Jeff Reifman

Cause Some Beautiful Trouble with Us in Seattle

Initiative 103 will be partying it up with other local creative activists for the Beautiful Trouble book launch on Wednesday, May 16th at the Richard Hugo House. Hope to see you there! RSVP on Facebook!

Wired Vanish Contest Tied into Universal Pictures Repo Men Release

I was involved in finding Evan Ratliff in the first Wired Vanish contest, see How We Caught Missing Wired Magazine Writer Evan Ratliff. This time, Wired and Lone Shark Games are expanding the contest and inviting the public to participate as runners. Should be quite fun...wish I wasn't so busy with my grant project next month or I might consider it:

Lone Shark Games, in conjunction with Wired Magazine and Universal Pictures, is looking for a few creative, honest, adventurous people to go on the run starting in late February. You need to be available through late March to leave your regular life behind. (If you are chosen, we will give you exact dates.)

via wiredinsider.com

Interestingly, the whole alternate reality game put on by Lone Shark is being organized in coordination with the upcoming movie release of Universal's Repo Men.

Repo Men stars Jude Law and Forest Whitaker as corporate bounty hunters ultraviolently retrieving life-saving artificial organs from those who can’t pay for them. That includes Law’s character, Remy, whose artificial heart suddenly becomes company property once he loses his nerve for the job.

So, hold on to your organs. If you're interested in running, you can learn more here and here.

Pick up Wired's December Issue for Gone by Evan Ratliff

I hope you'll pick up a copy of Wired Magazine's December issue featuring "Gone", by Evan Ratliff. Using Facebook application technology developed with a grant from the Knight Foundation, I helped track Evan to New Orleans. To find out more, you'll have to read the story, which is getting great early reviews:

@skydiver Just missed my subway stop and wound up in Brooklyn because of Wired Article by Evan Ratliff. AMAZING. #vanish #fluke

I really like the way they designed the cover:

How We Caught Missing Wired Magazine Writer Evan Ratliff

In case you missed it, I helped track Evan Ratliff to New Orleans and notified Naked Pizza, an amazing group of folks, who then tracked Evan down in person at a nearby book reading to win the contest.

Please check out the following links:

• How We Caught Missing Wired Magazine Writer Evan Ratliff

• Media Roundup of all the Post-Vanish Contest Appearances by Evan, et al.

• NewsCloud Launches Quick Response VanishTeam Facebook Application to Find Evan Ratliff in Wired's Vanish Competition