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Listen above or download from here (right-click, save as). The podcast is up on iTunes, so be sure to subscribe! PLEASE!

In this week’s episode we talk about:

• Review of “Happily Ever After” (A Desmond episode )

Also:

1. Desmond episodes ROCK!
2. Mikhail
3. Jacob’s list
4. Seeing old characters
5. Everyone loves Daniel
6. Extreme emotions and the two timelines
7. Hearing things…
8. Hawking? HAWKING!? WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON??
9. How this will all end
10. Wrapping up the ALT Timeline… uh, yeah, how?
11. Desmond’s “sacrifice”
12. (yeah… we kinda talk about A LOT this episode!)
13. Taking sides, the final battle is coming
14. Eloise Hawking: The ethereal, multi-dimensional, time-travelling, knowledge dictionary
15. LIBBY NEXT EPISODE!
16. And MORE!!!

Yes, this is a longer episode, but in our opinion it’s our best, most thought-filled podcast we’ve done this whole season! Enjoy!
Happy Trails,
Sam.

PS — We forgot to mention this picture from the episode, which is REALLLYYY interesting. It’s of a painting in Widmore’s office:




Interesting, the two scales are balanced here, instead of constantly one way or the other as it seems to be in the original timeline… Perhaps it is this fact which created this ALT timeline? The scales being even is the cause of this timeline. But then how could the scales be evened? Just an idea from Sam here, but what if the two scales are evened because they are both dead. What if in the ALT both are dead, and this is the cause, a world without men wearing greyscale clothing. Just Hawking wanting to keep it that way.



As always: Watch LOST tomorrow night!

Listen above or download from here (right-click, save as). The podcast is up on iTunes, so be sure to subscribe! PLEASE!

In this week’s episode we talk about:

• Review of the “The Package”

Also:

1. Talk about many theories
2. Actually exciting Sun and Jin episode??
3. Loving the old characters! Yeah, we’re talking about Keamy, Mikhail, and more.
4. Mikhail thoughts
5. LOST FANS: START WATCHING FRINGE NAO!
6. Flocke can’t float on water?
7. And MORE!!!

Happy Trails,
Sam.

PS — Watch LOST tonight!

The following is important information for you all dealing with my digital story. Seriously, read this or you might get confused:



As most of you know, I had originally chosen to do my mandatory digital story this semester based off the best show in all of ever, LOST. I had two great ideas, unfortunately both of these ideas have fallen through. While I hinted at this in an earlier post, it is now official. Not to worry, though, because I already am in production of a different non-LOST-related story for my blog. Though admittedly the way I want to tell to story is very LOST-esque, including hiding clues within the videos, and great foreshadowing (which LOST excels at!)



You need to know: a post which is part of the digital story will have a title starting with “Samuel Michaels …”. You can also view only posts relating to the story by keeping an eye on this page (link: http://chasinglilly.net/blog/tag/samuel-michaels/) The first part will be up before 11 tonight. I can’t reveal too much, though I can tell you that it’s a drama series composed mainly of videos.

As you will be able to tell from the first video, an unidentified person will be uploading a series of videos to their account over the next few weeks. The videos are from a video blog series by “Samuel Michaels” (aka user newfoundmemories122) which was originally posted in early March 2009. These videos are only copies of the originals which “The Uploader” managed to saved before they were taken down. “The Uploader” is also somehow in possession of Michaels’s personal dv camcorder, and will be uploading videos from it as well.

These videos start off normal. But there is something weird about them, not the least of which being that the originals were taken down by direct request from a company named “Burke Pharmaceuticals”. Why would they take them down? What is it about Michaels which makes him so important? But I have already said too much…



More to come,

Sam.

Listen above or download from here (right-click, save as). The podcast is up on iTunes, so be sure to subscribe! PLEASE!

In this week’s episode we talk about:

• Review of the episode

Also:

1. Talk about many theories
2. Richard (or rather Ricardo)
3. The MIB’s known history
4. Not caring about Illana
5. References to Hell
6. The remaining mysteries
7. And MORE!!!

Happy Trails,
Sam.

PS — Been having some major problems with uploading from the network in my dorm, especially to YouTube. Stay tuned!

We are a very ambitious bunch. We meaning: Will McCarry, Billy Bacci, Jimmy McGrath, and myself. Collectively, we have been part of five separate bands over the last four years, not to mention our own personal side-projects. But all that has finally come together. We have finally settled on the name ‘Violent Blue‘. Not only that, but we also have our first song up over on our Facebook page to prove it! Titled “Polaroid” it’s the first track we’ve released off our upcoming Yeah. Right. EP. Go check it out, become a fan, and give us your thoughts!

Some readers may remember that we were running under the tentative band name “Chasing Lilly” for the past few months. In fact, that’s the reason this site is named what it is (despite being a cool LOST reference, of course). We’ll get the EP out sometime this summer, and expect us to be playing some shows as well. We’ll keep ya posted!

So far we only have a Facebook page, but we’ll be getting a Myspace music page up soon as well. Jimmy was cool enough to make a video for the Polaroid song using pictures from our travels over the past year. Clever… using pictures to show a song titled “Polaroid”… intentional? Probably not. Ah well, check that out below as well:

In other news, we had to make a short educational video this week for Digital Storytelling class using only free-to-use videos from the Prelinger archive on the Internet Archive. We chose the topic of “phishing” and agreed that my group would write a short script and record voice-overs, and I would edit the whole film together. The video below is the culmination of this effort. You’ll notice the voice overs are rather blown out volume-wise, but the bad audio, combined with the guys at times funny-sounding voice I figured were worth keeping and funny by itself. Enjoy:

You may be wondering where my digital story is? You know, that one about me being a character from LOST actually in the show blogging about it? Along with video? Well I’ve run into some big roadblocks with that idea, and may be forced to take up my secondary idea. Don’t worry, it still deals with LOST, just not in the same way. We’ll see, though. Keep watching the blog.



Lastly, we’d like to apologize for not being able to upload last week’s Dark Territory LOST Podcast. For those three of you who listen to it, we are sorry. If it will allow us to without problems, we’ll sill try uploading it. We’ll also have a podcast for this week’s Richard Alpert-centric LOST episode, “Ab Aeterno” (which means “from the beginning” or “from eternity” in Latin). That’s all for now!



Happy Trails,
Sam.

This post is a few days late, but it is here none the less! With such a specific title, there’s not much to explain in this post other than that I did another screencast tutorial. Although a few things have already been shown in class, it is worth going over again. Pretty much what you will learn is the basics of how I record audio from Skype, edit it in Audacity, and host it, all for our weekly LOST podcast.

I do have to apologize for the seeming quickness of the tutorial, YouTube now only allows 10 minute videos so I had to be fast. Also for the general annoyingness of my voice in a few segments. Enjoy, though! Rate it, leave some comments, etc!

Websites used:

Other tutorial page: http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/22-free-podcast-hosting.htm

Skype recorder used: Pamela Call Recorder

Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org

Ourmedia: http://ourmedia.org

FeedBurner: http://feedburner.com

The Dark Territory LOST Podcast: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TDTLostPodcast



Happy Trails and Namaste,

Sam.

Listen above or download from here (right-click, save as). The podcast is up on iTunes, so be sure to subscribe! PLEASE!

In this week’s episode we talk about:

• Review of the episode in general (duh!)

Also:

1. The fact that we love seeing old characters again (eg. Doc Arzt, Alex, etc.)
2. The stark differences in how Jacob and the MIB seem to be gaining followers
3. Richard. Jack. Hurley. In the Black Rock. With lit dynamite. Need I say more?
4. Why the bomb didn’t go off for Jack, yet did for Juliet
5. Why is Ben off the island?
6. Why is Alex off the Island?
7. Taking over the school
8. Ben is finally redeemed!
9. So… the bomb must not have blown up the Island.
10. At what point does history change?

PLUS:

1. TOP-NOTCH impersonations of Widmore and Ben!!
2. And, of course, THEORIES!

Notice something missing? Like… a podcast for last week’s episode, Sundown? Due to difficulties beyond this lowly LOST blogger’s control, it doesn’t exist. And to upload it now, over a week late, would just be pointless. But feel free to check out and download this one!

Once again another amazing episode from the final season of the greatest show in television history! Any thoughts or comments? Then just stick em down there below this post! Keep checking the blog for more podcasts and info as well.

Yo. Sam out.

Listen above or download from here (right-click, save as). The podcast is up on iTunes, so be sure to subscribe!

In this week’s episode we talk about:

• Review of the episode

Also:

1. Jack’s scar and differences in the timelines
2. Kate’s extremely terrible scene
3. The Lighthouse itself
4. How the mirrors work, who is 108? Who’s being “brought” to the Island? Desmond?
5. Jack finally starting to figure things out (smiley face)
6. The MIB and Christian are possibly not the same entity
7. The temple to be attacked?
8. THEORIES and MORE!

Loved this week’s episode! Sorry for the posting delay, guys. This is the first podcast this season that Will and I have done together in the same room on the same mic, so enjoy the better sound quality. Note: we did record this at 2 AM so please forgive and tiredness in our voices. Be sure to keep checking the blog for more podcasts and info!

Happy Trails and Namaste,

Sam.

So this post will serve a dual purpose. One is about the assignment we were given, the other is a general update as to what’s happening on this here blog. First comes the assignment.
We are to make a Flickr account, follow @DailyShoot on Twitter, and complete the tasks tweeted to us for the next four days. Also we have to integrate some sort of Flickr plugin on our sites. Since I already had a Flickr account, I just started completing the Daily Shoot tasks, which you can see below (links to Flickr page)

So as to what’s going on here at the site? Well, quite a bit! First off, I’d like to thank everyone who’s commented on all my posts, though especially the comments about ideas pertaining to this upcoming LOST-themed project I’m doing. All of your texts, comments, and audible conversations have been great! I think I know what I’m going to be mainly doing for this project, though I’m still working out the kinks in the story (can’t reveal too much, this is LOST, after all!)

Speaking of LOST, you can subscribe to our weekly LOST podcast using whatever application you want from the RSS here. Alternatively if you have iTunes, you can simply subscribe to our podcast by clicking here (then ‘Subscribe’, of course). Thanks for the support, guys, and for taking this crazy ride with us through this final season of this great show! Of course, if you missed this last week’s episode check it out here.

Also you may notice the sidebar not only has a Twitter feed, but also my Flickr RSS showing a few of my latest photos. In other plugin news, I would urge ALL of you who haven’t already done so to go check out the plugin WPtouch from Brave New Code! It’s a great, easy-to-use plugin that turns your website/blog into a portable theme. Basically how it works is it recognizes if the viewer is accessing your page on a handheld device (iPhone, Blackberry, Android, etc) and if so, it shows a version of your site specially made for faster portable use. It shows your stories in an iPod-like fashion and even allows the reader to comment on or tweet your articles, email them, or even message you right from their device. And the best thing is: it’s super easy to customize! You can change the themes, decide what shows up, and more. If you can’t tell, I like it and highly suggest it to everyone.

As always, more to come!



Happy Trails and Namaste,
Sam.

Listen above or download from here (right-click, save as). The podcast is up on iTunes now, so be sure to subscribe! At the moment, though, I’m having some issues getting the ping service to update our feed in iTunes with the latest episodes, but we’ll keep you posted!

In this week’s episode we talk about:

• Review of the episode in general

ALT TIMELINE:

1. Seeing old characters again (eg. Helen, Rose, Hurley, Ben, etc.)
2. Why Ben is off island. Maybe the bomb didn’t cause the Island to sink?
3. At what point does history change after the Incident?
4. The significance of the mention of Locke’s dad (and it’s consequences for Locke)

ON ISLAND:

1. Flocke wanting Richard to come with him
2. The young boy with bloody arms Flocke/Sawyer see in the jungle, but Richard can’t
3. The climb down Jacob’s ladder
4. Jacob’s cave (the names with the numbers and what it all means)
5. And, of course, THEORIES!

I’ll be putting up more information on the upcoming school project I will be doing based on LOST. On a side note, those of you who have followed Will’s and/or my previous blogs or work will be happy to know that we have FINALLY decided on what our next project will be film-wise! And no. It’s not Island Wars 2 (thankfully!) More info on that later, too!

Happy Trails and Namaste,

Sam.