287: Stargate Fan Creations 2024 (Special)
287: Stargate Fan Creations 2024 (Special)
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Welcome to the first annual episode of Dial the Gate dedicated to exploring fan creations of all shapes and sizes. We have scoured the internet in search of unique and creative ways fans have used Stargate to express themselves in creativity. Join us and discover some amazingly gifted people!
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Timecodes:
0:00 – Splash Screen
0:14 – Opening Credits
0:41 – Welcome
1:03 – Guest Introduction (Muted At First)
02:36 – Guest Introduction (Audio Fixed)
04:10 – Martin McClean’s Creative Space
05:44 – Book of Origin
07:56 – Table with Stargate Wood-Burning
10:07 – Destiny Countdown Clock
13:04 – Bulgarian Elevator
14:37 – Stargate Seed on YouTube
15:30 – Semi-Functional Replicator
18:30 – Stargate Schematics
21:44 – Wood Burner
22:49 – Parade Float
24:11 – TikTok Music Videos
27:01 – Puddle Jumper
32:08 – David’s Memes
38:43 – Inside the Stargate: Fan-Made Documentary
39:41 – Stargate on Private Property
40:53 – Martin’s Next Big Project
43:07 – Making Space for Creativity
45:02 – Atlantis-Inspired Wedding
46:58 – Digital Art by RJB/Mallacore
47:19 – Additional Work by Martin McClean/GateBuilder
48:54 – Thank You, Martin!
50:04 – Hello, Jenny Stiven!
51:23 – Fandom is Alive and Strong
56:00 – SG Blaise
1:06:31 – The Last Lumenian
1:10:15 – SG-1 Equals SG Blaise!
1:21:39 – Last Lumenian and Stargate
1:23:04 – Rodney McKay in Pencil
1:25:03 – Jack O’Neill in Pen and Ink
1:26:37 – Teal’c and Thor in Crochet and Needle Felting
1:27:48 – Stargate in Quilted Fabric
1:30:23 – Stargate in Stained Glass
1:31:49 – Anubis in Recycled Metal
1:33:46 – Mark O’Neill’s Stargate in LEGO
1:34:46 – Cartoons by Leah Rosenthal
1:36:59 – Stargate Beanie in Crochet Yarn and 3D Printing
1:37:56 – Horus in Ceramic
1:42:07 – Post-Discussion Housekeeping
1:43:05 – End Credits
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TRANSCRIPT
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David Read:
Hello, welcome to Episode 287 of Dial the Gate: the Stargate Oral History Project. This episode we are covering Stargate Fan Creations, 2024 edition, our premier edition. And you know what, Martin? I didn’t turn on your stuff behind me here. I’m now realizing it. But I guess we’re gonna have to go silent for an episode. Martin McClean and Linda “GateGabber” Fury, how you guys doing? Thrilled to have you both here, now that I’ve got you guys on the right screen. And I’m spinning five or six plates, so I apologize. Linda, how are you?
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
[muted]
David Read:
Really?
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
[muted]
David Read:
Martin, you’re in Canada right now.
Martin McClean:
[muted]
David Read:
Minus eight Celsius. That is so–
Martin McClean:
[muted]
David Read:
How is it possible that it’s that cold? It’s this early.
Martin McClean:
[muted]
David Read:
All right. Guys, I am so thankful to have you with me today, because we are covering… This is our hopefully first annual Stargate Fan Creations episode. And they’re saying … the guys are saying that we can’t hear the guests. Hang on a second here. What am I doing that’s wrong? Testing, one, two. Try again for me, folks.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Hi.
Martin McClean:
Hello.
David Read:
Perfect. All right, we got you guys. Sorry about that. Nothing is working today. I’ve been stepped away for a while. I had the audio switched on the wrong– So, Martin, you are in Canada, and it’s how… What’s the temperature up there?
Martin McClean:
It’s minus eight Celsius, so it’s well under 32 Fahrenheit.
David Read:
Absolutely ridiculous. I don’t know how anyone puts up with that. But I really appreciate you guys being here, and we’re gonna explore some Stargate fan content that Linda and I have discovered over the course of this year. This content does not have to have been created this year. It’s only things that we’ve found. And I submitted a request a few weeks ago on the Facebook and Twitter accounts for people to submit their own stuff, so if there were things that we overlooked, we could have those submitted as well. And I’ve got a special guest coming in, couple of them, at the end of the hour. One you will recognize and one that you won’t. So, let’s go through and see some of the creativity that Stargate has inspired over the years for some different fans. I have got a slideshow, Linda’s got a slideshow, and Martin, you’re the peanut gallery here of content. We’ve got a few of your pieces to explore as well. All right. We’ve got– First of all, Martin, I put underneath here @SGAGATEBUILDER. That’s your handle online. What is it that you normally do? What is your creative space in the Stargate community, before I start bringing other elements in?
Martin McClean:
So, mostly fan-based prop builds. I like to sort of take different props that have been highlighted on the show and try to create versions of them that are interactive with electronics and lights and sound, et cetera, and try to bring them into a format that is nice to have as a sort of a prop replica. And mostly on the show, there were several props that did various different things. So the challenge is to kind of put it all in one that actually does all of those things in one place.
David Read:
We’ve got a few pieces of what you’ve been working on more recently, despite the ones behind me not being on. This one here, this one here, and this one here, you all created for the show. When we go into slideshow, I’ll turn them back on so that some people who have not seen Dial the Gate before can see it. But the format that we’re using, I have never done before. I’m actually bringing in my laptop to show, because I need to be able to see our screens and your– You should be able to see the content that we’re doing all at once. So give me a moment here to make sure that I’ve got everything properly set up. Can you guys see that?
Martin McClean:
Yeah.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Yes.
David Read:
All right, perfect. All right, here we go. Now, before I get to that, I actually have a piece that I would like to show off here personally, that a gentleman named Mark Buska sent. Can you guys still see my image?
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Yes.
Martin McClean:
Yeah.
David Read:
Linda, what is this?
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Hallowed are the Ori.
David Read:
More specifically?
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
It’s the Book of Origin.
David Read:
That’s right. Mark Buska. Mark, if I’ve butchered your name, I apologize. He asked for my address and sent me this. This is his own creation. If you’re wondering what it says there, it says, “Not for resale.” This is his creation of the Book of Origin, and he’s gone in and put the phrases from the show, art from the show, and broken it down into this huge resource of pretty much everything the Ori ever said, any of their mantras, any of their ideals, and basically created this whole book. It is one of the cooler things I have ever seen. And he’s also released the… I think the artwork is available and the pages are available. Martin, if you’re out there, if you could put that in, not in the chat, but in the text, in a comment underneath the video, I’m sure there are people who would love to see it. And any other people whose content we have highlighted, I can’t cover everyone’s content in the descriptions. I will put some of them in after the show. I haven’t had a chance to do that yet. But if you want other people to be able to locate more specifically the content that we’re showing here, and you’re an artist that’s been featured on the show, please feel free to comment under this episode where people can see more of your stuff. Or if I didn’t cover everything or if you wanna see it in greater detail, artists comment below. And folks who weren’t covered, that they would like to have their stuff shared, put that in the comments below the show. Now, I’ve got other content that I have searched over the internet and collated into this presentation here. And this is a Stargate coffee table created by Brodie Smythe. He submitted this image to me, and I think he did this all by hand.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Yeah, it’s wood burning, isn’t it?
David Read:
I think so.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
And he got a lot of detail in there. And he really dealt with the flaws in the wood pretty well too, because there are always flaws in wood. It looks like he’s got a great big round slice there that-
David Read:
Yeah, exactly. And as you can see here, it’s a straight-up coffee table. He’s pretty good at woodworking in general, but then went and created this Stargate item on top of it. I am really impressed with how people are able to take a generic object and transform it into something completely different. It’s always overwhelming to me because I don’t have that ability at all. Martin, any comments on this before we move along?
Martin McClean:
It’d embarrass me for the wood burning I did years ago. It’s incredible. What I love about it is how much detail is in there and how difficult it is to actually do wood burning that’s in a circle. It’s hard enough when you’re doing a straight line there. But that’s really impressive. I’m astounded about the level of detail and how much energy has gone into that.
David Read:
Absolutely right.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
The fact that it’s 39 symbols and not 36 symbols so it doesn’t divide up evenly. I admire anyone who tries to do the Gate.
David Read:
I would imagine there’s some pencil underneath there that’s been burned over, if he was gonna be doing the math on it. But I was sent this, I was like, “This is really cool.” Next I have here– I don’t know how well the video is going to do but William Murphy — you’ve seen this clock on the show behind me here — but William Murphy originally sent me this piece and I did a brief video that I put on social, but I really wanted to show it off once again because he created this whole thing where he took the countdown clock from Destiny, and — whoops, sorry here — and created a prop replica that is now in my show. And the length that he went to make this thing all come together, he had a tablet and then he created the countdown clock inside of it. It took me a while to figure out how to properly line it up. But the piece over the top of it that he had, that has this kind of bloody pattern to it, it’s seen some things, let’s put it that way, and he brought this whole thing to life. Martin, I’ve been curious to know what your thoughts are on something like this.
Martin McClean:
I love it. I absolutely love it. And I really like the way he sort of baked in the electronics and brought the whole thing to life. That’s something that personally resonates with me a lot. And it’s a nice use. I think it’s a Raspberry Pi device that’s powering the …
David Read:
Yes, that’s what he used.
Martin McClean:
… system. But I really like the finish as well on the front. I love it. It’s got a bit of weathering there and it’s got a bit of detail too, so it really feels as if it’s come out of that environment, which is something I love. You see this a lot in Star Wars, where everything looks really used and really weathered, and he’s done that a bit there, if I can see this correctly. And it looks great. Great job. And not easy to do either ’cause you have to go and create everything yourself.
David Read:
From scratch.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
It’s always the point where you’re roughing it up and making it look used is the point where I always get scared and timid. It’s like, “But it’s so perfect, I don’t wanna wreck it.”
David Read:
Well, one of the things that really stunned me was that he dimmed the lighting on it because he knew it was gonna be on camera, so he did camera tests with it before sending it to me to make sure that it would show up here in person. And he’s done it. He’s absolutely made it work, and it’s been one of my favorite pieces from the show, present company excepted.
Martin McClean:
I love the passion, David, that’s gone into this. ‘Cause you see this great product in the end, but you don’t see the hours of thought and ideas and testing …
David Read:
That’s right.
Martin McClean:
… or probably the 15 versions he tried that didn’t look the way it looks now. That’s really good.
David Read:
That’s it.
Martin McClean:
Wonderful.
David Read:
This next one we found, I don’t know who created it, but it’s from Bulgaria. Stargate hotel elevator door.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I love this to death. It’s magnificent.
Martin McClean:
Wow.
David Read:
You got staff weapons in the walls that look like flowers. The Stargate itself.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Constellations. It’s got the constellations.
David Read:
I’d love to see what the ceiling is here. It’s taken the show as a starting point, and then gone into its own direction. And I’m sure there are people who are like, “What is that?” Or, “I’ve seen that before.” I get the impression that the Stargate lights as it moves, because you’ve got some of these red lights here. So, as the elevator changes, there may be seven stories in this building, and so each chevron may light. I would love to see video of this. If there’s anyone in Bulgaria who knows where this is, I’d like to see more.
Martin McClean:
I’d love to see the hotel where this is just the lift.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I wonder what the rest of it looks like. It’s like the Art Nouveau Goa’uld lives there.
David Read:
This is true.
Martin McClean:
It looks like it’s made from, I’m guessing, wood. It’s been routed out from wood, and that’s what it looks like.
David Read:
I thought it was metal.
Martin McClean:
It could be.
David Read:
Wood makes much more sense.
Martin McClean:
If it was made from metal, it would weigh a lot, that door.
David Read:
Yes, it would.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Plaster maybe? But I’m not sure.
David Read:
That’s true, too. A gentleman named Martin sent me his YouTube channel to show. Stargate Seed is the name of the YouTube channel. A lot of this multimedia stuff I’m not gonna be able to show because we would get a copyright strike for it. But he specifically emailed me asking me to give a shout-out to his channel, so I felt it was appropriate to do that. He’s got exclusive Stargate content over there from Timekeepers to the Emmerich pitch for the Stargate relaunch to the Master Replicas Daedalus, all different kinds of things. So, I highly recommend you guys check out his Stargate channel when you guys are done over here.
Martin McClean:
I’ve actually seen some of it already. I watched the one on BlueBrixx for the SGC set.
David Read:
Perfect. So, he’s good.
Martin McClean:
It was good.
David Read:
Awesome. That’s great. Kevin Beckman has been working for a while now on Stargate Replicator builds. And he’s amazing, and I’ve been really looking forward to showing this off for a while now. This is, I think, his 2.0 version. His 1.0 version, the legs of the Replicator actually moved around. It couldn’t walk forward or backward, but it could shift positions. And this one I think is more static where he wanted to work on the top of it. But this whole thing is a stroke of genius. I would love to get my hands on one. It looks like it’s real metal. I don’t know what it’s made of, but that’s what it looks like. What do you guys think? Linda, what do you think?
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
It’s beyond brilliant. It really is. I wish I knew how to do all that with a computer to get a model to articulate like that. He needs to be my new best friend and help me with a costume build. If it’s 3D-printed, it’s a much better-quality 3D print than a lot of the stuff out there. It’s really nice.
David Read:
He’s done a great job. And I’d love to get him on the show at some point here, but I wanted to definitely show off his work once again. I did a little bit in the downstairs walkthrough of my house. I showed off one of his earlier Facebook videos for my personal collection, because I have some Stargate Replicator replicas of my own. So, I wanted to show that. Martin?
Martin McClean:
It’s incredible. I assume that he’s– To Linda’s point, I think it’s printed in resin, which is why it’s so smooth and it sort of doesn’t look 3D-printed as much. It’s a fantastic job. I love it. I have done something similar, but mine only walks. It doesn’t do this, and I think this is a fantastic effort.
David Read:
And it moves? It actually walks?
Martin McClean:
Yeah. And what’s more than that, it mimics what the show had in terms of the CGI gestures, which really brings it to life. I absolutely love it.
David Read:
Exactly. It feels like a Replicator. Absolutely, for sure.
Martin McClean:
It’s difficult to do because he hasn’t got a lot of space to hide the internals of his build. And that’s where this is seriously difficult to pull off. Obviously, this was CGI. It was never meant to be something physical that moved, and he’s brought that to life. I think it’s fantastic. My message to him would be keep going because I think this is superb. Really wonderful. That raises the bar. That’s great.
David Read:
Raises the block, as it were.
David Read:
The next I have for you is from an artist by the name of Buza Norbie. I apologize to everyone if I’m butchering their names. Buza Norbie created a series of Stargate schematics. So, first, he started off with Prometheus and has designed this Prometheus cutaway, and it’s got all kinds of details here. I found this on Facebook. He was in the Stargate Fans United group, I think he posted this. Then he went on and did Daedalus, which is– The design layout … the whole operating system is taken right out of the show. Mind-blowing, to be perfectly frank.
Martin McClean:
And it takes such a long time to do it, too. I don’t know this, but I’m assuming he’s done it in Illustrator or Affinity.
David Read:
I’d love to know what he used.
Martin McClean:
It’ll be some vector package like that, but that’s a very time-consuming thing to do.
David Read:
He’s figured out Destiny, down to the bridge, and the detail on this thing is absolutely bananas, if I may borrow from Joe Rogan.
Martin McClean:
You really can’t pay someone for this sort of dedication. Because it’s such a passion project. I love it. Love that he’s doing that.
David Read:
Absolutely. Linda, your thoughts?
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I had the great pleasure of being on the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine sets a couple of times, and they had similar things that Mike Okuda had done. But what Mike had done was — sorry Mike — basic compared to this. It was meant to be seen onscreen for a second as, “Oh, they have a schematic of the whatever.” You can sit down and explore every chamber and say, “That’s the crew quarters there.”
David Read:
Absolutely.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
“Look. There’s the …”
David Read:
There’s the Stargate.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
“… nuclear reactor. And there’s the Gate,” and it’s going off at the moment. So, the level of detail is just wow.
David Read:
Absolutely wild.
Martin McClean:
Another really cool thing about these sort of things, too, is that he will have made his own extrapolations on different bits of it. And now it will almost become a canon thing because somebody’s done it this way. It’s really looking to fill in that information that wasn’t available anywhere else. Now it adds to the genre as well in a really meaningful way. Love that. It’s great.
David Read:
What he’s also done is fill out the … I think this is the handheld device. He’s filled in the computer system, Destiny’s operating system, with this sphere. And I don’t know if these animate or not. They probably don’t, but if he does, I’d love to get my hands on one for my computer console, because he’s done a great job. I haven’t been able to recover the files for this one. I’ve gotten others, but this one, this is an amazing job. An amazing piece of work. If this animates, I’d be blown away.
Martin McClean:
It probably does looking at it. That’s great.
David Read:
This I found on Facebook. I have no idea who did it, but mind was officially blown. This is a Stargate wood burner.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
That’s lovely.
David Read:
Look at the detail.
Martin McClean:
David, we need to find room in your house to put in–
David Read:
No, this would be on my patio. But this has gotta be metal. It’s gotta be.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
And that one makes me wanna go, “Hallowed are the Ori” because it’s on fire.
David Read:
You’ve got one on the bottom here, and then you’ve got one rising out of it. This guy is brilliant.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
And the shape of the legs.
David Read:
I’d love to see more detail behind this, like backside chevron legs.
David Read:
It’s a lot of soldering. You can see it there. But whoever it is that did this, bravo. And very much hallowed are the Ori.
Martin McClean:
It does look that a bit.
David Read:
Absolutely.
David Read:
This is another interesting one that I did not expect to find, and I have no idea where it is, I would love to know. But a Stargate float. It had sound effects from the feature. This looks like a TikTok. It says @lakesidevalley. That’s the information that I have here. Got a couple of pieces from TikTok. But look at that.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
It’s awesome.
Martin McClean:
Amazing. So much cool work too. It looks like it’s in Austria or Germany somewhere.
David Read:
Quite possibly.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
From the background.
David Read:
Or it’s a medieval or a Renaissance fair show.
Martin McClean:
Could be.
David Read:
Renaissance fair parade.
Martin McClean:
I love the workmanship though. Even the turns at the top.
David Read:
And the chevrons are lighting.
Martin McClean:
It’s really cool.
David Read:
I don’t know if that’s an actor sitting there. It could be. But you’ve got Ra up there as well. The kids are probably going, “Mom, Dad, what is that?” “That’s a TV series show, son, called Stargate.” But the craftsmanship is really absolutely mind-blowing.
Martin McClean:
I hate to think how long it took to do that. That would be a long time.
David Read:
Clearly a fan that we have there. There are a few more TikToks that I have to show off. I’m sure you guys have seen this type of thing. I had to mute the audio because the audio was gonna give a copyright strike. But taking these photos and animating them is mind-blowing. They’re singing a shanty. I had to mute it. But if you can find this one online, Carlos Hernandez posted this to Stargate Fan Club. It’s mind-blowing. And then someone took Peter Williams as well. And taking these photos, and the AI animates them. I have all kinds of thoughts on all kinds of levels here with this. I can understand the actors potentially getting upset about their likenesses being transformed in some way, but then I also think about that photo of President Obama that was taken, and the whole court case of when the hope and change patterns came out, and the court decided that it was a sufficiently altered work. So, I’m not sure where I fall on it.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Just seeing RDA going, “Ooh, ooh, ooh” boy band is hilarious. Even without the music attached, it’s cute.
David Read:
It’s really cute. I’m sorry.
Martin McClean:
You’re sending me the link later so I can watch the whole thing.
David Read:
Absolutely. “There once was a man, the something something.” That’s what they’re singing. And then he’s singing a Cardi B song, with the eyebrows wiggling. Oh, my. Martin, you have any thoughts?
Martin McClean:
I work in AI, so I need to be careful here.
David Read:
I’m amazed at where we’re going.
Martin McClean:
It’s really cool the things that people can do, and it’s really amusing. I like it. Like Linda, I really think that’s funny. I think the flip side is that if you’re the artist and your image is turned into performance like this, you may or may not have an issue with it, which I can understand.
David Read:
Sure. I can definitely understand. It’s gonna be interesting to see where we go.
Martin McClean:
The people depicted, they’re good fun people, so I’m sure they’d enjoy it.
David Read:
The whole thing with Wicked recently with the change in the poster and also the meme with the girls fighting one another– This really started with people taking old memes and bringing them to life, which was interesting to watch because we’ve seen these images forever. Like distracted boyfriend and “One does not simply,” except that comes from the Sean Bean reference … except that comes from a Lord of the Rings film. But it’s kinda wild. Let me move along here. Martin. Your Puddle Jumper.
Martin McClean:
Yes. This took a while to do because the Puddle Jumper went through many iterations on the show. So, trying to decide where to sort of draw the line was challenging. The only thing that really was difficult was the pod bay doors, getting them to synchronize. The Puddle Jumper itself came together pretty fast, but the pod bay doors opening and closing perfectly so you couldn’t see seams and so they’d move synchronously together, that was more challenging. All the cockpit lighting. There’s, I think, seven, eight lights in the cockpit. There’s one on the ceiling, there’s seven, four on the side, and there’s nine in the console or something. But that all came together.
David Read:
The detail of that cockpit.
Martin McClean:
It took a while.
David Read:
My heavens. How long have you been working on it?
Martin McClean:
A couple of months. The pods were the problem. There was two models. The original one you could pull out the pod from either side, and it was a manual thing, and I didn’t really like that. So, I wanted something where you could have a slider on the back and it automatically did it for you. And it’s got sound effects associated with it. So, with sounds effects, you have to generate those yourself. You can’t obviously use others. So, that took a little bit of time. And then there’ll be another version. The pod bay doors will be motorized as well. It’s already designed that way, but there was some software hitches that I’m still working out.
David Read:
Martin, can I have one?
Martin McClean:
Yes, you can.
David Read:
Let me know how much you want and I will pay you for it.
Martin McClean:
That’s OK.
David Read:
I want a stand for it so that I can pose it at an angle as if it’s flying in, rather than it being flat on my shelving here. Like it’s …
Martin McClean:
No, there is a stand.
David Read:
… swooping or something.
Martin McClean:
There is a stand for it that I’ve designed, but it doesn’t pose the angle, so I’ll have a look at that for you.
David Read:
If you could.
Martin McClean:
You want it on a ball joint or something to be able to move around?
David Read:
That’s actually not a bad idea. If there’s some options there.
Martin McClean:
I’m already regretting suggesting that.
David Read:
For sure.
Martin McClean:
Send me a message and let me know the kind of angles you’re looking for.
David Read:
I can. I am continuously amazed — and the paint scheme, because we talked about the paint scheme forever — amazed at watching your progress over the years as an artist. It’s mind-blowing actually to watch you explore your creativity and witness the results of this creativity coming forward. It’s something that’s really exciting to behold.
Martin McClean:
I had never done one before, and a couple different folks have tried some different models, so I wanted to put my own spin on it. But I wanted to put something in it that hadn’t been in before. Like the pod bay doors and some of the lighting and sound effects and stuff like that. But it’s been a huge amount of fun to do it. But it’s big. It says there 13 inches long, and it is big.
David Read:
It’s a big piece.
Martin McClean:
Like the original.
David Read:
You sent me an image with an apple. I didn’t add the apple in there. I should have.
Martin McClean:
A lot of people have said to me about the paint scheme, though. I’ve got a lot of questions about it. It took me a long time. And my wife Astrid is the one that has to put up with the suffering.
David Read:
How many layers of paint are there?
Martin McClean:
There’s nine on there, so this is nine.
David Read:
Nine layers of paint on the outside where the green is?
Martin McClean:
Yeah, to try– Because the greens, there’s multiple layers of different greens and browns, and bits of gold are infused. And then depending on where you look at it in the show–
David Read:
It changes based on the lighting.
Martin McClean:
Different lighting. And there was– I had a look at some of the original prop photos, and there were– They could get away with a lot of mistakes by the right lighting, right?
David Read:
For sure.
Martin McClean:
But when you build it you don’t really get that luxury. Things have to meet, and they have to look as best you can. A lot of people have said, “Is it that green?” As far as I can tell, that was the green that it was. But like all these things, there’s very little information other than what all three of us and everyone watching experiences through the show.
David Read:
Linda, any thoughts?
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I absolutely love the level of detail on this. And you and I, Martin, are gonna have a conversation about how to pull off lighting like that.
Martin McClean:
Yep, absolutely.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I need to do some learning about electronics, and wow.
Martin McClean:
I’m happy to help.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
It’s really, really lovely.
David Read:
It’s a beautiful piece.
David Read:
Linda, are you able to stay after the top of the hour?
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Yes.
David Read:
OK. So, we’ll have our guests come in, and then we’ll get back to your slideshow because I do wanna start it, but I don’t wanna fly through them. So, if we can stop it at the top of the hour, we’ll go from there.
David Read:
All right.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Sounds good.
David Read:
So, “Helps Anubis ascend,” “Other Ancients.” So I saw this meme a while ago. It looked completely different. It didn’t have an image of Oma. This is my contribution today. I wanted to change it a little bit and make it more interesting. I couldn’t find the original meme, so I went ahead and created this. I’d love to know the guy who originally made this, or gal, who inspired me. And then I was like, “You know what? I wanna try my hand at some memes.” Some people think …
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
They’re fun.
David Read:
… I’m funny, and so I went and did this one, which is, again, taking these classic memes, the “He’s thinking about other women” meme, and update it for Stargate. So I went and did one of these. And then went and did one completely on my own, like this one. I think this is one of the first ones that I did for the Dial the Gate social media channels. They’re mostly on Twitter/X, but I put a couple on Facebook as well. But they’re getting real traction on Twitter. And I think I’ve started something in myself that I can’t really stop. The other person who I must give a lot of credit to is Yvie Cahill, ’cause she’s been taking our Stargate images on the Wormhole X-Tremists podcast and creating a new piece of content every single week. And so now I’m doing this. I’m in this phase now where I’m putting words in the actors’ mouths. There are a couple of Star Trek groups online that have been doing this, and I haven’t seen any for Stargate. And I was like, “You know what? I’m gonna go do this.” And they seem to be on fire. People really seem to be enjoying them. Guys, what are your thoughts about creating memes based on the show? Linda, do you have any thoughts about this?
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Ooh. I love it. Back when the show was still airing and there were first screen captures that I was able to get my hands on, I was doing things with screen captures but I wasn’t doing more than one picture with some words on it, and it was for the small group of friends I was chatting with online at that point because online was still so low-tech. I see all kinds of potential in the future, and I may need to start dabbling in this too when I have time. If anyone can lend me a TARDIS, I could really use one right now.
David Read:
The whole point is being inspired by people. Martin, you’ve certainly inspired me. Linda, Yvie, everyone involved. You see something and it’s like, “Oh, I wanna do that.” This, I saw a religious post about the daylight savings change, and I went and did it myself, but made it out of the Ori. So it’s pretty nice.
Martin McClean:
I think they’re great. Though the one we had, “Why didn’t he just use the Zat on Sha’re?” I thought, “That’s actually a good question.”
David Read:
That’s where it came from. Gosh. And there are people, especially on Facebook, who, “Well, because this reason, and because that reason.” It’s like, “Guys, I’m not necessarily looking for a real reason.” It’s funny how people have the urge to explain it because they’ve come up with a rational explanation. Absolutely.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
It’s cool.
Martin McClean:
I quite like it.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Amelia’s having opinions here.
David Read:
I bet she is.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
If you hear her, she’s meowing away at you right now. She’s done being patted.
David Read:
Brice Ors, who is known online as IBREC, he has gone and is creating a film, a fan film, called Inside the Stargate. And I’m not sure when it’s gonna premiere. I may or may not be doing the English narration. But he’s in development of this right now, and it’s gonna be a feature-length documentary that’s covering the making of Stargate. And I cannot wait to see what he’s got planned because he’s got elements in this that I’ve never seen before, from interviews that he scoured, and I think he’s gonna be getting some new, original content as well. And I am blown away by what he’s doing with it. I think we do need as much feature-film content as we can get.
Martin McClean:
That’s great.
David Read:
But I’m not sure when it comes out. I will be keeping you guys abreast when I have any additional information. But this is something that he’s been very passionate about and is working on. And the trailer is online right now. I think you can find it under Inside the Stargate. But because of copyright claims, I didn’t wanna show it off on here because we would’ve had some problems. But I wanna make you guys aware of it, that he is actively working on this thing. And if you have content from the film or anything that you think you can do to contribute, I can get you guys in touch with him. So, I’m very excited about this project. And it’s over at Stargate1994doc.com.
Martin McClean:
It’s almost like, “Why didn’t we do this before?” It’s one of those great ideas. It’s wonderful. I love it.
David Read:
Absolutely.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I think partly there’s a level of frustration with the fans right now where we so badly want that next new Stargate thing, and it’s just not happening. And we’re so frustrated that we’re like, “Damn it, I’m making my own.”
David Read:
I know. Creative Stargate fans are gonna be creative. They’re just gonna do it. And one last thing– Go ahead.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
No, I’m dying to see this. I really am. He needs to get in touch and he needs to give me a sneak preview. I wanna see this very badly.
David Read:
Absolutely. One last piece on here. We’re gonna have web-based submissions after Linda’s other stuff that I’ve received. But did you guys know that in Ashland, Ohio, you can visit a Stargate?
Martin McClean:
No.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I need to do that.
David Read:
This is a thing.
Martin McClean:
How big is this, David?
David Read:
That’s a great question. This is Phil Ventura: “The Stargate example was a project for me and my boys about 15 years ago before they left home to be on their own. It was our favorite show in the ’90s and was our tribute to the project as a project together. May all dads have a good project that creates memories with their kids.” Amen. It’s a pretty good size. I don’t think it’s full scale. But it is definitely, definitely up there. Jonathan Haney took these photos. But this is a place that you can go visit. You can Google Stargate in Ashland, Ohio, and it will come up, and this is a spot that you can go to. I’m guessing it’s on this guy’s property. But people have made a pilgrimage there, and they haven’t had any problem with it. This is also a Stargate in, I believe, Germany. Thomas Jones, not my uncle, another Thomas Jones, submitted this photo. But there are Stargates around the world in different shapes and forms.
Martin McClean:
And David, what about those other ones where those folks have been building Gate replicas? Astounding.
David Read:
I’m hoping to have a full episode dedicated to them in the future.
Martin McClean:
Incredible work.
David Read:
They built an Atlantis Gate and then they cannibalized it to make an SG-1 Gate, which rips my heart in two. But I get it. These are all pieces of Stargate content that people have been making over the course of the last few years, and it’s completely inspiring and mind-blowing. Absolutely crazy stuff.
Martin McClean:
It’s a real tribute to the empowering legacy of the show and how well it was made and how well the stories were told and how well it was acted and produced, et cetera, and created. It’s a huge legacy for that, I think. What a win.
David Read:
Martin, what are you wanting to work on next?
Martin McClean:
I finally started working on a Gate of Atlantis at last, as I had never done one. I know I’ve done the Naquadah generators and the Atlantis scanners and all those sort of things, and mimic devices, but I’ve never done one of those because people have done–
David Read:
A full Gate?
Martin McClean:
Yeah. It’s about four and a half feet.
David Read:
Feet?
Martin McClean:
I think it’s big. I told you when I was there you needed another room. So, remember when I said, “Look, we could move you to a bigger house. That would fix it?” I wasn’t kidding. It’s pretty big. But it’s sort of embryonic at the moment. It’s still in development. I’ve got a fair bit of it worked out, but it’s pretty cool. When it’s finished it’ll be better.
David Read:
For sure. It’ll be better.
Martin McClean:
The problem is the size because if it gets that big, then structurally it needs to support it. That’s the problem.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
The French guys were having that problem with it. The bigger it got, the heavier it got.
Martin McClean:
This one will be, I think, for sort of hanging on the wall or something like that. I don’t think this one will be necessarily free-standing. Yes, I’ll do that. That’ll be next.
David Read:
So, you have a mounting kit for it so that people can hang it? Or is it that you can hang it?
Martin McClean:
Yeah, we’ll have to create that so that people– And when I’ve finished it I’ll put it online if people want. They can download it freely if they want and build their own and stuff like that.
David Read:
Four-foot-diameter Stargate.
Martin McClean:
I think other people have done something similar before. I don’t know if it’s that big or not. I’m gonna try start it off a little smaller so that people can sort of choose to scale it to the size they want. As it’s very difficult to go small. It’s easy to go big. It’s never easy. The minute you go small, things don’t fit together right anymore and stuff like that. So, it’s much easier to start at a reasonable size and then people can go bigger if they want. If they go bigger than that, I’d love to see a photo. Love to see it.
David Read:
That is wild. Linda, any thoughts?
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I’m gonna throw away everything in my apartment and dedicate an entire wall.
Martin McClean:
This is the problem. Storing things is the problem.
David Read:
Creativity takes space.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I have thought of it as doing it as a mural, which would be really fun if you could convince somebody to let them use the side of their building to be a Stargate scene. I think that has amazing potential. The Stargate in the yard with the slightly overgrown and looking like it had been on the planet for a thousand years, that’s stunning. I really love that.
Martin McClean:
Somebody should donate a wall somewhere. That’s a great idea.
David Read:
I have a friend who’s been wanting to do a kid’s-size puddle jumper for his kid’s backyard. And the creativity involved in some of that stuff is absolutely– The stuff that excites me is the stuff that you can do with your family. That’s really cool. If you can get people involved in it to help you make stuff, that’s really cool, because then it becomes a collaboration and you’re not just spending your time on your fandom, you’re getting people involved to fall in love with something that you’re doing.
Martin McClean:
It’s very rewarding to produce something. And during the process it isn’t always rewarding, but at the end, it’s much more rewarding.
David Read:
There’s a lot there to look at. I wanna share another piece with you guys. Let me see here if I can do this correctly. Give me just a minute. This is what happens when I do all new stuff for the first time. OK, let me do that. So, this is– You guys see that? So, Love and Lavender. This is a Stargate Atlantis-inspired wedding from Cleveland, Ohio. This is a website that you can go to, loveandlavender.com. And she did her idea of a Stargate Atlantis-themed wedding event.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
That’s cool.
David Read:
And this is her concept for John and Teyla to have gotten married. So she’s a Teyla Sheppard shipper. And I don’t know what that’s doing. Oh boy. Here we go.
Martin McClean:
A lot of balloons in that–
David Read:
For sure.
Martin McClean:
It’d take a long time to do.
David Read:
I don’t know if she’s a wedding designer or a wedding photographer. But her stuff is absolutely brilliant, and I’ve seen it floating around the internet a couple of times, and I think it’s all a demo because I don’t think there’s anyone named John Sheppard and Teyla Emmagan who look similar to them who have gotten married. But I saw this and was like, “This is one of those great things where someone who has creativity in their own field has gone and created something that’s absolutely magnificent on their own, and created something really cool.” War and Peace, I’m seeing this for the first time.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
It’s his thing he brought with him.
David Read:
That’s exactly right.
Martin McClean:
It’s really beautifully done though, isn’t it?
David Read:
Beautifully done. She did a great job.
Martin McClean:
It looks really nice.
David Read:
And over here, I wanted to show off RJB Mallacore’s stuff one more time. We’ve had him on the show. He’s been creating some great, continuing to create some great Stargate art as well.
Martin McClean:
Absolutely love his stuff. It’s wonderful.
David Read:
I don’t know what program he’s using, but it’s amazing.
Martin McClean:
He’s done some blueprints as well, I think.
David Read:
I think so.
Martin McClean:
I know he’s done some. He’s done a whole bunch of things. He’s great. Great work. That was mine.
David Read:
Speaking of blueprints.
Martin McClean:
Yes, that was the SGC that I made. Now I remember that.
David Read:
Is that 3D printed?
Martin McClean:
It’s 3D printed. It’s in wood.
David Read:
And painted and everything.
Martin McClean:
And behind it you can’t really see it there, but next to the door on the right there’s an iris control that works. It makes-
David Read:
Really?
Martin McClean:
[inaudible]
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
That’s so neat.
Martin McClean:
I really enjoyed making that. I have no idea why. But I did. It was a lot of fun.
David Read:
It’s a creative process. Like me with Dial the Gate or memes or Linda with her costuming. There is something to be said for engaging that part of your brain and being inspired by an IP or a product or something that someone has done and say, “You know what? I wanna take this in my direction.” I can’t express how gratifying and cool it is to be able to do that.
Martin McClean:
I had some of the toys and action figures from a few years ago that were in my collection, and I had nowhere to display them and that’s why I did that. I thought, “I want some backdrop where I can put them on where it makes sense,” and that’s how that happened.
David Read:
Absolutely.
Martin McClean:
But I enjoyed doing it. But then I got carried away. As you know, if it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Yes.
David Read:
There’s something to be said about that, man. Martin, I really appreciate you coming and joining us for this episode on fairly short notice, and it means a lot to have you here because you are one of the people who continues to inspire me creatively. It’s meant a lot to have you. I know that you’re on the road right now, but it’s good to have you here.
Martin McClean:
Delighted to be here with both of you. That’s awesome. Thank you so much for the invitation. This is amazing work. I can’t wait to see that Replicator finished.
David Read:
Absolutely. And I’ll be in touch with you and keep you in the loop.
Martin McClean:
Sounds great. Thank you.
David Read:
All right. Thank you, sir. Linda, you gonna stick around with me for a minute?
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Yeah, definitely. As long as you want.
David Read:
So, I’m gonna replace Martin with a friend of ours, if I can do this right here. Get my buttons correct. Thank you, Martin.
Martin McClean:
Thank you.
David Read:
Be well, sir.
Martin McClean:
You too.
David Read:
All right. Stay with me for a second, Linda. Let me bring her in. There she is. Hello, Jenny Stiven.
Jenny Stiven:
Hey, David Read.
Jenny Stiven:
And I had to wear this, of course, ’cause–
David Read:
Yay, I love Stargate.
Jenny Stiven:
SG coming on.
David Read:
Yes. So, we haven’t had you since the State of the Gate this year, at the beginning of the season. We’re about 50 episodes on almost. How are you doing?
Jenny Stiven:
I’m doing great. That’s a long time ago. I know we keep talking about doing it, but I’m doing great. I have my little Stargate Command back here, my pillow all ready and displayed.
David Read:
Absolutely. Where’s my dog?
Jenny Stiven:
He is actually out front with Tim because somebody is taking care of him right now.
David Read:
OK, good.
Jenny Stiven:
I’m not the favorite right now.
David Read:
Give him some pets for me. Linda, do you wanna stick around for a little bit while Jenny and I and then SG talk?
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Sure.
David Read:
So, go ahead and minimize your video and mute your sound. And we will get back together in a moment. Jenny, thank you for being with me on this, and I really appreciate you doing everything to make this particular segment possible. Is there anything that you wanna talk about before we bring this particular guest in?
Jenny Stiven:
Yeah, I do.
David Read:
Anything you wanna say specifically?
Jenny Stiven:
I do. I wanna talk about having worked a lot in fandom this past year, very, very heavily in sci-fi fantasy fandom. So, with studios, with independent production companies, with Scott Adison doing white label things. Fandom’s really alive and strong. And I know you’ve heard this, so I’m gonna do a very quick soapbox, is that having spent so much time, boots on the ground, at, gosh, I think 10 events this year, it’s alive, it’s thriving, it’s passionate. And whether or not it’s for Stargate or Star Trek or whatever it is, The Expanse, whatever we’re watching currently, The Walking Dead, there’s no question in my mind that it is thriving. And whatever the studios and the mainstreamers, literally mainstreamers, are doing down here, which is under fear management and not knowing what they wanna do next, even Disney. Down here at the other end, the independent creators, the content creators like yourself, the independent production companies, the people who are creating Stargate content on their own, that’s amazingly thriving. I was at TwitchCon, VidCon. I cannot believe how different that conversation is from when I’m over here at an awards dinner or at SDCC talking to people from the studios, and it’s a radically different feeling. And I wanna emphasize to everybody at the end of this year, it doesn’t matter ultimately what Amazon or MGM do with Stargate because we’re never gonna change.
David Read:
That’s true.
Jenny Stiven:
We’re always gonna be there. We’re gonna stay true to it, and that’s what’s important. And there’s all this great content that people are creating, and that’s what I wanna focus on.
David Read:
No, I think you’re absolutely right. I think the fact that it has gone on, particularly the Stargate franchise has gone on as long as it has, I hope and pray that they are registering the seismic tremors that we are making, and …
Jenny Stiven:
They are
David Read:
… are gonna include that and factor that into whatever it is that they create, whenever it is that they decide seven chevrons are locked, we have a go.
Jenny Stiven:
And they are. There’s no question that they are. Everybody’s talking about it. There are the people internally that are absolutely banging the drum for Stargate. And it’s Michael Wright at MGM+. It’s all the usual suspects that are still there. And they are banging that drum. And then there’s some new folks over at Sony and some other places that are banging the drum. So, I think regardless, they’re very aware of how active we are. How incredibly deep the content is, that the fandom is still passionate. And here’s the part that they didn’t realize until I think this past year, is that it’s not just people my age. My children, my son’s age — so, we’re talking Gen Z, Alpha, — are completely being exposed to it in a new way.
David Read:
And there are other pieces of content that I would like to explore with you now that wouldn’t be around if it weren’t for Stargate and a couple of other IPs. Am I right about that?
Jenny Stiven:
Yeah, definitely
David Read:
Is there someone that we wanna introduce?
Jenny Stiven:
Yes, there is. So, I think a lot of you know that recently I was able to start working full-time for a client who’s an author, and she’s an author of a particular franchise, and she’s developed this franchise over the past 10 years, decades actually. And a lot of what I do with her is sci-fi/fantasy based, and bringing all of this experience from Stargate into this. And she hired me full-time in April, and unbeknownst to me, she was a Stargate fan. So, this has double meaning. So, with that introduction, she’s amazing and I love working for her, and she is a diehard sci-fi/fantasy fan.
David Read:
Let me go ahead and bring S. G. Blaise into the conversation. Hello, S.G.
S. G. Blaise:
Hi, David. How are you?
David Read:
I’m good. How are you doing?
S. G. Blaise:
I’m doing wonderful, and I’m so grateful to be here.
David Read:
It is so good to have you. I have been wanting to have a conversation with you on my platform for a while now. Let me adjust a couple of things while I’m still with you. Everyone can see how the sausage is made. There we go. I met you through Jenny, and have discovered how much Stargate is important in your world, in everything that you have created, from coming from where you were in Hungary to coming over to the United States and creating this thing. And I wanna talk about The Last Luminian in a moment here, but I wanna first discuss your love of science fiction, where that came from, and how it came to Stargate as well. Could we talk about that for a little bit?
S. G. Blaise:
Absolutely, David. I love Star Wars, and that was the first inspiration that allowed me to get into sci-fi and fantasy, and that’s because when I grew up during the second half of Soviet oppression, these Hollywood movies were largely forbidden. So, my dad smuggled them in. And not to sell them for profit, but to use his own voice to translate them, and then spent a whole week using a headphone, a microphone, and dub these movies. And we had secret movie nights every Saturday and Sunday. That was my introduction to sci-fi and fantasy, and also space travel, magic, alien cultures. It blew my imagination wide open, David.
David Read:
Was he creating these dubs for you or for a smaller community in addition to you?
S. G. Blaise:
It was originally created for his family, but of course, he couldn’t help but share it with friends and wider family, and it was very secret. We were not allowed to talk about it. Of course we did. I don’t know how we survived because this was very illegal, very dangerous.
David Read:
So, the films were not allowed. The films were not permitted.
S. G. Blaise:
No, no. No. After they premiered, you were not supposed to have them, and he had them on VHS cassettes. And in fact, one of the person who he got it from, on the way for this person’s house he saw the black cars, and he knew that if he goes there he would be arrested, taken away, never be foreseen. We still don’t know what happened to that person. So, that’s why he was very careful. He never sold these. He tried not to share it with people who didn’t trust. But this was his way of rebelling against the cultural oppression, against taking all freedoms away from us. We didn’t have freedom of speech. We didn’t have freedom of travel. And to top it off with no freedom of art and culture, that was that last drop in his cup that basically created this rebellion, that he wanted his passion, watching movies, sci-fi and fantasy, to be followed, and that was the last drop for him, David.
Jenny Stiven:
Wait, wait. You have to do, S.G., your dad imitating dubbing Princess Leia, the “Obi-Wan, You’re my only hope.” ‘Cause that’s my favorite part of this. So, you have to do your dad dubbing that.
S. G. Blaise:
Here it goes, nothing. Imagine the headphones. This is the microphone. “Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope. Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.”
Jenny Stiven:
I have this vision of “Only hope.”
S. G. Blaise:
With a horrible Hungarian accent, but it was– We didn’t even notice that he had an accent. And because of my introduction to Star Wars, then of course Indiana Jones, Terminator, the Disney movies, it created this fertile ground that when I had a chance to watch Stargate, I was immediately hooked, David.
David Read:
Wow. That is so cool. When did you come to the United States?
S. G. Blaise:
I came to the United States in 2001. I got married, and my husband brought me here officially and unofficially. I learned the hard way, David, that I couldn’t speak a single word in English. And that’s after 12 years of English studying in upper elementary and high school. But it was all passive. It was always grammar. It was always vocabulary, a written test. We never practiced saying it out loud. So, this knowledge was never activated, and I found myself unable to understand when they were talking to me. I couldn’t respond. And my husband was very supportive, and he said, “I will not translate for you. You have to learn the language because that is gonna be where you live.” And he knew he wouldn’t be able to be in every single situation with me, so he wanted to set me up for success. My passion for watching movies, reading books, allowed me to pick up the language in 10 years and become fluent in English.
David Read:
The number of Stargate fans worldwide who have learned English or learned to at least understand it, not necessarily speak it, but definitely understand it, because of science fiction, because of Stargate, is mind-blowing. You get into this thing and you wanna understand it. You don’t wanna accept the subtitles or the dubs. You wanna be able to experience it yourself, because we all know that there’s nuance there that gets lost in the translation.
S. G. Blaise:
Correct, correct. And it’s so interesting, David, that when I was watching Stargate, it was the beginning of my English journey. So, there are still episodes that I remember the movie part, but I don’t remember what happened because I couldn’t fully understand. And then when my son was born. This is around 2005, 2006, he would get up at 5:00 in the morning. He’s a little baby, right? So, we would grab him Saturday morning, he would take a nap in our bed, and we would watch Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis from the bed, two hours. That’s how we started on weekends. We were sleep-deprived, but nothing could have stopped us from watching that, both my husband and I. Huge Stargate fans, and I like to say it’s influenced me in my writing, the triple S: Stargate, Star Wars, and Star Trek. Sorry, David. Go ahead.
David Read:
Did your dad get to see Stargate? Is he still with us?
S. G. Blaise:
No, unfortunately, he passed away when I was 13 years old, so this is 1993.
David Read:
I’m sorry.
S. G. Blaise:
And I’m pretty sure he missed out on Stargate. Because by the time it came to the country after the Soviet Union fell apart and they left my country, it still took a couple of years before we suddenly had the influx of these amazing TV shows. And I remember, I just started watching Stargate, but I was already three years behind. So, when I came to the US, I had to TiVo — not to date myself — TiVo these episodes and try to catch up on the seasons, because I knew I couldn’t dive into Season Four or Five, whatever was going on …
David Read:
Absolutely.
S. G. Blaise:
… live. I had to watch every episode, and boy, was that an amazing time.
David Read:
I’m so thrilled to hear that it was a part of your experience as a young family coming together around a series that had the values that you were talking about experiencing as a young girl, and then coming to the United States. It really must have had a profound impact on you, being able to see this stuff continuing to resonate with the themes that were concrete with you as a child, and now being able to share with your own children.
S. G. Blaise:
Absolutely, David. It is such a wonderful experience. This is art, where you find your new family, your new friends in these amazing characters. You see these heroes who are flawed. They’re imperfect, but they’re fighting oppression. They’re rebelling against oppression, and it is so powerful. And yet, they’re following their dreams, they’re following their passions, and they’re not letting anything stop them. And these are values and principles that I’m teaching my son up to this date, and I’m so glad that these themes occur in my book series that hopefully inspire my readers to see that you need to stand up for yourself. You need to be the hero of your life, and you don’t have to be perfect to do that.
David Read:
That’s right. There’s only so much that we can each be expected to pull off individually. We have to rise to our own, to be our best selves. But also, what we can do together with one another is something really powerful, and I think that that’s a big theme in what we’re about to talk about, which is the found family element, which is one of the things that I wanted to focus on with your book series, The Last Luminant, which has elements of Stargate in it, and that’s the main reason that I wanted to bring you on. Particularly finding a family together that you didn’t expect outside of your own home. Going out there into the universe, encountering obstacles, but bringing yourself and friends together to confront what has to be, and do what has to be done. Tell me about The Last Luminian series.
S. G. Blaise:
David, thank you again for having me. The Last Luminian series is Star Wars meets Lord of the Rings meets Princess Bride. That’s the main description, but we have elements from Stargate. We have elements from Star Trek. We have elements from Doctor Who. We have elements from Indiana Jones. Because all of these themes, the action-adventure, the found family, inspired me so much that they sneaked into these books. And especially Stargate’s found family. When you have these characters who randomly come together, right? And they’re thrown together, and they become friends first. They’re all outsiders for one reason or another, and then they become family to each other. That was so powerful, David, that it immediately reminded me of the Fellowship in Lord of the Rings, and how important it is to have this support system around you. And that’s what my hero has. My main hero, Lila, has this wonderful group of people, and they’re diverse. They all have their dreams. They all have their goals. But they come together to support her defeat the bad god, which is the main goal of the whole series.
David Read:
Heroes and gods, we are certainly familiar with that.
Jenny Stiven:
Wait, wait, wait. So, I’ve never said this, so I’m gonna say this live, S.G., for the first time, that Kelly and I have been talking — so Kelley Varner works with us — and we think that the evil arch god reminds us of Ba’al, that he’s got that same … ’cause he’s–
David Read:
There’s a swagger to him?
Jenny Stiven:
There’s a swagger. There’s an attractiveness to him.
David Read:
I’ve not gotten that far.
Jenny Stiven:
He’s definitely not doing good stuff with the– He’s the arch god, the Dark Lord. But we were laughing, S.G., about how, “Wait a minute, this is cool. We love Stargate. You love Stargate.” He’s got some elements we’re– Because there’s a little bit, not the swagger, but the snarkiness that he talks about with his so-called apprentices. So, I think it’s a lot of fun, and I think that that’s, again, when you’re such a die hard, deep fan like you are of Stargate, that it is so much fun as a Stargate fan to find a series that you can go, “Oh my gosh, it’s got humor. It’s got found family. It’s got adventure. It’s got portals. We’re going to different worlds. There’s aliens. There’s magic.” Stargate was very unusual to pull together fantasy and sci-fi. That was extraordinarily unusual as a production. So, I love that this is one that we get to dive into together. And David Lepley has been working with us as well, and it’s fun to have a new sci-fi fantasy series to find that humor, and that family, and that adventure with again.
S. G. Blaise:
Thank you, Jenny. Your kind words are wonderful to hear. In fact, I tried to exclaim in the beginning I love Stargate, but I had a brain glitch. I explained something else because that’s how my brain works. I’m in the middle of developing Book Six, and I’m literally forgetting to speak English, forgetting to speak any Hungarian. I drop, and I went, “Why did I drop–,” ’cause my brain is overworking. But that was what I tried to do because to prove you how much of a Stargate fan I am, it’s also in my name.
David Read:
S.G.
S. G. Blaise:
S. G. Blaise.
David Read:
What’s the story there? I never have actually gotten the story. Please tell me.
Jenny Stiven:
You gotta tell that story.
S. G. Blaise:
The story is that I translated, first I translated my Hungarian name to English. That’s how we got the S, G, and Blaise. Then I realized that S.G. stands for my dad’s name, and then it also stands for my mom’s name, who picked my dad’s name up after they got married. And then Jenny was the one who reminded me that it also has Stargate inherently in that name. And I couldn’t believe how this came together organically and naturally, that I carry Stargate with me in my name every single day.
David Read:
So, this is gonna be a 13-book series. Am I right about that?
S. G. Blaise:
That is correct, David. 13-book series
David Read:
And Six comes out when?
S. G. Blaise:
Next December. Book Five this December. And the best part, David, is just like in Stargate, when you think you understand the universe, something happens, and you get to learn more about its origin or there’s another big enemy on the horizon. We have already clues in this book series for the upcoming next nine book and the upcoming next seven book series that will, when you get to them, you’re gonna go, “Oh my gosh, those were the clues, the Easter eggs,” and I get to see it play out in those series.
David Read:
You are rewarding your readers for paying attention. You can read a book casually, or you can– It’s like washing the dishes while watching a TV series. I have a hard time concentrating. That’s why I use audiobooks. Thank you for actually being on Audible. But for those who are really into the nitty-gritty, there’s stuff there to reward them for finding as the books unfold.
S. G. Blaise:
Absolutely, because I love layers, and I love the discovery aspect in Stargate, the TV show. I love when you discover there’s so much more. There’s so much content, so much world building to dive in, to immerse yourself. And that was such a huge influence on my world building, that I always try to go, “What is the biggest picture I can create? And what is the twist I can put into these stories now, the Easter eggs, that will pay off later?” So, it becomes this big puzzle that you, the reader, assemble piece by piece, and then that picture, like a mosaic, you keep zooming out, and it’s a different picture. You keep zooming out. It’s a whole different picture. And one day I hope I’ll have an illustrator who can illustrate this.
Jenny Stiven:
[inaudible]
S. G. Blaise:
‘Cause I cannot draw for the life of me. But that’s how my brain works. That’s what I love about the Stargate SG-1 TV show, Stargate Atlantis. And that’s what I hope to provide to my audience, that experience, that there is always something new to discover.
David Read:
Jenny, you’ve read far more than I have in this. Are there any characters that you think will remind people of–
Jenny Stiven:
Absolutely.
David Read:
I see with Lilla … I see a little of Vala.
Jenny Stiven:
Yes.
David Read:
If Vala was a magic wielder.
Jenny Stiven:
Rhona is def– I don’t think you’ve gotten to Rona yet.
David Read:
I don’t think so.
Jenny Stiven:
Rhona is a combination of Vala and Sam. And I think she’s this kickass– Lilla’s younger, so it’s almost like Lilla would be if Cassie grew up. She’s a kickass rebel princess. She’s gonna go conquer the world and she would be Cassie. Then Rhona is definitely Vala and Sam combined, for sure. And then I would say, S.G., if I had to say Jack, I kinda think Jack is Callum. I really do. I see a real parallel with those two. There’s the honor, there’s the military. It’s the “I’m not gonna play by the rules all the time,” but there’s the honor that you have to follow by being in the military. And then I think Arrov is Cameron Mitchell. Because Prince Arrov– I have literally done this. I’m not doing this for this show. I have literally sat down and matched up characters to my different franchises that I love. And it is so rich with characters. And admittedly, I am subjective because I love S.G. and I love this series. But it is incredibly deep character-wise. You find characters that you see yourself in in the different books. And then the world building, David, you and I are playing in a candy store.
David Read:
[inaudible]
Jenny Stiven:
Literally. It is amazing. And the world building, I think you actually said something, S.G., that I had never thought of before. SG-1 and Atlantis being these radically different galaxies, right?
David Read:
Literally.
Jenny Stiven:
Literally. That is a lot of what you’re playing with. And the same with Star Wars, right? When you’re looking at the universe of Star Wars and Stargate. More so than Star Trek in one way, in that it is fantasy and sci-fi. So, you have these planets, and you have these characters, and you have these world-building environments that are fantastical in different galaxies, and that is super appealing to me. I don’t know, it won’t maybe appeal to everybody, but as I describe it, it’s not military sci-fi and it’s not high fantasy. It’s somewhere in between, and Stargate is the easiest way to describe it. And I use that. When we’re at the events, I use Stargate. And I was wearing this shirt at TwitchCon talking on a panel about Last Luminian and the series, and five people stood up and said, “Hey, I love Stargate. If it’s like Stargate, I’m gonna go buy it.” Five people at TwitchCon. They were all under 30. So, I find it to be a really cool parallel to tell people about.
David Read:
It’s cut from the same bolt of cloth in so many ways.
Jenny Stiven:
Yes.
David Read:
And that’s why I wanted to include S.G. in our Stargate fan creations episode, because based on what you’ve said, so many of the elements that are in The Last Luminian would not exist had it not been for your love of Stargate.
S. G. Blaise:
That’s correct, David. And I couldn’t tell you how excited I was every time they went through that gate. “Where will we end up? What will they encounter? Is it gonna be hostile? Is it gonna look friendly, but they’re hostile?” I couldn’t figure out what was gonna happen, and I kept thinking the whole week, “OK, where are they gonna go next? What’s gonna happen?” And just when you think you know, they surprise you. That was so much fun as a fan, to never know what’s coming, to have these characters stay with you, and you wonder, “Are they doing OK?” Or, “Are they in danger? What’s gonna happen next?” And that was so much fun, David.
David Read:
Where can people learn more about your book series and about the Mythical Hunters comic book spinoff series? Where can they go?
S. G. Blaise:
Everyone who is interested in The Last Luminian series can find it on my website, sgblaise.com. I’m also on Amazon, Google, Barnes & Noble, the usual suspects. I’m on social media. sgblaiseofficial, I believe, is my Instagram, sgblaiseauthor is my Twitter, and I have YouTube, I have LinkedIn, I have everything.
David Read:
Absolutely.
S. G. Blaise:
If anybody would love to connect, I love hearing from my fans.
David Read:
Absolutely. sgblaise.com. People, you can refresh the video and you will find the link to her website now. I cannot recommend this series enough. It is the swashbuckling spirit of Stargate in more of a fantasy realm. The snark, the whimsy, the humor. Even with the villains … you have to enjoy your villains. They don’t necessarily have to break into dance numbers like in Sonic. But there is that kind of freewheeling spirit about them, when you turn around and it’s like, “I can’t wait for her to kick his ass.”
Jenny Stiven:
I have a question. Can I ask a quick question? I know you’ve got more to do.
David Read:
Sure.
Jenny Stiven:
S.G., I’ve never asked you this. SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, or SGU, which one’s your favorite?
S. G. Blaise:
Oh my gosh, Stargate Atlantis. I don’t know why, but that popped in my head immediately. I love all of them. In fact, I’m rewatching all of them to finally understand the episodes that I kinda remember, but I couldn’t speak English at that time. So, there’s always something to discover. And the movies. Oh my gosh. I hope they keep doing more movies, ’cause I’m ready.
David Read:
Absolutely.
Jenny Stiven:
I wish.
David Read:
I would relate this very much to Atlantis and that kind of spirit. I think there’s also a lot of Teyla in Lilla as well.
Jenny Stiven:
Oh, that’s a great point.
David Read:
The more that I think about it, I didn’t even consider that. For folks who are fans of Stargate, I cannot recommend this series enough. S-G-B-L-A-I-S-E.com to get started, or you can do a search for The Last Luminian anywhere on Google. It’ll take you to all different kinds of portals where you can pick this thing up. SG, anything else that you wanna say before we wrap you guys up?
S. G. Blaise:
I’m so grateful to be here. I’m a huge Stargate fan. Again, that was the intent of that.
David Read:
Of course.
S. G. Blaise:
And I love that we get to discuss our excitement about Stargate, because that is a gift that keeps giving. And I hope everyone enjoys the sci-fi and fantasy genre, and that they’re being kind to themselves while they’re doing it.
David Read:
Absolutely. Guys, it was such a treat to have you on.
Jenny Stiven:
Thank you.
S. G. Blaise:
Thank you.
David Read:
Thank you so much for being here. S.G., I can’t wait to see you again. All of the best to you, and can’t wait for Book Five to drop next month. You have earned every bit of success that you have, and I thank you for taking some time today, and Jenny, for sharing your passion with us.
S. G. Blaise:
Thank you. It was such a pleasure. I had a blast.
David Read:
Thank you, guys. Good to see you.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Love you guys.
David Read:
Love you.
Jenny Stiven:
Bye.
David Read:
Linda, come on back in. So, let me go ahead and reset some things here.
David Read:
Thank you, Jenny.
Jenny Stiven:
Bye, guys.
David Read:
Bye. Here you are. OK, let me go ahead and set this up real quick here. So, thank you for sticking around.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I love S.G. She’s really sweet, and her books, I am into the second one at this point.
David Read:
Yes.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I’m sort of reading them between other things, and I’m really enjoying them. It’s a fun little series, and it’s got a lot of humor in it, which is something that I love in a series.
David Read:
The Princess Bride is one of my favorite movies, and I love that that’s the kind of element that threads through it as well.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
It does.
David Read:
There’s a humor to it. I keep on going back to that word whimsy. And one of the reasons that I connected with it so much is because it reminded me so much of Stargate. It’s got that same kind of level of carefree to it, while at the same time it raises the stakes when you’re not even expecting it.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
It does.
David Read:
Do you have some content to share?
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Yeah, I do. I’m probably gonna do this awkwardly.
David Read:
It’s all right. We’re gonna apologize. You’re gonna see the monster in the zipper’s back. Or the zipper in the monster’s back, folks, while we switch over here.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Let’s see. I am gonna– Is that doing it right?
David Read:
I’m gonna zoom in on the section that has the lower right, that has that.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
OK. Do you wanna make it full screen?
David Read:
Do you prefer to make it full screen?
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I can if you want me to.
David Read:
OK, let’s go ahead and do that.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Did that do it?
David Read:
Yep.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I honestly can’t tell what it’s showing and what it’s not.
David Read:
It says it right there, David. Pencil medium. That’s impressive. Selchat?
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Selchat, I think, is how she says it. I was following her on formerly Twitter. She seems to have disappeared off of there. I was trying to look to see if she had anything new since I downloaded this one, because I always love her stuff. If she’s watching, please get in touch and let me know where I can find you now, because …
David Read:
This is really good.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
… you are great. And I love your stuff, and I wanna keep looking at it.
David Read:
Absolutely.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Her Rodney especially, I love this sketch. It really has his personality.
David Read:
Yes, it does.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
You can tell he’s mid-movement, he’s talking to someone, and it’s got all of that in there. When I try to sketch, I’m very static, and I can’t capture that, so I really admire anyone who can.
David Read:
To be able to draw someone accurately is one thing, but to insert their personality into the drawing as well, that’s a whole other level that is totally beyond me. Well done.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Her stuff is lovely. The next artist I’ve got here is an artist I’ve probably mentioned before. This is Steffi. She does portraiture, and her stuff is amazing. This is one of the few color ones I’ve seen by her, this Jack O’Neill that she’s done. Her black and white, I’ll show you a couple of those. And here’s one more. Jack doing some deep thinking.
David Read:
This black and white is insane.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Isn’t it? She’s got a real intensity to the highlights that I just can’t do. I love it when artists do things I can’t possibly do.
David Read:
You wonder, “How is this done?” There is technique involved here that is next level. That is insanely cool.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
It really is. She’s incredible. So, that’s Steffi. Her online handle, if I go back to–
David Read:
Paul Brickler, “Does it say Colonel anywhere on his uniform?”
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Maybe. larkistin89 is her online handle. The next person I have works in crochet, and she’s only done a few Stargate things, but they’re really next level. There’s Teal’c and Thor.
David Read:
Crafty Tibbles.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Yep. I highly encourage her, if she’s listening, please do the whole team.
David Read:
That is so cool.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I wanna see them all. She’s done a lot of different shows and films. She’s got some Marvel. She’s got some DC, which you can see here in the next one. I included him because there’s our Marvel Jason.
David Read:
Of course.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
And all of her stuff.
David Read:
I have to wonder how she can pose them.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I don’t know. I’m not sure if she’s putting wire inside but she’s getting them to stand up on their own.
David Read:
She can stand. Pretty amazing.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
And she’s gotta be doing the hair one strand at a time and hooking it in.
David Read:
For sure. The beard, look at that. I don’t know how people do it.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Patience.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Lots and lots and lots.
David Read:
Lockdowns. That’s how Dial the Gate came about. That’s cool. All right.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
This next one, I’ve got several slides of Sharon Baker Elsberry’s wonderful quilt.
David Read:
This quilt makes up our thumbnail for this episode. I was blown away.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I understand she brought it with her, or the second one. She’s on to making a second one now, and I’m not sure which she brought with her to San Antonio to the recent convention. But she’s got pictures up online of her with RDA and the quilt, and he’s grinning ear to ear. And I’m like, “Yeah, I’d be, too.” That’s the most amazing–
David Read:
Do we have any higher-res images of this by any chance?
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Let me see. I can probably find one.
David Read:
There we go. OK, thank you. I’ll take that. My gosh.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
She’s got some work-in-progress shots. The first slide, she had her image board up that she’d tacked to the wall, her inspiration of where she’s going and what fabrics she was using. I’ve got some close-ups here, too. Here are the chevrons.
David Read:
There we go. Perfect.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
You can see on the–
David Read:
The Earth logo.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
And she’s got the SG logo on it in the other top corner. But I don’t have a close-up of that.
David Read:
It is just exceptional. I’d love to know how long it took.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I would, too. I would love to sit down with her and have a gal chat about quilting because, oh my God, she’s not just next level for an SG artwork but for quilting she’s next level. This is outstanding how she’s pieced it all.
David Read:
Agreed. A, you have to choose your fabrics, but then you have to put them together in the right combinations, and it’s mind-blowing, the amount of patience that has to go into it.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
You can see on the close-up here of half the gate how she’s pieced together all these tiny little squares to be the whole event horizon and blended them down to the lightest colors.
David Read:
Making a circle is not easy.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
No.
David Read:
And you have to deal with math in order to make this possible. It’s just an extraordinary amount of work. Just an amazing job.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
It really is.
David Read:
Well done.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
This next one, this is Regan Averill or maybe Averill Regan. Please, I apologize. I don’t know which way around your name goes.
David Read:
Look at that.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
She’s working in stained glass, and she’s done a number of other things, too, that weren’t Stargate, but this one just blew me away. And she’s mounted it in front of a light so that you get the wonderful ripple.
David Read:
The effect.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
And it’s just gorgeous.
David Read:
Absolutely.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
And again, she got all of the glyphs on there, and I’m not quite sure how you do that in glass, if she painted them on or if that’s [inaudible].
David Read:
The details of the chevron, the ripple effect in the glass. I’ve not seen this. This is really cool, Linda.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Isn’t it? I would love to have one of those for my window, but I’m sure I can’t afford whatever that costs.
David Read:
The only thing that I’m really thinking of is “Don’t give out, little metal loops on each side. Don’t give out.”
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
They’re probably steel and stronger than you think they are.
David Read:
They probably are. Absolutely exceptional. That is so cool.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
This next one, the pictures are kind of terrible, but …
David Read:
There’s the setup.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
… there’s a link to go online and watch a TikTok video. And I don’t know, do you wanna show it–
David Read:
I can’t pull it up unfortunately. But people can put in that link if they’re very patient and go and see it. So, I’ve heard stories about this.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Put in the link and watch the walk-around video that the artist has up.
David Read:
Look at how tall that guy is, or not tall
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Yes, he’s huge. He’s a ginormous Jaffa. It’s from the British Ironwork Center, which– They’re a shop in England that produces iron sculptures of all sizes, some of them mega huge. I’ve seen some of the superhero sculptures they’ve produced online as well, and they’re all on a similar scale. So, I’m thinking this is the same person who did that. There isn’t an exact artist name up on their website, though, attributing this. And most of the pic–
David Read:
It might be a team effort.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
It could be. Most of the pictures have disappeared from the web of this one, which is why I’m left with the blurry images. And I’m like, “Where did it go?” So, I don’t know if the sculpture sold, if they were told to take the pictures down.
David Read:
Could have been.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I’m not sure what the story is, and they haven’t replied to my emails unfortunately. ‘Cause I’d love to know.
David Read:
This is truly exceptional.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
It’s beyond gorgeous. It’s recycled metal to my understanding, that they’ve taken pieces of other things that are at the end of their life and disassembled and then reassembled into …
David Read:
Kid fashion.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
… into sculpture.
David Read:
That’s wild. We have about 10 minutes left, just so you know. Wild stuff.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Here’s an old friend. Here’s Mark O’Neill. And a little montage of some of his ongoing work on Stargate. He seems to be on his way to building the entire SGC out of LEGO brick.
David Read:
And their enemies. Look at that. Look at those little Replicators. That’s so cute.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
And he’s got so many of the characters that he’s done up. Here’s another shot of the Gate room. And then we’ve got SG-1. And his M.A.L.P. The level of detail he’s gone into, and managed with LEGO. “What part am I possibly gonna use to make that, and how am I gonna fit it on?”
David Read:
Exactly.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I’m endlessly impressed by him, and he’s a great guy. This next one is– I’ve got a couple of Leah Rosenthal’s–
David Read:
Was it Leah?
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Yeah. Her cartoons. She used mainly pencil drawing first and then used artist pens to do the outlining. And she passed away back in April. Lovely person, and incredibly talented. And she’s been around sci-fi fandom for– I first encountered her in the ’80s during my first year of college. And met her at a convention in the Boston area, and hung out with her along with a group of my friends.
David Read:
So you got to know her.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
A little bit. I was incredibly shy and a wallflower at that point in my life. So, certainly I listened to what she was saying about art and cartooning and sketching, which a lot of the conversations I was privileged to with her were about that. That’s what all my friends were talking about at the time. We were all trying cartooning. And she knew her stuff, and she was just a nice, nice person. Here’s another couple, wearing Jackson Daniels, which has always been one of my favorite cartoons of hers. And then her Jonas getting rained on by a cloud that seems to be following him around. If you look up the cloud …
David Read:
I wonder who that is. Exactly.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
… it’s got little eyes, and it’s clearly Mr. Jackson who has something to do with that.
David Read:
That’s good stuff. I miss her. We’re hoping to have her spouse on at some point here …
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
That would be wonderful.
David Read:
… to discuss and show off more of her work. All right.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
She was brilliant. And she worked across a number of fandoms.
David Read:
Absolutely.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
So, if you Google Leah Rosenthal, you’ll find a lot of her work out there on the web. This one is our own Sommer.
David Read:
Sommer!
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I noticed her–
David Read:
I didn’t know she was Jewish. No, I’m kidding.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
She’s been making bun covers. She does some of the most hilarious and wonderful crochet. She does these slippers that are just next-level, crazy wonderful things. And she’s turned her attention now to bun covers. She did a pumpkin for Halloween that had me on the floor laughing. And then this was her one for the recent convention in San Antonio. She 3D-printed the chevron, and then she did a little gate.
David Read:
Gate for it. That’s so cool.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
She’s been wearing it around, and I’m like, “Oh, I gotta include that.”
David Read:
This is too cute.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
This is a hoot.
David Read:
Thank you for sharing. Good work, Sommer.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
And then I’ve got a couple of my own.
David Read:
Yes. Horus.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
It’s a Horus jar. He’s actually back on the shelf here behind me, so you can’t see him.
David Read:
We can see your photo right now, but that’s– When we go back we’ll see it. That’s cool. Well done.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
The phrase in hieroglyphics down the front is taken from the feature film. It says “Stargate.”
David Read:
Oh, so it’s– Cool.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
All that says is “Stargate.” I went in and copied off the blackboard that Daniel’s fixing the translation on the hieroglyphics, and put it onto the pottery.
David Read:
That’s cool. Anything else you got?
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
It’s a negative impression of some of the wall paneling from a Goa’uld ship. It’s a test tile that I was trying out. Someone sent me some molds made from wall paneling, and I have the idea at some point of doing a table. My hesitation on the table is now that with the indents, anything I try to stand on the table is gonna tip over. So, I haven’t proceeded with that yet. This next one was an attempt at doing the Ra medallion buried in the sand.
David Read:
I love it.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Thanks.
David Read:
I love it, Linda.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
It needs a bit more work still. It’s not quite there to my satisfaction yet.
David Read:
You know what artists say. I couldn’t tell on this end.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I know. We’re never happy.
David Read:
It’s never finished, it’s abandoned. Well done.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
That’s my last one.
David Read:
Wow, taken from the weapon.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Yes, exactly.
David Read:
That’s really well done.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
And both as a tile with the design on the tile, and then as a cutout.
David Read:
Which one is technically Ra? I think the one on the right is Ra because one is Ra and one is Horus. Depending on the way in which it goes. I think that’s really cool. You did a great job.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Thank you.
David Read:
Thank you for sharing. Is this the last one?
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
Yeah, that was the end of it. I saved me for last in case we didn’t have time for everything.
David Read:
Come on back for me.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
OK, let me see. Stop share.
David Read:
Perfect. I really appreciate you– Look at that. That is so cool.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
He’s just little.
David Read:
That is wild. Thank you so much for sharing all of your art.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
You’re welcome.
David Read:
And thank you for taking the time to build this library of content. This has been something that you and I have been wanting to do for months now, and I kept on putting it off. We’re getting close to the end of Season Four, I was like, “Ah, let’s go ahead and get it in.” So, thank you for helping take the time.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
You bet.
David Read:
Or taking the time to help build it.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I hope people will send me some in the coming year so that we can do this again.
David Read:
Use the comments below. Fill in some details for us, folks. If your piece wasn’t covered, or if yours was, and where people can continue to look at your stuff. Means a lot to have the Stargate community after all this time continuing to create content over a wide variety of mediums. It’s outrageous.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
It’s inspired so many people in so many different ways. And the age range on the people making art too is–
David Read:
All over the place.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
I love that. We’ve got everything from our 20-somethings just finding Stargate to new people like me.
David Read:
And people like me. That’s cool. Linda, I’m gonna wrap us up now. Thank you so much for coming in to help share this presentation.
Linda “GateGabber” Furey:
You gotcha.
David Read:
Thank you, Linda. Linda Furey, GateGabber. She’s my producer in Dial the Gate. Thank you so much for tuning in. My profound thanks to my moderators today. Antony, you’ve really helped pull this off. Sommer, Tracy, Jeremy, Marcia. My producer, Linda GateGabber Furey, thank you again. Frederick Marcoux at dialthegates.com, who keeps us continually up to date. Thank you, Christian, for submitting a question for S.G. I didn’t see that until now, but we may have her on at some point again in the future because her content is so Stargate-related. That’s what we’ve got. Colin Cunningham, Major Davis, is gonna be joining us in a few minutes. So, click on over to that live stream. It’s gonna be happening momentarily. He’s gonna be telling us a little bit about his new film project, He Never Left, that is gonna be available on streaming very soon. My name is David Read for Dial the Gate. I appreciate you tuning in, and we’ll see you on the other side.