From DIYbookscanner.org, an inspiring video on the whys of paperbook scanning!
Daniel Reetz – “DIY Book Scanning” from adafruit industries on Vimeo.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Month: March 2012
Mark Douglas Nelson’s Home Studio
Audiobook narrator Mark Douglas Nelson sent in a photo of his recording studio. Here’s how he describes it:
You can’t see the electronics behind the music stand, but there’s an Apogee Duet interface and PreSonus BlueTube preamp back there. Until very recently I printed out all my copy, but now I’ve been experimenting with reading off an iPad (a used, first-generation model I got on discount). The mic’s an MXL VO-1A “Harlan Hogan”. The laptop is a MacBook Pro with an aftermarket SSD. The walls are double-wall sheetrock with “Green Glue” soundproofing gunk in-between.
His latest narration is a Bill Pronzini short story collection that’s just gone up on Audible.com, it’s entitled Night Freight.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Red Nails by Robert E. Howard – an UNABRIDGED audiobook as a YouTube video
Disappointed with the latest Conan movie? Yeah me too.
Here’s my response.
I’ve combined Gregg Margarite‘s narration of Robert E. Howard’s Red Nails with the original illustrations from its serialization in Weird Tales. It’s CONAN, it’s awesome storytelling, and it’s available in HD!
Posted by Jesse Willis
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (audiobook on YouTube)
Mark Nelson’s unabridged narration of A Princess Of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs is available as a set of three YouTube videos:
The uploader, CC Prose, has done something interesting here by combining LibriVox audiobooks with the printed text. I like it!
Posted by Jesse Willis
Sci-Fi Radio Theater: The Ba Gua Etuis Box (a “sci-fi murder mystery involving robots”)
Sci-Fi Radio Theater is “the brain child of international internet man Charles Davis and opera singer Josie Corichi.” Here’s their mission statement:
To produce high quality original fiction radio play podcasts that fall within the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres.
Why Sci-Fi? Because it’s what we like and it’s what we know. At SFRT we are huge personal fans of this genre of story telling and we feel that we have more to offer to the science fiction community than being observers. Our drive is to be active participants in the creation of original Science Fiction stories.
Why a Radio Play Podcast? Because the greatest imagery that exists is within your own mind. We believe that by delivering these stories in an audio format we allow the listener to be taken to a far deeper and more complex world than we would be able to offer through video.
Another reason is the freedom of length. One of the joys of a science fiction story is the depth and detail you are able to get into. By presenting these radio plays as a podcast we are able to tell a story as long as it naturally takes to tell.
The only question I have is whether the narrator is intentionally doing a Bill Hollweg impersonation.
Posted by Jesse Willis
The SFFaudio Podcast #019 on YouTube
First podcast January 5, 2009.
Featuring the very first appearance of Julie Davis, of the Forgotten Classics podcast (and now the A Good Story Is Hard To Find podcast)!
HERE are the shownotes.
Posted by Jesse Willis