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London Gazette Blows Lid Off Scientist Activities
This is how we’re concluding one aspect of the Clockwork Watch story, but… it continues through contributions from the participants, which will be incorporated into our narrative. If interested in contributing kindly contact us at “informer – at – clockworkwatch – dot – com”.
Clockwork Watch: Breakaway, our next graphic novel, starts 18 years after the arrival of Janav, Tinku and Chan from India.
Kindly peruse this special edition of the London Gazette, and keep an eye on Advancement of Sciences…
The Evidence:
Clockwork Watch in “Creating Indie Transmedia Projects” Panel at SXSW
SXSW panel picker is LIVE. Ian Ginn & Yomi Ayeni are hosting a panel called “Creating Indie Transmedia Projects.”
It’s a chance to explain the motivation behind creating a concept from an Indie perspective. We do it without funding, brand partnerships, or any financial assistance. We are solely motivated by telling participatory and engaging stories, and connecting with our audience.
Please vote for us, this will be an insight into why we do what we do, and how we do it.
SXSW Panel Picker
Tomorrow’s World… Today! Hits Latitude Festival 2012
Tomorrow’s World Today Roadshow at Latitude Festival 2012
Are You Ready? Camera, Lights, Action!!!
Many parts of the Clockwork Watch story will be played out in the real world, as part of an immersive live-event ethos. We believe this approach encourages ‘play’ and opens the narrative to participants who want to become involved in our storyworld.
The objective is for people to share their personal experiences, in other words tell our story. Each contribution has the potential to shape the narrative, by making creative adjustments to the project.
Our second foray into this territory comes in the form of “industrial action‘ or a strike, called by the Union for the Casual Labourer – a group representing people working on the Clockwork Project at the Department for the Advancement of Sciences. Many workers believe jobs will be at risk if the automatons they’re developing become active.
The Casual Labourer Strike is a ‘working class’ day of action, where anyone following this story can participate by going on strike. We would like everyone interested in storytelling, Steampunk, Victoriana or just role-playing to join us on July 14th 2012. You do not have to be a trade unionist to strike, in fact we hope people choose other factions, even oppose the day of action.
Create a placard stating your grievance, don your working class finery, take a photograph or video, write a story and share it on your social stream – Twitter, Facebook, blog or send it to us at (informer – @ – clockworkwatch-dot- com).
The strike is a major development in the Clockwork Watch story, and we need your help in making it happen. We hope to rally a global show of strength, some of us will picket the Advancement of Sciences Roadshow on July 14th / 15th, but kindly join us in spirit, where ever you are!
Kindly post details of your intent on our Facebook Event page, and you can follow the story live on our tweeter stream @ClockworkWatch. Read all about it in our online paper The London Gazette.
Don’t forget this is all about PLAY, and we hope you enjoy the experience.
Brothers, Sisters, drop your tools, we’re going on strike – OUT!
Casual Labourere Strike
The Arrival – Now Available through Amazon!!!
We’re pleased to say that Clockwork Watch: The Arrival is now available through Amazon – and it’s comes with a small discount!!!
The Arrival – Available Through Amazon
We’d Like You To Tell A Story
Calling Steampunk Storytellers!
Queen Victoria
Clockwork Watch is a collaborative storytelling project, every week we publish the latest news from the story universe in our newspaper The London Gazette.
We would like to invite participants to take their cue from the latest news, and contribute stories, photographs, videos, even drawings showing how developments in our story affect a character living in the Clockwork Watch universe.
Coincidently, next week’s issue is about Queen Victoria’s Royal Jubilee, the controversy surrounding development of Clockwork Automata, and the row over Science.
Want to help tell our story? Send your submissions to: informer@clockworkwatch.com or register a character and own some virtual real estate in an innovative form of storytelling.
You can also catch-up on the story through our online newspaper, and Clockwork Watch: The Arrival, our first graphic novel.
All contributions are licensed under Creative Commons:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Clockwork Watch Creator Yomi Ayeni Talks to Jan Gilbert
Flicks and the City’s Jan Gilbert caught up with Clockwork Watch creator Yomi Ayeni at Kapow-Con in London, to get the skinny on this project. He explains how the story started, his inspiration and why he chose this genre.
Map The Arrival!!!
Copies of The Arrival are being delivered around the world, so we decided to map the scale of interest in our story.
If you’ve got a copy, please feel free to contribute and map your location.
Bristol Comic Expo!!!
Yayy! Another action packed weekend. We finally had our industry launch – at the Bristol Comic Expo. Corey, Jennie and Yomi had a table at the show, as well as a panel discussion. We sat alongside the Barry and David of Geek Syndicate, the Markosia family, and Kill Shakespeare.
The interest in The Arrival and the whole project was very encouraging. We’re fired-up and looking forward to many of the challenges associated with producing a new project such as Clockwork Watch.
We’d like to thank Harry Markos, Matt Gibbs, Doctor Geof, Conor McCreery, Anthony Del Col, Jimmy Aquino, and James Pearson (Bayou Arcana).
Here are some pictures and a short video…
We were interviewed for Jimmy Aquino’s Podcast!
Jimmy Aquino and the Clockwork Watch Team
Barry and David of Geek Syndicate
Barry and David
Jennie signs another copy
Jennie signs another copy
When the show was over, we went to the pub… 😉
A much awaited trip to the pub