You are about to get deeply involved in the "Follow The Beast" Google mash-up for Mogwai - the rock band from Scotland. The site is located at http://mr.beastm You are about to get deeply involved in the "Follow The Beast" Google mash-up for Mogwai - the rock band from Scotland. The site is located at http://mr.beastmap.com (check it out). "Follow The Best" works like a tour diary - except that you can get involved...deeply involved. So, take your video recorders or video cameras to the shows.

Mogwai's US tour started on March 1, 2006 in Chicago and ends at SXSW in Austin. This YouTube group lets you add your videos to the mash-up. You can add your videos to this group, but you must tag your videos with "tour0" and "fan" to show up in the video gallery below the map. Then, you can also tag your video with the appropriate tour stop (e.g. "chicago") and it will show up when someone clicks on the tour map point. We will approve these and publish to "http://mr.beastmap.com".

If you don't have any vids from the current tour, here are the tags to get on the other maps:
tour1 - points of interest map
tour2 - Curiosa 2004 tour
tour3 - 2004 US Festivals tour
tour4 - 2003 US Tour

(still use the "fan" tag with those, too)

For those of you not familiar with Mogwai - they are a Scottish five piece band that formed in 1995. They've since gone on to develop their distinctive style of apocalyptic, yet deeply humanised noise across four albums, establishing the transcendentally effective quiet-loud/quiet-loud dynamic as their very own and spawning a generation of imitators.

Known as an amazing live band, we hope your videos help to share the Mogwai experience with those not quite lucky enough to have seen them in action on a stage. They are also a group of geeks fond of technology - often just as likely to be typing away an email before a show as they are tuning their guitars. So, the mash-up is a perfect reflection of the band themselves and their fans.

Mogwai's brand new album, 'Mr Beast' is the band's fifth studio album and, as the title suggests, sees them returning to their first, true love - Rock with a capital "R". (more) (less)

Tags: mogwai
Status: Public
Created: February 12, 2006

Eugene Mirman needs your help protesting himself and he wants you to protest right along side of him! Read this open letter to potential protestors and then fin Eugene Mirman needs your help protesting himself and he wants you to protest right along side of him! Read this open letter to potential protestors and then find out how you can get a free copy of his new album En Garde Society by protesting Eugene:

Dear Everyone:
My name is Eugene Mirman and I must be stopped. I am a comedian who has become a threat to the world. It’s okay to use comedy to criticize society and make it re-evaluate itself. However, I have gone too far! Like some people’s Kung Fu, my Comedy is simply too dangerous — a threat to everything — God, Mankind, Mother Nature and Time Itself.

Why don’t I stop? I can’t. The world needs a common enemy now more than ever. The best enemy, of course, would have been aliens. Sadly, since 1950 we have waited for aliens to attack and unite the world. And they haven’t.

I can’t wait any longer. I must step in and become the common enemy — to save Mother Earth. Someone the entire world can fight — an entity that can bring together pro-lifers and pro-choicers, southern-shitkickers and crazy-pants Zionists, Islamic extremists, high school football coaches, Dokken and James Taylor, Cat Stevens and Chinese people, scientists, homosexuals, the upper class and special needs students.

I need you to focus on stopping me. How? By making videos explaining how I am destroying the world with my very being — from any point of view — maybe I broke the 1972 Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems? Maybe I beat up an abortion doctor with a pregnant woman’s foot? Maybe I tried to add an amendment to the constitution that turns everyone gay! Maybe I’ve never used a bathroom and poo in the street?! Maybe I started a religion that combines what is creepy about Scientology with the fanaticism of the religious right and jihadist terrorists?

Make a video explaining what my crime is and what you demand of me. Should I provide universal healthcare? Stop Iran’s nuclear program? Sink California to make Arizona more valuable? Let kitty-cats vote (only in local elections)? What have I done and what must I do? Tell me. In a video. This is the “War On Eugene” — for world peace.




I’m So Sorry,
Eugene Mirman

If you post a video or a message telling us about Eugene Mirman's crimes, why you are protesting them, and/or what you are doing to stop Eugene we will contact you and send you a copy of Eugene's brand new album En Garde Society!

To see pictures and learn more about Eugene's recent self protest in New York City, click here: http://tinyurl.com/neju4

To learn more about Eugene's new album En Garde Society! click here:
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Tags: eugene mirman en garde society protest sub pop subpop comedy
Status: Public
Created: May 08, 2006

Share your craziest wedding video moments and win a prize!! "Not everyday someone wants their special day ruined by a gimmick, but some people do." - Con Share your craziest wedding video moments and win a prize!! "Not everyday someone wants their special day ruined by a gimmick, but some people do." - Confetti Magazine (from the "Confetti" movie).

CONFETTI - The new Fox Searchlight comedy due out in select theaters September 15th, follows three couples as they duke it out to win a bridal magazine (Confetti Magazine) contest for "Most Original Wedding of the Year." What results are three hilariously themed weddings combined into one huge show with many funny moments to boot.

So, like Confetti magazine, we too are throwing our own contest! We want to see your funniest and craziest wedding moments from your special day and in return you'll be rewarded!

1. Blow off the dust and find your wedding video.

2. Register at http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/confet... ** . Then join the Confetti group!
**You must fill out this form with all information. If you have not registered your YouTube name at this site, you will not be accepted to the Confetti group.

3. Select a clip no more than 3 mins in length and upload it to http://youtube.com/group/confetti

4. Watch the Confetti trailer while you wait until September 15th (http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/confetti /).

5. On September 15th, check back to see the grand prize winner and honorable mentions!

6. If you are the grand prize winner, you will enjoy an awesome pocket video camera to continue to capture the bliss of marriage and life's moments and a poster from the Confetti movie!


3 Honorable mentions will also receive a Confetti poster in addition to a Fox Searchlight poster pack.

Submissions are due 9/13/06. Get your videos in soon!!


NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Ends 09/13/06 at 11:59 p.m. ET. Open only to legal US residents (except Puerto Rico), 18 years of age or older and is subject to Official Rules. For Official Rules, go to http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/confet... or send a SASE to The "Confetti Wedding Video" Contest, c/o Fox Searchlight Pictures, 10201 W. Pico Blvd., Building 796, Los Angeles, California 90035. Odds of winning depend on number of entries. Void where prohibited.
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Tags: Confetti Fox Searchlight Weddings Funniest Videos The Office
Status: Public
Created: August 18, 2006

The home of the official Ima Robot "Creeps Me Out" video contest! * Head on over to Ima's MySpace and download "Creeps Me Out." (The download will be made av The home of the official Ima Robot "Creeps Me Out" video contest!

* Head on over to Ima's MySpace and download "Creeps Me Out." (The download will be made available for two weeks only starting August 24th).
* Create a video inspired by the song. What creeps you out?
* Make sure you incorporate the number 68405 AND the word "stalker" into the video...the more creative you work that number in there, the better! We'll tell you what we're up to with this number later, it's top secret. Shhhhhhhh...
* Upload your video to the YouTube group imarobotcontest. You must first register an account with YouTube, and then upload your video. YouTube accepts video files from most digital cameras, camcorders, and cell phones in the .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG file formats, but PLEASE ALSO BACK UP YOUR ORIGINAL! We may use a higher quality version at some point in the future if you are a winner.
* Using the form on the site below, send an e-mail to us containing a link to your video on YouTube, as well as your name, e-mail, mailing address, and phone number.

Please visit http://www.bratmarketing.com/ima/vide...

Thanks and GOOD LUCK! (more) (less)

Tags: Ima Robot Monument to the Masses Creeps Me Out music video
Status: Public
Created: August 17, 2006