Doctor Who’s Day Of The Doctor got an official Guinness World Record for being simulcast in the most number of countries of any TV show ever, a total of 94 of them. You can almost see me and my friend in the shot where they are facing the audience, but then Steven Moffat raises his hand and blocks your view of us and the 50 or so people immediately around us.
I am back, and I survived the Doctor Who 50th Celebration, which was amazing, no to mention huge. I could make every post to the end of the year about this, and still have material left over to take me into the next. I am not going to do that, but it is amazing that I could if I wanted to. The panels were epic, each with an excellent assortment of people, each different from the others. The displays and exhibits were likewise world class, not to mention the dealer area, with the high points being Big Audio Finish, Forbidden Planet, and the BBC themselves. The line to get into that last area went around the entire display area, because they were set up with a green-screen processing function that everyone wanted to be a part of.
What you can’t really tell from that photo is that the hall keeps going back, and is just as packed the whole way. The friend I attended it with has several much better cameras than I have, perhaps she will have a better version of that image for me to upload.
Thought I would try out using the Android WordPress app to see if it was easy or not. It did take a bit of poking and prodding to figure out which icon did what; hope I didn’t delete too many entries in the process. Of course, a build up of fatigue poisons could be playing a part in that fight, since I just spent the last 5 days in London celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who
The one thing it seems to be lacking is the ability to create HTML tags and JavaScipt and source code in general. Looks like my shuttle bus is here, one more hour and I will be home. This has been serious fun.
I generally do a music post on Saturday night, and tonight being the 50th anniversary of the very first Doctor Who episode, that pretty much locks down the theme. A number of fans have done their own version of Doctor Who Theme, and I thought I would share a few of the ones I really liked today. The first one is by Camille and Kennerly Kitt, also known as the Harp Twins, and they have done a truly unique version. The next is Doctor Who Meets Metal from Eric Calderone. Then we have Lara plays the Doctor Who theme on violin, and I would like to point out the posters behind her and her R2D2 skirt.
Finally, we finish up with the famous Doctor Who Theme Song played with Tesla Coils by Ark Attack! If you haven’t already played with the musical possibilities inherent in Tesla Coils, it is really pretty simple. They are spark gaps (sometimes some pretty freaking big spark gaps) through the air generated by Alternating Current. How frequently they spark per second determines the frequency of the sound they make, which allows you to use them to play music. It works best with a standard synthesizer keyboard structure, where the key you press engages the preset oscillator circuit that feeds power to the coil at the desired frequency.
There does come a point where you have to admit some of this might just be the tiniest bit silly. But what’s not to love? The following video is quite tasty, an interview with Karen Gillan about the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary that also talks about her role on another excellent Sci-Fi franchise, Guardians Of The Galaxy, part of the Marvelverse, and perhaps one or two other projects she is in the middle of.
The Doctor Who theme has been sung A Capella on more than one occasion, so as we gear up for the 50th I thought I would present a few of them. Some have been done better than others. OK there might have been an A Capella version of I Am The Doctors sneak in there somehow.