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ladyvyolaWell, it was an exciting week for Revelations but I got it mostly second-hand, as all of chez Vyola was vilely ill last week and I was off-line for most of it.
Tish Wells, a writer/researcher for Knight Ridder, has long been following the progress of our movie (she's a Farpoint regular) and recently interviewed a bunch of us. She warned us not to get our hopes up but was cautiously optimistic about getting the article on-line and possibly picked up by various papers.
A "Star Wars" fan film is born was carried not only on KR's own Washington Bureau, but picked up by such papers as the San Jose Mercury News, the Miami Herald, the Detriot Free Press, the Wichita Eagle, the Arizona Republic, the Contra Costa Times, the DFW Star-Telegram, and more. (There's also a companion article, No films draw fan filmmakers like "Star Wars", featuring our own dashing smuggler, Frank Hernandez.)
So, inevitably, it hit Slashdot, which led to a million and one syndicated feeds and aggregators (including MetaFilter), and a top spot on Yahoo Buzz. At this point, all publicity is good publicity, though Slashdot continues to give geeks a bad name. Nothing like listening to people who don't know what they're talking about pontificate on matters they don't understand!
Needless to say, the server crashed rather spectacularly. It's up again, thanks to some wonderful supporters. And with the gala premiere only 26 days away (eeeeek!), you can get a look at my most significant writing of the last two years:
REVELATIONS: The Official Fanzine
Check it out -- there's a ton of behind-the-scenes pictures, interviews with the cast and crew, puzzles, and assorted fun stuff.
Tish Wells, a writer/researcher for Knight Ridder, has long been following the progress of our movie (she's a Farpoint regular) and recently interviewed a bunch of us. She warned us not to get our hopes up but was cautiously optimistic about getting the article on-line and possibly picked up by various papers.
A "Star Wars" fan film is born was carried not only on KR's own Washington Bureau, but picked up by such papers as the San Jose Mercury News, the Miami Herald, the Detriot Free Press, the Wichita Eagle, the Arizona Republic, the Contra Costa Times, the DFW Star-Telegram, and more. (There's also a companion article, No films draw fan filmmakers like "Star Wars", featuring our own dashing smuggler, Frank Hernandez.)
So, inevitably, it hit Slashdot, which led to a million and one syndicated feeds and aggregators (including MetaFilter), and a top spot on Yahoo Buzz. At this point, all publicity is good publicity, though Slashdot continues to give geeks a bad name. Nothing like listening to people who don't know what they're talking about pontificate on matters they don't understand!
Needless to say, the server crashed rather spectacularly. It's up again, thanks to some wonderful supporters. And with the gala premiere only 26 days away (eeeeek!), you can get a look at my most significant writing of the last two years:
REVELATIONS: The Official Fanzine
Check it out -- there's a ton of behind-the-scenes pictures, interviews with the cast and crew, puzzles, and assorted fun stuff.
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Date: 2005-03-21 08:23 pm (UTC)G. says he remembers the story, but didn't realise it was you lot!
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Date: 2005-03-21 08:58 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-03-22 07:50 pm (UTC)Well, your name looks good in the credits....
Like my icon? The keyword is nicky pwns you
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Date: 2005-03-22 08:45 pm (UTC)What can I say - I'm just indispensible ;)
(Heh! Yeah, right)
BTW . . .
Date: 2005-03-22 08:51 pm (UTC)You were so right about slashdotcom. Up until now I've fastidiously avoided anything to do with these fan film forums. My lord, these people are annoying little "know-it-all twerps." It was everything I could do not to get on there and flame the hell out of all of them. As it was I just felt I had to get myself a nickname and post the heck out of the uninformed little morons! I figured I'm far enough away from the actual production that I can post without too much nepotism! (Heh, yeah right)
Re: BTW . . .
Date: 2005-03-23 09:39 pm (UTC)Me too, but I had to read.
I wanted to post, especially to the "boyz" who said the leads weren't at all attractive:
Uh-huh...why do I picture you as a 300 pound, pimply-faced moron sitting in front of the computer right now wacking off to pictures of some anime babe? Stereotype, yes. But let's face it...I bet I'm hittin' pretty close to home here, fanboy.
But for some reason, I couldn't bring myself to do it. *sigh*