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About Nuchtchas

Self proclaimed Artist, Dreamer, RolePlayer, The Podcast NINJA!, Gamer, Klingon, Walking Corruption and Geek Queen, Nuchtchas is the owner and operator of NIMLAS Studios with the life goal of highlighting the awesome and good in the world and to spread the love of all things geek!

Dragon*Cant: Cover Art Panel – How to visually represent your audio project

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Nutty Bites and The Weird Show cover art shows how to get your brand and your show idea across to all platforms

September 2nd, 2012 I held a panel (Google Hangout) in conjunction with Dragon*Cant, How to visually represent your audio project.  Below is the full video with the tutorial and discussion, in addition to the dos and don’ts you will be able to see a demonstration of Photoshop and GIMP, two of the most popular image editing programs out there.  One is free (GIMP) and anyone can use it, and one costs butt loads of money and needs a lot of skill to learn.  In the video I also cover some other image editing choices.

For the TL;DR crowd:

Do’s:

  • Include your brand.
  • Show name, episode title, and episode number.
  • Make sure to post your album art in both the mp3 file AND in your blog post so facebook and google plus will generate an image preview to the episode link.
  • Make two sizes of your art, 1400×1400 for iTunes and smaller for your webpage.
  • Make your art square.
  • Have you art relevant to the topic of the episode.
  • Ask for help.
  • Use the same image style and brand on your website, your facebook page/group, your G+ profile, twitter account, and all other forms of social media.

Don’ts

  • use bizarre color combinations
  • get in over your head (if you have little knowledge with image editing, don’t buy photoshop, start simple)
  • ignore cover art
  • ignore social media sites, you need to get your podcast in people’s faces, that starts with the cover art that links to the website.

Do you have tips or suggestions to add to this?  Please leave it in the comments, thank you.

Nutty Bites 32

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It’s hot thanks to it being summer so I recorded this at the radio station in sweet, sweet air conditioning. (oh and I call Nathan Lowell a jerk… for being so talented)

My goal was to make a shorter episode, I ended up failing at that, sorry folks.

I heard it on Twitter

What I’m Watching:

  • Life on Mars (US & UK)
  • Being Human UK
  • Bedlam UK
  • Dark Knight Rises
  • The Olympics

What I’m I listening to:

What I’m Playing:

  • Smallworld
  • ZOMBIES!!!
  • Fiasco
  • (ArtRage – not a game but an iPad app)
  • Arkham Horror & Settlers of Catan (mentioned)

Bumpers:

  • Scott Roche
  • Mark The Encaffeinated One Killfoil
  • LuLuBizou
  • Mainframe
  • MadPoet Zach Ricks

Promos:

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NIMLAS Studios will be at Dragon*Cant!

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Every year geeks flock to Dragon*Con and WorldCon and many other cons, while more geeks are left at home wishing they could go.  Three years ago a joke on twitter between @BrandG, @SVallie, & @Nlowell became a haven for those of us left out of the con club.  Dragon*Cant, the virtual con, the un con, the all the con with none of the crud has grown and flourished over the past three years.

Through the magic of the internet (Ustream and Google Hangouts) we are able to not just host or attend a panel but to participate in them.  Not only are the panels but meeting in the bar in between panels.  With Twitter and Google hangouts over the next few days you can interact with geeks from all over the world, some your friends, and others friends you haven’t met yet.  Both prior Dragon*Cants have brought me new friends I had never met before and gotten me closer with people I had only just seen on twitter.

Last year I hosted a panel on Pop Art, this year on Sunday, I will be hosting two panels and The Clockwork Doctor (our intrepid GunGeek columnist) will be hosting a panel of his own.

  • Panel: Nutty Debate: Listening to Fiction, or reading fiction, which is better?
    Host: Nuchtchas
    A panel of debaters will discuss the pros and cons or reading from a book vs listening to a podiobook when it comes to fiction.
    Platform: Google+ Hangout
    Starts: 2:00 pm – Ends: 3:00 pm, September 2, 2012 (Eastern Time)
    More details
  • Panel: Our Friend Newton: How real physics should be used in Sci-Fi
    Host: the Clockwork Doctor
    A humorous, geeky panel with the working title of “Our Friend Newton: How real physics should be used in Sci-Fi”.
    Platform: Google+  Hangout
    Starts: 3:00 pm – Ends: 4:00 pm, September 2, 2012 (Eastern Time)
    More details
  • Panel: How to visually represent your audio project
    Host: Nuchtchas
    In this panel we would cover album artwork, the visual aspect to your website, what’s needed in a facebook group/page or google+ page to grab your listeners attention between episodes. If there is time, we will also cover the elements of cover art for prose.
    Platform: Google+ Hangout 
    Starts: 4:00 pm – Ends: 5:00 pm, September 2, 2012 (Eastern Time)
    More detailsYou can find the rest of the schedule at www.dragoncant.com/schedule, follow on twitter @dragoncant, Facebook, and Google+,  and keep checking back as new panels get added every day.  I hope to see you there

Media Review: Written by a Kid

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Most of my readers will be familiar with the Geek & Sundry youtube channel, if you’ve not watched shows on it you’ve had your friends break out a new game they heard about on tabletop or your mother asked you about that steampunk thing you like that Felicia Day vloged about on the FLOG (because of course your mother is just that cool).

When Tabz told me to check out Written by a Kid though, I had my doubts.  I don’t have kids, and while I like kids books and am a bit of a kid myself, I’m often less than impressed by projects focused around ‘They say the darndest things.’  This is anything but that.  They interview a kit, the kid tells them the idea for a story and as the viewer hears about the story we see a visual representation of this story.  Whether it be animation, live action, a mix of both, or played by Joss Whedon and Dave Foley, it’s always fun to see.

You could watch this with your child, or just on your own and get a lot out of it.  Evil robot families, goth babies, a S.Q.U.A.T. team, half vampires taking out pirate witches, what’s not to love?  In addition to the main movies/stories the behind the scenes videos are really interesting.  Normally, I skip behind the scenes videos on youtube, it’s a lot more extra than content, but on this channel they talk about things that are interesting to me, animation, how they got Joss Whedon to perform, painted clothing (I really want to make some and wear it for real), different video effects and a Buffy Mustache.

Enough of me blabbing, go, watch the videos.  Oh and it’s work safe, kid safe and everything safe :)

PS: thanks Tabz for being right again about something I thought sounded like it wasn’t my cup of tea but in the end was right up my alley.