In the midst of moving apartments, Erica found that we still have piles and piles of stickers, plus a box full of pins, and, lastly, a Kinko’s sleeve of film flyers!
We’re making care packages and mailing them out to *anyone* who simply emails their mailing address to info@FToMfilm.com - free of charge. Help us run out of stock!
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Received a wonderful email this morning from Chris, which read,
My sister and I did some ‘postering’ in Rhode Island last month. We tried to be strategic - posting in front of an art house cinema, on the street where all the college kids hang, and near this long lane of bike racks. We also talked to a few people about the project.
The attached photo was so great to see - this makes several people that have not only taken the time to download our FToM flyer zip, print off the flyers that they like best, but they’ve gone out and spent the time it takes to post flyers around town, in coffee shops and near public bicycle-racks and indie-friendly theaters.
It’s been a few months since I’ve posted about our minimalist FToM posters / flyers, they are free, not only to download, but to remix and to be shared online and on telephone poles and in bicycle shop windows, etc.
Be sure to bring your camera if you do happen to head out into the real world with any of these printed off, we’d love to share your photos / video here on the blog.
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Received a wonderful email this morning from Chris, which read,
My sister and I did some ‘postering’ in Rhode Island last month. We tried to be strategic - posting in front of an art house cinema, on the street where all the college kids hang, and near this long lane of bike racks. We also talked to a few people about the project.
The attached photo was so great to see - this makes several people that have not only taken the time to download our FToM flyer zip, print off the flyers that they like best, but they’ve gone out and spent the time it takes to post flyers around town, in coffee shops and near public bicycle-racks and indie-friendly theaters.
I don’t know what I’ve done to deserve such things - but thank you to Chris and his sister, and to everyone else who has been amazing and generous enough to be so involved with FToM.
I created two new FToM 11x17 flyers last week in-between longer Final Cut renders - I can’t say that using Photoshop and FCP at the same time was making my laptop very happy, but in any case, I’ve just now been able to add those two new designs to the flyers zip package. Clicking the above photo or this link will save the zip package (10.3 MBs) to your computer.
I’m fairly happy with the new flyer design that I saved as ‘The Road’ - it’s a very simple look but I think it’s appropriate for the film. I have yet to get a chance to print these designs out myself to see how they look on paper - but I will be doing so as soon as possible.
Sorry for the lack of project updates as of the last few days - some of you may have seen on twitter that I took a last-minute flight from LA to KY for a funeral. It’s been a hard week. More on that in an upcoming post…
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It’s been such a long, long time since we’ve been able to reach out to new people in ways that haven’t been 99% online, so I wanted to do a video update talking about how exciting this whole experience was!
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Amanda and I ran to the Van Nuys Kinko’s yesterday to print off some of our 11x17 FToM flyers :)
If you want to print off your own flyers you can grab the PDFs here: cl.ly/2M0u
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via ericahampton:
This makes me happy. The FToM “last push” campaign has only 37 days left on Kickstarter. Thanks Michelle, for helping spread the word to a broader audience one flyer at a time :) You’re kind of awesome :)
There have been certain points in the last few years of working on FToM where people do something or say something that has such a strong affect on me… that it really divides the project into before and after moments. This is one of those.
The thought of Michelle wandering the streets of Chicago posting FToM flyers on locked bicycles is just… new and it’s exciting… and it means so much to me. Somebody is getting a giant hug when I see them, that’s all I’m saying.
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printed a load of FToM flyers and heading out to post them at my local coffee shop.
@loonachic What!?!? You realize if I was there right now I would hug you and pick you up and run around the room. Is that inappropriate? ♥
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The 1st Kinko’s we ran to had somehow lost their entire internet connection - they even had a mountain of outgoing shipments that couldn’t be processed because of the downtime. Then, the 2nd Kinko’s we drove to was having issues printing the 11x17 flyers correctly: first it tried to squeeze it onto a normal piece of paper, then it added in about 4 inches of margins on an 11x17 piece of paper, and then it had the image running off the page.
The nice gentlemen who worked at Kinko’s was having the same issues, he finally found that re-saving the images as PDFs seemed to fix the problem. We couldn’t figure out *why* a TIFF would print so differently and so all-over-the-place. Strange.
But, in any case, I re-saved the images as PDFs on the server, I didn’t want any of you having the same hour-long pain that we had earlier today. So, if you’re planning on running to your local print-shop, please be sure you’re bringing the new PDF versions of these flyers with you ♥
When we first posted the KSR intro video for Everything Feels Connected, Alyss Black wrote this on Vimeo:
Oh my gosh, Mike, you have no idea how excited I am for your film!! If you want, I can put up flyers to spread the buzz around Philly!! Just let me know what I can do to help! :D
Since the above comment I’ve also received an email and a facebook post asking for the same FToM flyers. I’m a little rusty when it comes to Photoshop, but I hope these three 11x17 flyers are a good start.
I’m going to Kinko’s later today to print a few off - if you aren’t able to make it to a copy-shop and want a few to post locally, let us know in the comments here and we’ll try our best to get you a few. For those of you who are able and willing to print some of these off - be sure to take some photos or even video of you doing so! We’d love to share here on the blog.
To download these three flyers - just click the image above or click here to start your download (9.2 MBs). Thank you for all the support and encouragement!
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cutting it close
With only a day left before we leave – we are still waiting for Nick’s pannier’s to show up, without them, he has no way of strapping on his thirty-some pounds of cloths & equipment… we are hoping that, despite the fact that it’s memorial weekend, UPS or FedEx – which ever it is – will still deliver on sunday. But if it doesn’t show in the mail, then we’ll have to wait until tuesday… which will push our leave-date back till wednesday, which we just can’t do.
So – just to be on the safe side, we’re picking some up at a bike shop tomorrow morning. On top of this, I’ve been waiting for a miniDV head-cleaner in the mail for eight days now – luckily it just showed up today, which saved me $25 bucks and a trip to Best Buy.
I also just remembered I have to finish designing several “postcards” for project pedal, then get a few-hundred printed off at Kinko’s – ‘promotionals’ I can hand out or leave stacks of on our way to Seattle… draw some more attention to the film. Giving me yet another last minute errand to run before monday morning. Here’s a sneak peak.
I’m sticking with black & white on the first run due to my being dead-broke… not to mention anything I spend now starts cutting into my food-money.
