The Artifexian Podcast

By Edgar Grunewald & Bill McGrath

Edgar Grunewald and Bill McGrath discuss all things worldbuilding - the process of constructing fictional settings.... more

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The podcast currently has 117 episodes available.

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July 27, 2016 AP #14 : One Big Green Room
Edgar and Bill talk about their summer adventures - Edgar was in South Korea whilst Bill was in Nottingham, London and Bantry. Plus some worldbuilding...'cause, ya know, this is ostensibly a worldbuilding podcast.
Subscribe via iTUNES or RSSDiscuss this EpisodeSHOW NOTES:Green Room:
DIY Liquorice Ice Cream
Eric Lange - 30secfantasy
Heraldic Terminology
WoT: Eye of the World
Yoshida Brothers - Ringo Bushi (Short Version)
Thomas Charles Marshall on Satsumabiwa
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Ludovico Einaudi - Nuvole Bianche
Savant - Orakle
East Asian Age Reckoning
Beondegi (Silk Worm pupae)
Sannakji - “Live” Octopus
Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem
BabyMetal
Museum of Childhood
Monkey Toys
Monkey Toys - Worldbuilding
Same-sex Marriage Among Pirates (tumblr but with sources)
Black Men under the Black Flag
The Clangers
West Cork Music Festival
SCREW YOU IRISH RAIL AND EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR!
SOAK
Irish Soccer Fans Being Awesome!
Luanda
Turtle Dream Games
Turtle Dream Games (Facebook)
Betrayal at the House on the Hill
La Seña Bermeja (Zamora’s Flag)
...more
1h 51min
June 03, 2016 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.
Subscribe via iTUNES or RSSDiscuss this EpisodeSHOW 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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...more
1h 57min
April 25, 2016 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.
Subscribe via iTUNES or RSSDiscuss this EpisodeSHOW 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
...more
2h 3min
February 29, 2016 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.
Subscribe via iTUNES or RSSDiscuss this EpisodeSHOW 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"
...more
1h 37min
January 28, 2016 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.
Subscribe via iTUNES or RSSDiscuss this EpisodeSHOW 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
...more
2h 27min
December 21, 2015 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).
Subscribe via iTUNES or RSSDiscuss this EpisodeSHOW 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!
...more
1h 18min
November 29, 2015 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!
Subscribe via iTUNES or RSSDiscuss this EpisodeSHOW 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
...more
2h 12min
October 28, 2015 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!
Subscribe via iTUNES or RSSDiscuss this EpisodeSHOW 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
...more
1h 35min
October 01, 2015 AP #08 : The Knot Hypothesis
Subscribe via RSS or itunesDiscuss this EpisodeFollow 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

...more
1h 26min
August 29, 2015 AP #07 : Handwavia and Dager
Subscribe via RSS or itunesDiscuss this EpisodeFollow 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)
...more
1h 33min

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