Be Still my Tweeting Heart

Last night, when much of the UK was in a Britains Got Talent frenzy, I found myself glued to twitter, egging on a young man who was on the verge of a fist fight.

‘Kick His Ass Dude!’  I tweeted.   ‘Fight, Fight, Fight’  I chanted!  Way too excited to sleep.    Man… this was gonna get uuuuuugly, and I couldn’t wait.

And he did it.  A proper fight broke out,  and we even got twitpics of the bloody aftermath.

If you havn’t followed it – get your A into G and jump on board with the Royal Shakespeare Company’s live performance of Romeo & Juliet on twitter.

Gripping?  Yep.   They have bloody nailed it.

Nice Guardian write up here, if you’re still unconvinced about twitter and the arts – seriously its here to stay, and people are using it for some really fun, exciting and innovative stuff.

Here’s an idea of what to expect:  @romeo_mo ’2 against one call of duty and still win? Thats how the montagues do it!! BRAPBRAP!’

From @mercuteio ‘Shit. Prince of pussy’s is here (his big sis is quite hot)Better keep @romeo_mo entertained or things could get messy (not Lionel)’

From @tybalt_cap : ‘Look at them. A full on joke. You have to earn a place. They failed from the start. #montaguescum’

From @julietcap16 ‘Jeesh school only finished hall an hour ago and iv already witnessed more drama than I hve all day! A fist fight betwen dad and Tybalt…’

Heaps of fun. And its The Bard, man.  Surely that’s Britain with Talent!

Kick-Ass – Transmedia Fail

Kick-Ass is Out Now

Kick-Ass had the all the hallmarks of a masterful Transmedia property.    The comics, the fake Myspace pages, the YouTube viral…  There were so many places to engage with Kick-Ass, its surprising I knew nothing before seeing @wossy ‘s tweets about attending the premiere and being ‘so proud’ of his wife.

So, my entry point to the Kick-Ass IP was the film, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.   I love the idea of real people playing slightly crap Superheroes, and have worked on some initial concepts in this vein at Cartoon Network.

But I was pretty disappointed to discover that Red Mists’ crime fighting website – redmist.org – mentioned as a bit of a running gag does not exist.   Fail.

These days there isn’t really an excuse for this.   If the URL was unavailable, or too expensive, they should have changed the script.  If his address was ‘redmist8.org’ it might have even been funnier.

I watched the film with absolutely no knowledge of the background – and the first point I reached out to find out more I hit a dead end.

If the point of the gag was that Red Mists’ site didn’t really exist, there still should have been something there.     A fake site for a red headed pole dancer with clever hidden redirects, perhaps?

It’s surprising,  as the rest of the Transmedia production is ok.  The main giveaway that Kick-Ass’s Myspace page isn’t actually run by the fictional 21 year old is his music taste.   Morcheeba?   Were they even cool first time around?