Just Tripping Along The Freakazoid

Well, for a few days I let myself follow a story/ARG/experience a little more intensely than I normally do (my apologies to all my twitter and facebook and other social media people as I flooded my accounts with really odd stuff) Pandemic 1.0 (or #pandemic11 on twitter) was a transmedia storyworld/experience created by Lance Weiler and others. It is loosely based/takes place in his HiM (Hope is Missing) storyworld from a few years ago (ck http://hopeismissing.blogspot.com/ and http://lanceweiler.com/work/case-study/ for more info on that) Lance brought a short movie to Sundance as well as a surrounding game/story/ARG ( http://www.argn.com/2011/01/sundance_film_festival_is_ground_zero_for_lance_weilers_pandemic_10/ ). He released water bottles, gold objects, phones, actual prop locations, a mission control for people to visit, and more physically at Sundance. He also coordinated a social media story using twitter, facebook, the official web site( www.hopeismissing.com ), Youtu...

The cool thing about a big sandbox is there is lots of space to play and create - here is a quick overview of the film matthewsblogmk2.blogspot.com/2011/01/forsaken.html and a link to the film's web site - www.four58.co.uk / Here is a short article about the film's special effects - www.effectsportal.net/index.php/forsaken-short-film-effects/ maybe I can even embed the trailer below - hope this works UPDATE - here is some info about the release date and more from the WoD site - worldofdepleted.com/archives/1153

Well - the journey we have been taking with Gavin through his Journal may be shifting gears ever so slightly - in the Feb 01 (2009) entry - Gavin mentions being unable to pass along certain sites and codes but perhaps other Dark Dreamers can - so this blog entry is a little (note little and not very thorough) attempt to pass along some of the information I've been finding. I've found a few of the pieces Gavin has mentioned, but I know not all - so I am sharing some of what I have found in the hopes that others can pitch in and help find even more information - I know more exists and I want to find it and the story!!!!!!! There is a lot in Gavin's journals and it is spreading - I'll share a couple and maybe others can add. Many of Gavin's first entries focused on setting the reason for the journal and following Gavin as he begins to prepare for what he believes is coming. From hunting boar, to how to cook in the field to survival tips. Then the dark turn of Gavi...

Ok so researching games, Twilight 2013 (related to www.worldofdepleted.com ) and such and came across this blog http://meltei.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/twilight-2013-week-seven/ - and what she writes, kinda really, in a nutshell, explains why I think transmedia, game mechanics and the like are good and important from the blog (not my words) "Over these weeks of Twilight 2013, I have learned a lot about the real world. Not all radios talk to each other. Some cars drink gasoline, some drink diesel. There are bullets with balls, bullets with holes and bullets capable of penetrating armour. During each game session, Ángel’s player draws pictures of guns and bullets on all pieces of paper he can reach and tries to educate me. Internet is also a great teacher." Back to me I have researched so much for the different games I find - a new one is opening - http://pandemiconedotzero.com/ and it seems to swirl so nice into the other topics I have been looking into for World of Deplet...

I have a few pet projects and one is collecting articles related to transmedia and aligned subjects - I post what I find at http://www.transmediaresources.com/ - and I have probably about 500+ articles sitting in my gmail folder that need to be added, plus there are even more to be searched out. That said - if anyone is interested in a menial task of helping to review and add resources (it takes me so long because I read the resource before adding and whooo that means lots of reading, thinking and time : ) Well anyhoos - slowly adding more - below is my last little update blurb at the site -------------- Happy New Year everyone! - It seems the creative juices and discussions continue to flow (a couple of interesting recent articles I like http://muchtoolong.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-makes-good-transmedia-format.html and http://athinklab.com/2010/12/16/a-tale-of-two-trends-augmented-reality-and-transmedia-storytelling/ ) As mentioned in both articles, transmedia has continued to build...

I ran across this article and anyone interested in digital and the future and possible social/mental/cultural impact from technology, I recommend you read it http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2011/janfeb/features/digital.html - (from the taglione for the article) "Separation Anxiety -Now that there's no escaping the digital world, research is getting more serious about what happens to personalities that are incessantly on." I really like a lot of points brought out in this article and plan on looking into it - especially since I teach technology and I love technology - it does make me wonder a bit though. I have been reading/following/writing fanfiction for a very cool "universe" called the World of Depleted ( http://worldofdepleted.com )- this article along with that scenario really has me thinking - Is a new form of mental disease/affliction developing? I know there are cases of tech/gaming addiction (watch Frontline: Digital Nation for some gre...

Just in case you were wondering... ;) From http:// knol.google.com/k/counting-in-binary-for-beginners# Take the decimal number 11,111 - Here's what the "1" in each column means in decimal, where each column represents various sets of "ten's" Decimal "10,000's" (10 4 ) "1000's" (10x10x10, or 10 3 ) "100's" (10x10, or 10 2 ) "10's" "1's" 1 1 1 1 1 So one group of 10,000, plus one group of 1,000, plus one group of 100, plus one group of 10, plus 1, Or more commonly, 11,111. Let's look at the same number - 11111 - in binary, where each column represents sets of "two's" Binary "16's" (2 4 ) "8's" (2x2x2, or 2 3 ) "4's" (2x2, or 2 2 ) "2's" "1's" 1 1 1 1 1 So one group of 16, plus one group of 8, plus one group of 4, plus one group of 2, plus 1, Comes out, in numbers most of...

well - it seems there are uncomfortable connections beginning to percolate - the latest QR code (see a couple blog posts earlier) have a possible connection to the Battle of Vindobona - I have not read anything yet about that but my mind cringes as I make the connection between Romans who were noted for crucifixion and some of Gavin's other dreams - I do not know if that is a connection or if there are others. It seems the plague figured greatly in this time period and M.A. may even have died from the plague.... I have to read some of the 1000s of sites pulled up when searching for the three items revealed in the QR contact - of course now it is worrisome, why would someone be sending a message about something that could relate to a battle, death, and so many other possibilities of course the three items listed could mean something else and this is a red herring,.... one would be so lucky.... as a side note - it seems M.A. died on March 17th, 180 - is this a way to denote the da...

So, here is another installment in the story I started in another post It's still a rough draft and very much a work in progress, it just helps to throw things out into the digital Grid sometimes : ) ------------ Title: Should've Stayed Outta Their Business (takes place about a month or two after Getting Business Done - see here for that story and for info on the characters) Author: docwho2100 Story: World of Depleted (with original characters) Pairing: F/F and who knows what else Rating - R DISCLAIMER - World of Depleted is property of Viking Productions Inc. No infringement intended. “Based on the World Created by Jeremy Hanke & Chris Tanchyk” 'This Work set in the World of Depleted – worldofdepleted.com Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 3.0 United States License’ -------------- AN - I like visuals and to log my research so here are a few references Minako's weapon - http://www.knifecenter.com/kc_new/store_detail.html?s=ASP5...

something to think about from @Caitlin_Burns on twitter One was must always choose their words carefully because someone, somewhere, will listen to them without context.

Whahhhhoooo there are things afoot - it seems the Deep Thoughts Shirt site has been updated and there are things to be seen Again a little space and a neat WoD poster and then some thoughts below - spoiler thoughts WOWZERS - one of the shirts was updated with a Qr Code - I kinda like the warning on the shirt - it fits in with the dark, ominous tone of WoD - Those Who Do Not Heed the Future Are Destined to Suffer..... If you check it out - you are lead to a URL which is a picture - http://toolfarm.com/1222/4432/1/origin_p2.png And ooooooo it's a half QR code - know what that makes me think of.... Yuppers, Gavin's dream - so on to putting them together and guess what you get.......... M.A. Vindobona. 180. And now I am going what the hooey-heck? Now I shall contemplate what those can mean.... hmmmmmmm

So which is cooler 1/1/11 or 11/11/11 or 11/1/11 :P