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IN THIS ISSUE 14 Celebrating Below the Line
Oregon's amazing talent goes beyond what's in front of the camera; read about some of these special people.
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Find the people, companies, and equipment you need for your next shoot in Oregon. 43 Stages and Studio Services 47 Writers, Directors, Producers and Production Companies 57 Crew 80 Talent 89 Equipment 101 Props and Set Dressing 104 Sound and Music 107 Post Production 112 Interactive Media 114 Support Services 119 Liaisons 123 Phone and Page Index
8 From the Governor 35 Welcome from OMPA 12 Why Film in Oregon? 20 Advertising 22 Animations and Shorts 24 Interactive Media 26 TV & Web Series 30 Cinema 33 Documentaries 37 Oregon Industry Standards & Practices 39 Children's Employment Guidelines 41 Employee vs. Independent Contractor 119 Liaisons 130 Festivals
2013 Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes on Portlandia: Amanda Needham and Monika Schmidt 2015 Science and Technology Academy Award for 3D Animation: Brian McLean (Laika) 2015 Emmy Award for Outstanding Production Design on Portlandia: Tyler Robinson (Production Designer) and Katherine Isom (Set Decorator)
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Portlandia (starring Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen) has three Emmy wins and fourteen nominations over the life of the program. Photo: Augusta Quirk/IFC
From the Governor
Welcome to this year's issue of the SourceOregon Magazine and Directory. Inside you'll discover why Oregon is a destination for creative professionals and a center of media production for projects from around the globe. In addition, you'll find a comprehensive list of companies, crews, equipment, and support services, all with the talent and experience to make your projects a success. Oregon is home to a well-established creative industry, and we are happy to ensure the success of your work here. This past year was our best thus far with four television series, numerous feature films, the growth of a worldclass animation community, and the establishment of a rapidly expanding interactive workforce. To ensure this momentum continues, our incentive program has been extended to 2024, so we're certain this industry will be a bright spot for Oregon in years to come. I encourage you to visit "The Confluence" blog at OregonConfluence.com to share news and events about Oregon's thriving industry throughout the year. Thank you for joining us. Together we can make 2016 even bigger and better for all of us.
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Oregon Benefits
Why Oregon?
hether it is film, TV, digital media, commercial production, animation, game design, VFX, or post production that brings you here – we strive to make producing in Oregon as straightforward as possible. Our incentive programs – the Oregon Production Investment Fund (OPIF) and Greenlight – are streamlined, easy-to-use rebates that are available to a variety of qualified projects. Imagine producing with no permitting hassles and friendly, accessible contacts at all levels of city and state government; surprisingly diverse locations collection; a professional, seasoned crew base; a large accomplished talent pool; strong support from vendors and services; and a unique ethic that set us apart… you're not dreaming – you're in Oregon! The bottom line is, we offer good service, and we keep it simple!
Behind the Scenes of Portlandia – Rooster Rock State Park (Photo Credit: Augusta Quirk/IFC )
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offered through the Oregon Production Investment Fund and the Greenlight Oregon Labor Rebate. Enjoy a cash rebate on any cost related to production that is paid to an Oregon-based company. Labor rebate applies to production payrolls for work done in Oregon. It covers all employees for any film, television or television commercial production company spending $1 million plus over a calendar year (subject to availability). Call the Governor's Office of Film & Television for the latest incentive information: 971.254.4020
2 LOCAL CAST & CREW Oregon is proud of our strong, professional and growing number of talented cast and crew who work year-round on numerous feature films, TV, and commercial productions. Oregon is also home to a number of local talent agencies ready to provide a full range of talent services.
With 27 cities and 3 counties around the state of Oregon charging no permitting fees, Oregon takes "film-friendly" to a whole new level.
Oregon's tech and creative industries are collaborating more than ever, resulting in new innovative digital storytelling companies and interactive gaming companies.
No waivers to fill out. No paperwork. Oregon simply has no sales tax on anything! That means no up-front costs for your production, no additional records to keep and no administrative hassle trying to get a sales tax refund.
We're conveniently located close to LA, with four Oregon cities (Eugene, Medford, Redmond/Bend and Portland) providing direct service to the LA area. We're a mere two-hour flight away.
Oregon offers the diverse locations other regions can only dream about. We have the mountains, beaches, ghost towns, deserts, lakes, rivers, streams, small towns, modern cities and lava flows to prove it. Check out our extensive online location database to see how we can help make your vision a reality. Check out more locations online at www.oregonfilm.org/locations
Got Green? In Oregon we like green, and you will too! At the Governor's Office of Film & Television, we strive to make it easy for you to green your production, pre through post, with our Best Practices and Green Resources - or just ask us for a consultation.
WANT TO KNOW HOW TO START? Our comprehensive production Best Practices information can be found in our online "Guide to Greening Production."
Through www.pgagreen.org you can: • s ustainably source everything needed from pre-production through wrap, from purchasing to recycling • locate biodiesel fueling pumps and EV charging stations • find energy efficient equipment rentals
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CELEBRATING BELOW THE LINE Like pearls, or delicate flowers behind a waterfall, Oregon's design pioneers' work is often hidden. Recently though, they've been in the spotlight, with recent Emmy's for costume and production design on Portlandia, and an AICP sound design award for work on a MasterCraft spot. Even our technology gurus are being recognized for 3D printing advances with a Scientific and Engineering Academy Award. See why these people call Oregon home.
Emmy: Outstanding Costume Design Native Oregonians Monika Schmidt and Amanda Needham won an Outstanding Costumes for a Variety Program Emmy for Portlandia – the popular IFC sketch comedy series that's proven to be a veritable playground for their costuming talents. Needham, who also received the award in 2011, started as a local magazine's make-up artist before branching out to assemble 14 SourceOregon 2016 | A Publication of the OMPA
wardrobes for feature films such as Paranoid Park and Green Room. Likewise, Schmidt has been busy with films, commercials, and television projects since returning to Portland after studies and work in L.A. Both designers consider the show to be extraordinary in costuming breadth. "The opportunity to be so creative with so many different characters is something we get a lot of on Portlandia," Schmidt explains. "We get to do five, ten, fifteen characters a day and create these crazy costumes." Needham confirms the sentiment. "For me, a character's clothing is an opportunity to create a world a person lives in without having to go into huge
Both designers appreciate the creatively collaborative atmosphere, especially working with series director Jonathan Krisel and stars Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen. "SometimesJon, Fred or Carrie will have an idea and we go for it," Schmidt says. "And other times, we get costume inspiration from the people we see just walking around in Portland." "Portland is incredible because people here believe this is a true art form," Needham says of costume design. "As an artist, it's important to feel in touch with The bookstore women of Portlandia in chunk necklaces and animal prints. Photo courtesy of Augusta Quirk/IFC
detail," she says. "In Portlandia, there's a wide spread of characters. The bookstore women wear skirts and printed animals and chunky necklaces, whereas Kath and Dave are more Next Adventure Outdoor Store, really practical fabrics. Lance and Nina, they're dark denim, crusty jeans, with flannel or an old-school bowling shirt."
the characters you're building, whether it's searching through boutiques or thrift shops for something that looks worn‑in. In L.A., for example, a costume house might pull everything from one specific place, but I feel like the hunt is still alive in Portland." Since taking home her Emmy, Schmidt has focused on stylist and costume work in the Portland area. Needham spent part of last year in L.A. as costume designer for Krisel's new FX comedy series Baskets, but says she also relishes working close to home in Portland.
Academy Award: Scientific & Engineering "They gave us the award for this process that's changing how stop-motion animation films are produced," explained Brian McLean from the Rapid Prototyping department at Laika (page 44), who with longtime partner Martin Meunier changed the medium by using 3D printers to create the most laborious elements: mass reproductions of the lead characters' heads. (For example, The Nightmare Before Christmas' Jack Skellington had hundreds of facial expressions, while Norman from ParaNorman had an estimated 1.4 million.) "It's amazing," McLean continues, "to have the Academy recognize us all the way up here in Oregon." Although the Academy honors were based upon Laika's previous features (Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls), the eagerly anticipated Kubo and the Two Strings represents the most important innovation of the Rapid Prototyping department. Using custom color-printing hardware, the Japanese folklore-inspired fantasy characters will have the first
3D printers are still imprecise; touch-up artists must inspect (and sometimes correct) every face. Photo courtesy of Laika Brian McLean explains Laika's 3D Prototyping. Photo courtesy of Laika.
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"I've won awards before, but the AICP award permanently archives work in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. That's a cool one to have." — Chip Sloan, 2014 AICP Sound Design Winner and Clio Short List
computer replicated skin tone without the need to endlessly hand-paint each and every blush or freckle. Though old guard artisans may have balked at first to using advancing technologies, the company's success and steady growth utilizing these interchangeable model components has proven that 3D-printing minimizes the drudgery of replacement animation while creating new fields of employment.
Digital One's sound and recording engineer Chip Sloan Photo courtesy of Rob Finch
"When I look around," said McLean, "there's a lot of eclectic backgrounds that make up the Laika family. We have ceramicists working with people who have philosophy degrees. Jewelry artists and traditional painters working next to computer animators. We have doll makers now working in the costume department. Some people just moved here because it was Portland. It's affordable. It's creative. It's not L.A., which believe it or not is a huge draw. It's hard to attract people when there's not a lot of other film opportunities, but that's changed with shows like Grimm, Leverage, and Portlandia and innovative companies like Bent Image Lab (page 50), and Hive (page 50) building this unique talent pool."
AICP: Sound Design and Clio: Short List Chip Sloan isn't much for award shows. A prior recipient of local and national accolades, the audio engineer skipped the awards ceremonies
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when his sound design (in conjunction with Bump Films and Nemo Design) for the MasterCraft ProStar commercial "Mission 04: History Is History" won the 2014 AICP Award for Sound Design and was recognized on the Clio Awards short list. "I've won awards before," Sloan recalls, "but the AICP award permanently archives awarded work in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. That's a cool one to have." After studying audio production, Sloan played in bands around the Midwest, then in 2002 moved to Portland and was hired by post-production studio Digital One (page 105), where he discovered that his skills as a recording engineer applied to a broader range of projects than merely music. "My favorite part about working in this business is that I don't just get pigeonholed into ADR recording [dubbing] for TV or dialogue editing for feature films or just mixing," said Sloan. "In Oregon, you do a little of everything, and it keeps things exciting. One day, it's award-winning sound design for a boat video, and the next day I have Grimm actors doing ADR for a network show. It's a cool thing to get to do."
— Tyler Robinson, 2015 Emmy Award Winner for Production Designer
what Portlandia is. As the seasons have progressed, the scripts have gotten more elaborate, and the crew has adapted and found creative solutions to everyday problems and budgetary constraints."
2015 Portlandia Production Design Team.
Although the Hawaii shoot of upcoming Zac Efron and Anna Kendrick feature Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates lured Robinson away from Portlandia's sixth season, he remains committed to his adopted city. "People here aren't jaded by the film industry. In L.A., for example, they know what their job is, they do it, and that's it. Whereas, in Portland, people work collectively toward a common goal and like a challenge. People are invested in working here in Oregon and treat it more like a creative process than just a paycheck. Even though I work out of town, I'll always come back."
Emmy: Production Design When the Portlandia team – production director Tyler B Robinson (page 58), art director Schuyler Telleen (page 58), and set director Katherine Isom (page 58) – won the 2015 Production Design Emmy for variety, nonfiction, and reality, Robinson was "absolutely surprised." He recalls being alongside "some weird competition – The Oscars, The Grammys, and Peter Pan Live!. It was funny to even be lumped into that group. We didn't think we had any chance to win. When they actually called our names, it seemed like a joke." On stage, Robinson went straight to what came naturally: thanking the entire crew of eight by name. "It's not that big of a crew, and I wanted the audience to know that. We're up against shows that have forty, fifty, or sixty people in the art department. And I'm proud of how the crew continually redefines
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"People are invested in working here in Oregon and treat it more like a creative process than just a paycheck."
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"When it comes to the diversity of locations, the talent, friendliness, and creativity of the crew available here in Oregon, our own backyard, is hard to beat."
—Steve Rauner Executive Producer, North
"Oregon has always been a land of pioneers and trailblazers. Of makers and entrepreneurs. There's a magnetic quality to this place, something that draws talented, crafty, quirky individuals from across the globe to live and create something new and bold."
—Roland Gauthier Executive Producer, Hinge Digital
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Wildfang's "Evan Rachel Would" proves you should take chances and find adventure in the ordinary. Photo courtesy of Chris Hornbecker.
new interconnection between the film and advertising industries has prompted successive growth and fostered Oregon studios to produce globally-renowned commercials.
Columbia: "Ski Rescue" Columbia needed an agency that could produce ideas on a potentially global scale and found local agency North. "They clearly showed a really, really strong understanding of our brand today and the heritage of it," said Jeff Timmins, senior global brand director. North produced "Ski Rescue" featuring former chairperson Gert Boyle delivering a pizza to employees stranded on a Mt. Hood chair lift. Executive producer Steve Rauner, who has worked with production partners all over the world, said, "When it comes to the diversity of locations, the talent, friendliness, and creativity of the crew available here in Oregon, our own backyard, is hard to beat."
Winner of the 2015 Cannes Gold Lion in Film, W+K, produced the "Ripple" ad for Nike (above). Oregonbased Columbia contracted North Agency for a recent "Ski Rescue" commercial (right).
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Wildfang: "Evan Rachel Would" Fan-driven apparel company Wildfang, whose mission is to create a home and uniform for badass women across the globe, joined story-telling expert Sockeye (page 108) and sound genius Digital One (page 106) to weave the story of being fearless. With local indie writer/director James Westby (Rid Of Me, The Auteur) at the helm, actress and fan Evan Rachel Wood (Thirteen, Mildred Pierce) roams Portland as she tries new adventures. "Wildfang and Sockeye are both examples of Portland-based companies operating globally. So uniting exceptional talents like James and Evan in Oregon where we could use our local crews, resources, and locations made perfect sense." explains executive producer Ryan Crisman. "Everything we need to accomplish world-class, high-value production is right here."
Nike: "Ripple" Founded in Portland, Wieden+Kennedy remains as one of the best in the world, continuing to snag big-name clients. Their 50th Super Bowl spot aired during Super Bowl 50. W+K also helped create "Ripple" which received the Gold Lion in Film at the 2015 Cannes-Lion Award Cermony. For the spot, W+K Portland employed local creative post-production company Joint Editorial to produce the seamless visual effects that twinned the highlights of Tiger Woods to young Rory McIlroy's watchful eye.
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Behind the scenes of Bent Image Lab's Rankin Bass character-themed AT&T commercial. Photo courtesy of Mark Eifert (page 62)
"The Pacific Northwest is one of the best kept animation secrets in the world." — Trever Stewart, Producer at Bent Image Lab
aika's success has tended to dominate animation industry media coverage, but the studio isn't hardly the only Oregon company to boast eye-popping works. Refuge VFX, which earned its reputation forging the creatures of Grimm, created the mythic swordplay of the 2015 Clive Owen/Morgan Freeman epic Last Knights. Their fellow Grimm imagineers at Hive-FX (page 107) rendered 3D models for the Microsoft Band fitness tool and simulated collisions for Riddell's new football helmet. HouseSpecial (page 50) – M&M's, Puget
Sound Energy – and Bent Image Lab (page 50) – Rice Krispies, American Indian College Fund – made headlines through ingenious ad campaigns. As well, Bent Image Lab's new producer Trever Stewart promises both features (traditional cel and stop-motion films) and TV series tied to Woodbuddy Toys and Adult Swim creator JJ Villard. As Stewart said, "The Pacific Northwest is one of the best kept animation secrets in the world," but, with production companies like ShadowMachine (producers of off-the-wall comedy hits like BoJack Horseman, TripTank, and Robot Chicken) opening an independent branch in Portland, it shan't stay Snow Knows by Hinge Digital hidden much longer.
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Kubo and the Two Strings Among the most anticipated summer films, Kubo and the Two Strings is the first Laika (page 44) project to deploy their prototype 3D color printing process, opening a new breadth of possibilities for stop-motion animation. The story — voiced by Matthew McConaughey, Charlize Theron, and George Takei — follows Kubo's search for his father's Samurai armor to ward off spirits, though the real draw will be the Portland company's small army of artisans illustrating the journey.
Snow Knows Playing upon the famous catchphrase of HBO's signature show – "You know nothing, Jon Snow" – Oregon's Hinge Digital (page 50) developed a whimsical series of net-based clips that places The Game of Thrones' starcrossed swashbuckler in increasingly desperate scenarios. The webisodes quickly went viral and were featured in a French cable program.
Magical 4D Rudolph Experience As longtime caretakers of the cherished Rankin Bass characters associated with Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Portland's Bent Image Lab (page 50) was tapped to provide animation for an upcoming 4D event that will showcase theatrical thrills at various venues. Combining traditional stop-motion illustrations with state-of-the-art immersive technology, this Rudolph Experience may well go down in history.
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Screenshot of upcoming anticipated release Tacoma, from Fullbright.
"Oregon is home to passionate and authentic game developers." — Rob Sorcher, Chief Content Officer at Cartoon Network Studios
regon's videogame industry jumped another level last year. Fullbright swept international awards ceremonies with Gone Home's revolutionary approach to first-person sleuthers and Pipeworks (page 112) in Eugene doubled its staff. Even the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) managed to attract the North American debut of a 10,000 square-foot exhibition based on the medium's origins. After working with PDX company SleepNinja on Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake, the Cartoon Network Studios realized "Oregon is home to passionate and authentic game developers" and brought its Game Jam marathon workshop for independent designers to Portland.
A successful Kickstarter campaign fueled Jumpdrive's retrofuturistic PC game XO.
Tacoma, switches locales from a deserted NW Victorian home in Gone Home to an abandoned space station. You control a young woman determined to discover the fate of the former inhabitants of a richly-detailed setting; but, instead of rattling through cupboards and reading diaries, Tacoma's dizzying design enables holographic playback of past conversations and gravity-dimmed flights of fancy. Produced by Fullbright.
graphics reflect the creators' appreciation for the legendary Battlezone/Tron-styled retro-futurist simplicity, the sci-fi scenario rewards attentive gameplay by incorporating Newtonian physics, political complexities, and military strategy. Produced by Jumpdrive Studios.
Mayday! Deep Space Developed by Portland's Mountain Machine in collaboration with the Oregon Story Board's (page 46) accelerator program and Daniel H. Wilson – a local robotics engineer and author of the best-selling novel Robopocalypse. Mayday! Deep Space asks users to guide the lone survivor of the Planetary Ship Appaloosa using only spoken commands and an artfully-crude radar. The app incorporates recent advances in speech-recognition while visionary elements rely on audio storytelling to immerse participants within the twisting narrative. Produced by Mountain Machine Studios.
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he shows that sparked the stratospheric rise of Oregon's film and television boom continue to thrive. Portlandia, renewed by IFC for its sixth and seventh seasons, will keep building the legend of the Rose City across the globe through at least 2017 even as TNT's The Librarians endeavors to promote its Clackamas production facilities throughout the industry. The hugely successful Grimm employs more than 330 Oregonians, and Governor Kate Brown has credited the production with local investments exceeding $250 million. This may lead NBC to develop other productions for the area, and there are rumors of CBS initiating a new high-profile franchise in town this year. Although Significant Mother will not return to the CW, its filming last summer boosted the credibility of PDX locations. And, while HBO execs chose elsewhere
On location at Multnomah Falls shooting Grimm Photo courtesy of Craig Paup
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On set of The Librarians Photo courtesy of Electric Entertainment
for the trouble-plagued shoot of historical miniseries Lewis & Clark, the couple behind in-development Tiny, Beautiful Things (Wild author Cheryl Strayed and documentarian Brian Lindstrom) hope the network will allow them to stay true to the source material's Portland-area setting.
Grimm A cornerstone of NBC's prime-time schedule and pillar of Oregon's film and television industry, Grimm celebrated its milestone hundredth episode last spring. The fantasyprocedural series, which follows a genetically-enhanced "Grimm" Nick (David Giuntoli) as he protects humanity from an animalistic species known as Wesen, deepened the foundations of a continually-growing mythos while maintaining the trademark suspense of weekly encounters with the unknown. Since the start of filming five years ago, the program's creators have enmeshed themselves with their adopted community. "Some of have bought houses here, some of us got married here, some of us had babies here," Sasha Roiz ("Portland Police Captain" Sean Renard) told the Oregonian. "Portland embraced us instantly." The show has also held the star-studded annual Grimm Gala in Portland — featuring an auction of show memorabilia to provide financial assistance for families forced to travel to the facility for medical care. The Grimm Gala has raised more than $700K over two years for the OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital Grimmster Endowment.
Oregon Industry Christian Dolan - Location Sound on set for Episode 5 "Gaybies" of Benefits of Gusbandry Photo Credit: Alicia J. Rose
NOTEWORTHY WEB PRODUC TIONS The Librarians After debuting last year as basic cable's second-most-watched new series, The Librarians' sophomore season highlighted TNT's burgeoning primetime schedule of original programming, and a third run will begin shooting this summer. Following the storyline developed over a trilogy of made-for-TV movies starring Noah Wyle as a bookish recluse appointed by the stewards of an interdimensional Metropolitan Library to defend the magical antiquities from marauding evildoers, The Librarians finds Wyle enlisting a new team (Rebecca Romijn, Lindy Booth, John Kim, Christian Kane, and sitcom legend John Larroquette) for further adventures from a Library Annex conveniently housed beneath the St. John's bridge. The Librarians shares many production similarities with the oft-brooding TNT show Leverage—both feature breakout star Christian Kane, have the same executive producer (blockbuster impresario Dean Devlin of Electric Entertainment, upcoming Independence Day 2 and Geostorm), and film at the same Clackamas County soundstages. However, in juxtaposition, while Leverage's tales of reformed-criminals targeting the elite took advantage of Portland's cityscape, The Librarians' more fanciful visions send nearly 200 crew members well beyond Portland proper. On location shoots the show has blown up a car in Estacada, invaded the small town of Forest Grove, and took over an Oregon City library. "Electric Entertainment loves it here, there is a good crew base, great locations, and we can find anything we want," explains location manager Robert Warberg.
Photo Credit: Alicia J. Rose
Benefits Of Gusbandry A rollicking show about the improbable connection of an aging party girl (MADtv's Brooke Totman - page 87) and the cherubic gay lothario (Wild's Kurt Conroyd - page 82) she mistakenly falls for. Created by local director Alicia J. Rose and filmed in Portland, the 2015-16 YouTube series pushes its somewhat-familiar scenario through increasingly dire permutations. The first season's seven webisodes explore the characters' without pausing to dim the spiraling screwball momentum.
Kane's Kitchen
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The masculine-centric Kane's Kitchen treats culinary endeavors as possible romantic pursuits. Developed by Oregon-based producer José Behar and Leverage/The Librarians' Christian Kane, the charismatic star passionately prepares personalized classics such as Chicken n'F'n Waffles and Purple Pizza. Kane's Kitchen debuted atop iTunes 2015 nonfiction series list and rose to fifth overall. The first season is streaming on Hulu, and the show promises a follow-up later this year.
Original Fare
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Produced by Portland's Iron Way Entertainment (the studio behind recent Microsoft co-financed documentary Big Dreams) for PBS's online programming, Original Fare features host Kelly Cox as a culinary adventurer searching for stories behind the foodie world's most treasured ingredients. Although this show travels the globe, many of the most engrossing tales are found locally such as prize dogs at a Yamhill Valley truffle festival and people foraging for sustenance along the Oregon Coast.
The Haunting Of Sunshine Girl
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With help from the Weinstein Co., The Haunting Of Sunshine Girl has expanded into a multi-platform franchise with its recent addition of Young Adult novels. As new videos are being filmed, the studio plans a series by the original producers. "The great thing about our deal with Weinstein," said co-creator Mercedes Rose, "we maintain the rights to the YouTube stream so we can continue creating content." In addition to shorts and star Paige McKenzie's (page 83) vlog, they host other projects such as Erin Lehn's Stalked and Voices of April by Martin Vavra. SourceOregon 2016 | A Publication of the OMPA 27
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"[In Oregon]…there is a good crew base, great locations, and we can find anything we want." — Robert Warberg, Location Manager, The Librarians
Portlandia (starring Carrie Brownstein, Fred Armisen) has been renewed by IFC for its 6th and 7th seasons. Photo: Augusta Quirk/IFC
"This is an opportunity to extend the franchise with new storylines and characters." — Rich Ross Group President, Discovery Channel
Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove
It's not quite time to put a cap on the series that, more than any other, first placed Oregon's signature city on the film and television industry map. Following IFC's announcement of a two-year commitment in 2013, last February the network again renewed Portlandia through 2017; however, stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein have indicated that the eighth season would be the final run of the Emmy- and Peabody-award winning show.
Deadliest Catch, a multiple-Emmy winner and one of the Discovery Channel's top-rated shows ever since its first episode eleven years ago, started filming a spin-off series in Newport, Oregon. Among the handful of former fishing villages still thriving within the "Graveyard of the Pacific," Newport has become a vital hub for dungeness crab despite numerous perils (hidden sandpits, towering waves, unpredictable currents) that have rendered the area arguably the globe's most treacherous commercial fishery site with thousands of fishing boats lost over the decades. Unlike the Deadliest Catch mothership, which concentrates mostly on the activity aboard boats trawling the Bering Sea, Dungeon Cove (working title), with a premiere set for the fall of 2016, intends to capture the stories of families left behind in the communities forged by generations of crabbers. "This is an opportunity to extend the franchise with new storylines and characters," said Rich Ross, Group President of Discovery Channel.
Although most of the series' most indelible moments were filmed around landmarks of Portland, creators have occasionally ventured outside municipal boundaries and spread the production budget with nearby communities. For example, in a notable sixth season episode starring Louis C.K. and directed by Steve Buscemi, the show travelled to the suburb of Tigard and transformed a vape shop into a bar to conform to their own sketch comedy visions. "Tigard is getting more exposure because of all the improvements and revitalization efforts," said one local coffeehouse owner after loaning the space to Portlandia's crew.
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Dungeon Cove, the newest spin-off in the Deadliest Catch series, revolves around Newport, Oregon. Photo: Discovery Channel
crab as possible within a brief window—half an estimated year's catch will be hauled in within the first two weeks! The first season Photo: TLC bodes extra intensity with a month-long postponement to the start of In a somewhat bittersweet turn, the show's crabbing season (from fears of elevated toxins largest ratings came during a ninth season finale intended to celebrate son Zach's in marine life). wedding; however, parents Matt and Amy stunned viewers by ending their 27-year Little People, Big World From the moment in 2006 when TLC featured marriage. A subsequent announcement about the larger-than-life exploits of a couple the youngest son, Jacob (conspicuously absent unhindered by dwarfism, Little People, Big World from the finale), feeling frustrated by the rigors attracted a devout fanbase, and the show has of filming further fueled headlines. While since grown to become a reality programming renewal is still pending, many fans hope for staple as audiences worldwide have embraced TLC to greenlight another run of Little People, the Oregon family's tales for more than two Big World to relay the whole story in greater perspective. hundred and fifty episodes.
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"They've done a good job of fixing up the town [Astoria], but it also hints of a grand era that no longer really exists."
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Homecoming director Paul Kampf with DP Rene Jung. Photo courtesy of Radar Pictures
lthough the local television boom may have garnered the most attention of late, Oregon continues to serve as fertile ground for both independent and studio productions while fostering vibrant communities of filmmakers throughout the state. As collectives such as Portland Community Media and POWFest's (see festivals insert or page 130) seminars bolster a new generation of creators, eminent festivals continue to gather momentum in Portland, Bend, Eugene, and Ashland, which MovieMaker Magazine has ranked among its top five towns for working auteurs. Noteworthy 2016 releases were shot around Oregon—Brother Nature in Klamath Falls, Cabin Fever in Molalla, and Black Road in Southern Oregon's Rouge Valley. Star-studded Cannesfave Green Room utilized locations ranging from Mt. Hood to the Willamette Valley to the Oregon Coast. "Astoria's unlike anywhere else," said Green Room producer Neil Kopp (page 49), "the community welcomed our crew with open arms. They've done a good job of fixing up the town, but it also hints of a grand era that no longer really exists. Looking down on the river from the hills, there's just something epic."
Homecoming Co-produced by Radar Pictures and producer-directorteacher Paul Kampf, Homecoming was conceived after two Portland-area women (Christi Sperry and Sarah
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Hehman) took a community-college screenplay workshop and penned a barbed satire about the travails of a recently-relocated housewife caught unprepared midst the manicured vipers of darkest suburbia. The script soon found its way to Kampf, and a host of familiar faces joined the cast—True Blood's Lauren Bowles, Once Upon A Time's Victoria Smurfit, and Death Race's Max Ryan. Kampf chose to film in Oregon and hopes to schedule his next productions around town, "One of the reasons why TV productions are rushing up here is that Portland has the diverse look of five cities in one. It's like a living film set."
Honey Buddies A SlamDance Audience Award-winner dreamt up by Flula Borg (Pitch Perfect 2) and David Giuntoli (Grimm), Honey Buddies is a self-parodying bromantic comedy. When a broken engagement almost breaks former child star Giuntoli, best man-to-be Borg insists that the mismatched duo take advantage of the backpacking honeymoon already planned. An estimated ninety percent of the footage was shot outdoors in natural light along Silver Falls State Park, and director Alex Simmons' experience as a Discovery Channel and National Geographic documentarian lends the film a distinct visual aesthetic miles above the typical bro-mance comedy.
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Portland weird thing so I think I was inspired by that to write the movie." A quarter finalist in Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope screenplay competition, Zilla and Zoe centers around Zoe, a 10-year-old girl, who is forced to film her sister's wedding instead of a horror movie contest entry, and transforms the ceremony into a horror show. The crowdfunded indie briefly made national news after scenes portraying the exchange of vows between two women were disrupted by a protest. While this seemed somewhat surprising for a Portland-based shoot, the unfortunate event only highlighted Zilla and Zoe's message of embracing the differences among us all.
Green Room Writer and director Jeremy Saulnier's third film, Green Room, follows on the heels of his microbudgeted revenge classic Blue Ruin. And while this upcoming escape broadens the scope and widens the lens of Saulnier's harrowing visions, he sacrifices none of the white-knuckled suspense. We open on a no-hoper punk band during the last dregs of a miserable tour when an already hellish gig in a backwoods bar populated by Neo-Nazis spoiling for blood gets even worse when band members accidentally glimpse a young girl's murder. Moments later, they've barricaded themselves (alongside caustic bystander Imogen Poots) inside the backstage rest area while jackbooted thugs led by Sir Patrick Stewart
Alexi Pappas and Jeremy Teicher in the movie trenches of Tracktown. Photo courtesy of Jeremy Teicher
Tracktown Tracktown, the second film co-produced/directed by Alexi Pappas and Jeremy Teicher (Tall As The Baobab Tree), is a coming-of-age tale about a track star (Pappas) forced to question her priorities. Filmed in and around Eugene, the town and its aesthetics become part of the film. Teicher explains, "What is cool about working in Eugene, as opposed to making a film in New York or LA, is how the community rallies together." As well, Pappas' unique ability and connections as a professional runner allow Tracktown access to a world seldom seen. The film should finish before Pappas competes at this summer's Rio Olympics.
"I love the whole keep Portland weird thing so I think I was inspired by that to write the movie."
— Jessica Scalise Writer and Director Zilla and Zoe
Zilla and Zoe Drawing inspiration from her past experience as a wedding videographer and the unabashed weirdness of her adopted Oregon home, first-time writer-directorproducer Jessica Scalise spun this charmingly addled tale. "This film is about Portland," said Scalise who moved to Portland after graduating from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. "I love the whole keep
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plot their impending doom. Acquired by A24 (who've set up a branded online radio station in advance of the film's April release), the uniformly stellar reviews, festival buzz, and enviable cast should propel Green Room to headlining status among the year's crop of indie thrillers. Taking full advantage of Western Oregon's diverse terrain, the late autumn shoot encompassed locations ranging from Astoria's time-swept coastal hub to the teensy Mt. Hood community of Rhododendron. "Portland's easy, locations are great and relatively affordable, and there's a huge super-experienced crew base," recalls producer Neil Kopp (page 49). "The ferocity of the television market in the past five or ten years developed an infrastructure that wasn't entirely here before. We brought in some people – the cast, of course – but there really was no position that we couldn't find locally."
Something Like Summer Based on the first of Jay Bell's best-selling series of Young Adult novels, Something Like Summer successfully raised more than $100K during a month-long crowdfunding campaign from fans eager to see the franchise adapted by writer/producer Carlos Pedraza and director J. T. Tepnapa (acclaimed 2011 indie Judas Kiss). Following a national casting search, vocalist Grant Davis bested more than 500 competitors for the lead role of Ben Bentley – an alienated gay Texas high-schooler struggling to pursue a singing career while distantly smitten with an athlete just moved to town. Not surprisingly, Bell's admirers desperately hope the PDX-filmed tale soon finds a distributor.
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hether Oregon's reputation for captivating documentaries arose from the state's beauty or colorful political history known for rewarding directors and producers pursuing subjects off the beaten path, our documentarians provide additions to the legacy through searing investigative work and poignant reminiscence. The non-profit NW Documentary Arts & Media (page 115) workshop showcases shorts three times a year with their Homegrown DocFest series. Oregon's Silver Falls Lodge hosted the inaugural Oregon Doc Camp for filmmakers to meet legends such as Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Life Itself). And, the Oregon International Film Festival, home to the largest northwest documentary program, fielded an enviable line-up including Bonobo Connection and Letters From Generation RX and premiered at theaters throughout Portland and Eugene.
50 Feet From Syria To film 50 Feet From Syria, local director Skye Fitzgerald (page 53) followed Portland surgeon Hisham Bismar (originally from Syria) north of the Turkish border where he helped treat war-torn refugees fleeing the devastating Syrian civil conflict. Although the footage proved so grisly the film included a warning of the horrific scenes, the inspiring portrait offers a glimpse of humanity at its best … and its worst.
Voyagers Without Trace Ian McLuskey recreated the path of three French adventurers – Genevieve and Bernard de Colmont and Antoine de Seynes – 75 years after they kayaked down the Green and Colorado Rivers. Set to era-appropriate music composed by Jenny Conlee (The Decemberists), the documentary intertwines the trio's footage with newlyfilmed replicas to create a nostalgic travelogue.
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Recreating a journey down the Green and Colorado Rivers with Voyagers Without Trace Photo courtesy of Voyagers Without Trace and NW Documentary
Considering that the breathtaking vistas afforded by Valhalla's uncharted gorge offer cascading waterfalls, sheer cliffs, and primeval foliage, the greatest adventure awaiting the Oregon Public Broadcasting and Uncage the Soul (page 52) teams was the journey to get there. The team split into two groups to explore the hidden slot canyon tucked away in the Mt. Jefferson wilderness, which was accidentally discovered during a helicopter flight. SourceOregon 2016 | A Publication of the OMPA 33
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Really, the Saber Library should never have existed. It took way too much time to create, cost me out-of-pocket money, was tedious as hell, had no tangible reward, and took away time from what I really should have been doing: finding a job. It was a project that most people in their right minds would never contemplate doing. Thankfully, though, I'm stupid.
When combined with large doses of boredom and time, stupidity can be a dangerous thing: a perfect storm for mayhem. In the ninth grade, my best friend experienced a particularly brutal convergence of these three things in bio lab one day, and stuck tweezers in the electrical socket to "…see what would happen". Sparky eventually escaped his legacy by doing something even more stupid (breaking his leg during a chess match), but so far, I haven't been so lucky. Instead, I got to re-edit this entire thing for all you here at FanGraphs. Am I a sucker or what?
Thankfully, though, there are lots of smart people out there doing smart things that's I've been able to steal from. Bradley Woodrum's introduction to sabermetrics videos? Swipe! Graham MacAree's incredible Saber 101 series? Stolen. Visuals from Justin Bopp at Beyond the Boxscore? Really, this is all too easy. Everyone's been very gracious and willing to share, which has turned this site into a regular hodgepodge of smart things contributed by smart people. Trust me, I'm just as surprised as everyone else.
The Saber Library is now almost a year old and it's here at FanGraphs to stay. I'll be updating pages as FanGraphs changes, adding new statistics while changing the information on old ones, and I hope to make this a living, breathing resource. Consider it your Hitchhiker's Guide to navigating the universe of sabermetrics (see what I did there?). While the math may be confusing and the Book Blog may give you a headache, this site is here to tell you "DON'T PANIC!" Things are not as complicated as they seem, and you don't need to understand multivariable calculus to understand sabermetrics.
In the Library, you'll find individual pages for nearly every statistic housed here at FanGraphs, along with a selection of primers on important sabermetrics concepts. We'll also be using this space as a separate blog on FanGraphs (á la NotGraphs and RotoGraphs) and we'll be writing articles geared toward helping people understand statistics. This space will (likely) not be updated as often as the other FanGraphs blogs, but we'll see how this space develops.
And so, enjoy! Tour through the Library, learn something new, and whatever you do, keep those tweezers in your medicine cabinet.

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After more years than I want to count, I'm finally taking a true and proper vacation. Going Greyhound to Arizona to see my BFF, Tina. She of the… 713 more words
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My gambling friends will know that high-low-yo is a one-roll bet in craps. You say it as one word as you fling a chip into the center of the table, but you're making three bets: one bet on the highest roll of the dice (twelve, aka, boxcars or midnight), one bet on the lowest roll (two, aka, aces or snake eyes (which no legit craps player calls it ever)), and one bet on eleven. 280 more words
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Back when I was still in my forties, I started knitting a cabled sweater. Something to keep my hands occupied when I wasn't working on an original design. 345 more words
WIP: Hermosita Tee
Soon after my Hermosa Tee came out, I had lunch with my brother and sister-in-law.
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Online store with credit card and paypal check out
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We need a online web store in PHP that will have a shopping cart and an ability to accept credit card and paypal payments. I will get an account with a credit card processer myself, but the programmer(s) will be responsible to embed the components.
We will be selling sunglasses and eyeglasses. A basic store search component by gender, color and size is a must. We also need a few basic HTML pages for FAQ, About US and etc. Registration component, component to check the status of the order and a feature that will send out emails after registration and after check out will also be required. I will provide contents/text for all components.
The programmer will also be responsible to populate the site with data from our database (MySQL).
If you already have scripts that just need to be customized that would be fine too, as long as they have been THROUGHLY tested and work properly.
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The BioBank Core will assist project member laboratories in the accrual and centralization of biologic resources that are critically required for pancreatic cancer research. We will take advantage of our immediate access to human surgical specimens to provide P01 investigators with biological materials that have been subjected to extensive characterization at the histologic (in collaboration with the Experimental Pathology Core) and genetic levels. The Core will collect, initiate, maintain, archive and record all human PDAC biologic resources. These materials include serially passaged xenografts created from primary and metastatic human pancreatic cancer specimens and a repository of PDAC cell lines. The xenograft tumors and cell lines have been subjected to high-resolution aCGH and expression profiling, enabling investigators to retrieve needed biologic materials with an appropriate genomic profile. Together, these resources should facilitate molecular studies and provide standardized cellular systems for performing experimental studies. Members of the BioBank Core have extensive experience in implementation of xenograft systems for testing novel therapeutic approaches and for molecular and biological studies. The Core will interact closely with the projects of the P01 to provide the biological materials and aid in the design and interpretation of experiments employing the xenografts and primary cells. The Core will seek to ensure a high level of quality control of specimens and standardization of protocols to ensure the effective translation of results between P01 projects.
Pancreatic cancer is a disease without a cure. One of the major limiting factor is in the study of this disease is access to high-quality tissue samples. The resources provided by the BioBank Core will provide investigators with ample tissues and cell lines critical to the analysis of key molecular pathways that can be targeted to cure pancreatic cancer.
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ABC Returns To "Modern" Era With Smart Decisions
ABC has renewed "The Middle", "Modern Family", and "Cougartown" for a 2nd season. All shows debuted this year and were picked up for a full season just weeks ago.
"Ugly Betty" which now follows those shows, has not been picked up yet. They are hoping people tune into the show Wed. nights as it follows all the comedies that were picked up. I think that show is on it's last legs.
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Adult tube website with search filters and admin panel
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It's a website that basically contains a gallery of images arranged in a grid like fashion pointing to adult videos hosted on third-party sites. A click on a thumbnail must allow the user to watch the embedded video without getting out of the website. Though, the site is going to work in a different way than any other out there, people won't be able to search for videos by typing keywords, that feature won't exist at all. They are going to use filters (checkboxes, radio buttons, select lists...) to narrow their queries until they find relevant videos that match their preferences. *See as a reference [url removed, login to view]
I won't host any content, and instead of using a robot to crawl links automatically, I need an admin panel so that an authorized person can upload the thumbnails link, URL, title and the appropriate filters for each new video. This panel should also allow the admin set up an auto-post feature that would make one new post every hour.
The site must look neat and it's appearance must resembles minimalism. I would like the website to have a very similar layout to this one:
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-Everything should be HTML5 compatible and run smoothly on mobile devices.
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Title Weiterbildungs Entwicklung und Harmonisierung der Expert Teachers in General Practice / Family Medicine in Europa durch einen systematischen Prozess der Qualitätsverbesserung
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Marketing Text Das Projekt ist es, die Qualität der Patientenversorgung, indem sichergestellt wird, dass die Ärzte werden von Lehrern mit einem hohen und angemessene Höhe der Fertigkeit vermittelt verbessern. Es wird bei der Entwicklung von Allgemeinmedizin / Familienmedizin (Hausarzt / FM) Lehrer Kompetenzen Beurteilungsprozess zielte darauf ab, eine stärkere Harmonisierung und Konvergenz der GP Lehrer Kompetenzen auf europäischer Ebene zu gewährleisten.
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07 August 2011
Bethesda sues Notch over the use of the word "Scrolls"posted by yoba333A few days ago, the legal department of Bethesda Softworks (not to be confused with Bethesda Game Studios) served the creator of Minecraft, Notch, legal papers regarding the title of Notch's upcoming game, "Scrolls". The Bethesda legal department expressed concern that people will confuse Notch's "Scrolls" game with "The Elder Scrolls" series.
Notch posted this on his blog.QUOTEToday, I got a 15 page letter from some Swedish lawyer firm, saying they demand us to stop using the name Scrolls, that they will sue us (and have already paid the fee to the Swedish court), and that they demand a pile of money up front before the legal process has even started.
While many were speculating early on that this was a joke, as of now it does not appear to be. It looks like Bethesda will be going forward with the lawsuit.
Neither Bethesda nor Zenimax has made any statements regarding the incident.
Update: Here is the first page of the legal document (translated from Swedish).QUOTETrade Mark Infringement
I write to you as a legal representative of the company ZeniMax Media Inc.
My mandator is creating and publishing interactive entertainment for, among others, consoles, computers, and handheld/wireless units. The company has a long and successful history and is behind a large number of awarded games, among these the wordly renown game series THE ELDER SCROLLS. The trademark name THE ELDER SCROLLS is protected of, among others, different entertainmentwares and -services, where computer and consolegames are included. In EU is my mandator owner of the registered communion trademarks with the registered numbers 2840098 and 8283161.
It has come to my mandator's knowledge that Mojang AB (Mojang) is using the signature SCROLLS in themarketing of a coming computer and/or consolegame. The signature SCROLLS shows serious visual, phonetic and conceptual similarities with my mandators trademark name THE ELDER SCROLLS. These similarities are strengthened by the fact that within the entertainment industry, the game industry included, it often occurs that goods and services with a common commercial origin are promoted through distinctive features that are constructed through a common trade mark element(?). As an example we can mention the company Nintendos worldfamous Mario-series with game titles like Mario Bros and Super Mario Bros, or the company Blizzards Warcraft-series with game titles like Warcraft: Orcs and Humans and World of Warcraft. Thus there is an obvious risk for the average consument to get the idea that good and/or services that are provided under the property name SCROLLS respective THE ELDER SCROLLS are from the same commercial origin or at least with companies with economical relations. In this context it is therefore our opinion that Mojangs use of the trademark name SCROLLS is... (the line continues on the next page that isn't shown in the photo)
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04 August 2011
Skyrim available for pre-purchase on Steam, part of Quakecon 2011 saleSkyrim is now available for pre-purchase/pre-order on Steam for $60. Pre-purchasing Skyrim also gives a 20% discount on the newly available "Quakecon Pack 2011" which includes all previously released id and Bethesda games for $70 ($55 with the discount).
Bethesda published and id developed RAGE is also now available for pre-purchase and gives a 30% discount on the Quakecon Pack. Pre-purchasing both RAGE and Skyrim gives a 40% discount.
The promotion also includes new Team Fortress 2 items; so far you can get "The Wingstick" for purchasing RAGE and "The Original" for purchasing Quake 4. Future items will include "The Anger" for buying Brink, the Pip-Boy for buying Fallout: New Vegas, and the Tamrielic Relic for purchasing Skyrim.
27 July 2011
Heads up: New Nexus site design soonposted by Game NewsI'm aware that a lot of you probably don't read the sporadic blog posts I add to the site. Over the past few months I've been detailing my plans and examples of a new Nexus site design that is going to be rolled out soon (tm).
Rather than throw this at you without any warning I just wanted to post up this little article to give you a heads up, to show you what I'm going to be moving the sites over to, waylay some fears, and take on as much feedback as possible.
The new site design can be seen here for TESNexus. It's using live data and you can actually use the site as a replacement for TESNexus from now until the move over as all the main functionality (viewing files, downloading files, adding files, images, etc. etc.) is working on the site.
This new design is the first step in a long line of updates coming to the network designed to make everything better. It's the first, necessary move in a long line of scheduled improvements to the network from the ground up. All the functionality that you like is still going to be here, but I don't think there's one area that isn't going to be touched in the coming months. And maybe best of all the connection errors you might be getting at peak times will be a thing of the past soon enough.
In regards to timing I'm actually going to be doing a little bit of travelling for the next few weeks, catching up with friends and handling some other affairs, but I'm aiming for an end of August switch-over to this new design on all the Nexus sites. It's not going to be an "either/or" scenario where you can choose which design you want to use, it's going to be a straight switch to the new design. The old design is going to the gutter where it belongs.
I've actually been pleasantly surprised by most of the feedback that has been offered from users posting on my blog posts in regards to the new design and I've been listening to your concerns and either made or planned to make some changes based on the feedback I've received. If you don't like something or think something can be improved then I'm all ears, but if you just don't like it, period, then there's not much I'm going to be able to do for you.
If you're interested in the design process, the reasoning behind it and my plans for the Nexus's future then I'd recommend catching up on my blog posts. I don't post often, but when I do it tends to be an essay, so I hope you like reading!
06 July 2011
Skyrim fan interview releasedposted by LordFrostcraig InterviewsToday Gstaff posted the fan interview, which has Todd Howard, Bruce Nesmith, and Matt Carafano answering questions that were asked, such as what kind of armor there was, if you could play after the main quest, and the differences between races and genders.
23 June 2011
Skyrim pre-order bonus announcedToday, Bethesda announced that anyone who pre-orders Skyrim will receive a physical copy of the game's map. Bethesda stated thatand that Todd Howard believes thatQUOTEMaking real maps of our fantasy worlds is an Elder Scrolls tradition.QUOTEThere's something about having a physical object in your hands that feels like it's part of this other world, that you are that person in the game, finding your way among the hills.
Bethesda also stated that in order to guarantee your copy of the world map, you should pre-order today.
Update: Bethesda recently updated their blog post by saying:QUOTEWe've received plenty of questions about the map. So you know, it's a high-grade material that has a feel similar to burlap, and will be available in North America and European territories. There will be a regular paper map included in all copies of the game, but if you want to get the premium map, we recommend pre-ordering the game.
20 June 2011
[COMPLETE] Server move todayThe server move is now complete, but as sod's (or Murphy's) law dictates, we hit a few snags along the way so we had a few hours of down-time. If you find any issues please let me know.
Just wanted to let you all know that I am in the process of moving TESNexus over to a new server today. While the server itself is coping perfectly fine right now the hard-drives have been low on space for some time and my hosting provider in the UK, Krystal, offered me a nice deal in which if I bought the new hard-drives they'd move me over to a more powerful server (double memory, up 16GB to 32GB, better processor, etc.) for free, an offer too good to pass up!
A few people were kind enough to PM me asking if I wanted them to send me their old 1TB hard-drives. It's a kind gesture but the web servers need SCSI drives to handle all the I/O traffic that comes from file-serving. If anyone has any 600GB+ SCSI drives they want to give me then that's a different story entirely..! Sadly most people don't use SCSI drives.
The sites will be taken down some time later today, probably for around 15 minutes so no database information is lost in the transition. Other than that the transition should be seamless, ignoring sod's law.
18 June 2011
New file feature: change logsposted by Dark0neSome of the site features I have in the pipe-line or on the to-do list right now are focusing on trying to reduce the amount of clutter mod authors put in their file descriptions by providing them separate areas to list important information. One thing that I know many users find annoying is having to try and find a description of a mod underneath all the other information mod authors feel is more important than actually describing what their mod does. Popular things to put at tops of pages are news, bug reports, requests for help, notifications that help won't be offered, requests for endorsements and the full file version history/change log. Personally I think you should describe what your mod does first, and then provide all the additional information afterwards.
Something I've been meaning to get around to for a while now is a feature that creates a special area for mod authors to list their change logs for their files. Today I've implemented that feature and mod authors can now access the change log feature from their management area.
Inputting all the changes you've made to your file over time and the different version histories is very handy for users who keep up-to-date on your files so they can see what's been updated and what's been fixed. Mod authors should put in a change per line, and a bulleted list will automatically be created by the site for each version of your file that you add a change log for.
Once you've added a change log for your file it will be visible on a file page by clicking the "View change log" link under "Options". Similarly if you link up your version numbers on your files with the version numbers in your change log then a new link will be visible for those files that will show the specific change log for that version. So if you've added change logs for version 1.42 of your file and version 1.42 is available to download in the files tab, you can click on the change log link to see updates in that version of the file.
15 June 2011
Skyrim developers plan to include romance and friendship in the gameAccording to German website giga.de, Skyrim developers plan to include relationships (both romantic and otherwise) in the game. The website was able to interview some of the developers; and while not much new information was given out, the following statement is present in the article they posted.QUOTEAuch romantische Beziehungen und Freundschaften sollen sich demnach in der Planung befinden.
Which translates to:QUOTEEven romantic relationships and friendships are therefore being planned.
This article is the only evidence we have on the subject, as Skyrim developers have yet to confirm whether or not this is true. Also, note that the developers may only be "planning" to have relationships; and they may not be included in the finished game.
You can read the entire article here (Just be warned, it is in German).
14 June 2011
Todd Howard and Notch (Minecraft) "interview" each otherposted by Galahaut InterviewsAt E3 2011, GameInformer writer Ben Hanson managed to get Todd Howard and Markus Persson (Notch), the creator of Minecraft, in the same room. The back-and-forth pseudo-interview (it's more of a conversation) of course includes Skyrim and Minecraft, but Oblivion is brought up too. Todd also talks a bit about mods, calls the PC version superior because of mods, and again brings up trying to get them available on the consoles.
Fallout 3's ending and the community reaction is also brought up. Other games discussed include Red Dead Redemption, Terraria, L.A. Noire.
Also, Todd is an iPhone guy and Notch is an Android guy. Watch out!
Watch on GameInformer (no embed available at the moment) and be amazed. Then get started on building Skyrim in Minecraft.
13 June 2011
Bethesda forums and websites hacked: usernames, emails, and passwords potentially takenGStaff has just announced via the BethBlog that the Bethesda forums and websites were the subject of a hacking attempt/attack over the weekend. GStaff claims that no financial info was taken but usernames, emails, and passwords may have been accessed.
If you have an account over on the Bethsoft forums, changing your password is recommended. If you use the same password on the Nexus (or other sites) it is definitely a good idea to change those passwords as well.
At the moment Bethesda has not sent out any email notice to users. The only notices are posted on the BethBlog and a selection of subforums (the general discussion forums of only some games).QUOTEOver the past weekend, a hacker group attempted an unlawful intrusion of our websites to gain access to data. We believe we have taken appropriate action to protect our data against these attacks. While no personal financial information or credit card data was obtained, the hackers may have gained access to some user names, email addresses, and/or passwords. As a precaution, we recommend that all our fans immediately change passwords on all our sites — including our community forums and the statistics site we maintain for Brink players.
If your username/email address/password is similar to what you use on other sites, we recommend changing the password at those sites as well. As we don't know what further plans the hackers may have, we suggest that you keep an eye out for suspicious emails and account activity.
We regret any inconvenience that these attacks on us cause for you. These attacks will be evaluated to determine if there are any additional protections we might take that would be prudent.
Update: Via GamePro, it appears that LulzSec has claimed responsibility for the breach.
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