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Forbes
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
SpectreVision Seeks To Transform Podcasting Landscape
Just one year after launch, SpectreVision Radio is hellbent on taking the podcasting medium where no one has gone before (with all due respect to Captain Kirk). The above-mentioned podcast network run by SpectreVision, the horror-focused production banner founded by Elijah Wood, Daniel Noah, and Josh C. Waller, announced today 'a bold expansion into video podcasting" by turning their 50-show catalogue into full-on productions. 'When we started this thing, it was with the intention of just making audio podcasts,' Noah tells me over Zoom. 'We had a couple shows with a video component, but then, come December, the data started trickling in to the industry that consumers were overwhelmingly favoring podcasts with video. We found ourselves in this really unique position, wherein we were one of the only networks that were also filmmakers. So we started to realize that there was a demand that we could answer quite directly.' For Noah and his two co-founders, 'the notion of bringing real, cinematic storytelling techniques to podcasting is not just novel — it's necessary," he affirms. 'Just a short time ago, the Joe Rogan format of a couple people sitting around a table was pretty much the only game in town. But we look at this as filmmakers and say 'Why can't we get up off the desk move things around?' We're trying to get creative. In some cases, it is just windows with people talking to each other. But even in those cases, we're really trying to make them look very pretty and professional." As of this writing, they've already begun the process of converting shows into novel, chimeric configurations. For instance, Soren Narnia's short fiction podcast Knifepoint Horror was 'the big proof of concept' that it could done effectively. 'The way I described it to Soren was, 'Let's think of this as the visual equivalent of a Brian Eno record. It's not necessarily meant to capture your full attention. It's there as a seasoning, a flavor. Something to zone out to if that's what you want to do,'' Noah recalls. And so, they added the visual element of a dark road viewed through the windshield of a car driving at night for an episode about a road trip. Not long after, the podcast was among the Top 10 titles on Spotify. 'That was when we realized, 'Okay, there's something happening here,'" Noah adds. 'We have 50 shows that we're rolling out, and nearly every single one of them is in some process of converting to video. We're working very closely with the creators and saying, 'Listen, let's, figure this out together. What is a natural and organic visual expression of what you're doing that isn't just a ring light and a Yeti microphone? How can we really up the game?'' The end goal is to create a fresh medium that defies all current definitions, falling 'somewhere between podcasting and traditional television," explains the SpectreVision-co-founder. 'There is an understanding that this will not be as fully-produced as traditional, institutionalized television, but there still will be an understanding, or an expectation, that there will be something creative.' The best part? Neither Hollywood nor the wider podcasting community have yet to grasp the true potential of this burgeoning entity. 'I think that by the time they do realize what's happening, they will be so far behind the curve," Noah continues. 'Because the content creators who are aware of this and already running way out ahead of the pack will be the trendsetters and the leaders in this space. I think what's so thrilling about it, is it belongs to the artists. This is a very rare dynamic when artists are dominating and owning a space.' This trailblazing podcast endeavor marks the latest stage in the company's evolution into a multimedia juggernaut. Just last month, Forbes Entertainment spoke with Noah about SpectreVision's forthcoming comic book series at Oni Press, High Strangeness, which will shine a more accurate light on popular paranormal topics like cryptids and the Men in Black. 'These things, when they happen, are very strange and very confounding, and don't necessarily have easy answers,' concludes Noah, who is overseeing the project. 'We're just leaning into the ambiguity of all that.'
Forbes
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Daniel Noah Is Making It Weird In Oni's New ‘High Strangeness' Series
Cover version "F" of High Strangeness due out from Oni Press, October, 2025. As a writer, producer and director of films and podcasts, Daniel Noah always enjoys telling good ghost stories. But he's taking the supernatural extremely seriously in High Strangeness, a new deluxe graphic series coming this October from edgy independent publisher Oni Press. Noah is co-founder (with Elijah Wood and Lawrence Inglee) of SpectreVision, the production company known for films like Mandy and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which is collaborating with Oni on the publication. For most of his life, he described himself as a hardcore skeptic when it came to the occult. Then a night in the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado (the haunted hotel that inspired The Shining) left him questioning whether there was more to reality than meets the eye. Writer/Producer Daniel Noah (SpectreVision) 'Our last night there, a group of folks gathered in the room with the Ouija board, which I regarded as a child's game. I was not happy to be doing it,' Noah recounted in an interview last week. 'Then something happened that was so undeniable that my only options were to believe that my friends had spent half a million dollars concocting an unlikely prank, or that we'd had a genuine encounter with a ghost.' Following that experience, Noah began examining the lore of the unexplained with a new eye, eventually coming to believe that a whole range of phenomena from UFO encounters to hauntings to the original, super-creepy Men in Black, were all manifestations of the same set of real experiences people were having all over the world, dressed up in the guise of fiction and folklore. Noah found a kindred spirit in Oni Press Publisher Hunter Gorinson, who encouraged him to develop the idea for comics. 'We want to make this as spectacular and entertaining and beautifully complex as possible,' said Gorinson. 'We're doing this five-issue series in a high quality format with no ads and a ton of expert back-matter to expand on the nonfiction element.' Noah is serving as 'showrunner' of the series, working with a creative team including writer Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine, The Goddamn Tragedy) and Ringo Award-winning artist Dave Chisholm (Plague House); writer Zac Thompson (Cemetery Kids Run Rabid) and artist Noah Bailey (Station Grand, Double Walker); Eisner Award nominee Christopher Cantwell (Out of Alcatraz, Thanos) and artist Valeria Burzo (EC's Epitaphs from the Abyss); New York Times best-selling writer Cecil Castellucci (Shade the Changing Girl) and artist Chloe Stawski (Sapphic Pulp); and multiple Eisner Award winner Christian Ward (Batman: City of Madness). Senior editor Bess Pallares is overseeing the project on Oni's end. Page from High Strangeness #1 from Oni Press Noah said he is excited to work in the comics medium for the first time. 'I've worked in every aspect of media, but comics are new to me,' he said. 'I've never experienced this much support for free creative expression anywhere. Nothing has come close. I also feel a great sense of responsibility because that these guys are supporting some really crazy stuff, you know, not just in the content, but even in the way that the story is told.' While stories that blend the line between supernatural fiction and reality are nothing new in comics, Gorinson said High Strangeness is honoring the ambiguity of the material by challenging the reader rather than providing easy answers. He also said that, despite collaborating with a company like SpectreVision, which produces projects across different media, the books will adhere to Oni's primary mission of delivering good comics, without an eye toward a bigger media footprint. Attendees of this year's San Diego Comic-Con can get a preview of what's in store for High Strangeness during a live recording of the SpectreVision podcast Saturday, July 26 at the Neil Morgan Auditorium in the San Diego Central Library. Gorinson, Pallares, and writers Chris Cantwell and Chris Condon will join Noah, Elijah Wood and host Jim Perry for what the company describes as a 'a wide-ranging, investigative conversation a will surveil the liminal spaces where reality, hallucination, science and mythology give way to cosmic wonder and existential terror.' HIGH STRANGENESS: BOOK ONE – 1967 arrives in comic shops on October 8th with a covers by Jock (Wytches, Detective Comics), Dave Chisholm (Spectrum), Becca Carey (Benjamin, Radiant Black), and Malachi Ward (Black Hammer). High Strangeness #1 Cover A by Jock, from Oni Press, 2025
Yahoo
16-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
White House eyes major cuts to NOAA ahead of hurricane season
The Brief The Trump Administration is considering cutting NOAA's budget by $1.6 billion or 27%. Scientists and environmental advocates are concerned that slashing NOAA's budget will affect Florida's ability to respond to hurricanes. Gov. Ron DeSantis has said it will not affect the state's ability to respond to storms. TAMPA, Fla. - The Trump Administration is considering major funding cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), raising concerns among scientists, environmental advocates and former forecasters as hurricane season approaches. Last week's draft budget proposal outlines a potential $1.6 billion, or a 27% reduction in NOAA's funding. While no final decisions have been made, the discussions have sparked fears over the potential impact on climate, weather and ocean research. NOAA oversees the National Weather Service (NWS), a critical agency for monitoring and predicting hurricanes and other severe weather events. What they're saying "The National Weather Service is staffed for fair weather," retired meteorologist Daniel Noah said. "When we had hazardous weather like hurricanes coming toward us, we would all have to work overtime. So, if we reduce the staff any further, it makes me a little nervous for this year's hurricane season." READ: Tampa residents hope recent reckless biking arrests will send message to other bicyclists Environmental groups say the cuts would go far beyond hurricane forecasting. "The important work of NOAA has been under attack since Inauguration Day," said Gib Brogan of Oceana, an environmental nonprofit. "This challenges and undermines the decades of work that individuals that have committed their lives to this. The people who are experts in sea turtles and habitat conservation, fisheries management, climate science and more for our oceans." Brogan warned that slashing NOAA's research capabilities would "undoubtedly undermine the ability of weather forecasters to predict the coming storms or overall patterns that are affecting our weather." Agricultural industries could also feel the strain, as many farmers rely on NOAA's seasonal weather predictions. CLICK HERE:>>>Follow FOX 13 on YouTube The other side Despite the pushback, the White House maintains that cutting waste is a top priority. "DOGE is able to take out the waste, fraud and abuse, which appears to be rampant based on what we're seeing," said White House Senior Counsel Peter Navarro. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis voiced support for DOGE cuts last week, saying he believes the National Weather Service will be fine. "I think you're going to see it be okay with the National Hurricane Center. I really do," DeSantis said. The Source FOX 13's Evyn Moon collected the information in this story. WATCH FOX 13 NEWS: STAY CONNECTED WITH FOX 13 TAMPA: Download the FOX Local app for your smart TV Download FOX Local mobile app: Apple | Android Download the FOX 13 News app for breaking news alerts, latest headlines Download the SkyTower Radar app Sign up for FOX 13's daily newsletter
