Perpetual projects and daily obsessions.
An exciting tale of audio recording and very tiny screwdrivers.
As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve already begun some preliminary recording work with Tim White, who’s doing all the sound engineering work on the project. I’ve known Tim for years, and we’ve done some recording in the past (mostly for his podcasts, where editing my tangents becomes something of a …
Five days into the kickstarter, we made our baseline funding goals. Here's what's coming next for us, and a quick preview of exciting recording challenges.
That was the comment left by the backer who pushed the Hidden Things audiobook project through the last step to the $1200 goal, only five days after we opened the kickstarter. That’s right: over the weekend, the kickstarter reached the baseline funding goal – no matter what else happens, …
I should win some kind of prize for finishing this book. So depressing.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doycet/hidden-things-audiobook
Watch out for the hidden things… That's the last thing Calliope Jenkins's best friend says to her before ending a two a.m. phone call from Iowa, where he's working a case she knows little about. Seven hours later, she gets a visit from the police. Josh has been found dead, and foul play is suspected. Calliope is stunned. Especially since Josh left a message on her phone an hour after his body was found. Spurred by grief and suspicion, Calli heads to Iowa herself, accompanied by a stranger who claims to know something about what happened to Josh and who can— maybe—help her get him back.
A new Hidden Things audiobook. Available on as many platforms as possible, and airing as a DRM-free podcast in early 2014.
Haiku. When do we want it?
Crunch of fallen leaves.
The names come in, and I think "Hey I know that guy," or "Wow, she dropped in and decided to back it, awesome!"
I don't know everyone, but most of the names I recognize.
On the one hand, there's a chance the whole thing might start to feel like "oh, it's just my friends chipping in to help," but as soon as I have the thought, I realize it conveys the wrong scale.
Yes, I do recognize many of the names backing the project.
They are from my home town, and my home state, and from Washington, and California, and New York, and Florida, and England, and Scotland, and Belgium, and Iceland, and Austrailia, and Germany.
Many – most – I've never met, face to face.
But they are friends.
They are also customers and fans.
In some cases, they are people whose creative work I have backed in the past. I am their fan, and I do a little internal backflip when I see them digging what I'm doing.
And yet, we're friends.
Those names I don't know? By the time this project is done, we're going to be friends, too.
Creators. Customers. Friends. Collaborators. We're all these things, at the same time.
And that is a hell of a remarkable thing.
Please check out the kickstarter. I'd love for you to be involved, too, and we're very, very close to fully funding.
Thanks!
Hidden Things Audiobook
A new Hidden Things audiobook. Available on as many platforms as possible, and airing as a DRM-free podcast in early 2014.
First: fuck you, it's my password, not yours.
Second: your assertion that those guidelines create a good password is bullshit.
As always, there is a relevant XKCD comic.
So I guess the effort to promote the kickstarter went okay.
imgs.xkcd.com/comics/password_strength.png