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Patron Names Added to Credits; Removing $1 Tier
The new Down the Rabbit Hole is now only about a day from completion, and all of the patron names have been added to the credits. It will release either Wednesday or Thursday, assuming that YouTube plays nicely. If you pledged before yesterday evening, then your name will be in the credits of the ne...
Progress Update: 10/23/20
This will be the final progress update before the new Down the Rabbit Hole release next week, assuming that YouTube plays nice.Arcaxon, the graphic designer, has just completed all of his animations for the new video. Now, the only thing to do is to edit everything together, which is coming along qu...
[MAJOR SPOILERS] Graphic Designer Update: 10/11/20
[Note from Fredrik: The above clip is without music, but it will be present in the final cut of the video.]Hi Patrons, It's me the Graphic Designer, Christopher(Arcaxon); So remember last update when I said I was half way done?Yeah I lied, not that I meant to, this being my first time doing most...
September Audiobook: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This is one of my favorite poems, and I hope you'll enjoy it, too. Happy 30th audiobook!
Progress Update: 9/29/20
We're in the final stages of creating this video. Right now, Ryan is finishing up the last of the music, and Arcaxon needs just a bit more time to create the graphic design. What he's making is remarkably intricate, and so he's going to need a bit longer than what we were expecting. Whil...
Progress Update: 9/25/20
With the narration done, I'm now cutting all of the sections together and sending them off to Ryan and Arc to have the music and animations fit to them. Since there's so much narration, this process will likely take another couple of days, but I'm able to keep up with the work that they&...
Progress Update: 9/23/20
The narration for the new Down the Rabbit Hole is now complete. My current time estimate looking at the narration is approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes, though I could easily be off by 10 minutes.This estimated length is interesting when compared to the Wings video, which was approximately 2 hours...
Final Draft of Script for New DtRH is Complete
Just a quick update to let you all know. Recording of the final narration begins Tuesday, besides the intro which I recorded this afternoon and sent to Ryan so he could get just a few more clipsfrom our vocalist.Final word count is 19,592 words. For reference, the Wings of Redemption video was about...
Composer Update: 9/12/20
[Note from Fredrik: if you decide to only listen to a bit of the sample, the synth that Ryan uses at about 1:55 is my personal favorite part]Hi everyone, Ryan again,I wanted to show off a little bit of the music, and in the audio file you can hear a few examples at various stages of completion.Like ...
[MODERATE SPOILERS] | Graphic Design Update 9/8/20
[Be advised: this progress update contains moderate spoilers for the topic; while the precise topic itself isn't revealed, the general area of focus will be, so if you are looking to go into the new video completely fresh, it may be best to skip this update. The last update was written by Ryan P...
Composer Update: 9/6/20
Hi everyone,Something a little different with a music department update.Thank you to all those who responded to my request for musicians and thank you to everyone for their support. I will get in touch with everyone who responded to the survey after the new episode is finished.The new episode will f...
Progress Update: 9/3/20
The script is coming along quickly, and it should be ready in the next couple of days. (I know I've said this before, but this time I'm much more certain) The most difficult parts are well behind me. However, this script has become an Everest that grows; where I once thought it would be half...
August Audiobook: "My Father's Dragon" by Ruth Stiles Gannett
This is a little different: this is a children's book with which I grew up, and I thought that I'd share it all with you while I try my hand at narrating children's literature. Enjoy.
Progress Update: 8/25/20
I knew that this script would be long, but I didn't suspect how long when I began it. I aim to finish the script some time in the next week, but by the time I do, it seems likely that it will be novella-length (>17,000 words), and the information contained in it is remarkably thick. As the scrip...
Down the Rabbit Hole is Looking for Instrumentalists
As Down the Rabbit Hole and the Patreon continues to grow, Ryan and I are constantly looking for ways to improve it and make it a more engaging and engrossing experience. One of the best decisions I made was to bring on Ryan to compose original music, and as time has passed, I've given him more ...
Progress Update 8/15/20 + What's Coming
The most difficult part of the script is finished, but it's already massive. It likely will be 1.5 to 2 hours long, but there will be perhaps only one or two spaces given over to source footage. The rest will all be narration. This is in contrast to the Wings video, of which approximately half w...
Progress Update: 8/7/20
Notes:Hard part of the script is doneScript is going to be massiveRyan has been writing music as the script is written and will fit it to the final narration when it's recordedVisual art from Anton Oxenuk is finished and all is incredibly beautiful. Prints will be for sale by Anton when the vide...
4th Anniversary Celebration
August 8th, 2020 marks the 4-year anniversary of my very first Down the Rabbit Hole video on Digital Homicide Studios. Seeing that the new video is just around the corner as well, I thought it would be fun to have a group viewing session on the Patreon Discord where we watch my old, first video toge...
July Audiobook: The Iliad by Homer
This is just some of the first book of The Iliad. I rather enjoy Fagles's translation, it makes the poem extremely accessible. Enjoy!
800,000 Subscribers
Subscribers are a funny thing on YouTube. In practice, they don't do terribly much for most channels, but they're a little different for me. I never ask people to subscribe, and I never ask people to pledge to my Patreon, but you're all here anyways, and that makes both subscriber and Pa...
Progress Update: 7/14/20
Above: Work-in-progress of painting by Anton Oxenuk. The finished version will appear in the new Down the Rabbit Hole.Notes:Research is done, script is underway, everyone involved with the video is working hard to get their part done.
Progress Update: 7/2/20
Notes:EXTRA BIT I FORGOT: There is a fifth person returning from the Austrian Wine Poisoning episode, DereineSchwarzeRabe, who is also making art.Link to song by vocalist: https://rachelnicholas.bandcamp.com/track/ghostResearch just needs a couple more daysThe song serving as the centerpiece for the...
June Audiobook: "Trial by Combat" by Shirley Jackson
This story from 1944 is excellent and enduring; while lacking the dynamic circumstances present in most "darker" media, this one left an impression on me that hasn't left for some time. I hope you'll enjoy it.Intro/Outro music by Ryan Probert
Progress Update: 6/14/20
SPOILER HEAVY UPDATEI found it nearly impossible to give you all a proper progress update without spoiling some of the next video, so listeners beware. I don't give away the topic directly, but I do give away the general subject.
Progress Update: 5/19/20
Notes:Research began almost immediately after the last videoReading two books for this one, one that hasn't arrived yetI have a few other projects that I can't talk about yet, some because they're under NDA.I'll let you know once I'm done with the first book, it's about 300 p...
Austrian Wine Poisoning: Q&A Question Collection
This Q&A is going to be a bit different: this time, rather than doing it all myself, I'm going to have my research assistant and translator, DerEineSchwarzeRabe (or simply Vex), joining me. They're an Austrian native, and while they were born some time after the scandal, they do live in wine...
April Audiobook: Wine Scandal by Fritz Hallgarten
This reading comes from a book that I purchased for research into the newest Down the Rabbit Hole topic. While this book wasn't about the Austrian wine scandal in particular, it did have much useful information, and some of the stories he tells are fascinating, enough so that I saw fit to share ...
Progress Update: 4/26/20
Notes:Research has begun, I'm ordering a book for it and have gathered articles and contemporary footage through which to dig.
