t.minus 12 days

posted Mar 20th, 2009 View Comments

Pedal * Blog

I have great, great news! When we first started t.minus to encourage and simplify the voting process for 64 Days in the Babelgum film festival, it required people to create an account, download and install software, oftentimes people needed to restart their browsers or computers to finish the installation, etc. Basically, what I’m saying is that was a terribly high number of hoops to jump through just to start casting votes.

Babelgum
As of this morning – Babelgum has relaunched a new design of their site, and it appears to be from the ground up. No more software necessary to watch or vote! If any of you out there tried to vote before, and were one of the many who had issues or ran into bugs with the player, then this is just in time! And for everyone else who’s been voting once a day, well, now it’s much easier.

Pedal (t.minus)
We’re really getting down to the wire in this contest – from what we can tell, we’re very, very close to the top 10 position (possibly 15th place in the Documentary category, though it’s hard to tell). And with 12 days left, we’re gonna have to push this very hard to make sure we a) don’t get bumped back on the list, and b) manage to move up in the top 5 positions.

I know I’ve mentioned it on this blog before – but doing well in this contest could secure us the finishing funds towards For Thousands of Miles. It would greatly speed up post-production and give us a head start on promotional funding, and allow us to hire help that we desperately, desperately need. Thank you so much! We can do this.

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  • Hey Mike, thanks for replying to my first post. (I'm not quite sure what happened to the comment I left a few hours back, but I guess I'll retype it.)

    I just returned from my road trip from the east coast to the west and back and it was amazing. I do in fact have a blog that I have just started. I plan to release some writings about the trip fairly regularly if you would like to read them :)
    http://mitchhutts.blogspot.com/

    I'm voting for you all and rooting for you. Take care.
  • *replying

    Why yes, I AM tired.
  • Thank god for that. I tried very hard but i just couldn't get the stupid thing to work before. From now one i'll vote once a day both from work and from home.
    And as Zach said, it got me watching the episode again and it was a wonderful way to start the day!
  • Hey Romain :) Yea, I was very excited when I saw the re-design, when the contest first launched I was having a back and forth conversation with them for two weeks about opening up voting outside of the player. I'm pretty impressed with their new site too - much, much easier to use now.

    Thanks so much for voting - and for the compliments. It means a lot to us.
  • Hey Mike and Amanda. Don't know if you guys are subscribers to Arin Crumley's tumblr blog, but I just read this in his recent email. He basically stated that he keeps a spreadsheet listing of theaters across the nation for places to potentially have film screenings.

    Here is the link to the spreadsheet: http://www.editgrid.com/user/diy/Digital_Cinema_Network

    And here is the link to Arin's tumbler blog: http://arincrumley.tumblr.com/post/88319693/digital-cinema-network-online-spreadh-sheet

    Hope this helps.

    David
  • Hey David :) No, I was only subscribed to his personal site - I don't think I even knew Arin had a Tumblr. This is a great resource! Thanks for the link!
  • You're welcome. You and Amanda take care. :)
  • Zach
    Mike, Amanda

    I just watched 64 Days on Babelgum and from the beginning thought it was going to be a retread over covered terrain, but by the end I fell in love with the project all over again. Jay's vlog at the end had me almost to tears.
    I voted
  • Hey Zach :) Like Amanda said, thank you so much for watching and for letting us know the series still moves you. And of course, thanks for voting! We need all the help we can get these last 9 days.
  • what a wonderful compliment. THANK YOU so much for sharing this us :) and of course for watching and voting!
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