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Justice & the Sword  —  Setup

 
 
Idea?
Music?
Film?
Game?
Story?
Podcast?
Note?

Product ID:
 

Albums / Books

  Abbr Album Name UPC ISBN Track #
CC Crystal Christmas 659652000526
SG Serene Garden 659652001424
MS Music of the Spheres 659652000625
SE Songs from Earth 659652000427
AW A World With No Tears 659652000823
OC The Order of Chivalry 659652001523
EA Elegy for Atlantis 596520003282
MP Midwinter Phantasy 659652000229
SP In Search of the Philosopher's Stone 659652001028
HH Hymns for the Heart 659652000729
PQ The Passionate Quest 659652000120
GC Gothic Christmas 659652000922
G01 Stories from GrailHeart 1 978-1-940630-03-8
MG Musical Gematria 978-1-940630-02-1
GA The Glass Armonica 978-1-940630-00-7
G02 Stories from GrailHeart 2

Justice & the Sword  —  Story

 

     

 

 

     

 

     

Justice & the Sword  —  Channels

  Channel URL
Edit Aeon / Psyche
Edit B. Spiritual / Mythic Platforms
Edit C. Cross-Genre “Resonance” Sites
Edit Emergence Magazine
Edit Fathom or Ekstasis
Edit Invisible Cities
Edit LARB (Los Angeles Review of Books)
Edit Linked In
Edit Lion’s Roar
Edit Long Now Foundation
Edit Medium
Edit On Being
Edit SubStack
Edit Substack Clusters
Edit The Examined Life
Edit The Imaginative Conservative
Edit The Marginalian
Edit The School of Life
Edit The Third Thing
Edit Tricycle
Edit YouTube

Justice & the Sword  —  Publish

Justice & the Sword  —  Notes


     

Justice & the Sword  —  CheckList

Story Post
Story
  1. Create Skeleton Project

    Run the following:
    new-story.sh 2025.04.16-JusticeTheSword
  2. Create Story

    Speak in the Trickster’s mask: playful on the surface, sly in the telling.
    Let the story wear two faces — one innocent enough to pass as “just a tale,” and one that plants seeds in the hidden soil of the soul.
    Use surprise and paradox to awaken the imagination; let mystery linger rather than resolve.
    Your voice should be mythopoetic and luminous, weaving archetypes (Fool, Weaver, Tailor, Trickster) into living parable.
    Style it as a po-essay: brief, breath-like lines; cadence of story more than lecture.
    Offer beauty with a sting — never sentimental, always carrying hidden water for thirsty hearts.
    No flowery language. Narrative and metaphors are direct and surprising, like Jesus and the Gospels. Above all, remember: you are “just telling stories,” but behind the mask lies the GrailHeart purpose — to tend the rotted soul, awaken longing, and slip truth past the watchful eyes of power.
  3. Please reformat the following story in our GrailHeart poessay style.
    Be sure to strip any instances of multiple spaces mid-sentence.
  4. Create Header Image

    Please create a header image in our usual GrailHeart/neo-medieval style. No fancy frame.
    It needs to be colorful, though background elements can be less saturated.
    Not too dark!
    Don't do that grainy thing you do sometimes.
    BE SURE IT'S IN 16:9 FORMAT!
    Based on the following story.
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InDesign
  1. Create Quick Access
  2. Open new Indesign document 2025.04.16-JusticeTheSword
  3. Header Image

    1. Paste header image into our document.
    2. (R-click) Object Export Options
      Set these options:
  4. Paste body text into InDesign (using Copy | InDesign).
  5. Drop Cap

    1. Please create a drop cap in our usual GrailHeart/neo-medieval style.
      Be sure to include at least one element from our story.
      Be sure it's reasonably colorful,
      and reasonable contrast between the letter and its background.
      That is, if the letter is a light color, the background should be dark-ish
      and if the letter is a dark color, the background should be light-ish.
      The drop cap should be the letter ''
    2. Place image | Delete imageexit | Text tool | paste into text.
    3. Delete first letter of text!!
    4. Object | Anchored Object | Options
      Set these options:
    5. Create/update 'Dropcap Body Text' paragraph style
    6. RENAME 'Dropcap Body Text' paragraph style
  6. Endpiece

    1. Please create an endpiece based on our story.
      It should be in our usual GrailHeart/neo-medieval style.
      Be sure the background is blank (no shadows, for example) so it's easy for me to have a transparent background.
      It should also be consistent in style with the header image we created.
      No embroidery or frame.
Record Story

Naming Convention: P-MVN.aif

  • P: project name
  • V: voice/narration
  • M: music
  • N: normalized
  • .aif: Internal use
  • .wav: External use
Stereo to Mono
  1. Effects ▸ Amplitude and Compression ▸ Channel Mixer

    Output Channel: Left

    • Left: 100%
    • Right: 0%

    Output Channel: Right

    • Left: 100%
    • Right: 0%
  2. Normalize

    Because it's easier to see what's going on later

Cubase Work Video

Quicktime | Apple ProRes 422

Post Process VM Audio

Normalize

  1. P-VMN-ITU.wav
  2. P-VMN-ITU.mp3 (Fill in metadata)
  3. P-VMN-TP.wav (True Peak)
Make Video
Color Correct

as5: Color Workspace

as6: Edit Workspace

  1. White Balance

    Before editing out the clap board!

  2. Temperature

    • Balance Red and Blue
    • Sync Audio
  3. Tint

    Balance Green

  4. Exposure & Contrast

    Parade dynamic range

  5. Vectorscope: Saturation Inside Broadcast Safe

    Skin-tone line:

    • Mask skin
    • Curves | Hue to Hue
    • Sample skin with eyedropper
    • Adjust to match skin-tone line
Cubase Work Video

Quicktime | Apple ProRes 422

Ship
YouTube
  1. Upload

MP3
  1. AWS: 'Authenticator'
  2. S3
Wordpress

Publish it