6 Degrees of Fan Geekdom

[jeriendhal]

So, I'm friends (or at least More Than Acquainted With) author Jon Blum 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 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.

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[pete-wisdom.livejournal.com]

And Neil audioboy did the music for Time Rift...funny, how I know about 75% of the above mentioned in real life...small world, eh?

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Small regional fandom base at least. I'm still trying to figure out who else we might might mutually know.

[jvowles.livejournal.com]

Well, of course, I take credit for hooking up audioboy with composerscott....

...who was one of the first people I met online, turned out to work at Waldenbooks, and who introduced me to the folks who do the parody skits at Farpoint and Balticon. And while at a recent shindig at their place, we discovered through casual conversation that they not only know Cindy (who used to room with my friends Bram and Brian -- though I only knew her and her then-hubby Andrew casually), but that one of them is in fact a cousin of these two brothers who we used to hang with at various Hunt Valley cons. I spent my 21st birthday doing shots with them. (The kid I was talking to wasn't even BORN when that happened...yikes!)