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Welcome to our reality – the birth life and death of our real relationship

arincrumley — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:07:55 +0000

To experience the full Four Eyed Monsters ordeal, please follow these Four Steps: STEP 1. WATCH episodes 1 to 8 free on Blip.tv STEP 2. Get the DVD to our feature film in the USA, CANADA , or UK and watch our award winning feature length film. (You’ll also get a CD of a bunch of music [...]

How to get the DVD/CD + US Music Promotion Tour

arincrumley — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:14:14 +0000

Four Eyed Monsters in Borders Nation Wide

arincrumley — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:33:50 +0000

DVD available April 29th only in Borders

arincrumley — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 23:35:59 +0000

Production Notes

arincrumley — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:52:23 +0000

Our DVD makes a good holiday gift

arincrumley — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:05:49 +0000

Four Eyed Monsters DIY Case Study

arincrumley — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:54:00 +0000

Reuters Does a Piece on Indie film, YouTube and Four Eyed Monsters

arincrumley — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:12:25 +0000

Original Reuters Post

Screening in Montreal Oct 20th 2007

arincrumley — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:32:51 +0000

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

arincrumley — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:59:53 +0000

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

arincrumley — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:59:18 +0000

IFP Getting started in NYC

arincrumley — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:40:18 +0000

Distributing your short videos all over the web

arincrumley — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:04:59 +0000

MovieMaker interviews us

arincrumley — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:29:20 +0000

Fans become your Friends

arincrumley — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:33:58 +0000

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

arincrumley — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 06:03:53 +0000

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. iPod Download

Watch our Entire Film

arincrumley — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:12:25 +0000

Post our film in your blog: Share on: Facebook | del.icio.us | Stumble it! | digg it

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

arincrumley — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:06:21 +0000

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

arincrumley — Fri, 18 May 2007 19:36:23 +0000

So Apes and Androids took the stage at Studio B on April 28th for our DVD release party that was put on by Finger On The Pulse. 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

arincrumley — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:08:37 +0000

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

arincrumley — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:17:26 +0000

Link to low res graphic

Checking out films at Gen Art

arincrumley — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:40:38 +0000

Susan and I went and saw "The Signal" at the Gen Art Film Festival and I voted a 5 out of 5 for the audience award. We had met the producers of The Signal out at Sundance and Brian had seen the film saying good things about it so we wanted to make sure to see it before it hits theaters in a few months. Not only did they do the psychological horror genre well, but there was some good social commentary about how media controls our minds and subtle notes about how when relationships are falling apart it feels like the world as you know it is coming to an end. 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

arincrumley — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:43:48 +0000

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!!!

arincrumley — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 02:25:37 +0000

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

arincrumley — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:13:22 +0000

Sundancers & YouTubers

arincrumley — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:59:57 +0000

Subscribe to Sundance Channel on YouTube

Filmmaking 2.0

arincrumley — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:14:56 +0000

Cachefly Rules

arincrumley — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:59:00 +0000

Beck and Gingerbread Patriots talked about in the same blog entry

arincrumley — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:12:19 +0000

New stickers on the way or make your own.

arincrumley — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 03:31:35 +0000

“Humanity Lobotomy” – Now Raising Funds for Feature Lenght Version

arincrumley — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 22:13:29 +0000

Fung Wah/Chat

arincrumley — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:30:57 +0000

On Fox News Boston

arincrumley — Wed, 03 May 2006 20:18:42 +0000

Google Earth Zipcodes

arincrumley — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:02:09 +0000

On G4 TV

arincrumley — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 05:14:47 +0000

Episode 4 – Waiting For Crumley

arincrumley — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:49:12 +0000