1000 - The Countdown // A Swarm of Angels // Remixing cinema

Sting flock

We’re about to become thousands not hundreds.

It’s exhilarating doing something new, proving naysayers wrong, and being part of something out of the ordinary.

We could have got here earlier, but there’s something to be said for slow cooking. Sometimes you want to hang on to stuff as part of a select group before sharing it out to a wider audience. But with the remixable trailer complete, our user-generated documentary and teaser posters underway, and shortly being part of The Creators Series exhibition in NY and LA, there was no putting it off any longer.

We’re on a countdown to freeze membership for this phase of the project on Wednesday, 6 June, ~~9pm GMT~~ Midnight GMT. Members of the First 1000 (all qualify who’ve joined before this deadline) will then be able to introduce members by limited invite-only until we open to the public later in Phase 3.

Join before the deadline here.

A Swarm of Angels is going to be closing public registrations for a while as we finish off some of the latest media for the two scripts we’ve got underway. It will also allow us to adapt our online presence for greater collaboration and member participation.

Thanks to all those hundreds who’ve already joined we’ve already made this film project extraordinary.

Project trailer

You can share and embed the Swarm sting video using the share link on our blip.tv page. This trailer was made by Mark Hough (visuals) and Timo Hummel (sound) of the Swarm. They’ve done an astounding job — and we’ll be releasing a follow up post offering the high definition remixable trailer package for download, with a ‘making of’.

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UPDATE: Deadline extended to Midnight GMT by a few hours as site was down for a little while.

UPDATE 2: We’re officially over 1000. Still some time left for public registration before countdown closes.

UPDATE 3: zdnet’s Social blog picks up on the countdown. Digg it here.

UPDATE 4: Made the front page of Digg just after the countdown closed. Sorry to all of those frustrated that they missed this registration deadline, but thanks for the positive comments over there. Don’t despair, you can join the mailing list to get an invite when we next have memberships available.