First off, if you didn’t catch the news earlier this week, joining our spectacular music track is Andy Stein AKA MandoPony! Well-known throughout the My Little Pony community for his acoustic covers and original pony tunes, Mando is a skilled singer/songwriter and we’re excited to announce that he will be performing live at Everfree Northwest’s own Ponystock!
SIGINT is not only a strategy of the intelligence community and the signal sent when you hit Ctrl+C, but also a renowned conference on sociopolitical demands and utopias, hacktivism, creative violation of norms, and geeky fun in general. This year’s SIGINT12 in Cologne, Germany, is still in full swing (May 18 to 20), but for many of us the 1:45 h “lecture” on ponies and dragons, trolls and fluffiness has just possibly been the highlight of the event.
To the best of my knowledge, an official recording of the event has not yet been uploaded, but they provided a livestream, which I recorded. You can download the recording here, but it is not seekable and probably contains some padding at the beginning.
The panelists, all pony experts from a well-known German podcast, are (left to right) Sofakissen, Jella, Map, Mad Malik, and Tenkoman a.k.a. Gerjet a.k.a. Weatherhoof. (Weatherhoof is also one of the organizers of the German Galacon convention.) They introduced the surprisingly partially oblivious audience to the world of pone, and apart from the obligatory history (complete with G1–G3.5 and /co/) and different explanations of the allure of the show, they also touched on the prominent role of feminism, the subversion of clichéd gender roles, possible reasons for the occasional pony hate, and the chemical properties of cider. For a few seconds it even seemed like Weatherhoof might revisit his rant about the lacking appreciation of the German community for the German dub, but it didn’t come to that. Cool hat, by the way.
This week’s featured artist is the goat gal Stripey! You can find her at her DA here and her ask Aloha blog here! You can find the interview after the break!
This one came from Round 5 of Michelle’s Facebook “Name the Song” contest.
The hints were: a non-swinging, non-Christmas song that came out in the 1940′s and is still heard extensively in 2012.
Prize winners for Round 5 revealed!
Surprise guests!
AND….a very special announcement!
PLUS….once again, Michelle will be in the IRC chat
Michelle Creber will premiere a brand new song cover this week at the time listed above. She is the voice artist for Apple Bloom and the singing voice of Sweetie Belle. EverFree Radio will host the track on our shoutcast stream, and Michelle Creber herself will be in EverFree Radio’s IRC chat to converse with listeners!
Check out Michelle’s CDBaby account for some samples of her covers. A portion of the proceeds from song sales will be donated to the Because I am a Girl charity. Support the charity and buy her covers, they’re only a dollar and every dollar goes a long way toward helping out!
Visit her website for updates on her projects. Follow her on Twitter and like her on Facebook for even faster updates, contests, and more.
To tune in, use one of the following links:
Combined Viewer, listen in and chat using the embedded player and chat client. ShoutCast, direct link to our ShoutCast stream for opening in WinAmp/VLC etc.
Recently the Convention Chairman of BUCK (Brony United Kingdom Convention) Saturday sat down with ANI-con radio to give all the latest information about what is going on with the UK’s first G4 Pony Convention.
I had planned on putting the audio into a YouTube video for easier listening, but ANI-con doesn’t have a download link, so you can listen to it via Soundcloud (behind the page break). If our embed doesn’t work, you can head on over to the Soundcloud page, found here.
I meant to post this up sooner but I forgot, but as a reminder, John de Lancie will be appearing as a guest of honor at Dallas’ ComicCon that is taking place this weekend, along with fellow Trekky star Patrick Stewart. So expect some great fun having those two together and on a Q&A panel. It was also said somewhere that JdL was going to talk more about this upcoming Brony Documentary. So at some point hopefully Saturday night or Sunday morning we’ll have something to report on. But we’ll be searching and collecting what we can from JdL during the ComicCon. Here is some copy/pasta from their site.
This is a friendly neighborhood reminder that the freakin’ captain of the Enterprise and a loveable (well, maybe not loveable) omnipotent being will be at Dallas ComicCon this weekend (May 19th & 20th). That’s right kidos Sir Patrick Stewart & one John de Lancie will be gracing the stage at the Irving Convention center in the Metroplex.
This really shaping up to be quite a convention. Not only will Picard & Q be in attendance, but Stan Lee (Saturday Only), Summer Glau, James Marsters, Adam West, Burt Ward, David Prowse, Peter Mayhew, Jeremy Bullock, and tons of more will be attending the event. We’ve been to several conventions ran by theDCC folks and they always put on a fantastic show. You won’t be disappointed. Check out the full details below.
Dallas ComicCon May 19-20, 2012 Irving Convention Center 500 W Los Colinas Blvd Irving , TX (At intersection of 114 and NW Highway) Official Guest List Official Website
From a quick check of the Con’s official page, tickets are available at the door, $25 on Saturday, $20 on Sunday, kids 5 – 12 $5.00 and anyone younger is free.
SaberSpark and Paleo Steno may not have IMDb listings as directors and producers going back into the 90s, but SaberSpark at least completely floored me with his comprehensive documentary Ballad of the Brony back when it came out. Paleo Steno’s complementary work is instead focused on the show itself, and together they run Brony Breakdown, where they have interviewed a number of figures from the fandom. Find all the details here.
Three days ago they posted an update that suggests that they may seek to cooperate with the BronyCon documentary: “I messaged Michael Brockhoff, the head of the Bronycon: The Documentary project (featuring John de Lancie), here on Kickstarter about meeting up at bronycon and he agreed to do so!” Good luck, folks!
There’s something different about this week’s episode of the Equestria Inquirer. Sure, all of the usual stuff is in there: Joe gives an update on the Chinese/Equestrian peace talks, and TechRat discusses two ways in which Ponyville faces certain destruction, but something is not right. What could it be? Could it be the new segment from LttMoose? Could it be the surprise guest appearance by DustyKatt? No, there’s something else. Something odd. Something unnatural. Something….. backwards. We’re not going to tell you what it is. See if you can spot it for yourself. It’s subtle….very subtle. Good luck finding it! – TechRat
Headline: 1ST A CON, 2ND A DESSERT, 3RD FLOOR WAX, 4TH PRESS NOTE
My dearest subjects,
after a busy month we can announce that we only have 60 of the former 250 Grand Gala Tickets left. If they are sold out, you only have the chance to get one of the rare Upgrade-Tickets to get to the Gala Ball on Saturday. However if you are still uncertain, if you want to go to the Galacon or not, but being afraid that there are no more tickets left, when you decided to go, we can give you a opportunity in this fair community:
Now you can pre-claim your ticket for €20 at our Startnext (http://www.startnext.de/en/Galacon) and pay the other €20 for the Basic Weekend Ticket at the Galacon itself.
Continuing with small updates: Hereby we announce a live Q&A with the staff and our Guests of Honour on Saturday May 26th at 9 pm CEST (3 pm EDT). For links and details please check our Twitter at @gala_con or our new Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/GrandGallopingGala.
Last but not least is our basic convention shirt made by our sponsor getDigital. For just €7.90 (incl. a max. international shipping of €10) you can be part of the biggest conspiracy of all conventions. What is the origin of the slogan? Where can I get the answer? Who ate the dessert? More questions you will find, while wearing this shirt: http://www.getdigital.de/products/Galacon/lng/en.
With that we as the Galacon Staff wish a nice weekend, with pinkalicious party ponies and until next time,
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By Gendid, May 19, 2012 – 6:00 pm EDT
This week’s featured artist is the goat gal Stripey! You can find her at her DA here and her ask Aloha blog here! You can find the interview after the break!
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