The Unknown Studio

Anyone who knows me, will know that I’m a huge fan of the survival horror genre. From sci-fi-style movies like Alien to videogames like Resident Evil (the original), Silent Hill and Dead Space, I find the blighted future/run-for-your-fuckin’-lives style of entertainment deeply fascinating.

I didn’t know about the comic book series The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore until this summer, when Rachel bought me the first volume in the series of comics. I was immediately enamoured.

The series looks at what a post-apocalyptic Earth would look like, if the apocalypse had something to do with a virus (or something) that makes the dead rise again. It’s less focused on zombies, and more interested in examining what that new reality does to the living left to carve out a niche without having their faces eaten.

When I found out AMC was creating an original series based on The Walking Dead, I thought I was going to explode with zombie-joy. Read the rest of this entry »

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Welcome to the fifth episode of the second season of the Unknown Studio! This episode, we interview National Post web editor Daniel Kaszor, and we feature highlights from our birthday party, co-hosted by our secret lovers from theEdmontonian.com. Here’s the breakdown

0:00: Show Intro
2:35: Scott’s American vacation, and part one of our interview with Daniel Kaszor
8:27: Birthday party highlights with Ryan Jespersen from CityTV
18:10: Birthday party highlights with Samantha Power from Vue Weekly
24:37: Part two of our interview with Daniel Kaszor
43:01: More birthday party highlights with Colin MacIntyre from Makin’ Whoopee
47:37: More birthday party highlights with Trent Wilkie from Mostly Water Theatre
54:20: Adam Rozenhart – UNLEASHED
57:30: Part three of our interview with Daniel Kaszor
1:19:20: The Fast Fifteen with Daniel Kaszor

Let us know what you thought, everyone! Do you love us? Hate us? TELL US!

Download episode 31 of the Unknown Studio directly to your computer.

The Unknown Studio is a proud member of the League of Extraordinary Media.

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EDMONTON JOURNAL STILL SPONSORS THE UNKNOWN STUDIO
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It’s true! After so much joking and tongue-in-cheek referrals to Edmonton’s newspaper of record on our show, the Edmonton Journal decided to put their money where our mouths are, by sponsoring the Unknown Studio this month!

We’re helping EJ to promote their Blackberry mobile launcher. You can check it out by clicking here on your Blackberry browser. If you have any comments about the mobile launcher or the Journal’s mobile site, let us know and we’ll pass it along!
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Last night, along with our friends at TheEdmontonian.com, we celebrated our birthday. Granted it was about two months too late — we needed time to get our shit together, order a cake, prepare a program for the evening, and plan how much we were going to drink — but it was still awesome.

More awesome than we could have expected.

On the next episode of the Unknown Studio, we’ll have a few highlights from the evening. Meanwhile, League of Extraordinary Media co-founder Brittney Le Blanc was kind enough to take a bunch of photos of the event and post them. Here’s a slideshow for you:

Huge thanks to all of the local celebrities who read for us, including Josh Classen, Ryan Jespersen, Samantha Power, Colin MacIntyre, Craig Schram and Trent Wilkie. You were all amazingly hilarious. We’ll definitely have to do it again sometime.

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Although it’s been an unicorn’s age* since we last updated the website with something that wasn’t a podcast, I thought I’d bring us all back to earth with a post about our forthcoming co-birthday party with the delightful cherubs who run TheEdmontonian.com.

Fans of ours will recall that we made a big deal out of turning one back in June. But I feel like we didn’t go far enough, like we didn’t really KICK IT UP to the NOTCH that this momentous occasion merited. So, after some discussion with our League of Extraordinary Media friends, we decided a party — with delicious cake and delicious entertainment a delicious amount of time after our deliciously authentic birthday — was in order. Read the rest of this entry »

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Welcome to the fourth episode of the second season of the Unknown Studio with many different guests. You see, because Scott was out of town the past ten days, we decided to ditch the long-form interview in favour of wat I lovingly call “tidbits of sweet, sweet content”! Here’s what this episode is all about:

• 0:00: Show intro (“Optimus Prime!”)
• 2:20: We dip into the You’ve Got Mail bag
• 5:31: Interview with Eri Riot from Geekbadge.ca
• 13:10: Interview with Stanley Woo of Apocalypse Kow — the group’s appearing at this year’s Edmonton Fringe!
• 22:50: Sex Talk with Brenda Kerber from the Traveling Tickle Trunk
• 26:31: Interview with Carrie Robinson, who recently auditioned for Wipeout
• 36:02: Outro (“So long Cybertron!”)

Huge thanks to Parabolix, DJ Chronos and LG from the Free Sound Project for helping out with our zipper sound effect and Cybertron soundscape.

Let us know what you thought, everyone! Do you dig the new format? Hate it? TELL US!

Download episode 30 of the Unknown Studio directly to your computer.

The Unknown Studio is a proud member of the League of Extraordinary Media.

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EDMONTON JOURNAL STILL SPONSORS THE UNKNOWN STUDIO
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It’s true! After so much joking and tongue-in-cheek referrals to Edmonton’s newspaper of record on our show, the Edmonton Journal decided to put their money where our mouths are, by sponsoring the Unknown Studio this month!

We’re helping EJ to promote their Blackberry mobile launcher. You can check it out by clicking here on your Blackberry browser. If you have any comments about the mobile launcher or the Journal’s mobile site, let us know and we’ll pass it along!
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Well, friends, this column marks the very last EVER FML Friday for the Unknown Studio. That’s right, we’re moving onto bigger and better things. More varied content! More rants! More More More!

And Smores! OK, I only thought of smores because it contains the word “more” and I’m going camping this weekend.

But this final installment of FML Friday is themed (applause)! This week, it’s all about money! Read the rest of this entry »

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