast, host Keram Malicki-Sanchez interviews Psychic Bunny founder Jesse Vigil and Indiecade director Sam Roberts about the history, present, and future of indie games, their new video game label The Singularity (also working with Indiecade festival chair Celia Pearce) and what amazing things lay ahead.

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KeramCast.com Episode 18 – A List of Paradigm Shifts Introduced in 2009

In this year-end wrap up, Keram Malicki-Sanchez and co-host Aimee Lynn Chadwick cover the many extraordinary events and changes that took place in culture, media, technology and the world in 2009.  From Obama to U2 streaming live in HD over the internet, Ebooks to Avatar, Iranian protests via Twitter to Canon’s groundbreaking HDSLR cameras and what is was like shooting with Christian Slater or a RED camera in the midst of a hurricane in Hawai’i, this episode has it all.

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Watch KeramCast Co-Host Aimee on The Forgotten tonight on ABC at 10PM 9Central

Hello dear friends, while we have been busy relocating our podcast studio to its swanky new location in Hollywood, California, co-host Aimee Lynn Chadwick has been busy shooting with Christian Slater! Tonight you can see what Aimee does for a real living on Jerry Bruckheimer’s new crime drama The Forgotten on ABC at 10PM.

We hope you enjoy it and would love to hear your thoughts. We also look forward to bringing you hot new episodes of the KeramCast as soon as we get all these machines plugged back in.

Sincerely,

Keram Malicki-Sanchez

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KeramCast.com Episode 17 – Machu Pichu, the Great Firewall of China and How Looms Led to Laptops

Chinese skycraperIn this very special one hour episode, Keram interviews his own flesh-and-blood sister Vanessa on a stopover to Los Angeles during the course of an amazing journey that has taken her from a four-day trek along the Inca Trail to the ancient and magical cloud city of Machu Pichu in Peru to the polluted and technologically advanced cities of the Canton province in China and its wonders untold for a series of tech conventions.

Keram and co-host Aimee Lynn Chadwick hear from Vanessa about unlocking the codes of textiles from one region of the world to another, how the loom is the precursor to the laptop, the critical differences between natural and synthetic fibers and dyes, the lake of floating islands in Peru powered by solar panels, the latest subversive street art  from Hong Kong and China, the semiotics of fashion and so much more.

Join the KeramCast on this amazing voyage of discovery and insight.

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KeramCast.com Episode 16 – NAB 2009 Pt. 2, Kindle DX, Free Realms and more

Segway based Steadicam at NAB 2009 The end of the Boston Globe, one of America’s oldest newspapers, comes at the same time as Amazon announces the sequel to its digital book reader the Kindle DX.  Aimee returns from Boston and reports on the Virgin airlines experience.  Free Realms, Sony’s new free online MMORPG launches.

Diane Sutter receives a Leadership award for her Broadcast Leadership Program which trains women and minorities how to purchase and run their own broadcast network.  The latest Mo-Cap technology from the Jim Henson Creature Workshop and how it’s used in Sid the Science Kid, the Flip Mino, the Steadicam Segway, the Nokia ultra-portable device that runs Google’s Android, the new forums at KeramCast.com and the importance of building community around your brand – all this and more is discussed in this super-packed new episode of the KeramCast.

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KeramCast.com Episode 15: Report From NAB 2009 – Amazing Things Are Coming

Author Malcolm Gladwell speaks to NAB President and CEO David K. RehrKeram and Aimee are back from eight days in Vegas where they got the very latest scoop from the leading minds of the entertainment industry in a series of intimate panels and lectures that included speakers like author Malcolm Gladwell, and presidents, CEO’s and GM’s of Disney, Electronic Arts, and Adobe Software on such diverse topics as the the nature of success, ARG’s, the shape of Web 3.0, 3DTV, HD Radio and FM chips on your cell phone.

This episode is part one of what amazing new insights the KeramCast has to share with you about the latest and most incredibly innovative products and ideas. It’s like a free trip to Vegas and a media insider’s pass to the private seminars – all you have to do is click download or check it out at iTunes or your ipod.

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KeramCast.com Episode Fourteen: Blogging, Tweeting, NAB – The Now, The Future

Keram and Aimee discuss the meteoric rise of Twitter in 2009 and what it may look like in five years, as well as the nature and art of blogging, monetization, preparing for the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Vegas,  crowdsourcing, cloud computing, wacky but legit ways to make money on the web and more.  Don’t miss this insightful episode.

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Some Notes and Updates While We Finish the Next Episode

Dear friends of the KeramCast – while we assemble the next episode of KC, I wanted to mention that a film I worked on in 2007 – Marvel Comics’ Punisher: War Zone is out this week via a 2-disc standard DVD and Blu-Ray set. Look for it at your local DVD seller. I loved the film and am proud of what everyone accomplished. If you didn’t get a chance to see it in theaters, treat yourself to a whole lot of fun, and release that pent up rage through it, vicariously.

Also, I invite you to call the KeramCast at our LA studios on (310) 929-7268 and leave your stories about dealing with anxiety. If you do not suffer from an anxiety disorder, you are off the hook. But if you are just shy or nervous talking about it, believe me, you are not alone. We will keep all callers anonymous unless you want us to use your first name and location. We are building a life-changing episode for you based on years of experience with this.

Finally, I want to let you know we are hard at work finishing my new album Come To Life and hope to have it ready for the world by Fall 2009; it takes so much to make a record and even though we live in a fast-consuming and discarding society, the actual manifestation of a vision is formidable. You can purchase/download my acoustic album “Box” at http://cdbaby.com/cd/keram or http://keramsongs.com

Thank you for being a listener and subscriber of the podcast and we look forward to sharing new adventures with you soon!

Keram and crew.

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KeramCast.com: Episode Thirteen! Video and Filmmaker Bonanza

video cameraKeram essentially gives a 45 minute lecture on how to shoot high-quality video, distribute, market, monetize and succeed at making professional, broadcast quality home movies.  He also discusses viral videos, how to run your own internet based 24 hour TV station, hit Webisodic “The Guild”, aspect ratios, the best HD cameras for under a thousand bucks and much more.  Can you believe it is both free and ad free?  He is joined by co-host Aimee Lynn Chadwick.  Too good to be true.

Links referenced in this podcast include:

UPDATES: Mogulus, mentioned in this episode, has since evolved into Livestream – a site that has since offered live broadcasts of the Oscars behind-the-scenes and exclusive Presidential campaign videos!  Also Revver.com seems to have since gone AWOL.

YouTube has evolved radically, from adding new commercial rental services of select content) adding full HD support and raising its content cap to 2GB.  In the near future they will also add metadata for fully searchable video and audio.

At the time this episode was recorded, no one could have predicted the rise of DSLR cameras as the new film threat.  In the interim, Keram has launched 7DLabs.com – a site dedicated to shooting with so-called HDSLR cameras.

Despite these subsequent changes, the episode comprises a hearty discussion about what viral videos are, what elements appear to be consistent among them, and how to exploit new content with this in mind.

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