Voting for panels for next year’s SXSW is up, and we’re part of a late entry submitted by Tim Shey! So head over to vote for it or any of the other great panels!

Our Galacticast video The Supermarios has been selected to be screened at the Mississauga Independent Film Festival on Sunday, July 13th, at 11am in the Short Program B category. So, if you’re in the Mississauga area, go check it out at the CineStarz Theatre!

Special thanks to Matt and Jeff Campagna for all their hard work organizing the event. Judging from the article in The Globe and Mail, all that work is finally paying off.

Galacticast is being featured as the Site of the Week in a great article on the AMC blogs this week. Special thanks to Alex Zalben for the promotion!

A “brief” stop over at the NextNewNetworks turned into a guest-star appearance on Indy Mogul, one of our favorite shows. Run by kindred spirits Erik Beck and Justin Johnson, it’s not only a wealth of DIY movie making projects, but genuinely funny too.

What: It’s Jonny’s Par-tay, an interactive, live, online video talkshow.

When to watch: Wednesday, October 31, 9PM Eastern

Interactivity: Participate in the show via the live chatroom, and we’ll even feature you on live video if you have a webcam and a free Operator11 Account

Who: Featured guests Casey McKinnon and Rudy Jahchan, host Jonny Goldstein, and you.

How to watch: All you need is broadband internet access and a computer.

Where to watch: jonnygoldstein.com

What to bring: Your questions, comments, costumes, and desire to par-tay (lampshade not provided, that’s on you).

-Casey

PANEL: Friday, August 24
8:00-9:00 Sci Fi Superstars of the Internet - It is the age of video on the Internet, and science fiction fans all over the world are creating their own shows and building huge audiences! Come see some of the best-known sci-fi stars of the web and find out how they got to where they are today, and how you too can get involved. Panelists include the producers of Chad Vader, Galacticast, Pure Pwnage, Red vs. Blue, Star Trek: New Voyages, and Your Geeks News/BSGcast.

BOOTH: Galacticast and Your Geek News will be at FanExpo all weekend at booth #1308.

We’ve got a new video coming on Monday, August 27th… until then, ROBOJEW IS GO!!!

Download MP3 (512 KB)

Link: RoboJew vs. Giant Nazi Woman of the SS

• Best Fan Podcast
• Best Video Podcast
• Best Video Production

Cross your GalactiFingers for us… and if you plan to be at DragonCon, let us know by leaving a comment!

JETSET is not for freakin’ kids people. Get it straight. Cereal commercials?? You DON’T want to piss me off.

Well, it looks like Galacticast IS for freakin’ kids… and we’re frakkin’ proud of it too!

The above video was sent to us by supreme GalactiFan Rainlin and her exceptional mother KityKity! Thanks, girls!

Now… let’s watch those cereal sponsorships roll in… LOL

The worst villain of all time… returns on Galacticast!

Coming Monday, July 16, 2007.

http://www.parsecawards.com/node/39

Dear GALACTIFANS,

This week marks the official 1-year anniversary of Galacticast! To celebrate, we’d like to invite anyone in the Montreal area to a party on Friday, May 25, 2007 at Galacticast HQ.

The festivities begin at 8pm! Please RSVP at [casey at galacticast dot com] to get the address.

Hope to see you there!
Casey

—
Casey McKinnon,
Executive Producer, GALACTICAST

In celebration of Galacticast’s one-year anniversary, we’ve decided to donate all funds raised from sponsor credits to Child’s Play, a charity that provides video games to sick children. The organization was founded by the folks at Penny Arcade (only the best web comic.. ever), and we want to support them in their mission of gamer good will.

We’ve been so fortunate in this first year and want to spread the joy. We truly hope that you’ll help us help the kids.

Casey out.

Matt’s Panties visit New York City with Rudy and Casey…

Above: A still from our latest episode entitled Rose By Any Other Name

Thanks to a man named Stephen Schleicher, all we had to do to get the “Grindhouse” effect was follow his instructions here and play around with the settings a little bit to get it the way we wanted it.

After using his settings I then desaturated the video image a little and played around with the hue to get a redder finish.

This passed February, GALACTICAST episode Superman I.V was screened in New York City at the Pioneer Theatre. The above video footage was taken by our friend Bill Cammack to make us feel like we were there at the event. Yes… Bill rocks, doesn’t he…?

That’s right, folks. For only $20,000 you can become GOD EMPEROR of GALACTICAST… with all the benefits of a Producer (linked credit in
shownotes, full screen ad credit in our videos) but for AN ENTIRE YEAR!

Will it work? Who knows…

If it does work, the world will be a beautiful place. Of course, you can still get one of our other sponsorship credits starting at $5… every little bit counts

Link: GALACTICAST Sponsorships

Above: A clip from In A Mirror, Frakly that we posted as an April Fool’s joke.

Looking for kick ass content for your new Apple TV? Go ahead and subscribe to our new high quality QuickTime feed made especially for the Apple TV: Click here to subscribe in iTunes.

The Trailer…

The Entry…

Click here to vote for Casey to win the Silent Air Guitar Challenge!!!
(Voting ends Sunday, March 11, 2007 at Midnight PST - Only 2 votes allowed/IP)

FINALLY!!! For those of you interested in checking out our interview on This Morning Live, click here and do a search for Galacticast (01/02/07).

N.B. Notice that the interviewer is Barbarella from Bar Wars…

For all those Second Life fiends out there, we had the opportunity to be interviewed by SL beauty queen Britney Mason recently about Galacticast. Click here to visit her site and click on “play show” to watch the show.

This fulfills one of the wishes on our wish list and we are eternally grateful to Tim Shey and his cameraman for having the guts to do it. We’d also like to thank Kevin Smith for being a good enough guy to take a moment and check out a clip from our show. And, Kevin, if you’re listening… someday we hope to grab your attention again with a Degrassi parody… a little Zit Remedy cover, perhaps?

UPDATE: You can Digg this article here

Rudy did some fancy coding tonight to provide you with the embed codes to copy and paste any of our episodes in two easy steps:

1. Click on “embed”
2. Copy and paste the code on your site, profile or blog

Voila! Go forth and multiply…

-Casey

Special thanks to Blip.tv for organizing the event.

I apologize to anyone who would have liked to attend this screening, but we didn’t have much information about it in advance.

Link: BBC Two Listings

Link: http://podcast.reelhorror.com/episodes/episode_67/

To all the rest of you outside Quebec- Global TV has agreed to put the footage on their web site after it airs so that you can all see it at a later date… I’ll write a blog post to let you know when it’s up.

Who am I…?

We love it SO MUCH… and couldn’t wait to show the world. Don’t be surprised if you see this lovely image on the GalactiFridge sometime soon!

Chris was disappointed that we didn’t have an outtake at the end of Project Gamma this week. Don’t worry, Chris, it won’t happen again… we were just a little pressed for time this week and didn’t have time to go through all the footage to find our screw ups. SO… I hope you enjoy this little montage of outtakes we’ve put together to satisfy your cravings.

Links: Project Gamma; Viva Pinata Commercial (”That was ACTING, children!”)

Go forth and multiply,
The Galacticast Crew

The “For Your Consideration” Trailer

Widescreen

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Click here for other available formats

Letterbox

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Click here for other available formats

Revver

Click here to get the Revver embed codes

YouTube

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The Romantic Comedy Trailer

Widescreen

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Click here for other available formats

Letterbox

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Click here for other available formats

Revver

Click here to get the Revver embed codes

YouTube

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The Extreme Action Trailer

Widescreen

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Click here for other available formats

Letterbox

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Click here for other available formats

Revver

Click here to get the Revver embed codes

YouTube

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Subject: Notice of Copyright Infringement

Dear MyHeavy,

I wish to inform you that you have been illegally re-posting our content on MyHeavy.com. Galacticast (http://www.galacticast.com) is a web video show that is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/), which means:

1. Attribution – There must be a link back to our original post at Galacticast.com
2. Non-Commercial – You may not make profit from re-distributing our work (unless we have signed a pre-arranged licensing agreement)
3. Share Alike – Our content must be re-distributed under an identical license.

MyHeavy has violated all three of the above clauses by not linking to our site, profiting by banner ad sales placed before and during our videos and by re-releasing our show under a “Copyright MyHeavy” license instead of the required identical Creative Commons license.

It has come to our attention that you have also infringed on the copyrights of other web video producers using other web hosts (Blip TV and Google Video) by re-posting their content without their knowledge. Be assured that we have already informed everybody in the Videoblogging community about this.

Please contact us to establish a licensing agreement. Otherwise, take this as notice to remove our content immediately. We expect you to reply directly to us (biz@galacticast.com) or to Mike Hudack at Blip TV (mike@blip.tv) within 24 hours.

Please note that a copy of this e-mail is being posted at http://www.galacticast.com.

Regards,
Casey McKinnon
Executive Producer, Galacticast
Web: http://www.galacticast.com/
E-mail: biz@galacticast.com
Phone: ###-###-####

Above: Our video response to Violet Blue’s Top Ten Sexiest Geeks of 2006

Other relevant Links: Ze Frank; Micki Krimmel, Kevin Rose, Mike Hudack, Violet’s 2005 List

1. Frosty the Snowman - Emily Chatrand
2. Santa Cylon is Coming to Town - El Cylono Dos Robotico
3. O Unholy Night - Minnie
4. Away on a Deathstar - The Emperor
5. Carol of the Bells - Monolith
6. Little Dalek Boy - Dalek
7. Baby It’s Cold Outside - Queen Kong and Andrew
8. Jingle Bells - Superman
9. 500 Sheep - The Procloners

Rudy and I were tagged by Zadi Diaz and Steve Woolf for Blog-Tag: A game for a virtual cocktail party. Who were in turn tagged by Steve Garfield and Chris Brogan.

So without further ado, here are our five facts:

Casey McKinnon

1. She is a descendant of United Empire Loyalists who escaped the American Revolution, and is distinguished by the capitals U.E. affixed to her name: Casey Erin McKinnon U.E. (She rarely uses the title since she does not want to be perceived as arrogant)
2. She is blood related to two US Presidents: #41 and #43.
3. Other than English, she has studied Korean, Japanese, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Gaelic, Spanish and French.
4. When applying to a Masters degree in International Security, she impressed a former CIA agent working at the University by spying on him and later reporting her findings to him during her interview… including information stating that he had died in the 1970s.
5. With $20 left to her name, she once headed out onto the streets of Edinburgh (Scotland) as an Elvis impersonator to collect money busking to passers by. Too shy to perform to the strangers on the street, she went home… and found a message on her answering machine offering her a job.

Rudy Jahchan

1. Went to British school in the Middle East and actually had a British accent until losing it after he moved to Canada.
2. His parents dated during the Lebanese Civil War and his father crossed the frontline every day to see his mother.
3. He once won second place in an art contest to create a poster with the theme “put Christ back into Christmas”.
4. He once tried to write a Titanic musical with his brother Dany.
5. He nearly flew off a cliff in the Swiss Alps while on a ski trip with his school.

So now we’re tagging Mario Librandi, Amanda Congdon, Josh Leo, Michael Tyas and Bonny Pierzina.

Today, the Gazette has released the article in the Urban Life column under the Arts & Life section: In a galaxy not so far, far away…

After being in the Hollywood Reporter and the BBC, it’s really nice to be featured in our local newspaper. Thanks Steve!

More Production pictures can be found here. Can YOU guess what we’ll be parodying?

“Galacticast, a weekly sci-fi comedy shot in a Montreal apartment, is one of the few with enough talent and imagination to be truly funny and watchable.”

Thanks BBC! We love you… and not only because you brought us The Young Ones and Doctor Who…

Come join us for a live chat on Thursday night for Reinventing Television. The show is online and interactive, so come by and ask us any question(s) you wish!

When: Thursday, Nov 30, 10PM Eastern (7PM Pacific)
Where: In the Reinventing Television Studio
What: A live interactive internet video talk show with special guests, the creators of Galacticast, host Jonny Goldstein, and you.

Hope to see you there!

More footage for you dirty GalactiFans…

Casey got this new wig last month and we LOVE it… it’s meant to look like Pamela Anderson, but we’re using it for a sexy Starfleet girl character in next week’s episode. More pics here.

Casey was interviewed by Steve Bryant from the Hollywood Reporter this week in New York about Galacticast’s five Vloggie win and the future of the show.

If you can’t guess what we’re parodying next week, you have a problem… click here to see more production photos.

Don’t even try to guess what famous Sci-Fi movie this is from… but if you know, you win BIG.

-Casey

We attended the first annual Vloggies this weekend and won not one, not two, but FIVE Vloggies!!!

Here is a list of our awards:

• Best Special Effects (Judges’ Award)
• Best Entertainment (Fiction) Vlog (Viewer’s Choice Award)
• Best Special Effects (Viewer’s Choice Award)
• Best Web Site Design (Viewer’s Choice Award)
• Best Collaboration, Node 666 (Viewer’s Choice Award)

[Click here for a complete list of winners.]

While in San Francisco, we stayed in the hotel room where Alfred Hitchcock shot Vertigo with James Stewart and Kim Novak.

It was a great weekend, with wonderful people like Dan McVicar…

Photo courtesy of Cirne

Rick Rey…

Zadi Diaz, Steve Woolf and many others.

We got to see a clip of Queen Kong on the big screen (making Queen Kong a true 50 ft. woman)…

Photo courtesy of Chuck Olsen

And we presented the award for best News Vlog to Andrew Michael Baron of Rocketboom.

Photo courtesy of Chuck Olsen

Thanks to everyone who voted for us. This weekend was truly a weekend of wonderful surprises!

-Casey

Galacticast’s Rudy Jahchan was interviewed by Weird America just before the Vloggies. Click here to check out the video.

Can you guess what we’ll be parodying next?

Voting for the first annual Vloggies (web video awards) closes this Friday (October 27th). If you haven’t already voted, make sure you go and pick your favorites before it’s too late! Click here to vote.

Related stories: The Vloggies: Go Vote!

This weekend, our good friends Zadi Diaz and Steve Woolf from Smashface Productions in LA are organizing Halloween Videoblog Festival 2006 at the Yahoo! Santa Monica Offices. A couple of Galacticast episodes will be screened at the event and the party is open to all.

The details of the event are as follows:

When: Saturday, October 28th, 7pm-11pm
Where: Yahoo! Santa Monica Offices, 2450 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90404 (Parking entrance on Colorado Ave.)
Dress Code: Costumes optional, but encouraged!
RSVP: halloweenvlogfest@gmail.com (Space limited, RSVP early!)

Yahoo!, TV Guide, Network2.tv, Fishman Productions, Ltd., Next New Networks, and ActiveMaps are sponsoring the event. Also attending the event will be our good friends Amanda Congdon and Mario Librandi (finally arriving at their Amanda Across America destination), the Rey Brothers (Rick, Eric), The Bui Brothers and the adorable Bonny Pierzina of Noodle Scar.<