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Humanity Lobotomy
It's happened before, a new era expression exploding could be taken away.
 brooklyn , New York
United States
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4.74.74.74.74.7
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The internet has was designed to be an open platform where anyone can create a website and any information can pass through a connection. If big business starts to be selective about what can pass through it will be like when the FCC cracked down on early radio expression and it wasn’t long before only commercial radio existed. The internet needs to stay neutral and not give certain files preference. A 10 minute version of this feature length documentary has circulated over the past year getting half a million views and now more then ever the issue is heating up and threating the future of the net. Please help me raise the funds to get a full time editor to make the project complete. I’ve already proved my filmmaking abilities with Four Eyed Monsters and the 10 minute edit. And I know I can get this documentary seen if I can release it for free. So I want to get it funded in advance so I don’t have to sell it when it’s done. people will be able to just have it and become a part of the cause.

What makes Humanity Lobotomy different:  It's a film dedicated to protecting the future of the internet. It will use the internet to get funded. It will use the internet to gather footage and material. It will use the internet to test screen rough edits. And it will use the internet to distribute the final product as a free high quality download that can be shared all over the world using, you guessed it, the internet.
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Humanity Lobotomy (10 minute draft)   (This video has had collectively over half a million views and is a very common resource used when people post blogs to raise awareness about net neutrality. The feature length documentary has the potential to dig deeper and be even more engaging then this already very well received video. There are a lot of other videos and developments and raw footage shot that can go into the feature.)
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Current Homebase for this project Hundreds of people have commented and bookmarked articles and videos related to Net Neutrality all of which display on this page. Anyone that wants to help can do so with a delicious account by starting to bookmark and comment about the clips they think should be used. Hundreds of blogs already link to this location. Eventually a full site could be built around the film with even more sophisticated interaction and and assistance from online friends helping to create the film.
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$150,000
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One third will be used for a professional editor. One third will be used to buy an HVX-200 and some portable hard drives to travel to some key speakers to film high quality interviews. These will replace low res clips we found online. We'll still use a lot of clips from the internet but will also have an assistant get permission and higher resolution copies of all the footage that was sampled. The last one third will be spent on a software programmer to innovate collaborative editing on the internet. We'll use some brand new tools I've designed that will allow thousands of people to take notes and highlight thousands of hours of footage that no one individual could ever look at. Then the master editor will utilize this collective knowledge as he works closely with myself to edit the final documentary. At the end any tools or workflow we develop will be posted as open source software free for all to use. So think about how FireFox which is open source came in and did a much better job then Microsoft Explorer. Well I think that video editing could be done much better if it was built as open source software and I see these tools for this documentary as the beginning of that.
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Arin Crumley
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$50 Contributor Once the film is completed you'll get a DVD 1 week before the film ships to anyone else and access to a live video feed you can tune into if you do a house party screening the film and want to participate in the synchronized live discussion afterward
$200 Commited Contributor In addition to everything above you'll also get a signed limited edition poster along with the DVD. And we'll also create a blog post on the films website dedicated to thanking you with a link to you or a company you represent. You'll also be able
$2,000 Premiere Contributor In addition to everything above, you also get linked to on a side bar that appears on every single page on the films website. A thank you blog will link to you on our website foureyedmonsters.com and arincrumley.com. Every single email the film sen
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Must have edited award winning feature length documentaries and be able to be located in New York City for up to 6 months. Must also be savy with web video, exporting, sharing media files and other key technology abilities. And must have a passion for protecting the internet and the freedom it represents. Must be a radical revolutionary.
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Must be the worlds best hacker. Know how to make anything and do anything and make it all look easy. A prodigy who can do everything single handedly but who also has a swiss army knife team of supports to make a lot happen faster. We are going to re-invent the post production process together so that it is something that exists in an online space with collaborators all over the world participating on microscopic and catastrophic levels. If you can change the world, get in touch.
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nelsonmadison (Thu May 29 '08)
Are you going to turn on the fundraising?
cams274 (Wed Jan 16 '08)
Isn't 150,000 a huge sum to start hoping for? If you don't make it on time, you don't get any of it. I would hate to see you not get at least of chunk of funding; maybe do it more in increments? But who knows...maybe this IndieGoGo can supply that type of money.
cams274 (Wed Jan 16 '08)
Good luck finding an editor. This looks like an interesting project.
MikeAmbs (Wed Jan 16 '08)
I want to help with this - I don't know in what capacity... but this is an important topic, and a timely one too. I'd love to be a part of it.
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