Posts Tagged ‘clockpunk’

New Roundbottom: Faery Wintering Nests

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

There’s a low-​​key new Roundbottom today detail­ing what faeries tend to do when it gets cold.  Feel free to drop on by and tell us how your local species pre­pare for win­ter, if your world has one.

We’re run­ning a sale until the end of the year, $5 off each mem­ber­ship kit, and large scale lim­ited edi­tion prints are now only $65 a piece.  After ship­ping and print­ing and every­thing, I don’t make much on these, so order a whole bunch okay?

I am lean­ing right now towards wrap­ping Roundbottom up again for the time being at the end of the year.  The real world is too scary right now for me to be able to con­cen­trate on cre­ated and telling such mostly whim­si­cal sto­ries.  That and I really need to find bet­ter ways of mak­ing money.  Roundbottom is a los­ing project, sadly.  If I sell more prints though, it’ll change my mind.

Roundbottom Memberships On Sale

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

The Roundbottom Foundation mem­ber­ships (includ­ing a vari­ety of things includ­ing a pho­tonic print) are now on sale for $30 a piece.  You can find out more about this great Holiday gift here.

I had a pro­duc­tive week­end pho­to­graph­i­cally speak­ing.  Some inter­est­ing pho­tos push­ing a new tech­nique I’ve not really tried much before.  Some say that HDR is a cheat and is no sub­sti­tute for real pho­tog­ra­phy, but I just con­sider it another tool in my pos­si­ble toolbox.

I’ve been doing a lot of photography-​​related read­ing lately.  I went to the library on Friday and spent a cou­ple of hours look­ing for inspi­ra­tion in the stacks.  I didn’t really find any­thing, but on Saturday, we had to buy some Christmas presents for the nieces at Barnes & Noble and while there, I browsed a few more books.  These were much enlightening.

The big thing I am focus­ing on right now is really truly learn­ing how expo­sure works and how to con­trol it.  Most of my pho­tos are not exposed cor­rectly in cam­era.   It seems pretty basic, I know, but this is my focus right now.   I have to get the basics down before I can really advance my skills much further.

Dr. Roundbottom Limited Editon Prints Now $65

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

Hello, good peo­ple!  Here’s the skinny.  I’ve low­ered the prices of my lim­ited edi­tion Dr. Roundbottom prints from $125 to $65 a piece.  That’s a 16“x20” print on high qual­ity paper, suit­able for fram­ing, etc.  Signed and num­bered.  Only 10 of each image available.

If you’re look­ing for a bar­gain on a mem­ber­ship kit, never fear.  I have some stock I need to try to get rid of before the end of the year, so I’ll be offer­ing a dis­count on mem­ber­ship kits for a sub­set of the images next week.

I’m think­ing of open­ing a low-​​cost gen­eral prints store for my nature pho­tog­ra­phy as well.  Let me know if such a thing inter­ests you and it might moti­vate me to actu­ally do it.

Before the end of the year, I hope to hone down the pic­tures I have taken in the last sev­eral years to a tight port­fo­lio of just the best work.  Just in case National Geographic comes call­ing, hah hah!

Oh, and if you would be so kind as to share the word about my reduced prices, I would be grate­ful.  Have a lovely evening, dear readers.

New Roundbottom Podcast

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

The 5th edi­tion of Field Sounds has gone live on clock​punk​.com.  This week,  Miss Watkins relates a story from her child­hood and reveals more details about the City and its past.  Sarah’s per­for­mance never ceases to impress me.  I hope you will give it a lis­ten and let us know what you think.

New Roundbottom: An End to the War and a Friendship

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

Good morn­ing, ladies and gents.  It’s that time again.  A new post has gone live over at the Informatitron.  It seems the doc­tor and friends have put an end to the Bird Queen-​​Boggart ordeal, but not with­out a price.   This post sur­prised me, as it runs about the length of a tra­di­tional short story. I never intended to be so… wordy on the site, but I sup­pose you can take the nerd out of the writ­ing, but you can’t take the writ­ing out of the nerd.

More good things com­ing up on Roundbottom this month.  The more mem­ber­ships I sell, the more I can pour into hir­ing mod­els and doing more elab­o­rate photo manip­u­la­tions.  So please, if you enjoy read­ing Dr. Roundbottom and lis­ten­ing to his exploits each week, con­sider buy­ing a membership.

Are there images that you want that are lim­ited edi­tions, but you don’t want to drop so much cash on a print?  I’m con­sid­er­ing drop­ping the lim­ited prints entirely at the moment.  There’s been lit­tle inter­est in them, and while I was really hop­ing that they would pro­vide the boost I need to see this project through into the com­ing months, I sup­pose I could just sell every­thing as a mem­ber­ship kit option or stand­alone small, cheap, unlim­ited prints. Anyway, enough about that.  Coming up shortly, a photo of the day.

New Roundbottom: Noble Faery Games

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

There is a new Roundbottom pod­cast live on the Clockpunk​.com web­site.  This week, the Doctor is away and Miss Watkins is in charge.  There’s a mys­tery in the record­ing that needs to be solved.  Can you puz­zle it out?

I’d write more, but I’m in a world of hurt at the day job.  I put in about 8 hours yes­ter­day and I see work­ing until I drop in my future today.

New Roundbottom: The Bird Queen

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

It’s Monday, and that means there is a new round­bot­tom image and report for you to check out!  This week, the doc­tor encoun­ters the mys­te­ri­ous Bird Queen.  He finds him­self not much closer to resolv­ing the con­flict between the birds and the bog­garts, and he needs your advice.  Check it out!

The New Dr. Roundbottom Podcast is Live

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

Hi Folks.  After a ton of work on the part of myself, Sarah, and my sound engi­neer and good friend Nate Periat, we’ve fin­ished and posted our first Dr. Roundbottom Field Sounds pod­cast.  It’s only 5 min­utes long, so don’t hes­i­tate to just go to the site and hit play.  Please let me know what you think.  We’re very pleased with the results for our first try, and we can’t wait to do more.  I spent today get­ting ahead on next week’s entry as well.  Tomrorow, after some site updates I need to get done, I will start writ­ing the next pod­cast episode.

Let me know what you think!

New Roundbottom: The Carrier Snail (And Desktops!)

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

Good morn­ing! It’s Monday, and that means Dr. Roundbottom has updated his web­site with yet another sci­en­tific dis­cov­ery. I’m par­tic­u­larly happy with the work on this entry, pho­to­graph­i­cally speak­ing. The Carrier Snail is quite a nice pho­tonic cap­ture if I do say so myself.

As a teaser for the kind of thing you can expect to receive as a mem­ber of the Roundbottom Society, I’ve cre­ated a set of desk­top back­grounds of this week’s capture.

Desktop Backgrounds

800x600
1024x768
1440x900
1600x1200
1680x1050
1900x1200

If you have a res­o­lu­tion that isn’t listed, drop me a line and I’ll make you one in your desk­top resolution.

In other Roundbottom news, we had a record­ing ses­sion over the week­end for the first Roundbottom pod­cast.  Thanks to the help of our friend Nate Periat, this thing is going to sound about 100x bet­ter than I ever expected it to.  You can most likely look for­ward to hear­ing that next week!

New Roundbottom Live

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

The con­clud­ing chap­ter of the Case of the Steam Wraith  is now live on the Dr. Rounbottom website.

This four-​​part story has had some bumps, and if I wasn’t writ­ing with­out a net, I can see some edits that I would make.  I’m going to try to write these things far­ther in advance of post­ing in the future so that I can smooth out some of the incon­sis­ten­cies that develop.  It’s far eas­ier to write one-​​shot obser­va­tional posts than the sto­ry­line based posts.   I made some strides towards that goal of get­ting ahead this week­end, design­ing a new cap­ture and we’ll hope­fully get a pod­cast made this week as well.

One prob­lem with writ­ing the posts in advance is that I like hav­ing Roundbottom being respon­sive to the com­ments.  one of the things that sets this project aside from the usual fic­tion ser­ial is this aspect of involv­ing the input of the audi­ence.   If you weren’t aware of that–Roundbottom does inter­act with his read­ers, so if you want to jump into the story, you’re per­fectly able to do so.  Just start post­ing com­ments.  Make up a char­ac­ter for your­self if you like.  I’m not sure who my com­menters are because of the aliases, and it’s a blast to read what they have to say on things.

I hope you enjoy!