Posts Tagged ‘Photography’

New Roundbottom Live

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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!

New Roundbottom: To Bind a Steam Wraith

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Another Monday, and another Roundbottom post has gone live over at clock​punk​.com. This week, the good Doctor for­mu­lates a plan to recap­ture the dan­ger­ous wraith.

We’re hard at work around here on more Roundbottom con­tent. The first pod­cast might very well be ready in the next week or two. My sound engi­neer Nate sent me a cou­ple of files over the week­end that were great. The pod­cast is going to have fan­tas­tic engi­neer­ing. Episodes will be short, run­ning only 2–3 min­utes most likely. But those 2–3 min­utes will be packed with aural delights, I tell you.

Dr. Roundbottom needs your help to find his audi­ence. Please con­sider link­ing to the site if you haven’t done so already.

New Roundbottom: Interview with a Steam Rat

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Today, there’s a new Roundbottom image and story live over at clock​punk​.com.  This piece reveals a lot more about the world that Roundbottom lives in and some of the other peo­ple that pop­u­late it.

Also, um… if you wouldn’t mind, and if you like the site, could you link it on your blog per­haps to let oth­ers know that it’s active and being updated again? I would very much appre­ci­ate any eye­balls you can send my way.

Daily Photo: Calling Crow

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A tes­ta­ment to the new camera’s qual­ity. If I had taken this pic­ture with it, none of the detail would have come out. I am very pleased. I just wish I hadn’t got­ten him sit­ting on a power line.

Daily Photo: Calling Crow

Daily Photo: yellow bug

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My week of train­ing is quickly wrap­ping up. I’ll be headed for the air­port here shortly. It’s been a pretty wild ride, and I’m excited about the oppor­tu­ni­ties with the new employer.

Here’s a photo from last week of the smil­ing bug from behind. Not quite as cute, I sup­pose, but I like this one too.

Daily Photo: yellow bug

New Roundbottom: The Escape

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Because I’m going to be in an air­plane when I would nor­mally post the new Roundbottom, I’ve decided to post it this morn­ing so I can make sure that noth­ing buggy hap­pens.   This post kicks off a new multi-​​part sto­ry­line involv­ing the super­nat­ural that I think you will enjoy.   Right now, mem­ber­ships remain closed and the only prints you can buy are the first series images.  The new series of pho­tos will be avail­able as lim­ited edi­tion, signed prints, but I haven’t quite worked out all the kinks there so it’s not open. I hope to have it open soon.  I’ll have the mem­ber­ship option open after I get back from Connecticut.  I just didn’t want any­body to have to wait too long for their goodies.

If you know of a zine or news site that might be inter­ested in the new Roundbottom,  please feel free toThe Escape for­ward the link on at this point.  I haven’t found any major bugs that weren’t expected at this point.  By the way, if you use gra­vatars, they will show up in the com­ments there.  I highly encour­age you to make a steam­punky icon for your­self when com­ment­ing there.  Feel free to com­ment in char­ac­ter.  Create your own per­sona, as many have done in the past.  It’ll be fun! The Dr. will respond to you in char­ac­ter as well.

We’ve got some fan­tas­tic audio engi­neer­ing going into the first pod­cast as well.  I hope to put those out, after an ini­tal roll-​​up, about once every two weeks.  They’re pri­mar­ily going to be Miss Watkins nar­rat­ing, with the ocas­sional grum­ble from Roundbottom him­self.  Remember that Mutual of Omaha show?  Same dynamic in the pod­cast. It’s going to be a blast.

So to recap, the new Roundbottom story is live.  Tell you friends.

Daily Photo: Grasses Green

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Tall grass has the kind of calm­ing effect on me that ocean waves have on coastal peo­ple. I asso­ciate it with tranquility.

Daily Photo: Grasses Green