How Just Talking About Your Creative Experiments Can Help Them Succeed
from the getting-the-word-out dept
You may recall that, last week, we wrote a short post about Kevin Clark's discussion of his Cucumbers & Gin project, which was a music video of an original classical composition by Clark, played on violin. What we thought was interesting about that was that Clark argued that even though the project had not made money directly, it was a success in many non-monetary ways. After we posted that, the story got picked up in a few different places, including actress Felicia Day tweeting about it. Clark has come back to note that just talking about his project on Step2 seems to have made the project itself much more successful:As a result of posting here the project got a positive mention on Alarm Will Sound's facebook page for the Noteflight integration (I've worked with them on a commission project for Ken Ueno in the past), Mike Masnick (hi there!) wrote us up on Techdirt, which then got tweeted by Felicia Day, and blogged about by Minnesota Public Radio.We can't promise that Felicia Day and Minnesota Public Radio will take notice of your project if you post about it over at Step2, but apparently it doesn't hurt your chances...
It's been fun to watch the viewcount on the video and my own site traffic over the last few days. I've been keeping the crew from the film up to date on the spike and it's been really great for them to see this day's work from last April paying off in some not insignificant internet outlets.
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Great! Now somebody scrape together a $100M...
By the way, WHAT clever 'dirty won the ten thousand in the Step2 video contest? Looked for that the other day, but didn't seem to be on the front page...
(Trying to post again when got blank page in response...)
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This time, I just don't know what you're talking about in the first part of your comment.
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"WHAT clever 'dirty won the ten thousand in the Step2 video contest? "
Has someone won it yet? These things usually take a couple of weeks to judge after the closing date.
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I suppose that's where he derives his name from.
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By his logic, that means that the theatrical model doesn't work. I suppose we should scrap them because studios can't depend on them for 100% of their revenue...
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Talk about desperation. Mike, come on. Outside of you own posts, Step2 is effectively dead. Give it up already.
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WTG!
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Is your scroll button broken? Your RSS feed? All the stories appear fine in my browser and RSS reader, and I'm capable of scrolling down to see any stories I missed since my last visit.
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