New Artwork and Music For Stark Raven Mad!

As Stark Raven Mad has grown over the last three years, the home brew nature of the podcast has needed to be improved each year. From using an iPhone’s microphone to record all the episodes to using a microphone plugged into an iPhone to record all the episodes. Yup, huge leaps in technology. The point is improvements are being made. Being surrounded by super creative and funny people has always been the core of the podcast. They make the dark nature of the show so much fun to discuss. Now their creative talents have started to help raise the look and feel of the podcast beyond the discussion.

After three years of using my own Photo-chopped graphics Stark Raven Mad finally has taken it up a knotch. Thanks to Whitney Harris we now have a proper, bona fide, fancy graphic! I asked Whtiney about her inspiration for creating the graphic, since I basically gave her zero to go on and this is what she said,

“My design background is in printmaking, mainly silkscreening, so when I design my style is usually pretty flat. Color plays a huge role for me and I love working with big bold images. For the SRM logo I was inspired by the house flags used in Game of Thrones and want the logo to have a similar feel.”

Whitney was so easy to work with on this and if your’e looking to have any kind of graphic design done I can’t recommend her enough. Don’t need graphics? Well then you probably need some jewelery. She makes that too! All her contact info is below:

Website: www.AnethumJewelry.com (links to my etsy, realy website coming this summer!)

Instagram: AnethumJewelry and Doubleuhitney

Email: [email protected] for any design inquires

Hoffman: www.HoffmanImprov.com (i did Hoffman’s logo as well)

Also, in addition to hearing the Mountain at the top of every SRM, you’ll now be hearing sweet sounds of Evans & Brown. That’s right… we have a new song! After three years of using my own audacity-chopped versions of the Game of Thrones theme, Fred Brown and Drew Evans, did us up proper and composed a theme specifically for Stark Raven Mad. Yes, this rinky dink podcast has its own theme song thanks to these guys. The only direction I gave them was that I wanted something a bit game of thronesy. As Fred says:

“Mike wanted us to compose a podcast theme that sounded like the theme music from Game of Thrones.  All the music in the show makes use of the same instrumental palette, so we used those instruments as a starting point.  From there, we attempted to capture the tone and mood of the show.”

You can listen to the uncut theme below. I think they did an amazing job. Each week the theme gets stuck in my head. Fred and Drew are currently working out ways to promote their talents, but if you have something you need music for you can contact Fred at [email protected].

Amazing new graphics. Awesome new song. Just in time for the season 5 finale on Sunday. Then it’s another year’s wait. Though unlike previous years in which we promised off-season episodes only to break those promises time and time again… this year we will be following through. To start we’re doing a Season 5 wrap-up which will post on 6/21 and then the SRM Awards for 7/6. We have a lot of plans that we will follow through on this year. We gotta get some mileage out of these new duds! As always, thanks for listening!