NO THE METRIC SYSTEM IS NOT JUST FOR FILM
YES WE ARE WORKING ON A WEBSITE
NO WE ARE POWERFUL BEYOND MEASURE
YES YOU HAVE A SAY IN HOW IT HAPPENS
NO YOU CAN BE TAKEN OFF THE LIST IF YOU WANT TO
YES WE ARE IN ONE OF THE GREATEST CITIES IN THE WORLD
WHEREVER WE LIVE
NO WE ARE PROBABLY NOT USING IT TO ITS FULL POTENTIAL
YES WE CAN BAND TOGETHER AND START
To Classify The Metric System is a name.
The name can be put on anything you make -- if you are involved with the Metric System.
The name gives iconic status to the artist. And the artist lends iconic status to the name.
A website will help promote this exchange.
Links to your work, along with a personal profile will be placed on the website.
Work that is made with other Metric System members becomes featured material on the website. The artists who created the work become, featured artists. This builds incentive for partnerships.
Back to the name. . .
The name is a tool. Tools do things.
Some of the things it would do is ignite:
*Collaboration - utilizing a terse network of visionaries to foster artistic partnerships or satisfy creative demands for projects ranging from film to music, writing to design, photography to web creation, dance to acting to urban spelunking to party-throwing to book-binding and beyond.
Bjorn used it to roster up-coming live shows of his soon-coming album "Ears Will Talk". Nate Lemoine used it to promote his fast-growing, monthly Brooklyn variety show Alternating Current. Andrew and Adam used it to make the 30 minute film "The Escapists". These are fairly good examples.
A bulletin board on the internal part of the website would help this.
**Self-Exposure - optimizing the probability for exposure by increasing the number of people who you're website + work are shown alongside. Including the website and or name on your card, or both on your own website, means you are directing all of the people who check you out to all the others -- and that all the others are directing all the people who check them out to you. And because of the beauty of design, this happens naturally. Without any cocktail hours or smarmy dealings.
If you don't have a website -- now you would.
People who checked out Mollie's Metric System profile would see the cloudy-day New England spook of her website www.molliemckinley.com, notice the haunting ramble of the music in 'All Ye Merry Pilgrims' and check out www.tuckerdalton.com. Tucker's profile would be a stone's throw from Alex's film brotherhood www.redbucketfilms.com, kitty-corner to Jamie's world of art-science livenudemachines.com, Corey's trailer for www.theescapistsmovie.com, starring Mickey www.michaelimagirl.com, juxtaposed to www.oldeenglish.org, next door to thisisalternatingcurrent
When people ask, this is the big idea. Connections between artists will be clearly revealed.
***Feedback - garnering the aid of like-minded intellects willing to offer their creative support. Gleaning advice (on grants, scholarships, craft), criticism (on work, ideas, directions) and/or plain enthusiasm + slap fives.
Jesse Allen + I will be requesting some of this for our feature project MY THIRTY YEAR WAR.
A bulletin board on the internal part of the website would also help this.
Other things the tool could do:
****supply a monthly e-publication to make membership more interactive
****create shows for artwork, fundraisers or otherwise
****gain a 501 umbrella and procure $ for projects
****bolster drive
****anything else you could suggest:______________________
AT PRESENT, EVERYTHING IS FLEXIBLE. PROPOSE IDEAS. PROPOSE PROJECTS. OR JUST LET US KNOW YOU STILL WANT IN.
THE WEBSITE WILL COINCIDE WITH THE RELEASE OF BJORN QUENEMOEN'S "EARS WILL TALK", THE NYC PREMIERE OF THE ESCAPISTS AND THE DEBUT ALBUM OF THE NEIGHBORS.
LOV.
AG + AC + BQ ET AL
