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For our 350th episode we bring on members of the Senior Staff at NoPro: Leah Davis (New England), Patrick McLean (Chicago), Blake Weil (East Coast), and Kevin Gossett to talk about the state of immersive in their neck of the woods. It's a big sprawling convo that finds us diving deep on installation art, the mainstreaming of immersive experiences, LARPing, and XR. Hosted by Noah Nelson. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
For years now, first in a backyard and then inside an early 20th century storage building, one of the most unique immersive creations in the world has been one of Los Angeles' treasures: Scout Expedition Co.'s The Nest.Created by themed entertainment designers Jarrett Lantz and Jeff Leinenveber, The Nest has both delighted audiences and broken our hearts since it first turned up, almost like a rumor, years ago. A visit to a storage unit reveals the shape of a life, told through audio tapes (literal tapes), and interactive moments that unlock more and more of the story of a woman named Josie, whose legacy is now yours.This special episode of the podcast, our 349th, brings Lantz and Leinenveber together with Mackenzie Firgens, the voice of Josie, and was recorded inside The Nest itself. The Thea Award-winning show will close this August. But there's still time to discover it, or revisit it, and the code NOPROPODCAST will unlock a discount for these last shows. Scout Expedition will also be offering up Behind The Scenes tours over the summer, so keep an eye out for that.Show NotesThe NestScout Expedition Co.The DIG Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
It's a big show this week.First up: writer-director Ryan Griffen and executive producer Nathan Anderson are here to talk with us about Lustration, the narrative VR series available on Meta Quest that adapts Griffen's neo-noir afterlife tale from comics to virtual reality. With a little help from voice actors like Kevin Conroy and Dante Basco. [6:00]Then David Markland of Midsummer Scream is here to tell us about this year's Halloween and Horror Convention, the first full Scream since 2019, which is returning to Long Beach July 29th - 31st. [35:10]Finally, we settle in for a great conversation with Susanna Pollack, President of Games For Change — producers of On The Morning You Wake (To The End of the World) and of the upcoming Games For Change Festival in New York City and ONLINE in July 13-16th that brings game makers and XR creators together with a focus on creating social impact through their work. [51:05]All that PLUS details on this November's Denver Immersive Gathering at the top of the show. Tickets on sale NOW. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
We wrap up our Tribeca Immersive 2022 coverage with this gathering of the Review Crew: NYC correspondent Edward Mylechreest is joined by special guest Nick Fortugno who makes his Review Crew debut both of whom were on-site at Tribeca this year. Hosted by NoPro Podcast host Noah Nelson, who held down the fort on the at-home portion of Tribeca.In this episode:This is Not A Ceremony [3:00]Plasticsapiens [7:52]Please Believe Me [10:35]Intravene [16:25]Iago [28:22]Emerging Radiance [36:40]Reach You [43:46]Evolver [48:38]Our Complete Tribeca Immersive Coverage:2022 Festival DiaryPodcast Interview:This Is Not A CeremonyPodcast Interview:Tribeca Immersive’s Ana BrzezinskaPodcast Interviews:Intravene & Mescaform HillCreator Spotlight:Q&A Interviews with Five Projects Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Our Tribeca Immersive coverage continues with interviews of the creative teams behind two of the most exciting projects at this year's festival.First up: Glenn Neath of DARKFIELD and Garth Mullins of the Crackdown Podcast join us to talk about their collaboration with documentarian Brenda Longfellow called INTRAVENE, an immersive docudrama series about the overdose crisis in Vancouver. [3:35]Then Edward Madojemu, the artist behind Mescaform Hill: The Missing Five talks with us about adapting the webcomic world he created with his brother Adam into the immersive animated short that is now available on Oculus TV, and about his multiple approaches to bringing comic book storytelling into the spatial medium. [27:00]Plus an update from David Spira of Room Escape Artist on RECON: the Reality Escape Convention.Show NotesINTRAVENETribeca Immersive Diary 2022Tribeca Immersive Creator SpotlightRECONThe Onward Odyssey of OddKnock ProductionsReview Rundown: Plays Within Plays Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This week New England correspondent Leah Davis hops into the host seat and is joined by Arts Editor Laura Hess to talk Stranger Things. No, not Season 4 and its upcoming finale, but to swap notes on the past two years of Stranger Things experiences. First Laura takes us back to 2020 and the Stranger Things Drive-Into Experience in LA to set the background.Then Leah pivots to the NYC edition of Stranger Things: The Experience, which opened this season. (13:08) And for those wondering: YES, the San Francisco one is ALREADY OPEN.--Discover the latest immersive events, festivals, workshops, and more at our new siteEVERYTHING IMMERSIVE, new home of NoPro’s show listings.NoPro is a labor of love made possible by our generous Patreon backers.Join them today!In addition to theNo Prosceniumwebsite, ourpodcast, and ournewsletters, you can find NoPro onTwitter,Facebook,YouTube,Instagram, in the Facebook communityEverything Immersive, andon our Discord. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Summer Festival season has started in earnest and this week's episode has us touching base with two very different events on the East and West Coast of the United States.AnaBrzezinska curator of this year’s Tribeca Immersive at the Tribeca Festival which is taking place RIGHT NOW in New York City joins us to talk about this year’s selections and how it all comes together both in NYC and in the virtual galleries of the Museum of Other Realities.Then we shift coasts and festivals for the Hollywood Fringe where Morgan Taylor, Mason Conrad, and Kristin Childers of Not Another Midsummer join us to talk about this rollicking new show that wraps the Bard’s classic with an immersive metastory about a theatre troop coming apart at the seams. [31:50 - Explicit Language]SHOW NOTESCall Sheet for June 10, 2022NoPro Office Hours - June 13th at 4PM Pacific (Discord) Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This week Review Crew host Kevin Gossett is joined by NoPro publisher Noah Nelson to chat about two shows they've caught so far in this year's Hollywood Fringe Festival.First up is Last Call Theatre's Signals, which takes the online-MMO format and adapts it into a theatrical setting that uses the internet's own crowdsourced SCP Foundation as inspiration. Then it's The Queen's Fools production of Not Another Midsummer, a fantastic riff on the Shakespearean classic that mixes immersive elements in a gloriously chaotic pre-show with a rock solid show with a show that has a show. (That itself has a show within a show.) [12:43]Show NotesNoPro Office Hours in the NoPro Discord -- Monday June 13 @ 4PM Pacific Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
We kick off our Tribeca Immersive coverage this week with Ahnahktsipiitaa (Colin Van Loon) the director of This Is Not A Ceremony, a stunning piece of 360 cinema that calls on the viewer to bear witness to personal details of the injustices visited upon Indigenous men in Canada. It is a film that understands the power of its medium, and through the heaviness of its subject matter also demonstrates the strength of First Nations individuals and communities. The film plays both in-person and as part of the online portion of Tribeca Immersive (online tickets are just $5).SHOW NOTESTribeca Immersive Panel: Extended Reality As A Modern Identity ToolkitNick Tierce's The BSO That Almost Was Twitter ThreadParticle Ink: Speed of DarkNoah's Office Hours: June 13th at 4PM PDT Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Blake, Patrick, and Kevin dive into the last two Book Club selections: L.E. Hall's Planning Your Escape, which serves as both a history of play that led up to the creation of escape rooms and as a guide on how to approach escape games (with a good dose of immersive theatre history to boot); and Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, a fantastical novel set in the midst of a duel between two magicians at an otherworldly circus that just so happens to be inspired in part by the original production of Punchdrunk's Sleep No More.Hosted by Kevin Gossett, with Blake Weil & Patrick McLeanShow NotesFailbetter's promotional story game for The Night Circus Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.