Triskele Press: Issue 1

For
The
Cause
The Azure Lorica Foundation will be six years old by January
26, 2016, and it is still growing. Just when the organization believed that
it was enough when they produced Ninja-Con, in 2013, its Ninja-Con
Committee fortified the future of the festival, as no longer a one-man production,
by 2015. From a Board, to the new Committee, and the returning
Volunteers, the nonprofit thought more years would be needed to expand
as far as it has. For now, Azure Lorica seems solid. What else was there
to build, with an annual convention, and a willing operations team?
Between the years of forming the Committee, much of the vision
for the Azure Lorica Foundation was redirected back to its original
mission: to produce the arts for the public. This began the reconstruction
of the old Azure Lorica ensemble. But there was a minor detail that made
us worry. Times have changed. When live shows were novelty and a
ticket meant the world in the early milennia, a YouTube video nowadays
is enough to procure your future in today’s industry. If we were to return
as an ensemble, we had to either get into stand up comedy and musicals
or go home! We needed to think. And think fast.
As a nonprofit corporation producing festivals, we thought
about how to match that grandeur on stage. Naturally, we needed to
be extravagant, but if it didn’t need us to spend as much, why we’d be
in a better position! YouTube was saturated and filled with mainstream
selections. As much as we could benefit in being part of a ready-made
community, we needed something as traditional but as innovated as theatre.
As ironic as it sounds, this is where we turned to podcasting.
The production was well seasoned, and we were able to produce
a few episodes in a matter of weeks. The honeymoon stage of the
production was great, but soon the press releases need to be published,
and then that needed attention. This was the birth of Drift Plume and
Triskele Press. While Drift Plume produced radio plays - downloadable
episodes for our listeners, Triskele Press would publish press releases and
write content for the blog. The job wasn’t so hard, until the scales became
serious.
For one, Triskele Press had to build up their team - from
bloggers, to now an emagazine publishing group - producing not only
online content of photography, videos, and stories of “500 words or
less”, but now a refined version of what looks like a Quarterly Journal.
To improve, our photographer needed to be an advertisement team, our
bloggers be Editors, and our artists now designers. The idea was fantastic,
who wouldn’t want this kind of upgrade? But the toils in between
the reconstruction is fraught with peril, especially when the deadline is in
four months.
Secondly, Drift Plume is taking human resources by the reigns,
and making policies and operation improvements for it’s ensemble.
There’s no need to build a squad when the challenge is in the mind. Discipline
is like fire, the challenge is not to snuff the blaze, but to channel
the light. With proper practices, the Ensemble can act as the society and
culture of the new Ninja-Con.
One might think that this is ridiculous. That a philosophy
practiced is just a promise meant to be broken. This is just politics, and
it won’t take long to break in the heat of battle. What good is it going to
do?
The deal in this business is not build promises. It is to be a testament.
When radio began as an industry, it created a new home culture.
When movies began, it made a new city culture. We are no different. If
a company does not prepare for such changes, then they are a disservice
to their community. One may not realize this, but this is common, and a
Ninja-Con announced it was going for a two day show.
If anyone knows how production works in festivals and conventions,
then you’d see how this was a feat. Ninja-Con is Azure Lorica
Foundation’s largest project. It’s an animal that could take over your life,
if you’re not careful. Much like taming a cat, you had to learn from experience
in how to feed it, how it loves you back, and what benefits it has
for everyone that meets you…and Ninja-Con. Being a two day venture,
the cat has become a tiger. And unlike a small pet with sharp claws and a
mischievous nature, this beast can break your neck with it’s teeth.
Progress has sacrifices necessary to fulfill it’s promises, and
we had to pull harder with a press release this big. Drift Plume excels
in singing, making costumes, and building stages and trains and castles.
Triskele Press can write and market, and make your dimes look like platinum!
And working with Ninja-Con, the emerald city for geeks, the work
ahead of us was not going to be easy.
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