Fredrik Knudsen

Fragments of a Hologram Rose by William Gibson

Desperately late for April's audiobook is a particular favorite short story of mine about the effect of new forms of media on people and their relationships.

Deep Blue Q&A Question Collection

After far, far too long, the Q&A question collection for Deep Blue is here. Ask your questions in the comments of this post and I'll answer them in video format. These questions may be directed at myself, Ryan (the composer), or Arcaxon (the graphic designer). One question per person, please....

Progress Update: 4/28/21

I just got out of a meeting with Arcaxon, who is making rapid progress on the graphic design for the new Down the Rabbit Hole. Some of the particulars have been difficult to diagram, but the end result is looking excellent. Section 1 is finished, and now he's into Section 2, which is where the mo...

Progress Update and Apology [4/15/21]

As it stands, the new video is in its final phases. Ryan is only waiting on a few last pieces of instrumentation to add and mix, and Arc is actively working on the animations and graphic design. As I mentioned before, this is an extremely graphic design-heavy episode, and so he'll need a couple o...

I'm Hosting a Stellaris Event

Paradox Interactive have invited me to host a large roleplaying event called "The Cold War," to celebrate the imminent launch of their new Nemesis DLC for Stellaris. I'll be acting as the voice for the main stream, where I'll be analyzing the game from a spectator's perspective and commenting on ...

Progress Update: 4/6/21

Final narration is all edited together, and Ryan has everything he needs to finish the music. Once it's all mixed and he's made the few necessary adjustments to the timing, Arc will receive the tracks and he'll be able to start timing his animations. It's important that he has the full track beca...

Fredrik Knudsen on The Official Podcast

I joined The Official Podcast to talk about Down the Rabbit Hole.

The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Books 7-13)

Finishing up the second half of Sun Tzu's Art of War. Enjoy!

Progress Update: 3/29/21

The final narration is now recorded. Tomorrow, I'll get to cutting it together, which should be a relatively short process, and then files will be sent to Ryan and Arc so that they can fit their music and graphic design to it, respectively. In the meantime, I'll be blocking out the editing to pre...

I'm Writing for the Stellaris Board Game

As I'm finishing the new Down the Rabbit Hole, I've been invited to write an event for the Stellaris board game, which made headlines recently for raising over $2,000,000 on its Kickstarter page. The company making it, Academy Games, is a boutique studio which has released numerous well-received ...

Progress Update: 3/22/21

The final draft of the script is now complete.

I'm going to read it aloud to a few trusted friends to get their feedback, but beyond a few minor grammatical or wording changes, this is what it's going to look like. The word count only dropped by about 100, putting the script at around 8,400...

Progress Update: 3/13/21

The first draft of the script is now complete, clocking in at about 8,500 words. Compared to Deep Blue's 20,000 words, this new video will likely be about an hour in length. Ryan has already finished rough versions of about half of the music, and most of the graphic design assets are already comp...

Progress Update: 3/5/21

Short update this time, just letting you all know that I'm closing in on finishing the first draft of the script. My first drafts tend to be quite close to my final drafts, so I only expect a day or two of script editing before recording the final narration. Ryan has been actively working on the ...

Tea Streams are Back on Twitch

After some setup and deliberation, tea streams have returned! This time, they'll be a bit more spaced out and on Twitch rather than YouTube, as people on YouTube expect more explicitly Down the Rabbit Hole content. I plan on having friends come on for a natter every so often for the streams, as w...

Progress Update: 3/2/21

Ryan just finished the full rough version of the music for section 1. Overall, the section ended up being approximately 16 minutes long and serves as the background for the events that follow in the second section. It's some of the best work he's ever done for Down the Rabbit Hole. Thank you so m...

The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Books 1-6)

This is approximately the first half of the ancient work by the apocryphal Sun Tzu. If you enjoyed this reading and would like the second half, please let me know and I'd be happy to make that March's audiobook.

February Audiobook is Late

Apologies to everyone who was pledging for it, it'll be out later (technically) today.

Progress Update: 2/19/21

Hello everyone, it's been a while! I apologize for how long this video is taking; I initially intended for this video to be a half-hour jaunt, but this is quickly expanding into something that will likely be well over an hour, possibly over an hour and a half. The Deep Blue script was approximate...

Empress Theresa: Chapter 1 | January Audiobook

Sorry this one came so late, I was in a lot of mouth pain earlier this month and it threw me off. Fortunately it's all resolved, so enjoy, or... whatever it is you're supposed to do with this book.

Progress Update: 1/11/21

This subject is so obnoxiously complicated that it's taken me a silly number of re-reads in order to wrap my head around it. I spent several hours with Arcaxon today trying to plot out the events of the subject and we were able to get through half of it. This subject is well outside my area of ex...

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep: Chapter 5

This is partway through the book, but it's of one of my favorite scenes in science fiction: the interrogation of Rachel Rosen to determine if she is an android. It's one of the most famous scenes in science fiction, known largely through the movie Blade Runner. Enjoy.

Regarding the late audiobooks:

For some time now, I've been rather late with the distribution of my monthly audiobooks. This has mostly been a feature of poor time management, as I will prioritize work on the video and push my audiobook obligations aside, and while technically they have still been during the month, it often is...

Progress Update: 12/11/20

Good news: the three books I needed to earnestly continue my research just arrived. They weren't difficult to find, but there aren't very many of them left, and some of them were scarcely available in the United States. E-books were available for one or two of them, but I knew there would be diag...

Down the Rabbit Hole: The Big Post

Hello everyone. This is going to be a long one, since this will be an update, a discussion of the current status of Down the Rabbit Hole and what's changing in the process of creating it (don't worry, it's positive), and an outline of what things to expect in the near future.

The Pr...