Blasting Off with “Mars Experience VR” at SXSW Virtual reality creates highly detailed and accurate simulation of the surface of Mars

by Blogcritics | Mar 30, 2016 | conventions and events, culture, media, weird/science | 0 comments

By LEO SOPICKI There’s an old expression for when something is not difficult: “It doesn’t take a ​rocket ​scientist.” But when it comes to creating a virtual reality experience of Mars, it does take a rocket scientist. Five of them, actually. “Mars Experience...

PHANTASM Remastered – J.J. Abrams Presents Restored Horror Classic at SXSW

by Blogcritics | Mar 21, 2016 | conventions and events, media, movies | 0 comments

By LEO SOPICKI J.J. Abrams joined SXSW attendees and writer/director Don Coscarelli for the debut of Phantasm Remastered at the Stateside Theatre in Austin. The debut was part of the SXSW Midnighters series which is billed as “Scary, funny, sexy, controversial –...

Talking The Edwardian Ball and All Things Edward Gorey on After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio Edwardian Ball co-founder Jason Katz and Edward Gorey House curator Gregory Hischak visit the show

by Eric Olsen | Feb 26, 2016 | art, conventions and events, culture, media, radio | 0 comments

  On tonight’s elegant yet trashy edition of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio with hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen, 9-11pE, we dig into the whimsical yet macabre world of artist/illustrator Edward Gorey, talking with founder of the...

Talking DEATH and AFTERLIFE TELESUMMIT with Terri Daniel on After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted Radio Free event to feature leaders in end-of-life care, afterlife research, bereavement, mediumship, shamanism, contemporary theology

by Eric Olsen | Jan 6, 2016 | conventions and events, culture, media, paranormal, parapsychology, radio, religion and belief, supernatural beings, weird/science | 0 comments

  On tonight’s special Welcome-to-2016 edition of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted radio with Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen, we preview the Death and Afterlife Telesummit with founder and co-host Terri Daniel. In the 9pE hour of the show Joel and...

Music and the Paranormal – Ghosts Seem to Dig the Tunes From aesthetic theory to rock 'n' roll ghosts, The 27 Club to the shaman's drum

by Eric Olsen | Oct 29, 2015 | conventions and events, culture, ghosts and spirits, haunted locations, media, paranormal, religion and belief | 0 comments

by - [-] Rank/Rating: -/- Price: - I was honored to do a little Halloween talk today at my alma mater Wittenberg University, on a lovely fall day in Springfield, Ohio. My topic was Music and the Paranormal, two of my favorite individual topics that also have a...

Scream Queens Fan Fright Fest Live-Stream Q&A Right Here at 6pE Ryan Murphy, Lea Michele, Keke Palmer Answer Fan Questions Live

by Eric Olsen | Oct 24, 2015 | conventions and events, media, television | 0 comments

by - [-] Rank/Rating: -/- Price: - Today in NYC, rip snorting Fan Fright Fest for Fox’s new horror/comedy hit Scream Queens. Special airing of first five episodes of the series underway now. Q&A with exec producer Ryan Murphy, and series stars/Kappa divas...