Where is it going?

Omnibucket currently produces high quality unique picturebooks and multimedia products using concepts and content created amongst both the core group and the contributing talent. Sometimes the idea comes before the art or writing, sometimes the writing comes first, and sometimes the art comes first. We have many ways of starting a new idea, but in the end we always make something that we’d want on our own shelves.
Our releases themselves are often seen as coffee-table books, art-books with stories, picture-books for adults, or modern fairytales, but you can call them whatever you like. In addition to our published releases Omnibucket continues to experiment with alternative and supplemental storytelling experiences that appeal to the growing tech and multimedia audiences. Projects in development include podcasts, YouTube video syndication, downloadable digital players, fully synchronized audio soundtracks, digital picture frames, and books that can also serve as hang-able artwork. Keep watching!

As for projects we like to get involved in, we obviously like books but we’re thinking much further. We’re looking to expand towards cross-media, non-genre projects because we want to remain a platform for the unique, the creative, and the thoughtful. We want to do things better. We want to zero in on the best of the underground. We want the new ideas, or the better ideas, or the already-known ideas done better.

We would like to find funding to help build and steer this ship. Consider this website version 1.0 since we would like to expand it. We would like to allow fans to give props to good content, allowing them to have a direct hand in what gets produced. This can work its way through so “buyers” can find stuff without the work, while the consumer gets better products and emerging artists get the spoils. We could provide a marketplace for finished content and develop a scoring methodology; something like # sales * X + # recommendations * Y + # users flagging * Z.

So how do we grow this?

1. A clear website as the basis for the platform is needed, which is what you’re seeing the first iteration of. If you have suggestions, please drop us a line.
2. Create content through blogging, writing, and multimedia projects.
   1. We are developing multimedia versions of our projects to distribute them in the absence of the financial backing for large-scale print publishing.
   2. We have our OLOGY magazine as well as a daily/weekly blog which allows us to grow and develop our voice while it allows you, the viewer, to spread these links around if they compel you.
   3. We have occasional live events and collaborations.
   4. The very idea of open-source ideas: If you want to use an idea we have here, please credit Omnibucket.

3. Spread the word via new collaborations and collaborators, submissions of content to news sources, pitches to potential partners, and hosting events and workshops.