A Four Eyed near miss.

Every once in a while, I check in on the Four Eyed Monsters movie project. It’s an Indie film project with a capital I. A little too mellow for my sensibilities, but I find it admirable, the non-traditional approach these two artists are taking towards filmmaking and distribution.

So tonight I find out I missed the online premiere screening of the film by about four hours. Not just any online streaming, but the first ever(?) movie premiere to take place in Second Life.

I signed up for Second Life about a month ago — I was intrigued by all the jawing Warren Ellis has been doing about it. After a couple days of wandering around, I found it a bit of a head scratcher. I’m not big into “chat” (I prefer message boards) so I couldn’t figure out what to do with myself.

But it did occur to me that using Second Life would be a cool way to promote a film or even set up a virtual theater. Well, Sundance and others were way ahead of me. Sundance was a sponsor of the Four Eyed screening, and hosted it for virtual people in a virtual theater. I assume there was a virtual question and answer period after the show. Cool.

(Instead, how did I spend my evening? Watching Steve Jobs talk about the iPhone, of course. So time wasn’t wasted.)