Next year, every day, the 365 Days of Astronomy website will host a new podcast about astronomy… but it’s all user-submitted. That means you! If you can record your voice, you can contribute to this website celebrating the International Year of Astronomy 2009.
My buddies Michael Koppelman and Pamela Gay have started it off with an introductory podcast that will tell you everything you need to know to help your 6,000,000,000 neighbors understand and appreciate the sky.
And yes, the sonorous tones at the beginning of the podcast are by George Hrab in all his hrabbie goodness.
November 10th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Any guarantee that Electric Universe nutcases will be kept out?
November 10th, 2008 at 9:20 am
I just sent in a proposal to do some of these — should be lots o’ fun!
November 10th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Sadly, I think you mean 6,500,000,000 neighbors…
November 10th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Is it just me, or is it particularly funny that a geologist like George Hrab has a cranium that looks very planetoid like?
I KID! I think I am also in his follically challenged club as well.
November 10th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Thanks for the reminder about his Hrabbiness… I have now bookmarked him again. His air travel piece is the single most wonderful rant about the rigors of getting from here to there in pressurized flying metal canisters that I have read in a long time.
November 10th, 2008 at 10:10 am
That means you!
*spits in surprise* Oh crap! Uh…uh…astronomy? Do astronomers have to wear pants?
November 10th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Should I submit my six hour, stop-motion animated musical about Planet X (very loosely based on a political screed by Ayn Rand)
Special guest appearance by Stardust, the wonder cat and David Hasselhoff as The Voice Of God.
Rated PG (Particularly Gruesome)
November 10th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Geologic Astronomy…. nice.
Can’t wait to do my first podcast!
November 10th, 2008 at 10:44 am
@QD
Only as long as there’s an intermission.
November 10th, 2008 at 11:17 am
I’ve signed up for Feb 4th, my 59th (gad!) birthday!
I’ll have Dr. Al Wootten of the NRAO on talking about ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array that’s being built in Chile. Way frakkin’ cool!
Maestro Hrab is way cool too, BTW! You BA Blogees should check out his “Geologic Podcast” if you need a laugh (and who doesn’t?) from time to time.
I have something like 30 or 40 production music CDs (buy-out type, from Gene Michael Productions) that I’ll put to use within the program as needed. As a video/DVD producer I have stuff like this already in-house and there are no copyright issues whatsoever. I’ll burn the audio directly to a CD-RW and then edit it in my Mac using Final Cut Pro, my video (and audio) editing software. I’ll prolly deliver the finished (16bit, 44.1 KHz stereo) file on a CD-Rom.
There is -SO- much astronomy happening here in Charlottesville, VA that I could easily make half a dozen episodes, but I don’t want to get greedy… You BA Blogees should get busy and make some podcasts too!
Rich
November 10th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Hi!
Really great! I hope there will be a lot of intersting ones!!!
With kind regards!
Okuro Oikawa
November 10th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Richard Drumm… I have an in-house composer of very cool space music (see geodesium dot com) and I’ll be using it on my podcasts, provided they accept the ones I’ve proposed.
It wasn’t clear from the context, but are they expecting sound only? Or can these be “vodcasts” as well?
I’m working on my first one already…
November 10th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Only as long as there’s an intermission.
Intermissions are for wimps.
November 10th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
@QD
So, you’re going to have vendors wandering the seats with various and sundry beverages for consumption?
November 10th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
@Mus,
I think you mean 6.5 X 10^9.
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How much do I (heart) scientific notation?
I love it 1.0 X 10^57 heart units/per proton lifespan.
(I’m feeling a little silly today.)
November 10th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
CC:
I think they’re only interested in the audio stream, though you could certainly pull the audio off a vodcast (that you put on YouTube) and send in that. Way cool!
Those of you BA Blogees out there who need music can cook something up fairly quickly with Grarage Band or Soundtrack on Macintoshes. If you’re on Windows machines, I’m sure there’s equivalent composition software on your platform too.
Rich
February 12th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
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