PRODUCTION OFFICE AND PERSONAL WEBSITE where the Otherworld Cottage Industries are celebrating winning the LuxLife magazine Global Entertainment Award Best Audio Storyteller 2018 Click the Award Logo to learn more about Luxlife's Awards Program. Click here to see why Otherworld Cottage Industries won the Award. |
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Imagine more than 50 years of romance and high adventure. Travis did, and these pages provide an overview of his career as an independent scholar, writer, storyteller, singer-songwriter, filmmaker, director of production for Cine-Media International, technical director for Lingo-Tech Dubbing Services, president and CEO of Otherworld Entertainment Corporation, executive vice-president of the Alameda Writers Group, and Chairman Emeritus of the New Playwrights Foundation. In 2013, Pike formed Otherworld Cottage Industries, adding publisher to that impressive catalog of skills, and began making his previously unpublished works available to the public. Click on his photo (left), to follow his career. Click on the images below to discover those intellectual properties, where wonders await the intrepid explorer— and there's still no end in sight. |
1964-1974: A Decade of Odd Tales and Wonders This new book (October 2018), is a chronicle of my development as a storyteller, singer and songwriter, and my performances in the U.S. and abroad from 1964-1974. It includes all the lyrics to the songs on my albums Odd Tales and Wonders: Stories in Song, Feelin' Better, Rconstructed Coffeehouse Blues, Travis Edward Pike's Tea Party Snack Platter, and Outside the Box, as well as the text to all the rhymes on the Odd Tales and Wonders: Stories in Rhyme CD. The CD albums and all their songs are available as digital downloads at CD Baby, and the book is available in both print and ebook versions at Amazon.com. Click on the book cover to view sample pages from the book, or click here for links to listen to these albums and more on Youtube. |
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Past present and future, forever intertwined COMING SOON! The screenplay for Changeling’s Return is being adapted into a novel due for publication in 2019. Originally the musical fantasy adventure of American rock star (Morgen with an "e"), whose U.K. May-Eve concert at a ruined abbey foreshadows a mysterious, otherworldly, out-of-body experience, that triggers a sudden, profound commitment to the environment and a dramatic change in his music, its lyrical content, and its purpose. The book will include a section exploring the history, folklore, mythology, and sympathetic magic underlying the tale. In anticipation of the book, Otherworld Cottage Industries has released Mystical Encounter (Songs from Changeling's Return) on a CD that you buy now, or listen to on Youtube free.Click the mosaic to begin your otherworldy audio adventure. |
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GRUMPUSS 20TH ANNIVERSARY PLATINUM EDITION DVD This critically acclaimed world premiere performannce of his original epic narrative rhyme won Travis a 1999 INTERCOM Silver Plaque Special Achievement award at the Chicago Film Festival. Click the DVD Cover to view video clips of this production that the Newsletter for the Council of the Literature of the Fantastic, University of Rhode Island reported was "Classic British fantasy at its best. Reminiscent of Lewis Carroll, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R.Tolkien, Pike's Grumpuss is poignantly true of both the foibles and the triumphs of humankind...quality family entertainment." The DVD is available on AMAZON and the 15th Anniversary Audio Theater Edition CD set is available at CD BABY, AMAZON, and select online and brick & mortar retail outlets worldwide. Click here to visit the Grumpuss website! |
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LONG-GRIN
UP NEXT: Alone in Celtic myth, alone in the twilight age of heroes, alone in a world of sorcery, romance and high adventure, is "Long-Grin," my saga of the red-backed, scaly, black-bellied, tusked, bat-winged dragon of Arthurian legend. Images from his on-going development are featured in the LUXLIFE Global Entertainment Awards article. To visit the Long-Grin website, click the dragon, and be prepared for wonders.
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JAMES A. PIKE, PIKE PRODUCTIONS, INC. Interviewers frequently ask Travis about his father, the independent filmmaker who starred Travis in his 1966 feature film Feelin' Good. Travis knows little of Pike Productions' day-to-day operations after he moved to Los Angeles in 1968, but his father visited annually after previewing his trailers at ShoWest in Las Vegas. Click the photo (right), to view a short tribute to the man whose restored Feelin' Good movie clips are now, half-a-century later, helping to reintroduce Travis to the world at large. |
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