Project 912 is what?

Project 912 is what?

A team of producers, directors, and actors calling themselves Project 912, who have spent the last year developing a science fiction franchise for the Internet, have moved the launch of the world's first open source science fiction series forward a months, in part due to conservative talk show host Glenn Beck's launch of a similarly named site. The Project 912 team is currently filming episodes in the Pacific North West and was set to launch the site May 25 2009.

The storyline revolves around an underground resistance movement fighting a secret war against multi-dimensional beings known only as "The Threat". The Threat controls every aspect of our society through five corporations, Infinity Cable, Hygea Pharmacueticals, Hancock Worldwide, DemTech Foods, and The Kinkaid Group, known collectively as "The System". The only way for the resistance to see any member of the Threat is to take a highly addictive drug known on the streets as "Clear".

The first season's "Series Bible," laying out the plot parameters which content creators must adhere to, is available online at Project 912. Anyone can download it, create content, and then upload their content to the Project 912 website as an open source submission. As people add content, the storyline will adapt to reflect the public input. Later versions of the Series Bible will evolve as additions are added by the community, making it a completely dynamic experience. The main storyline will be available on Project912.com and a worldwide content creation contest will soon be underway.

Andros Sturgeon and the Future of Entertainment
"My earliest childhood memory is of sitting at the knee of my father; author Theodore Sturgeon, at science fiction conventions and hanging out with the original cast of Star Trek." Says concept creator Andros Sturgeon. "I've always been fascinated by the amazing ideas fans would come up with, and am well aware of some of the incredible fan films which have been made based on other franchises like Star Wars and Star Trek, some of them better than the original stories they are based on. While I believe that this kind of user-created content is the future of the entertainment industry, no one in Hollywood does, and if they say they do, they have no idea of how to do it.

"We have a social networking site up and running at http://project912.net. On this site, people can create characters, upload content and soon, they will actually be able to play those characters online in a 912 RPG.

We have a whole list of really innovative ideas that we will be launching in the next few months, including smart phone apps and exclusive video on demand content.

Project 912 vs. The 912 Project...enter Glenn Beck
The Project 912 team had the intention of launching the entire endeavor in early August of 2009, when on Friday March 13th, the Project 912 email box was suddenly filled with people wanting to join The Human Resistance.

"I hadn't launched yet, but all of a sudden, we had 60,000 visitors in the course of a few hours. Project 912 was the most Googled item according Google Trends," says Sturgeon. "I had no idea why, but it didn't take long to figure it out."

Beck’s launch of his “9 Principles and 12 Values” Project, which was initially showcased by a Prime Time Fox News Special, led to the unexpected mass exposure and subsequent early launch of Project 912.

"The hilarity of the whole thing is that Beck's site is all about a government conspiracy.” Sturgeon added, “You know, Obama and Pelosi are boogie-men, out to take away our guns and our freedoms and what not, while no one is paying attention. Our site is about multi-dimensional beings who control everything, having taken away our freedoms while no one was paying attention. We've been inundated with emails from Beck's followers who don't realize the difference between science fiction and what he says on his show."

Contest
Aside from filming original content, Project 912 will be launching a contest in the next few days for fans to create original content. There are plans to hold film festival in Portland this summer.

The "Team”
In addition to Andros Sturgeon, the Project 912 team includes among others, actor Rod Piper, writer George Clayton Johnson, and acclaimed viral video producer Andi West, known to millions as Reverend X of Blasted Reality, Creator/Editor of the blog sites A Post Apocalyptic and Killing Time.

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For more information, go to www.project912.info. Or you may contact Andros Sturgeon directly at press@project912.com

"A Transmission from the Human Resistance"

Science Fiction franchise Project 912 forced to launch early, creating the very first Open Source series in the history of media

Paranoid conspiracy Science Fiction site Project 912 is forced to launch early in the wake of Glenn Beck's paranoid conspiracy site 912 Project.

Open Source Entertainment
A team of producers, directors, and actors calling themselves Project 912, who have spent the last year developing a science fiction franchise for the Internet, have moved the launch of the world's first open source science fiction series forward several months, in part due to conservative talk show host Glenn Beck's launch of a similarly named site. The Project 912 team is currently filming episodes in the Pacific North West and was set to launch the site May 25 2009.

The storyline revolves around an underground resistance movement fighting a secret war against multi-dimensional beings known only as "The Threat". The Threat controls every aspect of our society through five corporations, Infinity Cable, Hygea Pharmacueticals, Hancock Worldwide, DemTech Foods, and The Kinkaid Group, known collectively as "The Fist". The only way for the resistance to see any member of the Threat is to take a highly addictive drug known on the streets as "Clear".

The first season's "Series Bible," laying out the plot parameters which content creators must adhere to, is available online at Project 912. Anyone can download it, create content, and then upload their content to the Project 912 website as an open source submission. As people add content, the storyline will adapt to reflect the public input. Later versions of the Series Bible will evolve as additions are added by the community, making it a completely dynamic experience. The main storyline will be available on Project912.com and a worldwide content creation contest will soon be underway.

Andros Sturgeon and the Future of Entertainment
"My earliest childhood memory is of sitting at the knee of my father; author Theodore Sturgeon, at science fiction conventions and hanging out with the original cast of Star Trek." Says concept creator Andros Sturgeon. "I've always been fascinated by the amazing ideas fans would come up with, and am well aware of some of the incredible fan films which have been made based on other franchises like Star Wars and Star Trek, some of them better than the original stories they are based on. While I believe that this kind of user-created content is the future of the entertainment industry, no one in Hollywood does, and if they say they do, they have no idea of how to do it.

"We have a social networking site up and running at http://project912.net. On this site, people can create characters, upload content and soon, they will actually be able to play those characters online in a 912 RPG.

We have a whole list of really innovative ideas that we will be launching in the next few months, including smart phone apps and exclusive video on demand content.

Project 912 vs. The 912 Project...enter Glenn Beck
The Project 912 team had the intention of launching the entire endeavor in early May of 2009, when on Friday March 13th, the Project 912 email box was suddenly filled with people wanting to join The Human Resistance.

"I hadn't launched yet, but all of a sudden, we had 60,000 visitors in the course of a few hours. Project 912 was the most Googled item according Google Trends," says Sturgeon. "I had no idea why, but it didn't take long to figure it out."

Beck’s launch of his “9 Principles and 12 Values” Project, which was initially showcased by a Prime Time Fox News Special, led to the unexpected mass exposure and subsequent early launch of Project 912.

"The hilarity of the whole thing is that Beck's site is all about a government conspiracy.” Sturgeon added, “You know, Obama and Pelosi are boogie-men, out to take away our guns and our freedoms and what not, while no one is paying attention. Our site is about multi-dimensional beings who control everything, having taken away our freedoms while no one was paying attention. We've been inundated with emails from Beck's followers who don't realize the difference between science fiction and what he says on his show."

Contest
Aside from filming original content, Project 912 will be launching a contest in the next few days for fans to create original content. There are plans to hold film festival in Portland this summer.

The "Team”
In addition to Andros Sturgeon, the Project 912 team includes among others, actor Rod Piper, writer George Clayton Johnson, and acclaimed viral video producer Andi West, known to millions as Reverend X of Blasted Reality, Creator/Editor of the blog sites A Post Apocalyptic and Killing Time.

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For more information, go to www.project912.info. Or you may contact Andros Sturgeon directly at press@project912.com

A Message from Andros Sturgeon

We're rolling.

Hard to imagine it now, but it's happening. We got the actors, we got the crew. We're getting scripts together and getting them storyboarded. We even have a graphic novel being developed right now. We have about 40 people working on it and more waiting to help when we are ready for them. It's doing it by itself now and I can't do anything to stop it despite having absolutely ZERO budget. It's taken longer than I thought it would, but creating a science fiction show for the Internet seems easier on paper. For those of you just joining us, let me start from the beginning.

About a year ago, I had an idea for a science fiction series. A damn good one. Something so unique and so original that I know THIS was the hair-brained notion that might have legs. I grew up in LA, worked in the industry for almost 10 years and knew a few people. Made some calls and got some meetings and and and...

I pitched 'Project 912' as a show. And a game. And a social networking site. And much, much more. In the way the iphone went beyond the cell phone, transforming it into a whole new entity, so was this idea for a new type of entertainment. Web 3.0.

I got some good meetings. Had a VERY good agent for a second and remembered why I hated them. I made a lot of calls. With every one I started to see a pattern.
See, with every production company I connected to, I would always speak to the personal assistants first. Every one got the idea instantly. All of the producers didn't.
Bottom line: if you had a Facebook page, 'Project 912' made sense. If you're email address ends with aol.com, you're a producer.

Lots of doors slammed in my face. A few more on my foot.

People in Hollywood are good slamming. They do it all the time, turning it into a fine art.
The guys who say yes, the very top guys, live in very expensive compounds tucked away in the Hollywood hills with their trophy wives and YOU are NOT welcome. They cocoon themselves in their cars and drive to other compounds called studios, where they spend their days meeting with rich, powerful and sometimes famous people. On the way from one compound to the other, they marvel at the wonder of their names stretched across huge billboards that dot their short journey.

Within the walls of this compounds, a Shakespearean drama plays out, where the studio head is the king, and the producers are the dukes and duchesses who ruthlessly stab one another in the back all the while pretending to do something really important. As important as curing cancer, when in fact they are making "Epic Movie". They are all trying to protect their little piece and this idea is just too innovative to take a chance on.

This is why they really hate the Internet. They like controlling what you see and hear, wrapping it up in flashy packages and calling it entertainment. You are known as 'The Consumer" and you are expected to buy what they feed you. It must be a real power trip to shift market forces by creating a smash hit from the song in a beer ad. They don't understand this new medium, not at all. They still think the Internet exists simply so you, "The Consumer", can download their stuff for free. Most of it isn't even worth that.

That's why this idea is dangerous to them. They hate that you or I can create a show as good as any show on TV. And they hate that it can have a viewership that is bigger. They hate that they are losing control of their kingdoms to the people's medium.

This is what we're doing here. Creating a form of entertainment by fans for fans and because of this we need you more than ever.

You want to see a good show, we'll bring one to you. I propose this: I'll have tip jar up in the next day or two. Anyone who donates $25 dollars or more will get a limited edition DVD of the first season we are currently filming. In this way, you are helping to support this endeavor.

To hell with the Hollywood system. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out they don't know what they are doing.

Then again we don't really either, so with that we have a level playing field. Nothing like this has been done before, and that's why it's gonna work.

This is not Glenn Beck's site

It would appear that Glenn Beck has launched a web site with a similar url to Project 912. It would also appear that he either gave out the wrong url or that his viewers misunderstood the address and have been visiting us.

What Project 912 is...
An open source multi media entertainment concept which is still in development.
The story line has been created.
Multiple web sites have been created as anchors for the concept.
A web series of short video clips is currently in production in Portland, OR and surrounding areas. A 6 issue comic book is being finished at this moment and will be going to the publishers by next month.
A social network has been launched to help content creation and to be the base for an online role playing game.

What is Project 912?

You have come to the right place. This is exactly where you need to be to recieve an answer to your question. Now all you have to do is look into the screen and repeat after me....

"What is Project 912?"

"What is Project 912?"

"What is Project 912?"

"What is the square root of -1?"

Well, the latter is i and the rest should be self evident soon enough...

All good things to those who wait....