The Cosmonaut

Not long ago I found this movie project and I couldn't stop myself from advertising it, as I love the idea around it. Let's sum it up. The movie will be published under a Creative Commons license, so everyone will be able to share it, see it and even edit it. In order to get the money to make the movie, the authors are offering something that as far as I know (please correct me if I'm wrong) it's completely new and has never been done before. They let everyone to be a "producer" for a small amount of money. You won't really be a real producer, we could call it more like a passive producer. You'll put some money and you will appear in the credits (they'll be long, really long) and get the producer package (it includes stickers, one badge and a signed paper stipulating your position in the movie). There's some other merchandising, of course, helping way more to make the film.

As of today, they've got 1846 producers and some trailers you can watch in their web page. By the way, you can get bigger roles in the movie; if you give 1000€ or more you get to be an investor, owning a certain percentage of the movie (only 26% in sale).

I uploaded a photo with the content of the package sent (without stickers), and a pin from a U.R.S.S. space mission that I bought separately (it's small but really cool).

Producer package

"The Cosmonaut" web page

PD: as you might see, the paper included comes written in Russian, so I can only guess what it says.

Edit: You can find a translation of the certificate that I said was in Russian in the next web: http://elcosmonauta.es/certifikat/

ComicAgg and CBML

Now that I'm back in the blog, I'm gonna advertise myself a little bit. I'll start with CBML (short form for Can't Believe My Luck), a comic strip a friend of mine has been doing for some years already, and in which I've worked most of time as a translator. Although once I draw one and there are more to come.

So don't forget to pay a visit to http://cbml.es and leave some comments, you'll make us happy! :D

Second, I wanted to give you a really useful link to a great web application to follow web-comics. It's an app that a friend of mine did a while ago to follow comfortably his favourite web-comics, and everyone around him started using it too. It's grown quite a lot since then I think, although I don't have numbers on how many users or anything. But at least the number of web-comics has increased a lot and every few days there are more and more new comic pages added. I don't only tell you to use it because a friend did it, I recommend it because it is really useful if you have lots of web-comics you like and follow. I have around 40 or 60 new comics every day to read, I would have never been capable of following so many if I had to visit each website one by one. And by the way, one of the comics you can follow is CBML (English version included).

So you know, if you like web-comics, visit http://comicagg.com and create an account for you.