Just Tripping Along The Freakazoid

So, stumbled across this film - http://bestfriendsforeverfilm.com/ Well, film in production. They are running a kickstarter project - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/breagrant/best-friends-forever-an-apocalyptic-feature-film It is a buddy flick, a horror flick, an apocalyptic flick and a woman flick (many would say chick flick, but I am trying to be classy ;) From their kckstr page - " BEST FRIENDS FOREVER is a dark comedy and sci-fi horror film, combining equal parts buddy film, road trip and nuclear apocalypse story, but with girls. Harriet, the perpetual but unsuccessful optimist, has finally figured out how to take her passion for comics and turn it into a responsible life. But when she and Reba, her seemingly devil-may-care best friend, hit the road to Austin, TX, an impending nuclear apocalypse endangers the best-laid plans and even the best of friendships." The intro video for their campaign is one of the funniest I have seen (along with the videos from the King...

Wow - this is a great post apocalyptic short - I hope more of this story will be done!! go give it a look see RUIN from OddBall Animation on Vimeo .

Well, I have been swamped with this and that, but, finally getting back to things I love to do and play with, including World of Depleted. There are three things I am playing with 1. My next two stories. One is the next installment in my Business series - I will post it here in a couple days in a rough draft form, anyone willing to read it and give me opinions and help with editing it :) pleassssseeeee :o) 2. Strange email from Gavin Got an email from Gavin a little bit ago (from the account which I am still trying to figure out what the name means - any ideas)? but I digress - the subject line read: Rift..*&&@ !!@89o8#!# #...mail.. . There was one word Meta. and there was only a QR code attached. When I scanned it - the following popped out Book of Enoch. Beta Israel. Read Metadata. ok - so, I finally figured out how to read metadata of image files (yeah, ok you seasoned ARG players, I know that is a skill you do in your sleep, still, I am giddy I managed to do this, and...

UPDATE - so I go to listen to this and the link says video removed - I am like nooooo the willy wonka people took it down - then I search and find this - http://srslysirius.com/blog/my-dispute-with-quadjacks/#more-192 interesting article and read - and good thoughts on the stress copyright and IP causes - but if you wanna hear the cool willy wonka - go to his site Ok this is so oddly bad and catchy - hehe - it's my new ringtone and no, I will not admit how many times I have now listened to it thanks to http://io9.com/5892278/gene-wilder-picks-up-the-beat-in-this-surprisingly-awesome-willy-wonka-remix?

So, two new narratives, events, games, interesting way to tell a story can across my Twitter scanner this evening and both look fun, although one is better lending to my time than the other. Also, something very, very interesting is the diminished turnaround time between the story being introduced and fans taking over and setting up shop (aka discussions on unfiction, working the wiki and more) to take advantage of a story - are readers/story users finally starting to really groove to alternate story delivery and beginning to make connections to make the story better and to keep it flowing? I hope the answer is yes... also, I have to admit, I am not a crack puzzle solver, so middle level puzzles/interaction projects are more accessible to me, and it seems like more of these types of projects are starting to come out (part because mainstream has caught this form finally, part because people are better at making this type of story and part because it has finally really moved into the ...

this looks really interesting, but alas $60 is not something right now I can part with. I wonder how well this will do. The idea of having the puzzles delivered is cool and I wonder if there will be connections between players or if all players are essentially going through the same puzzle? I wish, to, there was a transmedia/puzzle site kinda like trip advisor that could be used to rate people and organizations that run these events, especially as more and more are popping up - kinda part catalog for what is out there and part user comments about whether the person/group is valid, delivers good product, etc. Hmm - is there a transmedia/ARG/stuff like this ratings site out there? I started to rate things with my transmedia maps - maybe I should go back to that. Anyhoos, here is the game - let me know peoples if you play and if you know of a ratings site. http://www.blacklettergame.com/faq.html

So - a project that has come across my scope is looking for people to build an ARG - take a look - jump in, have fun - http://passion-perfect.livejournal.com/4291973.html