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Where I’ll Be: Escape Velocity 2019

By Bjorn Munson | February 20, 2019February 19, 2019 by Bjorn Munson

Last week, I got confirmation that Jabberwocky Audio Theater has a thumbs up to do a live performance at the Museum of Science Fiction‘s annual science-expo-meets-pop-culture-convention, Escape Velocity! Escape Velocity 2019 Promo from Museum of Science Fiction on Vimeo. We had a chance to do a live performance of War of the Worlds last year which was well received (and a lot of fun to do as well). We don’t know the exact date and time of our performance –it’ll be…

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In Case You Want to Misbehave

By Bjorn Munson | February 18, 2019February 18, 2019 by Bjorn Munson

A lot of my efforts these past few months have been working on building the audience for Jabberwocky Audio Theater. Frankly, a great way to do that is with a giveaway. As recipients of the JAT Mailing List know, JAT is running a second giveaway during this “pledge drive period” between our seasons. This time, we’re focusing on Firefly, which more than a few listeners have compared my space opera, Rogue Tyger to. What can…

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Choose Your Own Theater Adventure

By Bjorn Munson | February 12, 2019February 12, 2019 by Bjorn Munson

I’ve enjoyed more interactive theater for a long time, whether it’s traditional audience response (applause/boos/hisses) or more modern breaking of the fourth wall or simply the immediacy of staging a show “in the round.” I’ve often thought about staging a play for our local Fringe festival whose outcome is decided by the audience… perhaps after they’ve weighed in on several decision points. I thought about those ideas again when I read a piece by Alysia…

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We’re All Mad Marketers Here

By Bjorn Munson | January 28, 2019January 28, 2019 by Bjorn Munson

While this is really more of a Team Jabberwocky thing, specifically Jabberwocky Audio Theater, it’s time to put on my marketing hat which is, by its very nature, mad! Regular readers may recall that we did a Doctor Who giveaway last year and we’ll do a few more this year: all to help build an audience for Jabberwocky Audio Theater. You may also remember that I’ve occasionally mentioned the work of Russell Nohelty on behalf…

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Real Princesses Roll for Initiative

By Bjorn Munson | January 10, 2019January 9, 2019 by Bjorn Munson

If your 2019 has been bereft of geeky, geeky mashups thus far, have we got the video for you! Behold: nearly all the Disney princesses playing D&D (with Belle as DM, which just makes sense). In case you not only like it, but love it, they apparently have a crowdfunding campaign going through February.

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This Year, Resolve to Make Art

By Bjorn Munson | January 7, 2019October 1, 2020 by Bjorn Munson

I thought I had already posted this article by Sean Kane from 2016, but evidently I hadn’t. So go ahead and read up on seven darn good scientifically-backed reasons why you should make art even if you’re not “any good” at it. A perfect example of simply making art is Inktober, an annual event to do an ink drawing every day during October. I did this with my son –and moms and dads reading this,…

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I, for one, don’t welcome our net ‘bot overlords…

By Bjorn Munson | January 4, 2019December 31, 2018 by Bjorn Munson

Though from reading Max Read’s piece in New York magazine, it’s kind of moot whether I welcome them or not: a huge portion of the Internet is fake. I mean, it’s not that it’s a huge surprise that the Internet is full of automation to simulate traffic for ad revenue purposes, engage people for some Machiavellian monetization motives, or otherwise amplify some ill-conceived echo chambers… But it’s depressing to have it validated to such a…

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All that Glitters is not Gold

By Bjorn Munson | January 2, 2019December 31, 2018 by Bjorn Munson

You’re just going to have to trust me on this one: go read Caity Weaver’s in-depth exploration on the history of glitter. You’ll get caught up in it much like glitter grabs ahold of you and never lets go.

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After a 21-year Pause, More Art Enters Public Domain

By Bjorn Munson | December 31, 2018August 5, 2019 by Bjorn Munson

2019 will bring many things, both planned and unplanned… but one of the planned events is one I had forgotten until people started circulating an article from the Smithsonian magazine by Glenn Fleishman: a mass of copyrights is expiring putting books, poems, music, films, and other art into the public domain. This is very exciting, and not just because Jabberwocky Audio Theater will happily adapt 1920s sci-fi and adventure material as it did from H.G.…

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The Bookstore is Dead. Long Live the Bookstore!

By Bjorn Munson | December 28, 2018December 27, 2018 by Bjorn Munson

One of the biggest issues plaguing independent entrepreneurial creators (authors, artists, filmmakers, etc.) would be how to find an audience — and even if that nut is well and truly cracked: how do you maintain or even grow it? That’s a topic for many another post, but amid forums and social media I follow where people discuss the topic, there’s the inevitable discussion of what Faustian bargain should be made with Amazon, the everything store…

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Where I’ll Be: Escape Velocity 2019

In Case You Want to Misbehave

Choose Your Own Theater Adventure

We’re All Mad Marketers Here

Real Princesses Roll for Initiative

This Year, Resolve to Make Art

I, for one, don’t welcome our net ‘bot overlords…

All that Glitters is not Gold

After a 21-year Pause, More Art Enters Public Domain

The Bookstore is Dead. Long Live the Bookstore!