film festival
Hello-
First of all, a sincere THANK YOU for the response to Ghosts. We are all amazed at the reaction for what we assumed would be a quiet curiosity in the NIN catalog. My faith in all of you has been restored – let’s all go have coffee somewhere (my treat)!
Today we announce the expansion of the Ghosts project into the visual world. This record began as an experiment with us using sound as a means to describe visuals. Early in the project we thought it would be interesting to see what the community could create / collaborate on as a reaction to the music we were making. We wanted to keep the canvas as blank as possible for you, hence the lack of descriptive song titles and the primarily textural artwork and packaging.
So here’s the plan: we’ve teamed up with YouTube to host a “film festival” around Ghosts. The concept is for you to take whatever tracks you feel inspired by from Ghosts and create what you feel should accompany them visually. You will be able to see all of the submissions, and a team of us (including me) will be sorting through them and setting aside ones we feel are exceptional. Eventually (within a couple of months?) we will present a virtual “film festival” with me and some special guests presenting selections of your work.
This isn’t a contest and you don’t win elaborate prizes – it’s meant to be an experiment in collaboration and a chance for us to interact beyond the typical one-way artist-to-fan relationship. We’ve discussed some interesting ways this could go, including multiple installments of the online “film festivals,” to broadcast TV specials, to a one-time live performance of the entire Ghosts record with your visuals involved. It really depends on how this progresses and develops.
We are all very much looking forward to what you come up with, and hope you enjoy the experience. Visit our YouTube channel later today for information on how to participate.
TR
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posted by Trent Reznor at 10:42 am pst, from los angeles
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added: updated at march 18, 2008 with this message, who disappeared some hours later:
**UPDATE**
Exciting PERFORMANCE NEWS!
and that was an official update, so shake your fists at trent, not at the webmaster of this archive…
Can’t wait to see what Mr. Meathead will do. Nice move Trent!
Good call, Trent! I like the way you think.
The sheer creativity of this idea gives me shivers. Hmmm. What could I do with Ghosts on YouTube?
Are we still going out for coffee, whats up did I miss something…
[...] in a bunch. With the release of the new NIN album(s), Ghosts I-IV, he’s decided to have a film festival, openly inviting fans to take Ghosts I-IV and create something for YouTube with the music. Pinch [...]
Open Invitation « The Woo Woo Teacup Journal said this on 14 March 2008 at 0:35 |
Believe me, it would be me who buys the coffee if we were graced with a sit down.
WOW~
I’m in!
Good luck, future contestants.
It’s the new renaissance. Mmm synergised art. Awesome. Xx C
creativeness generates more creativeness: one of the many golden aims of Art
Chris, I totally agree ! Has anyone actually met meathead ? Usually I get pissed off when people make fun of NIN but he just does it with hilarious doses of cynicism.;)
Best of luck to any artists entering the comp !
What a great idea I LOVE LOVE LOVE creating, getting my camera ready now;) /me grinds some fair trade coffee beans and gets the coffee pot ready.
[...] stick it to Radiohead at the same time. And now he’s started a YouTube-based, user-generated video festival based around the [...]
Trent Reznor’s Radiohead smackdown - - mathewingram.com/work said this on 17 March 2008 at 16:53 |
Have a Happy St Patricks Day!1!!Love Green!!!Aparatus9-
you suck. so bad. holy shit, that was hilarious.
What the hell was that? I was all excited for performance info and all the sudden that ridiculously terrible song starts playing and the window jumps all over the screen?
Has the perimeter been penetrated? Have we been infiltrated? Or was that intentional!?
@ Corie
that was fully intentional by trent and/or rob. seems to be pretty boring in LA, eh?
you asshat i had to force quit my browser…
One time performance? So LA gets to have all the fun? I say if you are going to do performances do a few across the country. Let everyone have a chance to experience it.
WTF!!??
XD
Trent , this one is for u
sometimes it gets a saddin bore at Trent’s uh?
Damn you Trent Reznor.
LOLOLOLOLBBQCOUGHFART!
You’re one of those perverts on 4 chan, aren’t you!
Thanks Dori. I was thinkng the Bureau of Morality was messing with me or something? Haha. Clearly Trent and Rob need some entertainment in LA!
Aaaaah, I’ve nearly wet my pants… Hey, it was REALLY scary!! But…it made my day!! Still next time think of people like me who can easily have heart attack when THIS pops out….
huh ? what happened ? please elaborate for the rest of us who aren’t lucky enough to be in LA, or even North America for that matter !
*gni hi* just read the footnote of this blog entry and you will know…
you’re killing me dori
nope, trent kills you. that joke grew entirely on his soil!
oh i hadn’t seen it yet, i meant that you’re killing me with suspense but seriously WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT !??!!? I was doing my med school application and now the whole thing is gone ! nooooooooooooooo
well serves me right for not saving it but still ! And it wasn’t even worth it ! Some ugly ass man writhing about like he has diarrhoea !! arghghgh !! heh Seriously, Trent is being cruel falsely enticing us with a live performance !
btw dori, and anyone else interested, meathead has blessed us with a true masterpiece for the film festival. check it out : http://www.theninhotline.net/meatpers/html/mp080315.htm
well, i bet trent’s one of the pervs from 4chan’s /b/
Does anyone else think that “exciting update” was hilarious…couldn’t close the damn thing…lol
It was hilarious……….
ps: Dori, i saw your pix in deviantART, hilarious too.
That comment blog makes me ashamed to be a NIN fan. This is a good idea though.
@ hybrid756
imagine how embarrassed and ashamed trent must feel if he wastes some time to check the comments on his blog, just to learn that he still attracts all the loonies out there
ahahahahahahhaha true….
aha, exciting..
i knew it! :{
[...] do not envy Trent Reznor for the task he has chosen. His band, Nine Inch Nails (NIN), is hosting a film festival with YouTube, in which fans create videos using the band’s new albums, Ghosts I-IV. 515 [...]
Channeling Trent « The Woo Woo Teacup Journal said this on 29 March 2008 at 22:22 |
I JUST GOT RICK ROLL’D BY TRENT REZNOR! My day is complete. =D
Can someone tell me the right party/address to send packages to, in order to contact NIN?
@ Tetsuo
what do you want to send him, a cake or a bomb?
Yeah, I realised – just as I sent that – exactly how suss it actually sounded. Oops. It was actually a script though, though now I realise exactly how pathetic THAT in itself kinda sounds.
Fuck Meathead. Only his ass face is funny.
I’m looking for an update on the Ghost Film Festival. What is the deadline? Or is it over? Who won? What happened? Thanks
@ 3 1/2 cm nails
please ask at the new opened official nin.com forum
at http://forum.nin.com/ : )