Thursday, June 04, 2009
@ukcardcast
Oh, I'm sure I'll regret this, but I've dipped a tentative toe into the Twitterverse - the id is @ukcardcast and you should find a link down on the right somewhere! Don't expect a lot except when I'm about to put an episode online...
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Thinning out the collection
At the moment I'm going through my card collection, and taking a serious look at the cards sets I'm unlikely to complete. I've alredy sold a few on eBay and I have a few more on there now (These are 5 day listings and may well have closed by the time anyone reads this, but it might be worth clicking on the link anyway - if the listings they are closed, they will probably have been replaced with some others!)
No reason for doing this other than the fact that the cards are just sitting in albums and would probably do better if they were in the collection of someone who loved them more! I have a shortlist of cards that probably won't be sold - either because they have a sentimental value (a gift from a friend, say, or a favourite card), or because, in this buyers market, I'd be lucky to get more than the starting price (and I'm starting pretty much everything at 99p!)
In the meantime, life goes on, as does the podcast - Episode 18 of UK CardCast is online as I type and features interviews with Harris 'Ubiquitous' Toser, Marc de Groot and new soon-to-be 'Regular Contributor' Kris Kersey. Plus, I have already recorded the feature interview for Episode 19 (due out at the beginning of July - no names, no pack drill, but I REALLY had fun recording it and I think it should be extremely popular with listeners!
Back to my collection, and I have more-or-less completed my Thunderbirds The Movie set; I've been working on this for a little over a year and the last piece dropped into the binder a couple of months ago - for this set I consider a 'Master' to be all the base cards and chases, all the autographs, all the costume cards, all the promos, a wrapper, the box, at least one sketch and the two preview sets. I don't have a sell sheet for the set, so I may well keep looking for that, and I don't have a sketch example for all the artists who contributed to the set (currently looking for a Warren Martinek, a Joe Corroney, a Claire Ramsey, and possibly one of the painted cards (though I suspect they are out of my unfeasably low price range!) so I may well keep looking for cheap sketches as well, but otherwise it's done.
I also completed my autograph-less Sabrina The Teenage Witch set, thanks to a trade with a Jolly Nice NSU Card Talker, Greg Geert, who helped me to finish off the foil chase set.
Now I need to find some super cheap Star Trek boxes (the new movie set that is) and let The Hand pull the Simon Pegg autograph, then I can be happy for a while!
On the subject of Happy For A While, let me show you the most recent card that made me feel that way:
It's Stewie from "Family Guy" as Irina Spalko from "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" drawn by Elaine Perna with Tony Perna and was a personal commission (made via the Scoundrel message board; I recently been picking up a collection of sketch cards showing the Spalko character (mainly because they have been cheap) and I now have quite a few - mostly from the official Topps sets, but two being PSC's (Personal Sketch Card) - one being the above, the other being one that Denise Vasquez did for me! (if you click in the 'Happy Fans' link on Denise's website you may well find a picture of me holding her card!)
If you want to see the rest of the "Spalko Collection", you'll find them here
No reason for doing this other than the fact that the cards are just sitting in albums and would probably do better if they were in the collection of someone who loved them more! I have a shortlist of cards that probably won't be sold - either because they have a sentimental value (a gift from a friend, say, or a favourite card), or because, in this buyers market, I'd be lucky to get more than the starting price (and I'm starting pretty much everything at 99p!)
In the meantime, life goes on, as does the podcast - Episode 18 of UK CardCast is online as I type and features interviews with Harris 'Ubiquitous' Toser, Marc de Groot and new soon-to-be 'Regular Contributor' Kris Kersey. Plus, I have already recorded the feature interview for Episode 19 (due out at the beginning of July - no names, no pack drill, but I REALLY had fun recording it and I think it should be extremely popular with listeners!
Back to my collection, and I have more-or-less completed my Thunderbirds The Movie set; I've been working on this for a little over a year and the last piece dropped into the binder a couple of months ago - for this set I consider a 'Master' to be all the base cards and chases, all the autographs, all the costume cards, all the promos, a wrapper, the box, at least one sketch and the two preview sets. I don't have a sell sheet for the set, so I may well keep looking for that, and I don't have a sketch example for all the artists who contributed to the set (currently looking for a Warren Martinek, a Joe Corroney, a Claire Ramsey, and possibly one of the painted cards (though I suspect they are out of my unfeasably low price range!) so I may well keep looking for cheap sketches as well, but otherwise it's done.
I also completed my autograph-less Sabrina The Teenage Witch set, thanks to a trade with a Jolly Nice NSU Card Talker, Greg Geert, who helped me to finish off the foil chase set.
Now I need to find some super cheap Star Trek boxes (the new movie set that is) and let The Hand pull the Simon Pegg autograph, then I can be happy for a while!
On the subject of Happy For A While, let me show you the most recent card that made me feel that way:
It's Stewie from "Family Guy" as Irina Spalko from "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" drawn by Elaine Perna with Tony Perna and was a personal commission (made via the Scoundrel message board; I recently been picking up a collection of sketch cards showing the Spalko character (mainly because they have been cheap) and I now have quite a few - mostly from the official Topps sets, but two being PSC's (Personal Sketch Card) - one being the above, the other being one that Denise Vasquez did for me! (if you click in the 'Happy Fans' link on Denise's website you may well find a picture of me holding her card!)If you want to see the rest of the "Spalko Collection", you'll find them here
Saturday, April 04, 2009
Open That Box Day
Well, I did as promised in the last entry and recorded, edited, compiled and uploaded the latest episode of the podcast in one day - I started recording at around 14:30 and the episode was online at 22:00
The inspiration for this was "Open That Box Day 2009" which was held today (April 4th) and organised by Non-sport Update magazine; the episode featured an actual box being opened, and a chat with Harris Toser, Production Manager of NSU.
The episode should appear in the list on the right, and more info (including, would you believe, pictures!) can be found on the gallery page of www.cardcast.co.uk, the podcast home page.
The inspiration for this was "Open That Box Day 2009" which was held today (April 4th) and organised by Non-sport Update magazine; the episode featured an actual box being opened, and a chat with Harris Toser, Production Manager of NSU.
The episode should appear in the list on the right, and more info (including, would you believe, pictures!) can be found on the gallery page of www.cardcast.co.uk, the podcast home page.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Another Month, Another Episode
Episode 16 of my non-sport podcast, UK CardCast, went online at the weekend and features the usual chat with Harris Toser of NSU magazine, a conversation with Nathan Ohlendorf (aka SadLittle) about his "Legend and Lore" set (more details here: SadLittles.com and some interviews recorded by Harris at the New York Comic Con last month - interviewees include Dennis Budd, Brian Kong, Uko Smith and Nar!
I'm planning for the next episode, which will be my contrubution to NSU's "Open That Box Day" - I'm going to record myself opening a box "live" and attempt to edit and upload the recording on the same day, April 4th - this will be some feat as it usually takes a week or more for me to edit the various interviews and links for a regular episode!
More info, by the way, about "Open That Box" day here
I'm planning for the next episode, which will be my contrubution to NSU's "Open That Box Day" - I'm going to record myself opening a box "live" and attempt to edit and upload the recording on the same day, April 4th - this will be some feat as it usually takes a week or more for me to edit the various interviews and links for a regular episode!
More info, by the way, about "Open That Box" day here
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Three posts in a row!
I neglect the blog for months, then three posts in a row! Ho Hum!
I'm in a couple of card Secret Santas this year - one on NSU's Card Talk board, and one on the Scoundrel board. The latter turned up at the weekend, and it is a really rather nice pair of Star Trek sketches by artist unknown (update: The artist is, in fact, Nathan 'SadLittle' Ohlendorf!):
Whoever the artist/Secret Santa donor is, Thank you! I'm most decidedly chuffed!
I'm in a couple of card Secret Santas this year - one on NSU's Card Talk board, and one on the Scoundrel board. The latter turned up at the weekend, and it is a really rather nice pair of Star Trek sketches by artist unknown (update: The artist is, in fact, Nathan 'SadLittle' Ohlendorf!):
Whoever the artist/Secret Santa donor is, Thank you! I'm most decidedly chuffed!
Economic Downturn? Bargain Central!
I've been picking up some amazing (for me at least!) bargains recently as far as cards are concerned. At Memorabilia I picked up some boxes for £1 each, and a Julian Glover autograph from one of the Topps Indiana Jones sets and a Grant Gould sketch of Irina for, respectively, £2.99 and £1.99.
This week, some eBay bargains arrived, including one of the two Thunderbirds The Movie autographs I was missing (Rose Keegan, aka "Transom") for which I paid a couple of quid - I now only need one more autograph, two of the more difficult promos and the Woolworths/The Sun redemption set to make as close to a master as I'll ever get!
Bad time to be a collector? I don't know. As is mentioned in the latest episode of the podcast (#14), there were plenty of bargains to be had on comparatively recent stock at the Memorabilia show; how much of this is due to dealers feeling the pinch and how much is just a lot of stock clearing I don't know, but whatever the reason is, I'll take advantage whilst I still have a (very) small amount of disposable income to spend!
This week, some eBay bargains arrived, including one of the two Thunderbirds The Movie autographs I was missing (Rose Keegan, aka "Transom") for which I paid a couple of quid - I now only need one more autograph, two of the more difficult promos and the Woolworths/The Sun redemption set to make as close to a master as I'll ever get!
Bad time to be a collector? I don't know. As is mentioned in the latest episode of the podcast (#14), there were plenty of bargains to be had on comparatively recent stock at the Memorabilia show; how much of this is due to dealers feeling the pinch and how much is just a lot of stock clearing I don't know, but whatever the reason is, I'll take advantage whilst I still have a (very) small amount of disposable income to spend!
Birmingham: The Return...
Episode 14 of the podcast is now online; entitled "Birmingham: The Return...", it looks back at the Memorabilia show and features Harris Toser and myself, with contributions from various artists, ealers and other attendees at the show.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Technology Highs and Lows 2 - The Unneccessary Sequel
I'm back from the Memorabilia show in Birmingham (at which I had great fun!) and realise that half the interviews I recorded on my new 'Mobile recording' kit did not run through the external microphone (which is higher quality than usual) but through the internal microphone (which is, frankly, pants) I should be able to retrieve something usable from most of it, but it's not going to be as good as I intended when I got the new kit. Rats.
My apologies in advance to the interviewees affected by this mistake on my part (I know what I did - I didn't manually select the right option); anyone I cannot edit into a listenable segment on the next podcast will get a huge plug from me instead.
My apologies in advance to the interviewees affected by this mistake on my part (I know what I did - I didn't manually select the right option); anyone I cannot edit into a listenable segment on the next podcast will get a huge plug from me instead.
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