Thank you to Gwyneth Llewelyn for blogging about this: Indie filmmakers Susan Buice and Arin Crumley, on their website, have been accepting requests for showings of their autobiographical film Four Eyed Monsters. They plan to commit to a showing in any town that's had requests from at least 150 people.What's interesting about this is that on their Request page, wherein you can sign in to request a showing in your town, there's a drop-down menu of countries from which you may choose. Right below 'United States' is '2nd Life'. Apparently, we rate as our own country now!
The film itself sounds intriguing, and you can go to their website to get a summary. Let's make this happen! If we can get 150 to request a showing in SL, that could be just the beginning ...
Unretouched photo of the drop-down menu after the jump!
(Thanks, Gwyneth!)Check it out:
1. Yikes! I'm behind and just caught this post. Thanks for putting this out there, Akela!
Copying from a comment I just left on Hamlet's post about bring FEM to SL:
Second Life is rising up the request charts but still needs more. If you're reading this and on the edge, do it, do it, it takes 10 seconds, request it here! I've also created an inworld group called "Four Eyed Monsters" (member title "Four Eyed Avatar") if anyone wants to join, stay updated on progress, and give input on how we'll do the screening (providing enough people request one!).
Note: because SL isn't a terrestrial location we've been told that the best way to request the film is to enter "2nd Life" (no quotes) in the zip code box and choose "2nd Life" from the dropdown country menu. I think some of the SL requests are taking longer to show up on the tracker because people have used slightly different language and the very small FEM team is trying to keep up with and categorize everything properly. Right now we have 81 confirmed requests, putting SL between Phoenix (80) and Orlando (89). Let's see if we can beat top-ranking LA at 420 :). (The requests take a day or so to show up on the map so don't worry if you don't see yours right away.)
BTW, here's FEM co-creator Arin Crumley's original comment on my blog. I met up with him and Susan in person and they're both really cool and excited about this:
"So yes, if that number gets to 150, we’ll honor the promise to book the screening, and hopefully we can pack the virtual house for the screening and show up for a virtual q&a and [throw a] swanky virtual party afterwards, maybe even book a few thursdays in a row if attendance is good."
Posted at 12:27PM on Sep 27th 2006 by Jerry PaffendorfSNOOPYbrown Zamboni