Entries tagged with cyberpunk noir

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Movie Night and Brain Squeezing, July 27th

There will be another movie night and brain squeezing at my place on July 27th.
The Movie will be

It' a fine movie, somewhat based on the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

Doors open at 7. Movie starts at 8:30. Event ends at 12:30.

RSVP's are appreciated. There will be food, but if you want some, you should either RSVP by Tuesday evening with any dietary considerations (I will keep all animal products organic ) and bring $4 or bring some of your own food to share.

Throughout the event, I will be asking y'all for your opnions re: my business project The Next Now, a form of Broken Reality Caberet

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Today I got free Bhangra lessons in Stanley Park. (wave hands, step forward, swish hips, step back)

I am also enjoying the wonders of applying a brief accounting lesson to prepare budget estimates on my business. It will be tight. The choices for making revenue are: lots of customers; beverages; food; merchandise; raised door fees.

Accounting rocks in a jargon-heavy kind of way.

Also:
Night market. Friday (today).
Meet here anytime between 2 and 6.
Meet at the Night market anytime after 7.

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New Weekly Event

So I'm all gung-ho on my business plans, and I like having people over, and I like watching movies, and I like asking questions, so I'm gonna do something about it... every Wednesday I think.

The trial run went well, so it's gonna be dinner and movie and discussion every Wednesday (Tuesday and Thursday are also an option. I can't remember what works best for y'all) . Show up at 7:00, movie at 8:30, I go to sleep some time a bit after midnight.

"What movies?" you ask.
(this is not a choice, you must ask it... go on, I'm listening through the bugs in your computer)

"Why movies to do with the stupendous neo-reality event which I am concocting: movies to do with cyberpunk, the near-future, film noir, moodyness, Bollywood, colourful costumes and so on." I sagely answer.

"And how does this tie in to your event?" you dutifully ask.

"I'm gonna ask you a bunch of questions about genre, theme, visual elements and what you'd like to see, or would certainly despise, in such an astoundingly magnificent event as I am planning. It should be a lively and humorous conversation." I respond.

So there you go. I think I'm gonna go with Blade Runner next week, but I'm not 100% certain. It might be Tetsuo, or well... I'm not sure, but it won't suck. That's right folks: it won't suck. So I'd appreciate RSVP's, but don't insist on them unless you either want to be a part of the food (if you don't RSVP and don't bring food, there may not be enough to go around), or plan to bring a guest.

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A succesful movie 'n' dinner 'n' focus group night (Thanks to Bevan, Georg and Nick) leaves me eager to keep pushing at the Near Future Film Noir Political-Economy Bollywoodh Alternative Social Evening Caberet, but more importantly, I realize that this thing needs a name and a descriptor because NFFNPEBASEC may have a free .ca website, but it's a titch unwieldly otherwise.

Example:
Casablanca (name) is a Movie (descriptor)
Vampire (name) is a Larp (descriptor)

Altered Reality Theatre?
Unreal Caberet?

Future Noir?
Tomorrow?

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Don't forget folks

Chinatown. My place. Arrive at 7, movie at 8:30.

(This is all part of my grand experiment in social control)

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Film Noir Night

Two movies have just come in for me: one is Chinatown, the other is The Big Sleep. Both are film noir. I want to watch them. I've seen Chinatown before. It's a fine, fine movie that I can't sum up exept to say that it doesn't actually take place in Chinatown. The Big Sleep is based on the Raymond Chandler novel of the same name, and it stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Wednesday night (the 12th). My place. Show up at 7 [with or without food (containing few or no non-organic animal products)] if you like. If you come early, I may solicit your expert opinions re: my ongoing project. The movie starts at 8:30. Comment to RSVP or express a preference for or over the other.

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I'm drawing out the world map for the near-future game. I want to a have a Gilead-lite region of North America, which has partially or wholly succeeded from the Continental Economic and Security Zone. I'm trying to sort out whether Alberta, or even parts of BC would joinThere will be a socialist South American league, and an independent Quebec. What else would you folks like to see?

Oh, here's a cool map of policy by state within the US.

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More questions

How would you feel about a monthly fixed location and a supplementing floating location? The fixed location is The Den of Crime, sort of like Rick's Café in Casablanca; the floating one is... not. The problem with finding a good floating location is that it has to be good LARPing er... ARTing grounds, and not chalk-full of contemporary items, like 2010 Olympics signs.

I'm thinking of running two a month. The fixed location would be once a month and would be the primary event, the floating would also be one a month and would be more of an optional in-story get-together, something with much less set-up; more of a 'meet down on the docks' sort of thing. This raises the problem of why everyone is showing up there though. The Den of Crime is good because it's the closest thing to neutral and safe; a place of business. To have the noir feeling, there should be some instory shenanigans, preferably live. It could be the case that not everyone can come, but then how do I do this if I'm turning a profit and keeping fees simple? I could charge everyone the same amount and make sure that there's at least one intersession they can attend per three months, or I could let the players er... actors/members of non-welcome characters play side characters. Or I could charge seperately. Or I could do them for free.

Probably some combination of these things: if you say you're interested, we'll try to slot your character into at least every other intersession, but if we can't, we'll have someone else you can play. If you come to an interseison, there's a fee, but it's a smaller one, since we aren't renting the space.

♫♪ It's the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New Yawk ♫♫

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It's the un-larp

I'm fiddling with the image for the cyberpunk noir "thing"....
Yes, "thing:" it' s an ongoing interactive theather event (OITE), it's Altered Reality Theatre (ART), it's Indrama, it's' something, but it's not a L.A.R.P. Why? Because I want to market this, and I want to play this, and "larp's" have too much baggage, a problem which shows up every time someone tries to run one.

So, in an effort to draw out select portions of the non-larping demographic, and encourage some larpers to stay away, I'm trying to brainstorm the "problem elements" that they may be queitly purged.

What bothers you about the image of LARP? What do you think bothers othe people? How can I skirt this? I also need an acronym. Suggestions please.