>Watch "Why Dungeons & Dragons is Good for You (In Real Life) --- a TEDx talk I gave at TEDxPiscataquaRiver
>Watch "A Hard Day's Knight" -- wherein Ethan dons his chain mail in search of members for his quest. And spare change.
>We are geeks. We are rolling dice. We are playing D&D. Yes, it's 1981 and this is a Super 8 film I shot of my old D&D gang. Enjoy! and read my wired.com post on it here.
>Watch Ethan Gilsdorf & Jonathan Zittrain discuss "How Dungeons & Dragons and Fantasy Prepare You for Law & Life," a talk for Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
>Watch this interview for Tufts University
>Watch the author introduce Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks --- full of action-packed scenes of geekery!
>Watch Ethan looking for Elves in Rivendell (in New Zealand, actually)
>A visit to Hobbiton (Matamata, New Zealand) with Ethan Gilsdorf
>In search of Weta Workshop, Weta Cave & Wellywood, with Ethan Gilsdorf: Ethan travels to Wellington, New Zealand, and visits "Wellywood," Weta Workshop, the Weta Cave, and tries to stalk Peter Jackson and sneak onto the studios.
>Watch these two freaks and geeks celebrate the paperback release of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks!
>"If you want him, come and claim him!": A Lord of the Rings mash-up, shot on location at the Ford of Bruinen location, Arrow River, Arrowtown, South Island, New Zealand
>Ethan showing us his old D&D gear: A tour of his "blue cooler," the box where all his old D&D gear was stored for 25 years until one day he found it ... and wrote this book
Learning to sword fightLearning to sword fight! ha!
>Podcast of Gilsdorf's MIT lecture: a podcast of my lecture (Sept 17, 2009), at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Comparative Media Studies Program Colloquium & Communication Forum Lecture Series
>Audio recording: Four Stories: Ethan Reading in Sept 2008 at Four Stories, Cambridge, the chapter on the Georgia LARP (live-action role-playing game) that would become part of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks
>Reading at Nashua, NH's Studio 99 open mike (the first week of my book tour in 2009!) (part 1)
>part 2
>Another promo video: Listen to Ethan talk about his book in this sort-of summary of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks (totally ad-libbed)
>Reading a teaser from Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks at Sunday Salon, a bar in the East Village, Feb 2010, NYC
>Acting: Ethan in "Six Hours of Less" (an entry in the 2011 Boston 48 Hour Film Project) or see it on Vimeo
>Acting: Ethan in "Q is for Quality" (an entry in the 2008 Boston 48 Hour Film Project) or see it on Vimeo
> more videos here on my YouTube page
Fantasy Freaks and Gaming GeeksTeaser trailer!
Watch the FF&GG teaser trailer here:
