PAX East Wrap-Up
March 29th, 2010

Posted by Tim

Well, it’s over.

PAX East has drawn to a close, and the gamers have all gone home. All, that is, except a good portion of the Enforcers, who are sticking around to do take-down and clean-up and all of the other essential work that makes the show work. We at LoadingReadyRun would like to thank all of the Enforcers and other PAX staff for everything they did to help us out and make our time at the con go so smoothly and be so enjoyable and successful.

Boston is a beautiful city. We had some time to wander around on Thursday, and on Sunday morning we were given a short driving tour of a few landmarks, as well. For my own part, I appreciated all the history that I could see in the city. We have some great historical buildings and landmarks in Victoria, BC, but Boston really puts its heritage out there!

The fan meet-up on Saturday afternoon was a lot of fun, and a great opportunity to connect some names to faces, and our panel on Saturday night went really well. Thank you to everyone who showed up, despite the fact that we overlapped with Paul and Storm a bit, and prevented you from seeing the Video Game Orchestra.

It was really cool for us to have a table in Bandland, where we could hang out and meet people and sign autographs. It was even cooler that we had Wil Wheaton, Scott Kurtz, Kris Straub, and Bill Amend to our right, and Jonathan Coulton, Paul and Storm, and the Video Game Orchestra to our left!

I’m sure we’ll be sharing many more details about our trip over the next couple of podcasts, and we have taken some behind-the-scenes footage, so hopefully that will find its way online at some point. For now, though, Jer and myself are heading back to Victoria on a red-eye flight, and Graham, Paul, Matt, Kathleen, and James are continuing on to New York for some vacation time.

Once again, thank you to everyone who made PAX East so awesome, and hopefully we’ll see some more of you at PAX Prime this summer.

Redundancy
March 23rd, 2010

Posted by Matt

You should watch the video because it is up so you should watch it.

We filmed this video several weeks ago, and it was about as straightforward a shoot as you could expect. Naturally, we used the “office set” in the common room of Graham’s house, since it seems to work.

This was actually filmed before the move into our new office space, and our new office space actually has proper office space, so you may see some new sets showing up soon.

Enjoy!

Ways to Fall Asleep
March 15th, 2010

Posted by Matt

And so X ways to Y makes its triumphant return with Ways to Fall Asleep, the partner video to our previous Ways to Stay Awake.

X2Y is a series that has a long and proud history here on LoadingReadyRun. If you’re new to the site, you can check out the other videos in this series here.

Enjoy! But wait until the video ends before putting any of the techniques to use!

Sweet Dreams~

Reduce Your Footprint
March 8th, 2010

Posted by Matt

The video is up for all to enjoy, Check it out:

Reduce Your Footprint

This was a quick shoot, filmed in the same nook at Graham’s house that we filmed Frozen Assets. I haven’t got much to say about this video, other than to mention that this skit is one of the several we will be performing live at the Phillips Comedy Night this Sunday.

Don’t miss it!

Wireless
March 1st, 2010

Posted by Matt

The inspiration for this week’s video should be pretty clear. People have a tendency to speak into their mobiles at a volume greatly exceeding that which is necessary and end up sharing their side of the conversation with the world. When lines get crossed, hilarity ensues.

Graham tells me that this video was a difficult one to write, given that he had to try and keep straight things that each person was saying, and both how they would integrate into their own conversation, and the crossover as a whole. It wasn’t nearly as tough to film though. This was a pretty straightforward shoot. This video was filmed up at UVic, and was filmed back in January, the same week as ‘Just Drive’. Backlogs: They’re what’s for dinner.