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Episode 1804Original air date: 10/29/2007
Create Your Own Adventure
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | Being the 2nd largest convention in Indiana is nothing to shake a light-saber at, for Indianapolis’ Gen-Con is all about the kind of mystical fun and high-tech games that would make an fan of Mr. Spock’s three-dimensional chess set jealous. But it’s also about busting stereotypes, for Gen-Con is a huge gathering of folks that are normally stereotyped as non-social. Here, they can be themselves—and that can be anyone or anything in a world whose limits are left to the imagination—as someone—oh, say like producer Aric Hartvig (who secretly dreams of being an all-powerful Scottish warrior)—can discover. | | Credits: | Aric “Highlander” Hartvig | | Location: | Indianapolis | | Contact: | www.gencon.com |
Truth, Justice and the Hoosier Way
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | We don’t know about you, but it’s always concerned us that--when they looked up in the sky, the good people of Metropolis couldn’t tell the difference between a bird and a plane. After all, birds flap their wings--and isn’t there a noticeable size difference? Really, what pigeon can seat 80 passengers comfortably? Still, it must have been reassuring to know that the Man of Steel was overhead. What you may not know is that, while Superman exercised his powers over Metropolis, he left his duds over here. For that’s where you’ll find the flying suits of Kirk Alyn, George Reeves, Christopher Reeve, and Dean Cain—as well as replicas of Michael Keaton’s Batmobile and Adam West’s Bat-boat—at Indianapolis’ Heroes Museum—dedicated to all the real-life Hoosier heroes who keep us safe everyday. | | Credits: | Aric Hartvig | | Location: | Indianapolis | | Contact: | www.heroesmuseum.com |
The Unreal Gets Real
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | Remember when cell-phones and HDTV were the stuff of science fiction? Now they’re everyday staples. So, what does the technological future hold? We’re off to Indianapolis and West Lafayette to check out college professors in the process of inventing real-life equivalents of Dr. McCoy’s tricorder (Star Trek), Doc’s “Mr. Fusion,” (Back to the Future), androids that can pass for human beings (AI: Artificial Intelligence) and—we kid you not—a theoretical design for Harry Potter’s Cloak of Invisibility. | | Credits: | Jim Simmons with guest reporters Mike Cowper and Dave Henninger from “Circle of Janus,” one of the Capital City’s oldest science fiction clubs | | Location: | Indianapolis, West Lafayette | | Contact: | David Kitchell - Purdue News Service, news.uns.purdue.edu and Neil Moore - Indiana University School of Informatics, informatics.indiana.edu |
Mr. Silent
| Watch This Segment Online. | | Description: | Those of you who have seen him might have thought you were in the presence of some sort of uber-valet. The polished black shoes. The black pants and tailored vest. The platinum mask . . . (?) He calls himself “Mr. Silent,” and he patrols the street of downtown Indianapolis, ready to alert the police to the presence of muggers, pickpockets and an occasional domestic scrabble. When asked whether or not he has x-ray vision or telepathy, he replies that his powers lie in having “very high morals”—that, and being able “to read at a college level.” Genuine super-powers would “be nice,” he adds, “but where are you going to find them?” | | Credits: | Vincent Manganello with Bryan Kenny | | Location: | Indianapolis | | Contact: | Just yell for help on any Indianapolis streetcorner, and “Mr. Silent” will find you. |
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