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on February 7
Lana Walker
Posted project update #10New campaign to raise funds for new book
Post CommentThank you again for your interest and support in the Molecules of Madness project. The objective of bringing to a mainstream audience an accessible account of the proposal outlined in Left in the Dark is still an urgent priority and an essential first step to drawing in support and resources to really make an impact.
Scaling up the initial and growing reaction (PDF) to the "diagnosis" outlined in Left in the Dark may well initiate a revolutionary change in the way we perceive the overwhelming/massive etc challenges we have created for ourselves and how to deal with them.
With this in mind, a new project with essentially the same aims has just launched on IndieGoGo: Blue Pill Or Red Pill? Time To Make Up Your Own Mind.
Discussions with acclaimed writer/ghost-writer Andrew Crofts have resulted in a collaboration to write a completely new and accessible account of the basic diagnosis, aimed at a mainstream audience. With Andrew's reputation and connections, the chances of a mainstream publishing and distribution deal are greatly enhanced.
Initial costs are relatively small and there is no reliance on mainstream media to publicise. However, the project will need to reach as many people as possible to stand a chance of success.
Any support or networking will be greatly appreciated!
Check out the project at Blue Pill Or Red Pill? Time To Make Up Your Own Mind and help spread the word!
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on August 14, 2011
Lana Walker
commented on a projectThanks, Trevor!
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on August 14, 2011
Lana Walker
Posted project update #9Update from Tony - Thanks and keep networking!
Firstly a big thanks to all efforts and pledges so far.
The essential and elusive ingredient of significant mainstream media has as yet failed to materialise. For a project of this size with a radical/novel proposal and a target of thinking people highly concerned about the human condition, plus a 60-day time limit, media coverage reaching tens of thousands at a time was the plan. Always the long shot part of the equation this despite several very significant media connections and related PR with ‘in principle’ interest/support or in some cases commitments to get involved. It appears that much of that initial interest has generally succumbed to the onset of sudden and multiple cases of profound deafness once the project launched. While social media and networking were always intended to play a part in drawing initial interest, without the huge numbers to scale up that interest via mainstream further fueling social networking etc the launch is stalled.
Despite the limited reach some very positive connections have and continue to be made including many that are not linked or visible on the KickStarter page and may well develop into constructive outcomes.
If the initial response was replicated on a much greater scale the project would, it seems, to have been successful, so scale up and it will fly, but how? Perhaps a non-KS page with no time limit, or a re-launch with much better preparation and more solid media interest or actual coverage before launch, or perhaps a scaled down first objective, i.e. a professionally made trailer, etc
Any feedback re the basic idea would be most welcome. There have been some questions/comments that perhaps it is too challenging or negative, yet the daily diet of carnage, madness and all the usual symptoms of mental ill health attract the typical feeding frenzy of both mainstream media and much of the viral networking on social media. It seems even the minute chance of a real, structural and practical cause-effect fix is much less appealing than watching transfixed as the slow motion train wreck we are experiencing right now unfolds before our eyes.
So again big thanks and please keep networking, as at the very least it will help build a stronger platform to re-launch as this is just round 1.
Tony
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on July 28, 2011
Lana Walker
Posted project update #8KMO interview now available on YouTube
Post CommentKMO Interview - Damaged Yet Dominant
Tony really spiffed up the interview recording! He split the audio into four parts and added beautiful graphics to illustrate their conversation.
Check them out and please share with your friends. Truly a must-see! Watch out, David :-)
Part 1 - 13:53
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrznMP-VH90
Part 2 - 14:45
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmXd2PBHFis
Part 3 - 13:20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG-xl_PNv8c
Part 4 - 13:01
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzCT99XJ-mo -
on July 25, 2011
Lana Walker
Posted project update #7Late Night City with Pete Price interview
Post CommentEverything you wanted to know about staying awake for 11 days but were afraid to ask!
Pete Price chats with Tony about his Kickstarter collaboration with filmmaker David Malone and how it relates to his 11-day sleepless event in 2007.
You can download mp3 here
It's also available on Tony's Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tony-Wright/180069503093
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on July 24, 2011
Lana Walker
commented on a projectWell said, Lloyd.
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on July 20, 2011
Lana Walker
commented on a project updateForgot to post show notes: KMO welcomes Tony Wright to the program to talk about the development and degeneration of human cognitive abilities over the course of our evolutionary history. Could it be that our forest-dwelling, fruit-eating ancestors enjoyed not only enhanced cognitive abilities, but also a more satisfying and easy sense of self? If so, how might we move ourselves back in the direction sanity and balance? Tony is working with documentary film-maker David Malone to bring these ideas to a wider audience via a TV series they’re tentatively calling Molecules of Madness. Later, Charles Eisenstein stops in to talk about trusting ourselves to find a workable relationship with food. Music by Critter Jones.
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on July 20, 2011
Lana Walker
Posted project update #6C-Realm's KMO interview with Tony Wright now available
Listen and share!
"Damaged Yet Dominate"
http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/player/web/2011-07-20T11_45_51-07_00
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Lana Walker on July 20, 2011
Forgot to post show notes:
KMO welcomes Tony Wright to the program to talk about the development and degeneration of human cognitive abilities over the course of our evolutionary history. Could it be that our forest-dwelling, fruit-eating ancestors enjoyed not only enhanced cognitive abilities, but also a more satisfying and easy sense of self? If so, how might we move ourselves back in the direction sanity and balance? Tony is working with documentary film-maker David Malone to bring these ideas to a wider audience via a TV series they’re tentatively calling Molecules of Madness. Later, Charles Eisenstein stops in to talk about trusting ourselves to find a workable relationship with food. Music by Critter Jones.
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on July 8, 2011
Lana Walker
Posted project update #5Preview of interview with KMO of C-Realm
Post CommentA preview of an interview with KMO of C-Realm (mp3) is available on Tony's media page. The main interview will be available in about 10 days.
Very interesting little clip!
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on July 8, 2011
Lana Walker
Posted project update #4When in Rome, do as the Romans do
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The data would have predicted it. Hope you don't mind me putting in my pennies worth Tony.
I don't think a documentary would be any use, not a good use of money. For a million you could buy or rent some equipment and do research.
View it as a business, first you need a unique selling point, a brand name with a catchy sales line - the mint with the hole made millions.
I'd be interested in seeing data on left right hemisphere using different techniques to find out what works, also what diet works etc. THis is valuable information.
People make millions selling crappy financial data, you could appeal to instincts just as basic and sell data.
I'd also suggest targetting the group you know best - your own people. The are many English and Anlo - Saxon groups whose numbers are increasing every day. Appeal to this market specifically.
In other words just go ahead and do the research, screw the state, you'll never get a penny - it's not part of their agenda. A hundred mil for India yes, unique research no.
So get hold of some equipment, get some control groups going, get a profession web site etc.