X-Message-Number: 28908 Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:59:51 -0800 (PST) From: un person <> Subject: re: Billy Seidel's comments BILLY SEIDEL wrote: ///QUOTE/// If you really wanted to be "Un Person" then why not put up a name that would be acceptable. "Un Person" just draws attention to you. If you really are under some kind of investigation then you should be doing every thing to keep a low profile. You could even ask another person to present your video. /////////END QUOTE//// I think UnPerson is fine. ///QUOTE/// And about your video and the assertion, by some, that you are doing something and others are doing nothing is a false direction to take. A lot of folks have put in a lot more than 25 hours of work to promote cryonics. ///END QUOTE/// Well, that is nice. But along those lines, consider this: we are only 1000 strong after 30+ years. Why? I submit that we are freaks of society in many ways. Adults do not usually change their worldviews so radically so as to commit to cryonics. But some very few are able to accept the idea of cryonics. Freaks like us. So, we have to plant seeds in young minds. Sow first, THEN reap. As ye sow, so shall ye reap. All we cryonicists ever do is reap. And with poor results, one might argue. So where do we sow? On youtube. On myspace. That is where the young minds can be reached, unless you have Madison Avenue dollars. THat is what my video is for. And if other cryonicists agree with me, I would think that they would collaborate to produce large numbers of viral music video/infomercials, similar perhaps to what my video aspires to. Just a theory.... ///QUOTE/// Like most achievements in the world you put it out there and then everyone else just tears it apart. That's ok because the end result should be a lot better than the first effort. Again, ---IF--- you really wanted to put up something important to cryonics, you should be asking advise from the folks in the business before you present to the general public. ///END QUOTE/// Well, I will just keep on my merry little way, I think. However, I would appreciate any constructive comments you or others here would have. ///QUOTE/// I am doing video evaluation for the Sedona International Film Festival and in the past 2 years I have reviewed over 150 videos. For a variety of reasons, most of the videos never made it . This video, in it's present form, would not have made it off the shelf. ///end QUOTE/// Adults, film festivals, etc., that is certainly NOT my intended audience or venue. Adults are pretty much set in their worldview, and our meager memberships are the evidence of that. Film festival entrants require much time and sometimes much money. I have neither. I am instead intent on sowing, sowing the idea of cryonics in young minds, so that we might reap members in 20 years or more. I can generate many videos over many years. More if I had help. They will not be worthy of film festivals (or their elite and sparse audiences), but they will find viewers on the Net. ///QUOTE/// I would suggest that you take it off the internet until you have fixed the problems. As you have pointed out you will be doing more editing. I would hope you pay attention to the suggestions that have been made. ///end QUOTE/// I will consider it. I was hoping, however, for cryonicist collaborators. None so far. What a shock.... ///QUOTE/// If this presentation only took 25 hours, I wonder what it would look like with 50 hours of work. How about 200 or 500 hrs of work. ///end QUOTE/// I expect to put in hundreds of hours on this video and its derivatives/descendants before I go into the dewar. Visitors to video.google, youtube, myspace, etc., will hopefully be able to find those videos on the Net for many decades to come. Thanks for your input. -unperson ____________________________________________________________________________________ Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=28908