Maker Mark | Here Media

Adventuring | Week 3 of 6

How are ebikes for going on adventures? When was the last time you went on an adventure in your local area? Or explored? How much range do you need to feel confident going out for a wander on an ebike? How confident do you feel riding on roads to get to the beautiful tracks away from the roads? All these questions answered, or at least discussed, in this short episode! Now that's value :D

Mark's reel (!?) 2022

Really, or should I say reelly?

Carbon 'Cycling' | Week 2 of 6

Just weeks after moving back to Melbourne, I took part in a medical trial (!?) and in this second episode of a 6-part series, one for each week of the trial, I talk about the carbon footprint of cycling, how it's more than you think - but why that doesn't matter. And why carbon footprints are a dodge by fossil fuel companies. And why I don't pant on the train. 

My Ebike Study Experience | Week 1 of 6

Just weeks after moving back to Melbourne, I took part in a medical trial (!?) and in this first episode of a 6-part series, one for each week of the trial, I explain what it is, why I took part, and what I learned while being scanned and tested. 

Walking a cemetery

While visiting my local area, after having recently moved, I'm visiting the large local cemetery.

Bring on 20take2!

Some thoughts on new years resolutions as an audio creator.

First Video Episode | Taking a holiday break from creating, how do you do it?

Mark's first video episode, trying out this new feature of Anchor. 

Podcast Editing Chats with Stephanie Fuccio (Podcast Editing Plus)

Such great fun talking about podcast editing, a skillset that I only recently had the confidence to say I possessed, after 3+ years of being self-taught. @stephfuccio is a wonderful host, and @epodcaster and @AgentPalmer I learned a lot from. Enjoy! "This is our second LIVE podcast editing chat this month and I’m delighted to be joined by Mark in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Jason in Pennsylvania, U.S. and Jennifer in Texas, U.S. And, as you know I’m in Split, Croatia. We chatt...

How to do climate podcasting well + ghosts of podcasts past.

Recommendation: The Climate Question by the BBC World Service. https://pca.st/episode/c2606d76-1c51-4ea8-b2a3-72c18103a024

Podcast Festival thoughts

What will podcast festivals look like going forward? What will the Halfway Down Podcast Festival look like in March 2022?

Maker Mark answers questions from the Student Voice Network

Student Voice Network is a platform for helping young people find their peers and collaborators in taking positive social action. They asked Mark some questions about podcasting as a form of climate engagement. In order to answer those questions, here's a lightly edited record of Mark discussing and dissecting the power of podcasting for climate-engagement. 

Who knew we needed a climate podcast from The Economist.

To a Lesser Degree from The Economist. A new podcast that's delightfully refreshing. The intersection of market-oriented pragmatism and climate crisis severity. Climate change, from the perspective of the market. Who knew this what, at least I, needed.

Audio Journalism for the Climate Crisis | Robert McLean of Climate Conversations

Podcasts are usually about the hosts. Not always, but most of the time a podcaster will intersperse their questions with anecdotes, their personal opinion, and jokes (some better than others). That's not Robert McLean's approach with Climate Conversations. This is an interview for Write Hear, Right Now - the working title of a newsletter and podcast about the intersection of podcasting and climate change. We're running a series of interviews with climate-engaged podcasters. Some of the podc...

Introducing Write Hear, Right Now

Read this as a blog here.

When a creative itch is given some lockdown space to 🪴

Lately I've been feeling that same itch I felt 4 years ago. A craving for a thing I can't find in the content landscape. And it's got me thinking about whether I could fill that gap, and give value to the climate/podcasting space. A niche, sure, but that's fine - that's what podcasts and newsletters are great for! So if you're interested, check it out at writehear.substack.com. 🙏

Update from Lockdown

Updates from Lockdown. With a focus on place-based stories, getting to reveal and engage with facets of community life, the extraordinary parts of normal life - Here Media is having a slumber of over Tāmaki Makaurau’s COVID outbreak. Instead of doing locally-engaged stories, Here’s one current member, me, is instead digging into production of three other projects. One is a second season of an interview show, distributed on a major podcast publisher in Australia. It’s the ‘full stack’, with...

Walk 'n Talk, on Dave Winer and Guy Kawasaki on podcasting.

Mark is walking to an appointment so opted to record some quick thoughts on the joys of enedited podcasts and one-take recordings.

Learnings from poutine | Poutine Machine, Churley's Kitchen Takeover

Nathan Ryckman is an old friend. But I had no idea that while I was overseas he was going to start a poutine empire in Tāmaki Makaurau. I spoke to him in the kitchen of Churley's, Behemoth's brewpub at the top of Dominion Road, as he was about to run a kitchen takeover of the venue for the night. We talk poutine's origins and development, his own growth in hospitality, and the 'Canadianness' of poutine. 

Big Balls? Yes.

What it says on the tin. A chat with the couple behind Big Balls foodtruck. Also, their first festival experience. And, a crash course in RnV for the uninitiated. 

The Fringe District | Garage Project

Ryan Greene on memories of Baker's Cottage (Connoll's Bakery), managing the Garage Project taproom, the Beer Mile, and why the best days for the Fringe District are still to come. The pilot episode of a local podcast series about the traders, characters, and everyday people of the Fringe District.  Artwork by www.leehowell.com

Publish, promote, power off...!

What's your post-publishing ritual? How do you unplug after you publish and promote?

Having a question answered on your favourite show

I recently got a question answered on one of my favourite podcasts. It could have gone better.  I respond to the answers from two of my favourite podcasters, and double down on my opinion that their perspective and beliefs aren't matched by their published output. In essence, they know that the climate crisis is an urgent topic, one as or more important than others, but look away from, and frequently ignore raising it on their show.  In this episode I play their answer to my question, whil...

Movespace Third Birthday Time Capsule

It’s rare that we say happy birthday to a place. There’s formal events and excuses for corporate parties of course, but it’s rare for the partygoers to observe, and celebrate, the birthday itself. To say, happy birthday, corporate office, or cafe, or train station - to celebrate the occasion of a milestone for a pile of bricks, wood, and plaster. Movespace is easy to say happy birthday to though, because mostly, you’re saying happy birthday to a person. Kiran. The founder and creator of t...

Working on a production team

Recently a new episode launched, that Mark was Supervising Producer on. What does that mean? How can you work constructively on a production team? Listen in. Please send in any questions you may have.

What sounds invoke pre-dawn?

If you find yourself awake before dawn, what do you hear? What sounds evoke the feeling of that time of day? On the Anchor app you can send me voicemail and I'd love to know what you think.

Welcome to Maker Mark

Mark Spencer, audio creator and lifelong audio addict, shares stories of project design and execution, and answers your questions.

Arch Hill Reserve

Mark visits the local nature reserve.

Here Media project announcement

Mark announces the To Be Titled Kings Arms project.

Arriving at the Climate Strike

Some quick thoughts before arriving at Melbourne's school strike venue

Psychoterratica on the balcony

Mark talks about psychoterratica, the trauma caused by distance from nature, while on the balcony with his cat.

Jurassic Park v Blade Runner

Some thoughts on how we view science in our culture.

Behind Climactic 1 - Port Phillip Enviro Champs week 2