As a small change of pace from the rest of the podcast, here's a short music video I put together made entirely out of letters.  

The video was created for a two-week run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as part of a live show I was doing alongside comedian and performance artist Ryan Good. Initially the video was meant to serve as a background element to a movement piece, but we ended up liking the video so much that we all but abandoned all on-stage movement during the projection.

The song in the video is Jonsi's "Go Do."  Some of you may recognize Jonsi as the lead singer of the Icelandic band Sigur Ros.  If you like the song (somehow after well over 100 listens, I'm still not tired of it) you can buy it here.  Or it's worth checking out Jonsi's website directly, where you can watch the official "Go Do" video, or live footage from his "Go" Tour which includes animated projections that are way more impressive than anything I can do.

The first full episode of "Immune: The Origin of Ryan Scammell, Superhero (Approximately 72% Nonfiction)."  The four-part series explores the period of time in my life where I became convinced that I had superpowers and the reasons, perhaps, why we all want to believe that superpowers could be real in the first place.

If you haven't already seen it, its worth starting with the Jan 6, 2010 post which serves as the prologue.

A number of people have asked why it's been so long since I've posted anything, and whether or not I've stopped the podcast all together. The answer is no, in fact, the only reason it's taking me so long is because I've been making a feature length animated film, which as you can imagine is quite time consuming. As a result, I suspect that posts will be pretty sparse at least for awhile, but in the meantime, I figured I'd give you a little taste. Here's the first 3 minutes of "IMMUNE!: The Origin of Ryan Scammell, Superhero (approximately 72% nonfiction)."

This is not a radio piece. It's actually the last film that I made. (Which means if you don't have a video ipod you may want to watch this online at ryanscammell.com) For the last two years, it's been sitting in a drawer being watched only by dust-bunnies. For some reason, though I spent about half a year working on it, I showed to almost no one after I completed it. I watched it again last night and was surprised by how much I liked it. For all the time I spent in college exploring these themes in my films, I never really quite got out whatever it was that I was trying to reach. I don't know if this film succeeded in doing that or not, but ever since I made this film, I've felt this kind of catharsis with certain issues in my life. Watching it again last night reminded me how much it said about who I am and how I think. So I figured I'd share it with you all now. The piece talks about the space between people and how so often we are incredibly close to people who in time will be incredibly important to us, and yet we never know. I should also say, I made the film with the intention of it being slightly interactive. There is a lot written on the images of the film that is too much to take in while listening to the narration. If you feel so inclined, go ahead and rewind to the sections that have writing that you might have missed. -- Ryan Scammell (About 50% Fiction)