INSOMANIA: Looking for some Net Ninjas

[Layil]

Insomania needs volunteers!

any of you guys got a bit of spare time and want to lend a hand?

DonkeySlayer is our new Conceptart MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/conceptartforums) puppetmaster, but he needs an army to help him take over the internet. NetNinjas get the distinguished honor of being our virtual street teams, going online and hitting forums and blogs with info about conceptart.org and the INSOMANIA workshop.

its maybe an afternoon of work, maybe two, and can be done on your schedule, but it needs to be done QUICK!! We need to get those sign ups if we're gonna be able to do Florence next year. Remember, its the workshops, more than anything, that pay for this hear forum ya'll spend so much time on...all the hosting fees, expansion tech, galleries...etc...all are funded by the workshops. We need your support. Plain and simple.

PM me or post if you wanna help, or know someone who does.

Below you'll find postcards and banners you can post on your profiles and anywhere else you think to spread the word. As around if anybody's heard of Insomania and if theyre going... be discreet and undercover, or straight up, however you want, but lets get the word out there!

Here's a few ideas how you can help:

- post the Insomania flyer on your My Space, Tribe or Friendster (etc) profile, and/or make the pic your avatar

- post the Insomania poster in a blog post about the event, sending people to the website at www.conceptart.org/insomania

- post a message on an art blog, local art zine, craigslist, other art forums, local event blogs, mailing lists, etc....

- print out the poster or some stickers and put them somewhere where you think artists will see them.

- tell your classmates at school / co-workers at work about the workshop - hang a poster somewhere...

- write/ call in to local news mags/papers/stations about the workshop

- drop in on other art communities and ask if anybody there has signed up.

any more ideas? lets hear em!

ConceptArt cant do it without you!

thanks!!
:yayca:

[invinciblewombat]

nifty, any chance of some 300 dpi action for printable posters?

oh and my co-op adviser pimped it to a bunch of industrial design kids, although the only interested ones were the ones already going :/

[Justin.]

Did anyone Digg it yet?

[kawakaze]

i let my director at school know about it so it should be up there soon. try hitting up some art stores and put postings there. i use to work over at blicks and people would ask daily for events like this.

[Layil]

yeah, we're printing up posters for the street teams....
anybody local that wants to pitch in, we need you for real world promoting too....

:)

[Interceptor]

I'd be happy to drop by the art school and put some posters up.

[Jason Rainville]

puh, my friends would much rather pay to go to a design conference than Insomania... bunch of weiners :^^:

I'll see what I can do on the elderscrolls forums, though it's really tricky to advertise there. Even though most of the artists are nubs like me, it's a huge community. :teeth:

[Erilaz]

Since it's flood marketing, have you thought of submiting a simple trailer to youTube or the like? Or maybe a banner at gamasutra, penny-arcade or gametrailers.com? Where else on the net do concept design-heads like to go? :teeth:

[Slash]

A youtube video is actually a good idea. I'll help spread the world wherever i go.

Spammin' in the name of!


(Btw, can i be a net pirate instead of a net ninja? i hate ninjas..)

[bRyaN]

i've been passing the word to everyone who knows me...i have a few friends from school attending...

[donkeyslayer]

i get puppet strings too.

[look]

DA's adcast can get you lot of hits, but I'm a bit confused about their policy:

The following cannot be advertised using the discount artist advertising rates:
* Anything having to do with a corporation or commercial content of any kind.
* Anything that is not specifically promoting art, or art related subject matter.

This service is meant for individuals and art groups only.

The workshop is not corporation or commercial content, right?

[Justin.]

I believe so- Conceptart.org is a Non-profit organization.

[Darktwin]

Hey Layil, I'm local and would love to help and be apart of the street team, I also go to the academy of art and would love to put up posters in all of the school buildings, I'll pm you my phone number so you can contact me. I'd would be more than happy to help out all over the city. My brother Ashrumm included

[Jska]

Hey you have my full support here in Vegas, I'll put it on my myspace, ill even print posters and flyers and hang 'em up in my art store (Blick)... I can also have my friends and minions flyer the 3 major art campuses here in town (Art Institute, UNLV, and CCSN)...

I will also drop the word to the SF Blick and see if they can hook it up with the posters too...

Do you need addresses to send materials to Layil (if you are that is!) ? PM and me and I'll be glad to help you out! :)

(edit) I may also be able to hook up hanging posters in Blicks in Berkeley, LA, and San Diego as well!

[Layil]

Thanks you guys!!
we're getting stuff printed now, so ill give you all the heads up when the promo stuff is ready!

:)

[blog]

I love the graphic design elements that andiroid and coro do man, they're just SO fucking awesome, I love it!

[skvv]

I should be doing SP's right now but I can spare a few minutes to spam my art guild site, drop something on myspace groups, etc.

It's coming down to the wire as far as my personal funds go for the workshop but hopefully you'll have another there.

[Lohan]

nice to see ca.org and children of bodom are friends lol.

[BohemianChaos]

Posting everywhere I can think of... tho I dunno how much good I'll do being in FL, but it's going on MySpace at least. ;)

[Layil]

you guys are awesome! thank you thank you thank you!!!!

:yayca:

[donkeyslayer]

nice to see ca.org and children of bodom are friends lol.
since its conception :o)

[Zord]

I posted the big flyer in a blog on Myspace, put the "conceptart.org melted my brains!" on the profile, and i'm going to announce the website and info on my radio show tonight. :) Trying to do what I can.

[cotron]

I love the graphic design elements that andiroid and coro do man, they're just SO fucking awesome, I love it!

*cough cough*

[Carl Dobsky]

Did you do the layouts Cotron?

[donkeyslayer]

i mucked around with the CSS for the CA myspace so it had matching colors