Dozerfleet News Archives: 2000's

{| class="wikitable" align="center" style="width:98%; font-family:Courier New; padding:5px;" cellspacing="0" The following is a list of all entries from the Past Dozerfleet News entries page that are relevant to 2000's history. History goes by year first, then by month.
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2000

 * May: Stationery Voyagers is first proposed.
 * July: Mechanical Conflict gets canceled.

2001

 * May: The Matchmaintainer is first proposed.
 * August: Dolphinformia is delivered by mail.
 * September: The Dozerfleet founder joins a soccer team, 9-11 results in a canceled practice, and Replox: Abstract Foundations is first proposed. What would become known as the Gerosha universe gains a superhero adaptation of the Gray Champion, inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story.

2002

 * April: Replox: Abstract Foundations is completed, way ahead of schedule.
 * May: Dozerfleet founder graduates from high school, receives scholarship to Lansing Community College, and enters film production program there.
 * July: Dolphinformia goes offline permanently.
 * August: Grillitan Diner first proposed, along with Pekins. The Bison is first proposed as a serious work around this time.
 * September: Classes begin at LCC.
 * October: Dozefleet founder is first exposed to Ringu, and later The Ring. These two works would then heavily inspire 90 Has No Secant.
 * November: Stationery Voyagers is experimented with for an assignment. It does not work very well.  Gored By Them Things is first proposed.

2003

 * February: "Reflections" by Michael Hayes opens its doors. It would later undergo a name change to "Fortress Rock," before become Tri-Sola Writings with the sub-section Tri-Sola Poetry.  Cormorant Writings would acquire the rights to publication online for all Tri-Sola poems.
 * Also, an assignment for a Photoshop and digital design class at LCC results in The Trapezoid Kids being created for the first time.
 * Grillitan Diner apparel was experimented with in that same Arts 102 class, leading to the creation of Smiley Cleaner and the Grease Depositor, with his very own theme song.
 * The Trapezoids would be used again for a "Module 4" assignment, and would give rise to "The Module 4 Data Song."


 * March: The Mutt Mackley Show is first seriously considered, after creation of short film Kings in the Corner. While not a media first for Mackley, it introduces his supporting cast of Detective Hooper, Smiley Toucan, Officer Hornet, and Gambino Penguin.
 * Later in March, The Blue Face Film Strips would be produced for a Film 118 class at LCC. Blue Face would later become a founding piece behind the greater Gerosha universe.


 * April: A collection of music parodies begins with "The Only Resort," a parody of Papa Roach's song "Last Resort." This collection would come to be known as Every Ape and His Brother.  The song itself would be branded under the album Morbid! The Horrendous Hobo!!!.  Every Ape would eventually become part of Dozerfleet Records.


 * September: Tri-Sola Poetry has four poems available: "Mere Pittance," "Petals," "Powerful Comfort," and "Tragedy/Glory."
 * Ideas are worked on for a Trapezoid Kids movie.

2004

 * Gored By Them Things first becomes its own website.
 * 90 Has No Secant gains proposed sequels in the forms of Cursed is the Ground and The Natural Logarithm. While still waiting to be written, these sequels and 90 would eventually be added to the Gerosha universe.
 * Tri-Sola Poetry gains new poems to its collection, including "Not My Will," "True Love," "The Modern Pursuers," and "Lament My Soul, and Be Crucified."
 * Every Ape and His Brother gains two more songs, in the forms of "Why She Said Seven Days" and "Miss A. Defendant."
 * The Dozerfleet founder is first exposed to The Strangerhood and Red vs. Blue, two works that later proved highly influential.

2005

 * May: The Sims 2 is purchased by the Dozerfleet founder for the first time. The Gerosha universe's establishment as a narrative universe is made official with The Battle for Gerosha being created.
 * June: Work first begins on a spin-off of Battle for Gerosha, called Ciem: The Human Centipede.
 * July: When Bikes Argue is first created as a DSHW webcomic.
 * September: Ciem sequels are first proposed: Ciem 2 and Ciem 3.
 * The Dozerfleet Sims Downloads Collection makes its debut on Mod The Sims, starting with Hanna-Barbera's The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible protagonists Dereck, Margo, and Moki as Sims. The Generation: Hot Coffee series of T-shirts, however, is initially rejected.
 * October: The Blue Face Film Strips: The Sims 2 Edition and Lo-Mun's Cooking Adventure are first proposed as works.
 * December: Lo-Mun, Blue Face: TS2, and Corando's "Don't Lose Hope" Music Video are completed.
 * Likewise, When Bikes Argue 2 gets created as a DSHW.

2006

 * March: A second attempt is made at Ciem.
 * April: Path of the Ming-Cho is first proposed.
 * May: Dozerfleet Productions gains its current name.
 * August: The Dozerfleet founder gains acceptance to Ferris State University.
 * That same month, the Dozerfleet founder is highly inspired by Snakes on a Plane, seeing it all alone in a theater when everyone else had left.
 * September: The Dozerfleet founder gets a Facebook page. Dozerfleet itself gains a MySpace page.
 * October: Every Ape and His Brother gains more entries, with the songs "Doughboy," "Lower!!!," "Phantasmic," "Ridiculous," "They'll Claw You Open," and "The Hundred-Acre Woodland Massacre."

2007

 * January: DozerfleetWiki is founded on Wikispaces. Ciem gets its third and final attempt, this one successful.
 * February: "This Feels Obscene, It's an Earthquake" becomes the tenth song of Every Ape's album Morbid! The Horrendous Hobo!!!.
 * "Night of the Whiteout", an episode of Stationery Voyagers, is inspired by Underworld: Evolution.
 * March: "Cadmium" becomes a moderately successful parody of Evanescence's "Lithium" on AmIRight.  This song begins Every Ape's album Elefante Elegante Interesante Importante.
 * April: "Let the Elements Shine Down" is made for a then-friend of the Dozerfleet founder's. This song ends up becoming the 11th track on Morbid! and completes that album.
 * Snakes on a Plane: The Animated Series is proposed as a possible pitch.  Snakes on a Blog  writes an article about it, called "Snakes on an Animated Series Pitch."
 * May: Work begins on coming up with a soundtrack for Ciem.
 * Mutt Mackley and Gambino Penguin's "Somewhere I Belong" is produced for a video class. However, the footage was corrupted.
 * July: "The Bison's Apocalypse" is added to Elefante.
 * Farewell Graduate: A Day at the Open House is added to YouTube. DozerfleetTV is born.
 * September: "Serial Bomber" is added to Elefante.
 * October: "Serial Bomber, Part 2" is added to Elefante.
 * Basic storytelling is completed for Ciem.
 * November: "All Your Shapes Are Belong to Us", a radio-oriented short, is created as a Trapezoid Kids sketch.
 * December: "Salem (Story of a Trial)" is added to Elefante.

2008

 * February: "Slaughterized" is added to Elefante.


 * March: "Service Workers," an episode of Who's Who at FSU?, begins airing on the Ferris Access Channel. It is produced by the Dozerfleet founder.  Around this time, interest revived in Stationery Voyagers after exposure to NBC's Heroes.


 * April: "The Ferris State Criminal Justice Program," an episode of Beyond the Campus produced by the Dozerfleet founder, is broadcast on the Ferris Access Channel.
 * The song "Once I'm Gone" is added to Elefante. Unlike most songs on that album, "Once I'm Gone" isn't a parody.
 * Volkonir's mythology is first started. This would lead to his universe becoming part of the greater Gerosha universe.  A spin-off series of the short film, called Volkonir Journals is proposed, but not followed through on very well.  When production of the Volkonir film ends in disaster, the assignment for it is replaced with Volkonir Journals: Attempt #43.


 * May: "Passionate Peace" is added to Tri-Sola Poetry.
 * "Salt the Raging Hamster" and "Jerry the Psycho Reindeer" become the foundational songs behind Every Ape's third album: The Chicken of the Opera.
 * DozerfleetWiki becomes active on Wiki-Site, with its Wiki-Site location initially being dubbed "DozerfleetWiki2."
 * Becka Rangers: Nemo Thunder gets an article at DozerfleetWiki. It is soon followed by Becka Rangers: Tickle Fury.
 * When Bikes Argue is adapted to video, and released on YouTube.
 * Dozerfleet got an official website at My2Gig. The service would then go bankrupt and disappear, along with the Free2Hoxt backup site dubbed "Bay 2" here.


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2008 (cont.)

 * June: When Bikes Argue 2 was released on YouTube alongside its predecessor. Meanwhile, storms that blew across mid-Michigan claimed the life of Dozerfleet-Grand Ledge base's across-the-street neighbor Shelly Mikko.
 * The short film 3-13 was released in a very different and shorter version than what was originally planned; and the project overall became shelved until a video version could be completed. Alongside it was a short PSA titled "Penguin on Drugs."  As a short, 3-13 became an unofficial sequel to Kings in the Corner.
 * Featured article: Botan the Plant-Man


 * July: Slovak Girls: Keepin' Summer HOT!!! was made ready around 10:00 PM EDT 7/23/08 for upload to YouTube. In other news, Corando's "Don't Lose Hope" Music Video and Lo-Mun's Cooking Adventure were ruled unfit to be adapted to video.  Corando was archived permanently, not be adapted to the Dozerfleet Comics Free-for-View section.  Star Flops: Curse of the Medium Side and Blue Face: TS2, however, might still get a chance.  Video adapting of those projects became a shelved concept.
 * Featured article: Corando's "Don't Lose Hope" Music Video


 * August: "Generation: Hot Coffee" T-shirts for The Sims 2 were moved to the Wikispaces version of DozerfleetWiki, before being moved much later on to The Dozerfleet Forum. At the same time, the song "Die Die Die!!!" was added to Elefante.
 * Featured article: "Phantasmic"


 * September: Comixpedia adopted an article about the DSHW format, courtesy of Dozerfleet donations.
 * Gored By Them Things was published to Bays 1 and 2. Bay 2 was created in this month, but would soon disappear without a trace along with Bay 1.
 * Featured article: Bay 2


 * October: Forum syndication of Ciem: The Human Centipede to the Mod The Sims Social Forums began. In this same month, there was a revival of interest in 90 Has No Secant.  Also, 2008 marks the beginning of The Dozerfleet Forum.
 * Featured article: Steve McNolan


 * November: The Ciem 2 plot summary was finally reduced to under 15 paragraphs. Its soundtrack was mostly completed.
 * Featured article: Music For and Inspirational to Ciem


 * December: DozerfleetWiki 1 and DozerfleetWiki2 merged into a united DozerfleetWiki, and service at Wikispaces goes offline permanently.
 * Ciem forum syndication uploads were completed at 2:57 AM EST on Thursday, December 11th, 2008.
 * The official website for 90 Has No Secant was completed on Friday, December 5th of 2008 at 10:20 PM EST. A video tour of the Rintel family's house was uploaded to YouTube.
 * Featured article: Boddler infection treatment

2009

 * January: The Dozerfleet founder heads to San Antonio for the Independent Christian Film Festival. One of many works present at that festival was Freedom Warrior Productions' The Meaning of Choice, which inspired the proposal of Navyrope.  Meanwhile, the Ciem DSHW wraps up, and the Gerosha universe gains Extirpon as another proposed new character.
 * Featured article: Mechanical Conflict


 * February: Work resumed on the writing of Stationery Voyagers, with ambition to pursue it encouraged by the moderate success of Joshua Walsh's animated short Pencil Town. Meanwhile, Ciem 2 underwent some plot modifications.
 * Featured article: The Meaning of "Choice"


 * March: "Scalding Inquiries," the pilot episode of Stationery Voyagers, is declared completed. Preparations are first made to work on the second episode: "What Must Happen."  The Every Ape and His Brother MySpace page goes offline on March 22nd, at 3:40 PM EDT.
 * Featured article: Elefante Elegante Interesante Importante


 * April: "The Wages of Cheating Death," a minisode of Stationery Voyagers, is written as a prequel to "Scalding Inquiries," for use in a class. "DozerfleetWiki2" has a name change to simply "DozerfleetWiki."  All Dozerfleet MySpace business is shut down permanently, and more work was done on "What Must Happen."  Work resumes on Ciem 2 and Ciem 3.
 * Featured article: Justin Hogan


 * May: The complete series of Stationery Voyagers is planned out; with new episodes such as: "Not What They Seem," "Essentials of Nativity," "Selective Generosity," "Extreme Passions," and "Several Millennia Prior" included. Several of the angels in Stationery Voyagers, good and evil, also had articles made available on them.  This includes: Levío, Filforth, Gabón, Dolondri, Maurice, the Dark Wanderer.
 * The Every Ape album Elefante gains a new song: "Jokerfish". It is a parody of Lady Gaga's "Poker Face."
 * Featured article: Volkonir


 * June: The Dozerfleet Forum gets a facelift, especially for its All Things Sims section bearing the Dozerfleet Sims Downloads Collection. The Dozerfleet founder theorizes DSHW 3.0, and is incensed when Child Protection Services of Arkansas completely overstep their bounds on one family.
 * Featured article: DVD-Storybook Hybrid Webcomic format


 * July: Stationery Voyagers Season One: Vocations is all mapped out, while DVD art for Ciem 2 is completed. New security standards for the wiki are implemented after 24.180 attack.
 * This month's featured quote feature added to Main Page for first time.
 * Edits resume on 90 Has No Secant, further integrating it into the Gerosha timeline.
 * Featured article: Pseudo-chroma key
 * Featured quote: "What did the Landana ever do to deserve this?"&mdash;Cruise ship control room operator, 90 Has No Secant.


 * August: DozerfleetWiki acquires the following new features: A revised Community Portal, a fleshed-out Current Events page, and a new Help page.
 * Recommended reading: The Politically-Incorrect Guide to: The Founding Fathers
 * "Ties That Confide" is completed as a Stationery Voyagers minisode, and is presented as a wedding gift to Jill and Trevor Paul. Work continued on "What Must Happen."
 * Featured article: "Slaughterized"
 * Featured quote: "You're on your own, jailbird!"&mdash;Miriam Flippo, Ciem: The Human Centipede.


 * September: Ciem 2 chapter 2 was completed. The Mutt Mackley Show spin-off Mackley's Wardrobe was proposed as a semester-long project for the Ferris State Fall 2009 Wednesday Evening TV Practicum class.  Ultimately, it was turned down in favor of Kozerlen.  This work would then further be replaced by Mountain of Cabal, and Kozerlen would be shelved as a premise for a book series.  The Dozerfleet founder was assigned the role of producer for Mountain, although director Chris Wilson was all too glad to use popularity to overrule and ignore producer authority.
 * The Contents page was divided into several indices, with completed navigation, with continued work on "What Must Happen." Production was being planned, meanwhile, for a special video for Jill and Trevor Paul's, wedding and reception.  Keeping with the naming scheme of the Stationery Voyagers episode made for them first, their wedding reception video was to be dubbed: Ties That Confide: Reception Wishes.
 * Featured article: Mutt Mackley and Gambino Penguin's "Somewhere I Belong"
 * Featured quote: "Let me tell you...my reality!"&mdash;Customs officer, "What Must Happen," Stationery Voyagers.


 * October: Ciem 2 slimline WebCD cover finished. On September 27th, the story entered Forum Syndication.  Mountain of Cabal was destined to be renamed, and would eventually be renamed Bogged before receiving its final title of Blood Over Water.  It's first episode completed shooting in this month.  Meanwhile, parody song "The Eel Thing" became part of The Chicken of the Opera, being also approved at AmIRight.
 * Featured article: Unlisted
 * Featured quote: "Who or What is 'Kozerlen'?"&mdash;Corvin the Caller, Kozerlen opening credits.


 * November: The first two of five episodes of Blood Over Water pass quality inspection on October 28th, 2009.
 * Chapter 3 of Ciem 2 was completed, with Chapter 4 in the works. Ciem 2 had over 30 views on Mod The Sims Social.
 * "On the Ethics of Creating Werewolves" song was added to Chicken.
 * Featured article: "On the Ethics of Creating Werewolves"
 * Featured quote: "Agreed."&mdash;Travino Paury and Julia Yanito, reciting traditional Markerterion wedding vows, Stationery Voyagers minisode "Ties That Confide."


 * December: Blood Over Water was completed. Revisions would be needed for cable broadcast, however.
 * DozerfleetWiki adopts banner system.
 * Stationery Voyagers templates and indexing made more sophisticated to account for increasing series complexity. Xylien Society, Yehtzig Pirate League, and la-Qualda now have articles.
 * Ciem 2 goes on a production hiatus until April. Work on "What Must Happen" to continue.
 * Featured article: Cybomec (Consto)
 * Featured quote: "He seems quite awake to me."&mdash;Arnold Rubblindo (to Sally Rubblindo concerning Huli Rubblindo), Stationery Voyagers episode "What Must Happen."
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