6 Degrees of Fan Geekdom
Sep. 4th, 2007 03:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeriendhalSo, I'm friends (or at least More Than Acquainted With) author Jon Blum ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jblum, through a mutual love of Doctor Who. Jon of course went on to make his fannish appreciation into a genuine career, co-authoring several official DW tie-in novels with his wife, kateorman
Later I found out he was a friend of Jim Vowlesjvowles, my friend and occasional apartment mate in college.
And of course Jim was friends with both Jon Kilgannonksleet and Marc Sachs electroweak who did the Mystery Anime Theater 3000 back at Otakon, and who produced the marvelous webcomic A Miracle of Science. They also were gracious enough to say that the little fanfics I did based on their comic didn't completely suck.
What I didn't know until this weekend is that Marc was the mad genius behind the computer effects in Jon Blum's epic Doctor Who fanvid Time Rift. Mind you, this was back in 1993, where the idea of computer effects in a TV show were limited to the likes of Babylon 5. The idea of doing it in a no-budget fan production was on the verge of insane.
So I'm privileged to know a great many creative people, who also know each other. Now if I could just do something worthy of their own efforts.
jblum, through a mutual love of Doctor Who. Jon of course went on to make his fannish appreciation into a genuine career, co-authoring several official DW tie-in novels with his wife, kateormanLater I found out he was a friend of Jim Vowles
jvowles, my friend and occasional apartment mate in college.And of course Jim was friends with both Jon Kilgannon
ksleet and Marc Sachs electroweak who did the Mystery Anime Theater 3000 back at Otakon, and who produced the marvelous webcomic A Miracle of Science. They also were gracious enough to say that the little fanfics I did based on their comic didn't completely suck.What I didn't know until this weekend is that Marc was the mad genius behind the computer effects in Jon Blum's epic Doctor Who fanvid Time Rift. Mind you, this was back in 1993, where the idea of computer effects in a TV show were limited to the likes of Babylon 5. The idea of doing it in a no-budget fan production was on the verge of insane.
So I'm privileged to know a great many creative people, who also know each other. Now if I could just do something worthy of their own efforts.
