Actually reaching your market isn't just about advertising briefs or demographic analysis. It's about the idea that you haven't thought of, and the myth that sells it. It's about content.
Synchronicity Studios
provides interactive, custom content, whether you are a music label, publisher, independent artist or author, or even a major corporation looking for viral promotion or a more cutting edge, "youth friendly" image. Online marketing, music management, viral video strategy involving branding and innovation in podcasting promotion, event marketing and effective brand communication. We can produce media for traditional campaigns, but we thrive on the internet, where many traditional companies are running scared.Now more than ever, it is critical that your media and marketing be lightweight and effective, yet without compromising quality or creativity. You may be trying to do this in-house to cut expenses, and finding that your message isn't getting out there. Maybe it's because you're not being patient enough, but more likely, it's because you're too close to your own products and services. You don't know how to build the myth of your brand.
Think of us as facilitators in the process of creating that myth for your customers. Imagine the possibilities: we can create a more gripping image for you, online or in print. An extended online viral marketing campaign? Professional post-production for your podcast or album? Concept art or original soundtrack for your independent film? Content strategy and consulting for your media startup? No problem. We've been doing this for a decade, working in small teams, producing content ahead of the curve.
We'll work with you to build a strategy, we'll develop the media required to roll it out. And we'll do it for far less than a bloated marketing or PR firm- because we're a guerilla marketing team.
What is it going to cost?
Because our work is custom-tailored to your needs, we are unable to provide stock flat-rate estimates. Simply contact us and we will create a proposal based on your specific needs.
Who are we?
Synchronicity Studios is the client production division of Mythos Media, a new-media publisher of books, graphic novels, albums, podcasts, and more. We are managed by the same team of media professionals, and can draw upon the talent of our published artists, authors, and musicians when it is appropriate. You can find out more about the Synchronicity Studio core team here:
James Curcio
Creative Director
Since getting involved in media production and consulting as a partner of Evolving Media in 2000, James has defined himself as a big-picture, forward thinker, exploring new digital mediums often as soon as they are invented.
Despite past client work for international corporations, James' passion has always been producing digital media with small, agile and independent teams. After Evolving Media Network he teamed up with several such groups. These included a stint as a producer for Mobius Loop, a small interactive design team with shared A/V facilities, senior editor for Alterati.com as well as several other internet based magazines and hotspots, and audio producer with Station Hill Studios, a media co-op housed in a 13,000 square foot facility. He has since moved on to web design with TLA Entertainment, a mid-sized Philadelphia company that still retains a small company attitude and atmosphere.
He has produced a diverse range of projects including collaborative novels and graphic novels with associated immersive media/marketing campaigns, Internet "round-table" musical albums, unorthodox podcast and audiobook series, web magazines and group blogs, and interactive CDs. Much of this work is distinguished by its signature aesthetic and irreverent style, and has been published by a number of independent presses including Disinfo, New Falcon (publisher of counterculture icons such as Timothy Leary, Aleister Crowley and Robert Anton Wilson), and of course Mythos Media.
All of this experience is brought to Synchronicity Studios, where he guides the look and feel of your content-- whether it is a single web site or print design, or a complete viral marketing campaign.
P. Emerson Williams
Content Strategist
Since the late 1980's, P. Emerson Williams has been deeply involved in many aspects of media production. Early on he provided visual material for event promoters such as ad layouts, show posters and flyers. An appreciation for good communication with clients and the sanctity of deadlines put Williams in good stead as he ventured into the fields of illustration and magazine layout in the early 1990's.
His work served to define the styles of magazines published in Chile, Brazil, Peru, Lithuania, Italy, Germany, the UK and the US. While in Boston, P. Emerson Williams produced demos for several bands including Mohana, The Enablers (ex- Voodoodolls), Scryer, Veil of Thorns and Choronzon.
In the last few years he has been producing podcasts, skits and ads for podcasts for Alterati.com and Greylodge.org, as well as producing and narrating several audiobooks that were marketed in unusual ways across the web with great results. In collaboration with several musical acts, he has helped helps expand their promotional reach through strategic use of video and audio podcasts, and visual stylings.
P. Emerson Williams' strengths lie in creating audio, video and visual content to take advantage of new developments and user reactions for ongoing campaigns. He brings a set of skills that round out the PR, social marketing programming and design expertise of the Synchronicity Studio team.
Wes Unruh
Social Media & SEO Specialist
Since he began blogging 1999 Wes has been studying non-standard ways to use search engines, and has actively engaged in community building efforts and online information marketing. In 2006 he begin contracting privately to handle online reputation and distribute audio and video media.
Wes is also an experienced teleconference specialist, having worked as an administrator with Connex International from 2000-2005. From the end of 2005 throughout 2006 Wes was one of the core components in the book launch for 'Think Two Products Ahead,' a strategy which earned the author an email subscription of more than 30,000 subscribers the week of the book launch.
Since then he has worked in a number of different entrepreneurial online ventures, always with the core purpose of bringing media specific attention through online channels by maximizing content visibility and search engine optimization strategies, both on-page and off. Wes Unruh brings an integrated social marketing approach consisting of preliminary keyword due diligence to sound out the online niche, comprehensive planning for specific demographic spaces, and the technical know-how to optimize for on-page SEO.
He is co-author and publisher of the 2008 book 'The Art of Memetics', Editor-at-Large of the blog Alterati.com since James Curcio stepped down from the position in 2007, and video tutorial Editor for PublicIndividual.com.
Rudy Rauben
Art Director
Once upon a time Rudy directed art and graphic design for TSR (the Dungeons & Dragons people) Hobbies' publication department. He designed Dragon Magazine. He also contributed hundreds upon hundreds of illustrations to various magazines and games, booking many other notable illustrators in the process. If it involved the graphic production of a magazine, he was the guy who had to get it done, start to finish, deadline to deadline.
Next stop, Reality Hackers (subsequently known as Mondo 2000). Same responsibilities, new scene, new ideas. He's not just a fantasy art guy. By no means.
After that it was strictly freelance and mostly illustration: Hundreds of pieces of artwork rendered for products like Wizards of the Coast's MAGIC: The Gathering, and Everway, and Chaosium's H.P. Lovecraft inspired MYTHOS, to name but a few. Most recently, you can check out Rudy's work at www.wokendreams.com, or sample his soon to be released graphic novel from Mythos Media: The Medicine Show.
Rudy's extensive skills and experience round off our artistic offering.
Tovarich Pizor
Applications Guru
Rather than specializing in a specific media skill, Tovarich runs the gamut, serving as a digital generalist to shore up whatever niches are required in a given project. He has served turns as writer, editor, layout designer, Photoshop technican, video editor, audio engineer, and more. Most recently he has become director and co-editor on the successful comedy web series Problems With the Professor, which has been featured on the home page of Will Ferrell's entertainment site FunnyOrDie.com as well as media staltwarts YouTube and AOL Video.
Highlights from Tovarich's career include Affiliate Marketing Supervisor for TVN Entertainment, the largest video on demand distributor in North America, in which capacity he developed business requirements and best practices for extranet management, video editing and transcoding, and mass image manipulation. Prior to that he served as the online department for MacAddict.com (now MacLife.com), maintaining one of the most extensive Macintosh-centric content networks on the web and pioneering one of the first recognized blogs in the sector.