Quackcast 711 - Lost Boys

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 29, 2024

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Halloween is on the way and we always do something different for it. This time we're doing a commentary for the 1987 vampire movie The Lost Boys! We even dressed in Lost Boys themed outfits for ...


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The Psychology of Monsters

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, Oct. 26, 2024



Halloween is just around the corner, so what better thing to do than talk about monsters?

Specifically, what has motivated humanity to create them, talk about them, fear them and love them across time and across culture.

Monsters are generally linked with our sense of fear. Fear is an adaptive ...





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Quackcast 709 - Dragons!

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Oct. 15, 2024

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Dragons are cool, aren't they? That's our subject for today, specifically the giant, monstrous beasties of myth, fantasy, and legend. They can be evil, they can be clever, they can be animalistic and wild, they ...


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Revisiting Hayao Miyazaki’s Film, The Wind Rises, Ten Years Later

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Sept. 23, 2024


Photo: “End of Summer 2024”. Photograph taken by kawaiidaigakusei. (September 2024)

Ten years before Miyazaki’s latest animated film, The Boy and the Heron (2023), was released last year, The Wind Rises (2013/2014) was announced to be Miyazaki’s final film.

In a Drunk Duck forum post dated February ...




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Quackcast 704 - The Cultcast

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 10, 2024

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The topic we're talking about today was inspired by my ruminations on Bullshido martial arts promo demonstration videos. These are the videos where a martial arts master shows off their skill in a patently fake demonstration ...


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Quackcast 703 - Cross Cultural Influence

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Sept. 3, 2024

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Cross cultural influence is a marvellous thing and very enriching to creativity! It's lovely when you can see multiple cultural influences in things, whether comics, movies, art, fashion, music or anything else. It's inspiring and ...


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Quackcast 700 - Mythcast part 2

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Aug. 13, 2024

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We chatted about Greek Myths last week and found the subject so interesting that we thought we'd do a part two! So even MORE Greek myth stuff for Quackcast 700.

There are just so many great ...




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Quackcast 698 - the Haircast

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 30, 2024

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Hair is a weird thing isn't it? It's just a bunch of thin filaments that stand out and hang from the body, most visibly from the head. Everyone is bald as an egg underneath this ...


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Art, Communication, and Comics

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, July 12, 2024



Comics are one of the most effective forms of art.
The most important part of all art is communication. It's often overlooked in favour of “meaning” but without the ability to effectively communicate that meaning, the meaning becomes meaningless. Concepts and manifestos are utterly inadequate because they usually become ...


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