Have you read Craig Mod's blog? If you want to know about the future of publishing and storytelling, I recommend it. He's one of the smartest and most honest people writing about publishing right now. It's inspiring and informative to read his essays.
He also has an open invitiation to me, you, and all of us to be part of his Explorers Club. Yes, it's a mailing list. Here's how he describes it:
A mailing list — For book-makers, web-heads, content-creators, authors, and designers.
For publishers old or emergent. For risky storytellers. For the curious and curios.
Easily unsubscribable. Shockingly infrequent...
I signed up this morning. Didn't know about it, even after all the great blog posts by him I've read.
It's technically called the Roden Explorers Club. He's got a great, extended description with full backstory about what and why Roden.
My rough and less satisfying summary is that he was inspired by an artist who was creating a living art project at the Roden Crater in Arizona. That artist said, "...I wanted an area of exposed geology like the Grand Canyon or the Painted Desert, where you could feel geologic time. Then in this stage set of geologic time, I wanted to make spaces that engaged celestial events in light so that the spaces performed a “music of the spheres” in light..."
If you dig that quote, it's totally worth 10 minutes of your time to go read the great, extended backstory.
Craig Mod concludes by saying:
"...I'd like for it to be a place for me to announce small projects built with a pinch of James’ ethos in mind. Somewhere to ask folks for feedback. Somewhere to share off-the-cuff thinking about the future of books and publishing... Together we'll hurtle out under the darkness of the interwebs towards whispers of who knows what. Hopefully joyful, joyfully hopeful, and, perhaps, a bit drunk..."
Indeed. Looking forward to that journey.
If you want to be part of the future of publishing and hear thoughts and give feedback to one of the guys on the inside making the pieces move, there is your chance.
See you there.
Image source: craigmod.com
1 comments