Playing around with a couple of applications, it's occurred to me recently how I might do some justice to a Darwin's Laureate reboot.
Not that it'll be a "reboot" in a traditional sense, I'm thinking more of a DVD/torrent. A labor of love, which if I had the money I'd hire some decent voice acting.
In all truth, I dislike the idea of a mainline story compilation as it once had been. Even the psuedo-sequel / "direct approach" left the audience wondering what was going on.
Because of the nature of the project--an organically grown mess, in best of terms, it can be a hard concept to grasp.
And really, the reason is because it was never supposed to be so "finite." So...collected, easily spotted, understood to be a function of fiction. The HubPages run was a test, and in all truth--if I had nothing else to do in life, I'd be running around trying to secure different elements to make the whole vision happen.
Those are my true feelings.
I want to create something so massive, between an alternate reality game and classical story line, that it is literally beyond my means at this point. Money, I don't believe is the biggest factor, either.
Strategy and solid story is the biggest hurdle. But when you're trying to feed your audience through so many angles--twitter updates, random youtube uploads, blog articles, facebook accounts....when all of this is going on, how do you exactly formulate a long-range story line crafted around several types of media? That's the biggest hurdle.
But....the DVD thing, might be a fun little exercise. Because of it's nature, however, it can never become a viable commercial product---too much licensing issues.
We'll see.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Friday, April 30, 2010
How to Win a Thousand Internets, and More
Hello,
Recently G|M has been on a techie kick, probably because of some experimenting with technology and getting remote desktop stuff going for his company. The quest for knowledge has interesting side quests.
At any rate, posting an interesting article to HubPages entitled How to Win a Thousand Internets was pulled for a couple of days. He hosted it locally on his computer until it was restored by HP. They fear AdSense would complain, but judging by the ads I don't think so. It shows you how easy WEP is to crack. Soon, they'll be a followup with good tips, and also more in-depth to protecting your home network.
In other news, I've been fiddling around. Because of electricity around here, I think my computer has begun to bite it a bit. Well, at least we haven't had a fire.
On that note, I'm busy slowly constructing a new machine, though I just may upgrade this one. The high end video card bit it the other day, which means making video is not as easy as it could be, even with the speed of the processors.
It'll get better again, eventually. It'll be cheaper, too.
At any rate, writing is....haphazard. Look out for some new Hubs from each of us, soon.
Until our next intersection in space-time,
lxxy
Recently G|M has been on a techie kick, probably because of some experimenting with technology and getting remote desktop stuff going for his company. The quest for knowledge has interesting side quests.
At any rate, posting an interesting article to HubPages entitled How to Win a Thousand Internets was pulled for a couple of days. He hosted it locally on his computer until it was restored by HP. They fear AdSense would complain, but judging by the ads I don't think so. It shows you how easy WEP is to crack. Soon, they'll be a followup with good tips, and also more in-depth to protecting your home network.
In other news, I've been fiddling around. Because of electricity around here, I think my computer has begun to bite it a bit. Well, at least we haven't had a fire.
On that note, I'm busy slowly constructing a new machine, though I just may upgrade this one. The high end video card bit it the other day, which means making video is not as easy as it could be, even with the speed of the processors.
It'll get better again, eventually. It'll be cheaper, too.
At any rate, writing is....haphazard. Look out for some new Hubs from each of us, soon.
Until our next intersection in space-time,
lxxy
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Vindows Veel torture Vu, and more
Hello Humans,
Tis I, the irreverent and largely irrelevant androgynoid of noise.
G|M has made a move from Rancho Santa (let's all have a) Margarita to Dana Point. It's a beautiful view, I assure. With this move came the reconnection of all our hardware, and a fervent need to make up for lost time and install a new edition of Ubuntu.
A clear upgrade path, in semi-normal-english, from the version he had to the latest and greatest was not possible. Undaunted, he went to transpose the new software anyway. Obviously, like most said, it wouldn't work. Boohoo.
Not a problem, though, for he backed everything up to his external hard drive and jumped to the rarely used Windows to make sure everything would be kosher for a new clean re-install. To his dismay, while Windows was cleaning up the main hard drive (read: defragging) it kept loving to access said external hard drive.
Ever aware and looking to not see a hard drive fail due to some irrational attention given to it by Windows, he opted the "safely remove device" route that Windows presents it's self so the hard drive wouldn't be needlessly tortured by being constantly scanned.
Err...bad idea. In theory, this ability to stop the hardware safely and sanely works. In real world experience, it doesn't always, but he's never had a problem with it as far as external hard drives went.
When everything was ready for the Ubuntu install he dutifully rebooted and installed with no hitches, only to find out it saw but didn't like reading his external drive. Trying to understand as to why he booted back into Windows where the problem was more pronounced..ie, it
didn't recognize that it was even connected.
Fiddling and fiddling away, finally it mounted and a check disk was ran. This would only contribute to the problem because now all data that could have fit on the hard drive had been copied from the old and turned every file it could fill up into a .CHK.
MP3s, pictures, texts, programs, you name it. He tried for days to sort through the mess, but would find that NO check file could possibly be his collection of lyrics, poems, and odd short stories he had begun writing years ago.
In short...everything is gone, unintelligible, and useless. It stung the first couple of days, but now he feels more free. The only drawback is music that was in the process of being recorded has been set back, and so many fun little samples, VST instruments, plugins, pictures, and various other media have died in this horrible tragedy.
Undaunted, progress will continue to be made in reorganizing and setting back up the software side again. Will he ever learn to back up more adequately next time?
Yes, yes he will.
In other news, it's been 12 months since G|M has joined HubPages. And he's spilling the beans on much of it! The adventure so far has two parts, and more are being ironed out as time, patience, and attention span allows.
Part I
Part II
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to research some video editing software, gimp with some pictures, and work on cheeky animation. Probably not in that order, nor in a contiguous time frame.
Until our next intersection in space-time,
lxxy
Tis I, the irreverent and largely irrelevant androgynoid of noise.
G|M has made a move from Rancho Santa (let's all have a) Margarita to Dana Point. It's a beautiful view, I assure. With this move came the reconnection of all our hardware, and a fervent need to make up for lost time and install a new edition of Ubuntu.
A clear upgrade path, in semi-normal-english, from the version he had to the latest and greatest was not possible. Undaunted, he went to transpose the new software anyway. Obviously, like most said, it wouldn't work. Boohoo.
Not a problem, though, for he backed everything up to his external hard drive and jumped to the rarely used Windows to make sure everything would be kosher for a new clean re-install. To his dismay, while Windows was cleaning up the main hard drive (read: defragging) it kept loving to access said external hard drive.
Ever aware and looking to not see a hard drive fail due to some irrational attention given to it by Windows, he opted the "safely remove device" route that Windows presents it's self so the hard drive wouldn't be needlessly tortured by being constantly scanned.
Err...bad idea. In theory, this ability to stop the hardware safely and sanely works. In real world experience, it doesn't always, but he's never had a problem with it as far as external hard drives went.
When everything was ready for the Ubuntu install he dutifully rebooted and installed with no hitches, only to find out it saw but didn't like reading his external drive. Trying to understand as to why he booted back into Windows where the problem was more pronounced..ie, it
didn't recognize that it was even connected.
Fiddling and fiddling away, finally it mounted and a check disk was ran. This would only contribute to the problem because now all data that could have fit on the hard drive had been copied from the old and turned every file it could fill up into a .CHK.
MP3s, pictures, texts, programs, you name it. He tried for days to sort through the mess, but would find that NO check file could possibly be his collection of lyrics, poems, and odd short stories he had begun writing years ago.
In short...everything is gone, unintelligible, and useless. It stung the first couple of days, but now he feels more free. The only drawback is music that was in the process of being recorded has been set back, and so many fun little samples, VST instruments, plugins, pictures, and various other media have died in this horrible tragedy.
Undaunted, progress will continue to be made in reorganizing and setting back up the software side again. Will he ever learn to back up more adequately next time?
Yes, yes he will.
In other news, it's been 12 months since G|M has joined HubPages. And he's spilling the beans on much of it! The adventure so far has two parts, and more are being ironed out as time, patience, and attention span allows.
Part I
Part II
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to research some video editing software, gimp with some pictures, and work on cheeky animation. Probably not in that order, nor in a contiguous time frame.
Until our next intersection in space-time,
lxxy
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Greetings!
Hello everyone out there,
Tis I, the reclusive G|M. It's been almost ten months since I signed up for HubPages and began posting various things there, and what a ride it has been. It's an interesting site for quickly publishing articles with a guarantee of some readership and camaraderie, and I hope to always have a special place for it in my thoughts.
As it stands right now I am undergoing the process of revamping and retooling Inverse//Reverse. The novel, which many of loved it's progression and parts thus far has come to the point where I am comfortable with the characters and world set (as it's been within me for years) but I feel I am making a fatal flaw in how it jumps around, how the characters interact, etc.
In short, I'm going to slow it down. One of the pitfalls with I//R is that it's YATVN, or rather, Yet Another Teen Vampire Novel. On the surface only, however.
The fact is as often as I do there are certain expectations I have for myself and it's production values, as much as one can say words on paper require much 'production' other than the mad penmanship of anyone interested enough to write away.
It's hard to directly define what these goals are, because I don't quite know the whole story myself other than:
Other than the fact it could distract the reader and lend me laziness, embedded screens within text is far off from being a standard author's tool. I don't have the kind of money CBS lost on their ad in Entertainment Weekly, either.
In short, those of you familiar with my use of other media within my writing may be surprised, depending on this little side quest...HTML5 has just loomed it's head and I'm wondering a few things.
But of course, it's a novel. It's a novel that needs to have the nuts and bolts, and lay down the foundation for a kitchen sink that is it's sequel. Slowly, I'm trying to wrap my head around the concepts I'm trying to present to readers at large.
What are those concepts? Well, we'll see how it goes. Because I'm pushing myself here, and I've a lot of homework yet to be done. If I wanted to write mind grease I could continue on with what I have, hoping to improve the "underpennings" of the text heretofore already generated.
That said, don't expect a large change from the direction the draft has taken it. Those of you who have come to love Josh and his world, you'll only feel more in-tune with him.
Soon enough I'll be posting more to HP, but lxxy is on the lay low as I continue with I//R.
Wish me luck, I'll be around when I can.
And of course---HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Tis I, the reclusive G|M. It's been almost ten months since I signed up for HubPages and began posting various things there, and what a ride it has been. It's an interesting site for quickly publishing articles with a guarantee of some readership and camaraderie, and I hope to always have a special place for it in my thoughts.
As it stands right now I am undergoing the process of revamping and retooling Inverse//Reverse. The novel, which many of loved it's progression and parts thus far has come to the point where I am comfortable with the characters and world set (as it's been within me for years) but I feel I am making a fatal flaw in how it jumps around, how the characters interact, etc.
In short, I'm going to slow it down. One of the pitfalls with I//R is that it's YATVN, or rather, Yet Another Teen Vampire Novel. On the surface only, however.
The fact is as often as I do there are certain expectations I have for myself and it's production values, as much as one can say words on paper require much 'production' other than the mad penmanship of anyone interested enough to write away.
It's hard to directly define what these goals are, because I don't quite know the whole story myself other than:
- The reader will want to learn more about some key concepts (related to the overall story)
- It will be presented in the best format possible digitally
Other than the fact it could distract the reader and lend me laziness, embedded screens within text is far off from being a standard author's tool. I don't have the kind of money CBS lost on their ad in Entertainment Weekly, either.
In short, those of you familiar with my use of other media within my writing may be surprised, depending on this little side quest...HTML5 has just loomed it's head and I'm wondering a few things.
But of course, it's a novel. It's a novel that needs to have the nuts and bolts, and lay down the foundation for a kitchen sink that is it's sequel. Slowly, I'm trying to wrap my head around the concepts I'm trying to present to readers at large.
What are those concepts? Well, we'll see how it goes. Because I'm pushing myself here, and I've a lot of homework yet to be done. If I wanted to write mind grease I could continue on with what I have, hoping to improve the "underpennings" of the text heretofore already generated.
That said, don't expect a large change from the direction the draft has taken it. Those of you who have come to love Josh and his world, you'll only feel more in-tune with him.
Soon enough I'll be posting more to HP, but lxxy is on the lay low as I continue with I//R.
Wish me luck, I'll be around when I can.
And of course---HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Standstill
It's been awhile, so here's a few things:
"Ejection," a crazy-ass way of retiring lxxy has ended with "Salvation."
The thing is, I'm not retired. I'm just going into hibernation, now that I gots me a new body. It's great to have flesh again, I forgot what it was like!
My previous host, G|M is currently enraptured with his Misses, but he's blogging here/there via HubPages as time allows.
Beneath, Between, Beyond as well as Generique Studios is currently down and unreachable.
It's been a long strange year, even as it comes to a closing..we'll be remarking about it soon.
But as the Winter comes, our hibernation seems imminent.
Even the flagship novel is going through some re-tooling.
"Ejection," a crazy-ass way of retiring lxxy has ended with "Salvation."
The thing is, I'm not retired. I'm just going into hibernation, now that I gots me a new body. It's great to have flesh again, I forgot what it was like!
My previous host, G|M is currently enraptured with his Misses, but he's blogging here/there via HubPages as time allows.
Beneath, Between, Beyond as well as Generique Studios is currently down and unreachable.
It's been a long strange year, even as it comes to a closing..we'll be remarking about it soon.
But as the Winter comes, our hibernation seems imminent.
Even the flagship novel is going through some re-tooling.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
This Just In...
Well, today I spent the day getting the studio back together.
Oh, and making this:
Don't forget to click "HD" to get a slightly better sound quality.
There's more, yes, of course...but it's just not ready for the limelight.
Until our next intersection in space-time,
lxxy
Oh, and making this:
Don't forget to click "HD" to get a slightly better sound quality.
There's more, yes, of course...but it's just not ready for the limelight.
Until our next intersection in space-time,
lxxy
heLP MD
My first LP as alienUplink is my last, I am no longer looking to create long winded collection of songs. Instead, they will be short and sweet--issues of a proverbial audio magazine.
The Dreams of Humanity begin recording soon...
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