King of King and UT Videogame Archive fundraiser on Docubloggers
Two stories will be airing the new Lone Star Emmy award winning local series, Docubloggers. Strange title, but fitting once you read the concept (cue to the website promo) at http://www.docubloggers.org: Docubloggers takes a community-driven, interactive look at life in Central Texas. Combining documentary filmmaking and viewer interaction, Docubloggers takes story ideas from the community it serves to create a mosaic of the region.
The first story is about the Austin appearance at the Alamo Drafthouse of Steve Wiebe and “The King of Kong” movie. Not industry specific, but poignant for us older folks who actually wasted their allowances on the Donkey Kong machine in the front of the grocery store while their moms shopped. I may have just given away too much info about myself J
In the second story that will appear in this episode, we attend the UT Videogame Archive fundraiser at Richard Garriott’s place. We interview Richard, Warren Spector, and others about the Archive and its significance to the future of humanity. Or something like that, but it’s still darn important to anyone who’s worked on or even just played a game!
For some extra geek cred this week, they’ll also be airing a story about Rivkah, a local manga artist.
As members will probably note, this isn’t your standard PBS fare. If you would like KLRU to cover more about games and the industry, go on this show’s website (cue shameless website promo 2) http://www.docubloggers.org and write about it. Or, go make their own stories or story ideas to submit to the show. They have aired numerous segments created by folks from out in the community, just none about videogames yet. And if they get enough response, maybe they can dedicate a series just to the industry. Some of you have been interviewed by their crews for other yet-to-be-aired pieces already with that purpose in mind.
Below are all of the airtimes for this episode. If missed on tv or tivo, the stories will be on the web (cue promo 3) at http://www.docubloggers.org after tomorrow night.
KLRU (Over-the-air Channel 18, Time Warner Channels 9 and HD 1541)
Thursday November 8, 7:30pm
KLRU-G (Grande Channel 15)
Monday, November 12, 6:30pm
KLRU-2 (Time Warner Channel 20)
Wednesday, November 14, 9:00pm
Posted by QuocTran on November 8, 2007 05:42 PM
