AP #13 : Flag Semiotics and Contemporary Nihilism

Edgar and Bill play musical roulette, follow up on some political worldbuilding, read some stories, analyse some s**t flags, talk alphabets, and attempt to solve Edgar's computer woes.

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SHOW NOTES:

Follow Up:

• Yoshida Brothers (Hishou)
• Unions vs Guilds
• Abdullah Öcalan - Democratic Confederalism
• Bill's Worldbuilding Blog
• Eric Lange - 30secfantasy.com
  • Eric's Other Dager Story
• China Miéville - Jack

S**t Flag Corner:

• Fés-Boulemane

Scripts:

• TehSarcassicCanadian
  • Deviant Art
  • Proto-Alphabet Song
• Edgar's Script
• Vowels Idea
• Texas Flag
• Iroha
• Rune Poems

Green Room:

• Email Edgar some tech advice.

Musical Credits:
"Myst on the Moor" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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AP #12: Crazy King Paper Noise

Edgar & Bill Talk about liquorice, "X" follow up, action films, and music. Bill builds a political system, and Edgar gives his views on Firefly and Stargate SG-1.

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SHOW NOTES:

Follow Up:

• Resurrection Men
• Burke and Hare
• Thalidomide
• The Last Ringbearer
• Daddy Vader
• Handwavia and Dager
• Bangsian Fantasy
• Novarian Series
• Melechesh
• Nile
• Spandau Ballet
• Richard Strauss - Tone Poems
• Cutty Ranks

 

Crazy King Bill:

• Government of Ireland
• Irish Political Parties
• Holy Roman Emperor
• Monopoly on Violence
• CGP Grey on Gerrymandering
• Supermajority
• Phrontistery

Green Room:

• Tucker and Dale vs Evil

AP #11 : Techno-Osteomancy

Edgar & Bill chat about some listener submitted works of art. Edgar proposes a magic system for Dager. Bill tells of his adventures in London and Edgar gives his views on finishing Star Trek.

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SHOW NOTES:

Follow Up:

• /r/worldbuilding
• /r/artifexian
• Hobbiton BC Feedback
• Leave some Topic Suggestions
• Lake of Skulls Artwork
• Dr.Who
• Father Brown
• That Error!!

S**t (Bear) Flag Corner:

• Flag of Yaroslavl
• Karelian Naval Flag
• City Flag of Madrid
• San Bernadino County Flag
  • Seal
• Flag of Moscow's Khoroshevo-Mnevniki District

Techno-Osteomancy:

• Handwavia and Dager
• Quimbanda
• Santería
• Osteomancy
• Dues Ex
• Neuromancer
• Sanderson's Laws
  • Law no.
  • Law no.2
  • Law no.3

Green Room:

• CGP Grey: The (Secret) City of London
• Monument of the Great Fire of London
• Wellington Monument
• British Museum
• 10,000 Subscriber Q+A: Answers with Artifexian
• good kid, m.A.A.d city
• Star Trek: Enterprise
• Lwaxana Troi
• "Rao"

AP #10 : Hobbiton BC

Edgar and Bill chat about Star Wars: TFA, Bill's music worldbuilding article, five terrible flags, and how to create Stone Age fiction! Enjoy, everyone.

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SHOW NOTES:

Follow Up:

• Millennials
• Expanded Universe
• Juggling Notation
• Worldbuilding Music, Part 1 : Culture and Society
• Atomic Bear Science

S**t Flag Corner:

• NZ Flag Referendum Explained
• Land of the Long White Sheepcloud
• Deranged Cat Flag
• Nyan Kiwi
• Kiwi Flag
• Fire the Lazar!
• Te Pepe

Stone Age Fiction:

• Stone Age
• Hunter-gather
• Mesolithic Building Example
• Why Motion was an Illusion
• Trobriand Islands
• Salmon Skin Suit
• Ötzi the Iceman
• Headdress
  • Reconstruction
• Worldbuilding - Stephen L Gillet
• Axes vs Adzes
• Atlatl
• Macuahuitl
• Lake of Skulls
• 'Stoned Ape' Theory
• Deepak Chopra
• Animism
• The Singing Neanderthals
• Ligeti

Green Room:

• Axial Tilt Video
• Hello Internet: Being Wrong on the Internet
• UK Explained: CGP Grey

Stone Age Research Material:

• Mesolithic Britain and Ireland: New Approaches
• Mesolithic Europe
• The Prehistoric Society FB page
• Mesolithic Miscellany

AP #0E : Atomic Bear Science

Edgar and Bill discuss music worldbuilding, atomic bear science, a vexillological cup and Star Wars: The Force Awakens - (SPOILERS CLEARLY MARKED). 

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SHOW NOTES:

Follow Up:

• #TeamLiquorice
• Origami Maths 1
  • Origami Maths 2
• The Invisibles
• Oldboy
• Opera IX
  • Denigrata
• Ethnomusicology
• ViHart on Pythagoras
  • Pythagorean Tuning
• The Pelican History of Music
• Maori Music
• Email us

S**T Flag Corner:

• Flag of Zheleznogorsk
• The Cup
• Europe?
• Eurovision Song Contest

Star Wars:

• The Force Awakens (Wikipedia-spoilers)
• Lightsaber Combat
• Death of the Author
• FF Ochu
• Sixty Symbols: The Force
• D:Ream

Thanks for watching and listening everyone - it really means an awful lot to us. Have a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year. See y'all in 2016!

AP #0X : Accelerate Proton Decay

Edgar & Bill talk about Plato's Republic, the flag of Brown County, Nebraska; Dyson Spheres and related megastructures, #TeamLiquorice, and the terrifying nature of tiny, tiny holes. Enjoy!

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SHOW NOTES:

Follow Up:

• Counting in Base 12
• New Star Trek
• Jeffery Combs aka Weyoun
• Napoleon
  • Temeraire Series
• Cerberus0225 on Math-building
• Plato's Republic
• Constructing Planetary Systems
• Suggest topics

S**t Flag Corner:

• Brown County, Nebraska!
  • DPRK (BC Remix)
  • Kingdom of Brain
  • Binland
  • C.G.P Brown
  • BIRELAND
• History of Ireland

Dyson Spheres:

• Dyson Spheres
• Freeman Dyson
• Kurzgesagt
  • Kardashev scale / Fermi Paradox 1
  • Kardashev scale / Fermi Paradox 2  
• Dyson Bubble
• Matrioshka Brain
• Shkadov Thruster (Stellar Engine)
• Handwavia and Dager
• Klemperer Rosette
• Topopolis
  • O'Neill Cylinder
• Great Mambo Chicken & the Transhuman Condition
• Cryonics
• Transmetropolitan

Green Room:

• Email Bill
• Seven Men from Gascony
• Some Military Uniforms
• Kids vs. Food - Salmiakki
  • #TeamLiquorice
• Trypophobia
  • /r/trypophobia
• A Typical Late Late Toy Show Scene

AP #09 : The Cup Empire

Edgar and Bill review The Martian and Star Trek: Voyager, ramble on about magicbuilding, do some Harry Potter bashing and then talk maths. I know, right...Podcasting GOLD!

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SHOW NOTES:

• The Martian
• Star Trek: Voyager
• Piggate
  • Mitchell & Webb: Watergate
• Blink of an Eye
• Threshold
• Kate Mulgrew
• Star Trek: Enterprise
  • Theme Song
• Macbeth
• The Evolution of Starfleet Uniforms
• Worldbuilding: A Writer's Guide to Constructing Star Systems and Life-Supporting Planets
• Sanderson's Laws
• Kiss from a Rose (Good Version)
• Everything that's wrong with Prometheus
• Lord of the Rings Explained
• Bad Magicbuilding?
• The Lies of Locke Lamora
• Adaptations
• Problems with Harry Potter
• Order of Operations
  • Postfix
  • Prefix
• Base 12
  • Dozenal Society of America  

AP #08 : The Knot Hypothesis

SHOW NOTES:

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Follow up:

• Saturn's Rings
• The Martian
• Neal Stephenson
  • Snow Crash
  • Cryptonomicon
  • The Baroque Cycle
• Dominik's Stars Calculator
• Order of Operations
  • Khan Academy
  • PEMDAS is (Morally) Wrong
• Universe Sandbox: Planetary System Tutorial
• Making Sense of: My Immortal
  • Soundcloud
  • Facebook
  • My Immortal (The text)

The Knot Hypothesis:

• Handwavia
• Dager
• If Planets Were Donuts
  • Picture 1: Spiral Galaxy
  • Picture 2: The Irregular Galaxy
  • Picture 3: Collisions
• Numberphile on Knots
• Wikipedia on Knots
  • Picture 5: The Trefoil Knot
  • Picture 6: Trefoil Galaxy
  • Picture 7: Dynamic Trefoil I
  • Picture 8: Dynamic Trefoil II
• Aether Theory
• Michelson-Morley Experiment

Elemental Worldbuilding:

• The Skeptical Fantasist
• "We couldn't possibly compute how that would look like in real life" ... or could we?
• Aristotelian Physics
• List of Fictional Elements
• Phlogiston Theory
• Island of Stability
• Mistborn
• Flatland
• Tesseract
• Atomic Rockets
  • Sierpinski Triangle
  • Unicorn Jelly
    • Alt Periodic Table
    • Sierpinski Cosmology
  • ViHart on the Sierpinski Triangle

AP #07 : Handwavia and Dager

SHOW NOTES:

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Follow up:

• HornBlower Series
• Naval Officer Ranks
• Sharpe Series
• The Peanut
• Galactic Cartography
• Alaskan State Flag
• Starry Plough Flag
• Lyra

Handwavia and Dager:

• How to Create Planetary Systems Playlist
• Bill's System (Handwavia)
• Edgar's System (Dager)
• Perceptions of the Heavens Video
• (Poke)planets Video
• Lagrange Point Video
• Laplace Resonance
• Dwarf Planet Orbits Video
• Life on Europa
• Eclipse Phase
• Nemesis - NOT SCIENCE

Green Room:

• "Nordic" Libya
• Paper Towns
• BoJack Horseman
• The Fuzz
• IMDB Top 250 TV Shows
• "!@#?" scene (NSFW)

AP #06 : In Excruciating Detail

SHOW NOTES:

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Follow up:

• Star Trek: Voyager (Lifesigns)
• Artifexian Aliens and New Music
• Breaking Bad: Fly
• M Knight Shyamalan
• WOW Music
• Xidnaf

New Horizons and Pluto:

• Pluto
• Charles Bolden
• Xkcd
  • Pluto
  • Up Goer 5
  • What if?
• Order of the Stick
• Kirkwood Gaps

The Making of Artifexian:

• Atomic Rockets
• Sources
  • Google Books
  • ArXiv
• Numberphile
• Storyboard
• Audio Tutorials
• All That Paper
• Equipment
  • Canon EOS 700D
  • Intervalometer
  • Nanguang CN-600CSA
• Manual Exposure Tutorial
• Podcasts
  • Radiolab
  • Hello Internet
  • Star Talk
  • Accidental Tech
  • 99% Invisible

The Green Room:

• From Elvish to Klingon
• Conan the Barbarian
  • Red Nails
  • Phoenix on the Sword
  • Tower of the Elephant
  • Hour of the Dragon
• Flags
  • Bangladesh
  • Czech Republic
  • Provo
  • Milwaukee
  • THE GLORY THAT IS POCATELLO
  • Ostrava's !!!
  • Roman Mars' Ted Talk
  • Amsterdam
  • Veneto
  • Nordic Libya

AP #05 : Pysgod Wibbly-Wobbly

SHOW NOTES:

Edgar and Bill chat about how to distance Artifexian from MinutePhysics, Helsinki, "The Object" and Jellyfish.

Discuss this Episode

Bill's Adventures in Helsinki:

• Modern Heavy Metal: Markets, Practices and Cultures
  • Ranger
  • Goatwhore
• Bill's Paper on Metal in Botswana
  • Part 1 - Overview
  • Part 2 - Reception
  • Part 3 - Other Issues, Recommendations and Source
• Battle Jackets, Craft and Folk Culture: Research Through Creative Practice
• Sibelius Monument
• Nordic Walking
• Suomenlinna
• Where is Scandinavia?
• Mustelidae
• Salmiak
• Terminally Climactic Forms in Heavy Metal Music
  • Pantera - Domination
  • Bill's Soundcloud

Edgar's Adventures on Reddit:

• "The Object" by Eric Lange
  • "The Object" video
  • Eric's Site - 30secfantasy.com
    • Hashtag Plague
• The Walking Dead
• Star Trek: Voyager
• Star Trek: Uncharted
  • Star Trek: Uncharted - Micheal Gummelt
• E3
  • Final Fantasy VII Trailer
• Rian Johnson
• Brick

Artifexian -vs- MinutePhysics

• Making MinutePhysics
• Upside Down Mountains in Real Life (Example of a MinutePhysics Video)
  • IPA: Voicing (Example of an Artifexian Video)
• Xkcd
• Kevin MacLeod: Incompetech
• Nerdist
• Vsauce2: Thought Glass
• ViHart's Stick Figures
• Designs for the Artifexian Alien
  • Thoughts? Suggestions? Design Ideas? Email us.
• Emo Edgar

AP #04 : The Star Wars Galaxy Is Andromeda

SHOW NOTES:

Bill and Edgar chat about galaxies, the fermi paradox, biscuits and Edgar's fear of aliens.

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FOLLOW UP:

Xidnaf
Hangul
Black Metal

• Immortal
• Bal-Sagoth
• Meads of Asphodel
• Anaal Nathrak

Pathfinder Society

• Email Bill

Waking Life
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Worldbuilding and Art

• Chris Fite-Wassilak

The Object

• 30secfantasy.com
• Leave opinion in the subreddit

Worldbuilding - Weekly Challenge Video Response - Colors

GALAXIES:

Artifexian's Galaxy Videos:

The Warhammer 40k Galaxy
Star Trek Galaxy aka The Milky Way

• Milky Way Quadrants

100,000 Stars (The Milky Way in 3D)
Cartesian Quadrants
Star Wars Galaxy

The Star Wars Galaxy is Andromeda
St. Elsewhere Theory
Warp Drive
Galaxies in Fiction
Fermi Paradox

• Wiki
• Kurzgesagt Video

IO9 on the Fermi Paradox
Drake Equation
The Great Filter

• Galactus

Kardashev Scale
Mars Trilogy

AP #03 : On Language

Show Notes:

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Bill's Adventures in Academia

• "Metal in Botswana" (Bill's Paper)
  • Part one - Overview
  • Part two - Reception
  • Part three - Other Issues, Recommendations and Sources
• Frank Marshall's Photos (PDF Download)
• Skinflint
• Wrust
• Nosey Road
• Metal Orizon
• Bill's Soundcloud

Follow up:

• Artifexian Subreddit
• Teodor Radu
  • Website
  • Soundcloud
  • Youtube
• Leave a Review on the iTunes Store

On Language:

• Language Creation: The Basics
• IPA
  • Pharyngeal Consonants
• Orthography
• Sequoyah
• Thamsanqa Jantjie at Mandela's Funeral
• Martha's Vineyard Sign Language
• China Mieville
  • Bas-Lag
  • Embassy Town
  • Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law
• Pierson's Puppeteers
• Ian Banks: Player of Games
• Species 8472
• Klingon Opera 'u'
  • Recording
• Don Giovanni - Content Warning: mention of rape at 01:07:13 -
• Ill Bethisad
• Uncleftish Beholding
• Percy Grainger
  • Linguistic Purism
• Little Jimmy Osmond
• German Spelling Reforms
• Sigur Ros
• Honeybee Communication
• EMAIL BILL!!

AP #02: Google Trek

Show Notes:

• Discuss this episode on the subreddit

Irish Creator's Day at Google:

• Irish Creators Day
• A problem with youtube
  • Another problem with youtube
• Curious.com
• Khan Academy
• Irish Creators Day Schedule
• Jack Septic Eye
• Keralis
• Daithi de Nogla
• Melanie Murphy
• Foil, Arms and Hog

Pre Google Shopping Trip:

• Rode Shotgun Mic
• Hot Pink Nintendo 3DS
  • That Awful 3D Feature
• Flow Free
• Where Edgar Plays his Tetris

Star Trek:

• Star Trek TNG: Starship Mine
• Maquis
• Sisko
• Tim Russ
  • Tuvok
• Wil Wheaton on Geek and Sundry
• Air Force One
• Die Hard on an X
• Suggest a Re-write of Starship Mine
• Spock in TNG
  • Unification 1 & 2

Addendum:

• Chat to us on the subreddit
• Email the show (edgar@artifexian.com)
• Facebook
• Twitter

AP #01: Thoughts on Stars

SHOW NOTES:

Discuss this episode on reddit

Intro (Lengthy Sports Diversion):

• Superbowl XLIX
  • Patriot Controversies
• UFC
  • Nick Diaz v Anderson Silva

Follow up:

• Email Bill his mistakes
• Radiolab
• Artifexian Subreddit

Thoughts on Stars:

• Artifexian's Stars Playlist
• The video that started Artifexian
  • Minutephysics
• ViHart
  • On youtube
  • Virtual ViHart
• Hello Internet
  • CGP Grey
  • Brady Haran
• Kelvin
• That Eiffel Tower Bit
• Bill's Music Blog
  • Bill on soundcloud
• List of Nearby Stars

Stellar Guessing:

• Hypothetical Stars
  • Blue Dwarf
  • Black Dwarf
  • Dark Star
    • Yngwie Malmsteen
    • His AWFUL Guitar Concerto
  • Fuzz Ball
  • Thorne-Zytkow Object
  • Boson Star
  • Iron Star
  • Gray Hole
  • Frozen Star
  • Population III Star
    • Science of the Discworld 

AP #00: Worldbuilding: A Definition

Show Notes:

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Intro and Housekeeping:

• Artifexian Videos
• Email the show
• Leave a comment on the Artifexian Subbreddit
• Artifexian Website 

 Defining the term "Worldbuilding":

• What is Worldbuilding?
• Golarion
• Brandon Sanderson's back catalogue
• Lord of the Rings Explained
• The Lost World
• Ruritanian Romance
• Bangsian Fantasy
• Temeraire Series
• The Years of Rice and Salt
• The Mars Trilogy
• Master and Commander
• Discworld
• On
• R Scott Bakker 
  • The Skeptical Fantasist