Posts Tagged ‘roundbottom’

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

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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!

On Roundbottom

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

What is the res­o­lu­tion of your desk­top?  800x600? 1024x768? 1280x1024? 1920x1200?  Or some­thing else?  I am try­ing to deter­mine in which res­o­lu­tions to make Dr. Roundbottom desk­top images available.

I just fin­ished a new image for an upcom­ing piece which I believe turned out quite well.  Back to some macro work on that.

I still need to write Monday’s post.  I know what hap­pens. I just haven’t writ­ten it out yet in Roundbottom’s style.  And we’re hop­ing to have the first pod­cast up as next week’s upload.  I am super pleased with the work Nate, my sound guy, has done on it so far.  I have a script and we will be lay­ing down voice tracks soon.  Yes indeed, you will soon get to hear what Roundbottom and Miss Watkins sound like!

On a less happy note, the read­er­ship num­bers for Roundbottom have been pretty ter­ri­ble. I put a tremen­dous, mas­sive amount of effort into the site and fewer than 100 peo­ple are check­ing it out. I’ll prob­a­bly keep doing it so long as I find it inter­est­ing, but I have no illu­sions about much of any­one lik­ing the project.  Those of you who do read it, I thank you.

New Roundbottom: To Bind a Steam Wraith

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

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

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

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.

An Update on Doctor Roundbottom

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

Just a quick note–I’ve decided to move the Roundbottom updates to Mondays.  I think Sunday updates results in fewer read­ers.  We’ll see if Monday does any bet­ter for me.

New Roundbottom: The Escape

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

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.

A Call for First Readers

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

I’m look­ing for 3–4 indi­vid­u­als who would be will­ing to review the new Roundbottom posts before I make them live on the site.  I need fresh eyes that can catch bad sen­tences, stu­pid gram­mar, stu­pid any­thing really.  Without an edi­tor in the process, I worry about pub­lish­ing some really sub­par.  I’m less con­cerned with sto­ry­telling con­ven­tions, as this project is an exper­i­ment in dif­fer­ent meth­ods there–but any­one inter­ested in pro­vid­ing me feed­back, shoot me an email.  I’ll take the first few peo­ple inter­ested.  Thank you in advance.

Clockpunk​.com Open for Beta Viewing

Posted on: by Jeremiah Tolbert

The new Roundbottom site is now com­plete enough that I have taken it live on the domain. I’ve been at work on this redesign for quite some time now. There are prob­a­bly bugs… and don’t even bother look­ing at it with any­thing less than IE 7. Also, the site requires Javascript and Flash.

Bang away on it, and let me know what seems weird. I’ll try to get it fixed.

New con­tent will go live on Sunday, and will con­tinue to go live with new posts once a week until I run out again, but I have a nice sto­ry­line ready to go that should last into August.

Explore, and let me know what you think.