It's been too long between updates.
The funding campaign is over and while my original goal was wildly - wildly! - over-enthusiastic, we've raised enough to buy the necessary on-site storage for video / audio / image contributions, so it's all systems go, hopefully!
However, it's time for some honesty.
Some wonderful, creative people have come forward with interesting ideas for contributions, and we'll be taking them up on the offers (and trying to find ways to make that work!) - but I think that not only was I too enthusiastic in the idea for funding, but also in the amount of people I thought would want to get involved.
This was a fundamental mistake to make because I should have realised - being a Glitch user myself - that while a few people might want to talk about what Glitch meant to them, it was, outside of the many occasional collaborations, a unique, personal experience.
I don't want this to sound like doom-and-gloom, but what I'm basically saying is that the lack of people wanting to volunteer their experiences - coupled with the fact that, despite requests, nobody at Tiny Speck has been in touch(1) means that this isn't going to be the feature-length extravaganza I was originally envisaging.
This isn't a bad thing, though!
As I said, there are a few people with unique things to put in, and I'm going to find a way of talking about my own experiences, and, in the end, what we might hopefully end up with is a mixed documentary narrative about not only what Glitch meant, but what Glitch was - a primer for anyone who didn't get to experience it, or wants to know more now that it's closed. With any luck, it'll be a bit like a travel program crossed with an anthropological study of Ur and everything therein, in short form!
We're still open to artistic contributions of any form, though, so don't be shy!
- FF
(1) Although of course, they're most likely busy as hell right now...
