This website, [url]www.instituteforhumancontinuity.org[/url] is a viral website for the new 2012 movie that's coming out in November.
The Institute for Human Continuity, or IHC for short, is an organization which wants to prepare the world for the coming apocalypse in 2012 by spreading awareness. The website itself shows a a lot of information on the history of the IHC, it's current initiatives, and most notably a "lottery" that you can sign up for that will give everyone an equal chance at survival.
My hopes is that the lottery is actually a well disguised draw for a prize, so my suggestion is that you should all sign up for it just incase you want to win something cool.
The other viral websites:
[url]http://www.farewellatlantis.com/[/url]
Website for a science fiction book written by the main character of the movie.
[url]http://www.thisistheend.com/[/url]
Blog by a crazy Cassandra dude named Charlie Frost
I'm gonna laugh at the raised suicide rates that year, about something that inevitably won't happen.
I adore viral advertising/sites, Cloverfield was my favourite.
I'm sure I've heard this before...
[QUOTE=Thorny;15783688]I adore viral advertising/sites, Cloverfield was my favourite.[/QUOTE]
I hate them, making me jump through fucking hoops to find out that the movies about a monster is just annoying.
[QUOTE=NickFury6;15783675]I'm gonna laugh at the raised suicide rates that year, about something that inevitably won't happen.[/QUOTE]
Why would it be this year?
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The name freaks me out, I do love Viral Marketing. Year Zero was the best.
[QUOTE=Take_Opal;15783937]Why would it be this year?
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The name freaks me out, I do love Viral Marketing. Year Zero was the best.[/QUOTE]
Indeed, that's the most extensive viral campaign i've seen so far. Aren't they supposed to be doing a sequel for Year Zero though?
Inevitably, however NIN is going on Hiatus for some undisclosed amount of time after this tour :(
it's gonna be fun waking up one day after the the "apocalypse" and say to myself, fuckers!, for believing the shit...WHEN SUDDENLY REALIZE THAT I'M IN HEAVEN/HELL!!! :cawg:
[QUOTE=Thorny;15783688]I adore viral advertising/sites, Cloverfield was my favourite.[/QUOTE]
Same here, except Year Zero was probably my favorite.
Trailer looks pretty awesome.
[QUOTE=STREWTH_99;15783972]Indeed, that's the most extensive viral campaign i've seen so far. Aren't they supposed to be doing a sequel for Year Zero though?[/QUOTE]
[img]http://imgsrv.mix1051.com/image/womx2/UserFiles/Image/the_year_one_poster.jpg[/img]
2012 is going to be horrible.
independence day was good
Day after tomorrow was meh
[QUOTE=Thorny;15783688]I adore viral advertising/sites, Cloverfield was my favourite.[/QUOTE]
Oh yeah, the Cloverfield virals were a lot of fun.
[url]www.slusho.jp[/url]
The District 9 viral stuff is also pretty darn cool.
After doing a bit of research, I found a leaked plot to the movie and I shall post it under spoilers.
[sp]Things get rolling in the near(er) future of 2009, as an American
scientist named PROFESSOR WEST rushes to a research facility in
India, where a colleague named SATNAM has made a mysterious
but alarming discovery: it seems that there have been usually
severe storms on the surface of the sun, which are having a grave
effect on earth. Professor West contacts his friend ADRIAN
HELMSLEY, a young scientific advisor to the president, and informs
him of the ominous developments. Helmsley attempts to brief U.S.
PRESIDENT WILSON on Satnam’s findings, but is stopped by
pompous White House chief of staff ANHEUSER, who has it out for
Helmsley.
From here, things move forward to 2010. By this time President
Wilson is aware of what is happening, and calls a private meeting
with seven other prominent world leaders at the G8 summit in
Spain. What he has to tell them is that the world’s top scientists
have confirmed that the world will soon come to an end. Meanwhile,
in Tibet, the Chinese military displaces several villages and begins
working on what is supposedly a massive dam-building project,
Things jump forward another year to 2011 as more mysterious
events unfold; a WEALTHY SAUDI discusses an enigmatic dossier
and one billion dollar transaction with an MI-6 AGENT, and a group
known as the World Heritage Foundation, headed by President
Wilson’s daughter LAURA, is replacing priceless works of art such
as the Mona Lisa with replicas and taking the originals to storage
facility in the Alps for safekeeping.
Finally we reach the titular year 2012. By now, signs of impending
doom have been steadily accumulating. The west coast is beset
with so-called “mini quakes,” and fissures randomly appear in the
earth. Nevertheless, people are going about their daily lives as
usual, oblivious to the doom in store.
We are introduced to JACKSON CURTIS, chauffer and aspiring
novelist, who is rushing to pick up his two young children LILLY and
NOAH from ex-wife KATE’S house in Los Angeles so he can take
them on a camping trip in Yellowstone National Park. After a brief
run-in with Kate’s standard issue new man, Porshe-driving plastic
surgeon GORDON, the sort of happy trio is off on their camping
adventure. Next we meet elderly jazz musician HARRY, conveniently
enough the father of Adrian Helmsley, as he boards a cruise ship in
San Fransisco to provide the onboard entertainment. As he tries in
vain to convince bandmate TONY to contact his estranged son in
Japan, the ship is suddenly rocked by an unexpected swell in the
ocean. Back in Washington, Laura Wilson receives a call from a
distraught museum director in France, who has just enough time to
inform her that the World Heritage Foundation is a sham before his
car explodes. It seems that he learned too much about the
Foundation’s real purpose and had to be silenced. Laura is horrified
to discover that she has been working for a front, and is further
incensed when she realizes that both Adrian and her father knew
what was really going on and didn’t tell her.
Meanwhile, Jackson and the kids arrive at Yellowstone to discover
that the military and teams of government scientists, led by Adrian
Helmsley, have taken over sections of the park for reasons they
cannot fully reveal. Jackson also encounters crackpot radio host
CHARLIE FROST, who believes that all signs point to a major
catastrophic event beginning in California, spreading to
Yellowstone, and eventually destroying the whole world. Jackson is
understandably dubious, but back in Los Angeles the previously
small fissures become massive, yawning cracks in the earth.
It appears that things are progressing faster than anyone
anticipated, and we get our first inkling of what it is that world
leaders are planning to do about it; they, along with select wealthy
elite from across the globe, will board specially built ships that can
weather nature’s wrath. Everyone else will be left to perish and the
people from the ships will be left to rebuild civilization and
repopulate the planet. Basically, Noah’s Ark for the new millennium.
Gordon and Kate narrowly avoid dying in a crevase in Los Angeles,
and Jackson and the children rush back to find them. They arrive
just in time to pick them up and escape as earthquakes ravage the
city. Against all logic they return to Yellowstone to track down
Charlie, who Jackson realizes was not as much of a crackpot as he
initially thought, and who may be able to help them survive the
rapidly approaching doomsday. Once again their timing is
impeccable, as they reach the park just as it is turning into the world’
s biggest active volcano. Our motley but determined band of
protagonists once again narrowly escapes impending death, this
time armed with details about the Arks and a map to their location.
What follows is a race against time, earthquakes, dust clouds, and
tsunamis as the various groups of characters make their ways
across the globe (remember the displaced villagers building the
dam in Tibet? Well, guess what they were really building) to try and
be among the lucky few who are spared as the earth gets ready to
flood Old Testament style....[/sp]
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I hope it's not real, it sounds horrible for a Dooms day movie. Surviving a flood with an Ark is fucking stupid.
Even if the earth doesn't explode on 2012, people are gonna be going crazy thinking it is.
Riots, killing, everything.
Cloverfield, by far, had the best viral marketing shit ever.
I got number -1.
Err..
Got my lottery ticket.
[QUOTE=Javascript;15785229]Cloverfield, by far, had the best viral marketing shit ever.[/QUOTE]
Cloverfield was a Godzilla-like movie. It has no relations to the end of times and the apocalypse.
eon8 was the fucking pedigree of viral sites
[QUOTE=Take_Opal;15785226]I hope it's not real, it sounds horrible for a Dooms day movie. Surviving a flood with an Ark is fucking stupid.[/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz86TsGx3fc[/media]
After seeing tha trailer i might just watch it for the pure carnage.
I'm hoping this turns out like the twilight zone where there isn't enough room for everyone so they start fighting but then in the end there is no apocalypse so everyone feels like a jackass.
[QUOTE=m0nkey98;15785227]Even if the earth doesn't explode on 2012, people are gonna be going crazy thinking it is.
Riots, killing, everything.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I was just about to say that. Even though nothing's gonna happen, people will be freaking out, it'll get kind of dangerous in a city with people looting and killing and whatnot.
Yeah, the trailer looks way better than the leaked plot.
This whole theory about the world ending better not be created by the same guys who are making this movie or i'll be [B]soooooo[/B] pissed
Myans: Hey, I dont feel like making a calander any longer than december 21, 2012 because I dont feel like it and also our civilization probably wont last that long.
Humans: HOLY CRAP THE MYAN CALANDER ENDS IN 2012! WERE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!
Me: *facepalm* :ughh:
Also: Most epic movie EVAR
Id be funny if this movie came out in 2012
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