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How to get the DVD/CD + US Music Promotion Tour
In addition to being in many borders stores across the US there are a growing number of other ways to get our DVD.
If you are in the UK or surrounding area you can Order the DVD online.
If you are in the US and not near a borders store you can use the Borders Store locator […]
Four Eyed Monsters in Borders Nation Wide
Stay tuned for info about getting the DVD online and in other countries.
DVD available April 29th only in Borders
The birth, life and death of our real relationship. Our project tells the story of finding each other, melding into one and becoming a living breathing Four Eyed Monster. The project consists of a feature film, season one of our episodes and the final conclusion, Season 2, of our episodes. The […]
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Four Eyed Monsters is an autobiographical film about how Arin Crumley & Susan Buice met in 2002 and really didn’t speak for the first 4 months of their relationship. They treated their relationship as an experiment to learn what love is, document their experiences and then present their findings.
The film was shot in 14 […]
Our DVD makes a good holiday gift
Buy The Four Eyed Monsters DVD
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The Four Eyed Monsters DVD makes a great gift and it’s only $15 dollars and is region free and can ship to anywhere in the world. The DVD has […]
Four Eyed Monsters DIY Case Study
Reuters Does a Piece on Indie film, YouTube and Four Eyed Monsters
Screening in Montreal Oct 20th 2007
Susan and I are getting on a train to come to Montreal to screen our film at Ex-Centris and do a post screening discussion. We are also doing a panel at SAT about the future of cinema.
Details about the Four Eyed Monsters Screening in Montreal Here.
Anyone can set up a screening of our film using Bravenewtheaters.com. Just fill out the info and get a DVD from our store and boom, your done. Start promoting the event.
Young People Fucking Video Blog - We are going to Montreal
We are screening Four Eyed Monsters in Montreal this Saturday (10-19-07) and participating in a panel about the future of cinema at this film festival in Montreal called Nouveau Cinema. They are doing a video blog while the festival happens and here is their recent post about the movie “Young People Fucking”.
How to Translate our Movie into your language
So Four Eyed Monsters is now captioned in English and ready to be subtitled into your language for everyone to see online and on our new DVD. If you are still interested in helping with this effort, we can send you a gift as a thank you.
And here are the simple steps […]
IFP Getting started in NYC
Ifp is getting started. Yesterday we missed Moby. Wednesday Anita Serwcki is on a panel with Peter Broderick and Ted Hope is also doing something.Also Eugene’s on a panel w/ Charles Burnett, who was at our meeting last saturday, small world.
Finally, E&O and You sounds like something I should be at on friday.
The talk […]
Distributing your short videos all over the web
MovieMaker interviews us
Fans become your Friends
Sara who works at YouTube and runs the Story Board Channel caught up with three of our friends Holly, Nicole and Mike. The interesting thing about these friends are that we met them all through the project and all have since gotten involved either putting on screenings, selling shirts or traveling up and down the coast capturing footage about our project. Check out this awesome video of how amazingly involved everyone gets with our project.
RE: Four Eyed Monsters
This video above is a mash up are all the responses to our entire feature film being live on YouTube.
Don’t forget to join:
Spout.com/foureyedmonsters
This video can be re-edited in anyway you wish. Just download it and do as you will with it.
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Want to see our film with closed captions or in another language?
We are using DotSub.com to translate our film. So far someone has captioned the first 7 minutes which you can watch Four Eyed Monsters Captioned and Translated here. Become a member dotsub.com and start translating our film to other languages to help people in your country get a chance to see it.
Want to see our film in it’s full quality?
BUY our DVD & Super High Quality Downloads that we are selling through our site using bside.com.
Do you want to see our film in a theater in your hometown?
If people want to see our film in a theater, that can happen, we did it last september in the US and are now opening up to the rest of the world. All you have to do is get friends to sign up on our site to “request” a screening of our film and anywhere there is a lot of demand a screening is very likely to come together. Read up here on how you can even put on your own screening of our film.
$1 goes to Four Eyed Monsters for each person who joins Spout.com
Holy Crap, everyone go join spout.com and help us out of debt!
It’s live: Spout.com is officially giving us 1 dollar for every person we can get to join Spout.com.
So please, help us get out of debt by going to spout.com/foureyedmonsters and join their site.
Spout said the max is 100,000 dollars, so thats our goal, to get 100,000 people to join spout and that would put a serious dent in our debt. So we need your help. Click “get this widget” to put the below graphic in a bulletin or blog to help us spread the word and get everyone you know to join spout. And here is are some reasons why spout is awesome and forward thinking that you can copy and paste into an email blast to your friends.
Why Spout.com is cool:
Frills:
•It lets you keep a list of films you want to see.
•It integrates into your Netflix queue.
•It gives you widgets to put on your MySpace profile.
•It lets you see what your friends are talking about.
•It recommends films to you based on your ratings of other films.
Bigger picture:
The fact that Spout is collecting information about what films people would like to see and where those people are means that movie theaters might eventually start to book screenings based on the demand for a film. A system we custom built a few months back to uses a heart map to self-distribute our film by letting people “request” our film. A site like Spout.com is in a good position to make this completely ordinary for all films. And it might not require much effort on the filmmakers’ part. People just collect lists of films they would like to see because that helps them stay organized and helps them get notified when films are playing near where they are. It doesn’t matter if it’s a film festival or a blockbuster hit; if you want to see it, that is valuable information to make publicly available.
Even Bigger Picture:
If you look at sites like Last.FM that track the music you have listened to and think a little about all the talk in the industry about peer-to-peer distribution models and subscription content services, it’s fair to assume that the value of knowing what films people have seen might someday be the way filmmakers get paid.
Check out this article posted three years ago describing a vision of the future in which everyone gets every piece of music and video they want for free using things like Bittorrent and other peer-to-peer technology, and then they share the fact that they have watched the movie through a site like spout.com and maybe even automatically with software on their computer or portable device. Then people pay 10 dollars a month into a pot that gets divided up based on what got seen that month. That way you could really free up distribution of music and film and just let files go where ever they’d like, which sort of happens anyway.
The only down side to this model is that it rewards the popular content. What about content that hasn’t been made or released yet? The article addresses that with the author’s own ideas, but mine would be that half of your monthly 10 dollars could be dedicated to one artist and the other half is divided up based on views. That way, if everyone is a huge fan of some filmmakers who are trying to raise money for their next film, they stand a chance at being able to get that money through this system.
So join this social film experiment. For all we know it will become a huge piece of what the future of media holds. Join spout.com.
And Check out this widget we got from Spout that shares Susan and I’s top rated films on their site. Anyone can make a widget like this in a few seconds and paste the code on their blog or MySpace profile.
Apes and Androids Live
Sexy cheerleading squads, lazers and giant blow up monsters with four eyes… good times. Check out the video we uploaded to ourstage.
If you are interested in helping this video do well on OurStage, go to the music video category and watch all of the music videos and when this one comes up in rotation give it a good vote. Some of the other music videos on the site are also pretty cool and you are only required to watch 30 seconds before placing your vote, which is usually enough time to tell if you like it.
New Sponsor OurStage.com
Enter Our Stage… I really think there is a chance they’ve developed a simple easy to use and accurate system for social curating.
DVD Launch Party - Free Performance by “Apes and Androids” April 28th 2007
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Checking out films at Gen Art
So on our way into the screening we were grabbed by David Jr. before the screening who interviewed us about what we’re up to with Four Eyed Monsters and our DVD and we also talk about “UFO’s”.
Here is the resulting video:
Check out more videos about UFO’s by David Jr.
IFC TV Survey
We are doing some research about the Independent Film Channel (IFC TV) trying get funding for the next batch of episodes as well as find a way that works for everyone involved to get our feature film onto TV. So it would be really cool if people could help us out and answer these questions.
DVDs!!!
We’ve got great news, we’ve been told by our manufacturing company our DVDs are finally done. Above are the graphics we created for the cover and back of the DVD. We have just a few things to finalize later this week to get all of our DVDs shipping to those who have pre-ordered DVDs. Then we’ll go live with a brand new online store and announce the official ship date at which point DVDs will be shipped the day they are ordered and we’ll be in business with the whole DVD launch.
Sundance Channel Survey
It would be really helpful if you could fill out this survey. We are meeting with the Sundance Channel tomorrow so this info will be very valuable to our dialog with them.
Do you have any comments about this survey, about any of these ideas or anything else to add, please post a comment below.
Sundancers & YouTubers
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Filmmaking 2.0
Co-Hosted by Shooting People
This event is part of a discussion series that will run from Sunday, December 3 through Thursday, December 7. Each night, we will discuss a different topic that is relevant to the film. Discussions take place following the 7:25pm screening. See the complete schedule.
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, following the 7:25pm screening.Cinema […]
Cachefly Rules
Here is a video Cachefly made about thier service:
Our videos use to download super slow on a day we would post an episode. Now, it’s not a problem, they load fast and keep our viewers watching our material imediately after it posts. The reason why is the they cache the files on servers […]
Beck and Gingerbread Patriots talked about in the same blog entry
New stickers on the way or make your own.
Apes and Androids are playing at 11:00 pm tonight at the knitting factory in new york. They did the song in the first half of episode 8. I’ll be there but unfortunately Susan won’t since she’s visiting her parents.
Anyway, quick update, we did a meet up last week and met some new people […]
“Humanity Lobotomy” - Now Raising Funds for Feature Lenght Version
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There are a few ways to subscribe and make sure you get each episode right away when it’s released. Of course our video podcast is completely free and doesn’t require you give up your email. So one way is to simply Subscribe to our MySpace Blog and […]
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Episode 4 - Waiting For Crumley
