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The ‘Coin Killer Game’ is an interactive solution to a viral marketing challenge posed by most anticipated release of 2007, the new Coen brothers movie, No Country for Old Men.
This attraction is being hailed as the best piece of filmmaking ever evidenced by the cinematic siblings - its certain to be a ‘must-see’ movie for millions of devoted fans. In this film, a compressed air tank welding villain played by Javier Bardem asks a gas station attendant ‘How much have you ever wagered in a coin toss?’. The same dialogue has been preserved online in the opening frames of the Coin Killer Game.
After uploading a personal photo, each visitor must click the ‘flip this coin’ prompt and watch as an American quarter rotates up above the banner, where it disappears… The user is asked to chose ‘Heads or Tails?’
This exciting challenge ends with each visitor ultimately losing the match, and then watching in horror as his or her personal photo becomes a ‘death portrait’.
The game imagines the player's death portrait and simulates what each face would look like after being struck by the villain’s signature weapon. Check out the author’s own face after the gruesome attack.
The Coin Killer Game is the next evolution of online marketing; already a facebook widget, this application is almost certain to convey tens of thousands of unique viewers to the No Country for Old Men site before the campaign ends in late November.
I had to work a Fairytale Party with my sister today and it was kinda rough to say the least. Trying to corral a bunch of three year olds is like trying to corral flies!
Anyway, I'm finally chilled out and relaxed. I'm listening to old school R&B and digging how these bands were so damned good. Right now, The Isley Brother's Voyage to Atlantis is playing. This song always makes me want to have a glass of wine and make slow love. The opening guitar solo is so friggin' hypnotic! I'm debating waking up the husband!!!!
Audio of Voyage to Atlantis.
Hail Atlantis!
Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be,
Way down below the ocean where I wanna be she may be...
Here I sit upon a stool wondering about things for which I have no answers wondering all the while why it is that I wonder about such things that have no real importance to the fate of mankind and the tiny spinny sphere that we find ourselves riding upon through this particular bit of the universe...
Alas, I am but one person amongst the billions of individuals who populated this orb, how can I make a difference in the ultimate fate of humanity? How can my voice be heard over the mutterings of all who surround me? And if my voice can be heard, would anyone listen to what I have to say? Does any of this really matter or should I just concern myself with gratifying my senses?
I can type a billion words and place them somewhere so all the world can see, but will anyone take the time to learn from the message that is contained therein? Or for that matter, will anyone actually bother to even to stop by and take a look at this one lone voice screaming into the storm that threatens the very fabric of this lone spaceship in the vast wasteland of the universe?
There is much swirling about in the space between my ears that I find it hard to even begin telling the world what I find important at this moment in time. But then again, would anyone amongst the billion actually listen to what I have to say if I could actually think of what to place in the wasteland of my cyberexistence?
And still with every ray of sunlight that peeks through the storm clouds, I feel that there is hope for mankind and that all my words have not been written in vein...
Can you hear me now? Can you here me now, my children?
This is the Word of the AntiCrust...
Praise be ye who Read the Word for ye are Blessed amongst humans and a little ray of sunshine peeking through the darkest cloud...
So finally I'm watching it, from the beginning, and I'm getting into it! Why? Because it's Star Trek, and I mean that in a good way.
Star Trek was a specific formula, dictated by the structure of TV in the 60s. Two sets; on the ship and on the planet. Many planets, but just one planet set, so the set crew had to hustle and completely change the planet set every week. For ST: Next Generation, they called it "Planet Hell". There was constant tension between the producer (wanting to explore strange new worlds) and the studio (who wanted everybody to stay aboard ship, 'cause it was cheaper to use just the one set).
Star Trek was also about the crew, so every episode had two plots, about members of the cast. Each plot was taken from a simple palette (person in peril, person falls in love, person gains wisdom, etc). Somewhere there's a list of the 13 different Star Trek plots, which are recycled continuously.
This stuff just sounds cheap, so why am I saying that it's a good thing, that SG-1 follows this formula? Well, partly because this kind of storytelling is comfortable like an old sock (to me, anyway). Plus, the writing on SG-1 is very comfortable within this structure, without being confined by it. I see the tradional structures, but SG-1 is modern enough and good enough that it's a fun homage, not a tired retread.
I've only seen the first season, though. I expect things to change, and I can only hope it doesn't change for the worse.
Pictures like the one above both calm and excite me at the same time. Both sets of emotions roll through me like a wave. The calm is from the quiet in the extreme vastness of space. No noise, no people, no nothing. Seeing the earth behind the shuttle, so large, yet so small in comparison to the rest of space, also contributes to the feeling of calm.
The excitement comes from the accomplishments of the past and those yet to come. We built a vehicle that carries people into space! It literally rockets through the sky and ends up in space! And this is just the beginning. Not to get all Star Trek on you folks, but we've barely scratched the surface of our potential. Space travel will someday become quite routine. I'm willing to bet that it will still be damn exciting.
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