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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via Nathan Kane on instagr.am
The new @FToM stickers are here. Today just got better. Check out the film at ftomfilm.com! Thanks @mikeambs!
It makes me happy to see these stickers out in the real world. Speaking of, we still have a handful of free stickers for those who want some!
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Free stickers! Look what just arrived at the front door today - a brand new box of 300 transparent 3x3 FToM stickers from VG. If you pre-ordered a t-shirt during our last Kickstarter campaign, then you’ll have a handful of these in your package when it arrives - but before we posted these new stickers to our FToM shop, I wanted to do something fun and give some of these away.
Okay, so here’s how you can snag some free FToM stickers:
- If you’re a Tumblr user, be sure you’re following the production blog - and if you’re not a Tumblr user, just be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed. We won’t be double-checking on this or anything, we’re just relying on the honor system.
- Send us a quick email with the subject line: FToM stickers - and we’ll respond with an address where you can snail-mail a self-address envelope.
That’s it! We’re only giving away stickers to the 1st 50 people who email us - so don’t wait too long.
Hello. Want a free FToM t-shirt, a handful of stickers and buttons, plus the love and gratitude of two first-time filmmakers? Just click the reblog button :)
Each Wednesday during our Kickstarter campaign, which runs until the middle of October, we are going to randomly select one of the amazing people who helped share the above video and send them an FToM ♥ care-package.
We’ll reblog this video each week with an announcement on who snagged a package and a short update on how the campaign is going. If you happened to not be picked at the end of the week, you can reblog to re-enter. xo.
Source: ftomfilm
promotional politics
The other day I tried to drop some ‘Project Pedal stickers’ off onto my favorite theatre in downtown Santa Monica, Laemmle’s Monica Fourplex. I was naive enough to assume it would be no big deal.
First I was re-directed to the main office, the employees did not have permission to simply place a small stack of twenty stickers on their promotional table. So Amanda and I drove down Santa Monica Blvd in bumper-to-bumper traffic until we reached the Laemmle-headquaters, I wandered through an un-marked door and up a narrow flight of stairs overflowing with what looked like old mail.
When I came around the corner and into the small loft office, all three people were on the phone – so I stood there awkwardly for a second until the receptionist finally acknowledged my entering the room. I explained what I was doing and asked if it was okay for me to leave some stickers with them, the receptionist then said I would have to talk with the marketing director, when I asked who this person was, he pointed to the guy – still on the phone – two feet to my right. So, I stood there some more and waited while he wrapped up his conversation, then ours went something like this:
Mike: Hi, I was hoping I could leave of stack of these stickers at your Fourplex on 2nd, they’re for an independent documentary –-
Marketing Director: [cutting me off in mid-sentence] Are we showing this film?
Mike: What?
Marketing Director: This documentary, are we showing it?
Mike: No – the movie is still in preproduction. I’m just hoping to raise some awareness –-
Marketing Director: [cutting me off in mid-sentence again] I’m afraid the ramifications of placing said stickers on a small-table within just one of our many theatres would be unpredictably catastrophic. A risk we are unwilling to take at this given time.
Mike: [very long pause] Oh… ‘kay.
Marketing Director: Please leave.
Source: blog.projectpedal.com
days go by
Sorry it’s been so long since my last post, this past week has flown by, to be perfectly honest, not much worth noting has happened – things have slowed down a bit – which is fine, sometimes everything seems to happen at once, and sometimes you look up and several days have gone by in a flash.
Most of the past week was spent waiting – the stickers still haven’t come in the mail yet, those of you who contacted me about the stickers, don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten about you, I will mail them out the day I get them…
I’ve been discussing some advertising possibilities with Bicycling World, that’s been going well, more on that to come…
Olivier, Olan and Quetin have been very busy shooting a music video with the new HDV35-kit, I haven’t seen any results yet, but they say the kit is working perfectly and the results look amazing, so I’m very excited about that…
I’ve spend a lot of time recently working out the kinks in the film’s fundraising letter, with a lot of extremely helpful feedback and expertise from Chris…
I’ve also been debating the possibility of a fundraising party for the film – an idea suggested to me by a great friend, Tricia, who has done similar events in the past to raise good-amounts of money for theatre projects – the only aspect of it that makes me nervous is the fact that I’m not the best at mingling in large crowds of people I’m not familiar with, I get very shy and reclusive, I hate to admit it, but it’s the awful truth. Put me in a room with four or five strangers and I’m completely fine, put me in a room with thirty strangers and I get the sudden urge to go hide in the bathroom, especially when a handful of the faces I recognize from tv shows… then it gets really weird. Regardless of any irrational-fears I’ll have to overcome, it sounds like a great idea, plus it’s the perfect opportunity to meet up with Eric Simonson again, the director of “On Tiptoe: The Music of Ladysmith Black Mambazo”. Months ago, I got to sit down with Eric and pick-his-brain about ‘project pedal’, I’ve been anxious to fill him in on the progress. There are still a lot of details to work out, but I’ll keep everyone posted…
[This just in] The stickers arrived a few minutes ago, that’s the good news – the bad news is; I can’t use them, to explain: when I originally sent in the order, I gave them a file with a misspelled word on it, but I realized this right away and, five minutes later, sent a follow-up email explaining what had happened with the correct file attached. The next day I got an email that assured me they’d check the files and take care of everything, but then days went by and I didn’t hear anything, after a week and half I sent an email double-checking if everything had been fixed, I got a reply that re-assured me they had caught the bad-file and it was being sent to film, but it had caused a slight delay. This was fine with me as long as I was getting stickers I could use. Well, tonight when I opened the package, they looked great, I was very excited and getting ready to sit down and send them out to people, that’s when I noticed a problem, it was the wrong file… two weeks later… and I’m still sticker-less… how frustrating.
Source: blog.projectpedal.com
not enough time in the day
I got the go-ahead with advertising on Bicycle World, this is extremely great news, the ad’ should draw in a ton of tour-enthusiasts to the project. I’ve been watching the stats start to climb steadily since mid-January – I’m eager to see how much of a faithful following this attracts to the film.
The other good-news is that stickers I received recently, were supposed to be thrown away by the printing-department, but they accidentally got shipped anyways – long story short, the [useable] stickers should be here any day now.
Sorry this post is so short, but I’ve only got until the 19th to submit an ad’ design to bicycling world, Ed, the co-operator of site, is leaving for China on business – which leaves me with very, very little time.
Source: blog.projectpedal.com
the contest
The first batch of proj:pedal stickers should be here by the middle of next week… the design, as you can see below, is really simple – I just wanted something I could get out there – I only bought 125 of them, which won’t spread far considering all the local bike-shops in and around North Hollywood alone, but it will get the ball rolling. I’ll also be mailing a handful out to a reader in Detroit, if anyone else is interested in getting stickers, please feel free to email me.
For the next batch of stickers I get printed up, I’d like a new design, something that looks like it took longer than five minutes to design. But rather than do all the work myself, I was hoping to hold a contest, having the readers get involved and send in their designs or ideas. The rules:
- It must have the website address somewhere on the sticker,
- It must be black & white,
- Your design must fit one of these dimension options [except for the 12” x 3” design].
There’s no limit to the number of designs one person can submit. Feel free to include a “designed by…” on your sticker idea. The deadline for submissions is the 17th of this month, giving you 15 days to come up with the greatest sticker idea the world has ever seen. I haven’t decided what the prize will be yet, but I’ll do my best to make it worth your while [actually, if anyone has any ideas on what the ‘prize’ should be, send those in too].
One more quick thing before I go: check out the “promote” drop-menu to the left, you’ll notice two things have been added under a “how to help your friendly neighborhood indie-filmmaker” caption, these are great and inexpensive ways to show your support for proj:pedal.
Besides that, goodluck, everyone!
Source: blog.projectpedal.com
