The Coffeelicious - Delicious Morning Thoughts

One of the biggest new things that's happening at Comatose is this cool thing we're doing with a community over at Medium.com: The Coffeelicious.

I've already written about it a bit here, but how it all began is funny.

I've been sending longshot emails to people since high school. I'm used to sending 500+ emails of my dumb content and never getting any response. When I sent an email off to Srinath, I never thought I'd get a response.

I had thought it'd be cool for us to have some written content, and Medium seemed like a cool platform to start doing that on. After lurking and reading daily emails for a couple months, I picked up on a few communities that I thought would mesh well with us and what we're about.

So when I received an email saying that they couldn't wait to start doing something... Well, I was shocked.

I'm still surprised when people take us seriously. I'm used to being obscure and a joke, not something people find interesting or would want to work with. It's been a blast and I've enjoyed every moment of working with The Coffeelicious!

Aspect Heavy

Aspect Heavy semi-officially launched the other day! The web-site isn't really done, but it works for now.

We wanted to expand on audio production stuff, and so our first new projects are two opposing directions from what Comatose does.

With the new Aspect Heavy website we launched Perspeculum and the Aspect Heavy Podcast.

Perspeculum is by far the strangest thing we've ever done. It's an extraction a step removed from conversations and podcasting. It's the stuff you'd want to be removed by a noise removal. It's putting the background in the foreground. It's pretty strange, but it was fun to do.

I thought it would be fun to release a "Season" at one time and have every episode be the exact same length. So that's what we did. A smaller detail is how each episode is paired with distinct art that is meant to compliment the noise.



The Aspect Heavy Podcast is in the complete opposite direction. It's a conversation style podcast without a script and without pre-planned topics. It was also surprisingly difficult to do. There were a few unreleased test episodes that were just too horrible.

The first time Nizar did the intro, and we introduced each other was met with a long pause as we suddenly realized we didn't know how to start a conversation. At least not one that is being recorded.

We finally recorded a descent episode, and after quite a bit of editing, I felt we could release it. There's still some problems with the levels and weird noises from not being in good recording spots, but it works as a proof of concept. We'll keep at it and hopefully get better as time goes on.

http://comapod.com/post/123839991800/aspect-heavy-podcast-perspeculum-minions

There are some other shows that may be coming out in the near future, but they're not quite ready to be talked about just yet.