Okay, here is my plan based on your feedback. (thank you for that, by the way!)
I think for now I'm going to release a bunch of chapters, but not all of them. Hopefully enough to get people to subscribe to this Patreon.
Hopefully, that will get more people listening here.
When the whole thing is finished (years from now) I'll put it onsale.
Above is an example of the Youtub...
Patreon is very wonderful, and thanks to you guys we are making progress with all kinds of projects I just would not have had time for without your support.
THANK YOU!
By far the biggest undertaking of them all is "The Airship Pirate Chronicles". With a 15 person cast, and maybe 30 hours of total playback time, this has just been a HUGE undertaking, and I think its coming along amazi...
2017-04-04 18:15:56 +0000 UTC View Post"BLOWING OFF STEAM: ANACHRONOMICON MIX!"
Steampunk has changed a lot since the early days. At the beginning, it was a lot of edgy artists in tiny little clubs, doing all this super cool stuff. Ariel's, iron sculptures, vaudevillian music, etc. This was before it became the fodder for reality shows, "I'm dressing as a steampunk for halloween!", and corporate marketing platforms. Not there t...
2017-04-02 23:31:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I just want to thank you all for subscribing to this Patreon! This has been the most amazing thing for Abney Park. We received the first payment from Patreon this month, and the first thing we did with the money it was replace the furnace in our house. Our old furnace it actually went out about six months ago, and we couldn't afford to get a new one. Yes, we went the whole winter with no heat...a...
2017-03-23 23:04:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the next installment of the Airship Pirate Chronicles. Chapters 3 and 4.
Also attached is downloadable mp3s of every chapter released to date.
This is another illustration from The Airship Pirate Chronicals. Robert finds Timony in the ruins of the fallen city.
2017-03-18 00:51:56 +0000 UTC View Post
This is an exclusive early release just for our Patreon Subscribers. Although you can show this video to your friends, and family, this won't be listed for the public until later this month. This is just for you, our loyal subsribers.
Ripples Of Epiphany
He walked into the the bedroom,
and the light fell warmly around
spar...
2017-03-15 00:14:03 +0000 UTC View PostToday, thanks to the extra time you Patreon patrons have given me, I've started work on a new music video for one of My Favorite Abney Park songs, "ripples of epiphany". I've always envisioned a music video for this that featured fine art being painted based on the scenes that you're hearing described in the song. I think I've got a technique for making that art look like it's being painted, w...
2017-03-13 00:44:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the song Gimme A Reason.
It all started with a concept I had, while sitting on a plane. A stewardess was giving the little safety lesson, and at the same time I was watching this horrid mom across the isle yelling at her kid. She looked beaten by life, poor, angry, disappointed, sad, and she was taking it out on her kid.
She said something like, "all the things I give u...
2017-03-10 19:32:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Since starting production on this audio drama for The Airship Pirate Chronicals, I've been finding myself more and more sucked back into that world, which has been wonderful.
One of the things I'm enjoying is doing the color work on the illustration that Juan Pablo Valdecantos Anfuso did for my novel series. Not sure what I'm going to do with them, maybe you have an idea?
In t...
For your fourth free song, I'm giving you the title song of our latest album, "Under The Floor, Over The Wall".
When I wrote this song, I had an interesting goal. Fans often talk about liking "story songs", but when I think of the story songs I know, they aren't really stories at all. A story has to have a protagonist, and challenge of some sort, the protagonists effort...
2017-03-06 20:55:36 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, its a brand new month, so its time for new goodies!
I've been absolutely swamped with auditions for the radio play, and I'm just beyond excited with how great this is going to come out. I'll probably have the next chapters by the end of next week, so look forward to that!
As far as other rewards, what do you want?
Free songs: do you want another exclusive release fr...
2017-03-04 21:39:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to Episode one of The Airship Pirate Chronicles!
You can listen to all of Part 1 right here in this window, or download the files and take them with you!
This is part 1 of an epic saga of three novels, we'll be releasing every other week for the next year!
Let me know what you think!
Today, on our Patreon page, the first to chapters of "The Airship Pirate Chronicles Radio Drama" will be released...and I'm very nervous about it. I'm nervous for a couple of reasons. The first is that our Patreon page is shaping up to be very successful. Bringing in an amount of money that will really make our lives relaxed and unstressed, again. It won't make us rich, but it will put us back t...
2017-02-20 17:27:55 +0000 UTC View Post
So, one of the things I want to give you as part of this Patreon, is DIY videos. Here is the first one! Enjoy, and feel free to ask questions! I'm here for you!
2017-02-18 03:11:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Abney Parks new Patreon is going strong!
We are INCHES away from making our first goal, and we've really got a great community of friendly and supportive Abney Park fans that we'd love you to be a part of!
So far, this is what our Patron's have received as rewards for being a part of Abney Parks Patreon:
• 1 exclusive song,
“The Tree ...
2017-02-16 20:40:34 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so, I've got the first three chapters finished, and they sound amazing!
My current plan is to release the first two chapters on Monday. At that point I'll release a couple chapters (20-30 minutes worth) once a month.
HOWEVEr...we are just a couple pledges shy of our first stretch goal, at which point we'll have two releases a month!
Anyway, look for an email to come in Monda...
2017-02-16 19:04:06 +0000 UTC View PostWhen other patreon artists post the free stuff, do they put it in a post like I am doing?
Or is there a better way?
I dont want anybody to miss anything.
:)
"Clockwork Heart"
Doctor please, you gotta help me I'm on my knees
Whenever I see she accepts my love but she, but she cant accept me
She's only pretending to still love me, to still love me
Pull this heart out from my chest
Need a replacement give me your best
Crack open my chest and give it a shove
A clockwork heart so I'll n...
2017-02-14 18:16:33 +0000 UTC View Post
We are currently watching "The Eagle Huntress", a documentary of a young girl who lives in nomadic tribe of eagle hunters. Only men hunt with eagles, but his young girl is driven to become the first Eagle Huntress.
If his isn't soon to become a Disney movie, I'll be shocked. In fact, we are sitting on the sofa singing the subtitles at each other!
♬ Asholpans F...
2017-02-13 17:07:31 +0000 UTC View PostI just decided that I'm going to ad remixes to the growing list of things I'm giving you in Patreon. You see, I'm a work in progress. Often I'll listen back to old songs from many years ago, and think, "that's a great song, but the production quality is terrible!" It makes me positively itch to re-engineer it, but I rarely have a reason to, since I can't resell the old songs. But with Patreon,...
2017-02-13 16:01:58 +0000 UTC View Post
This is "Away From The Things Of Man", the 3rd free song you have received for joining our Patreon Fan Club.
This song fulfilled several goals for me.
The first was that I have wanted to write a song for years around the last phrase spoken in Joe Vs The Volcano, which is one of my favorite films. At the very end, after the were spit out of the volcano (I know, spoilers, but you had s...
2017-02-13 00:59:21 +0000 UTC View PostAre any of you interested in posters as another perk for your Patreon memberships? Here is how that could work best: I'd upload huge resolution files, for you to download. Then you take it to a poster printing site, and order whatever size you want. See, selling posters is always a little iffy, because shipping them to myself, and then out to you, adds a lot to the cost. Plus, you can't get ...
2017-02-12 19:00:39 +0000 UTC View PostI wrote this poem a few weeks ago, when I was feeling scared about the state of the world. Once upon I time I had thought politics can are pointless, because I had no influence, and therefor the only way to live happy is to simply ignore the state of the world, and live right, in isolation. Then I got "famous", and thought I had influence enough to help the world. All I got was a lot of angry ar...
2017-02-12 16:45:20 +0000 UTC View PostI was just reading about what oceanographers call "Whalefall". When a whale dies in the ocean, its body becomes a town for fish, and other creatures, who feed of the carcass and live in it for decades. Being me, I immediately pictured a massive airship crashing in the wastelands, and scavenger folk moving in a making a town out of the wreckage. The town of Whalefall needs to be in my next nove...
2017-02-12 14:43:30 +0000 UTC View PostI want to make sure everybody who subscribes is getting there moneis worth, so each month I'm going to give away several songs to everybody. At least one new never before released song, and a couple songs from our catalog.
Here is one of my absolute favorites from our latest album, this songs called Ripples Of Epiphany.
It's about artists...how there whole careers can be shaped...
2017-02-11 22:30:24 +0000 UTC View PostGold level subscribers, thank you SO MUCH for being our patron! Here is your first download!
The Award Winning...
...Super Amazing RPG...
"AIRSHIP PIRATES"
This is a full color, fully illustrated 300 page roll playing game set in the universe of Abney Parks music and novels.
Typically, this game costs $20 for a download ($59 for the hard back!) but you are...
Taryn Hathaway, and Ted Thompson, you are our first contributors at platinum level and up! This is just so amazing of you, I can't even begin to thank you... At platinum level it up, one of things that you get that nobody else gets, is a free album every month! So here's my question, would it be more fun for me to pick the album? Or would it be more fun for me to just give a download code so y...
2017-02-11 17:35:03 +0000 UTC View PostTaryn Hathaway, at this point you are first captain level subscriber! Wow, just...thank you so much! This is absolutely amazing of you. In addition to all the other cool things you'll get, you get backstage access to concerts, and VIP entrance, etc! So, until I figure out a better system, I think what will do is I'll just give you my cell phone number. ( I mean, hell, your pledging $50 a month...
2017-02-11 17:21:44 +0000 UTC View Post