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I just saw The Institute
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Kilroy

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 		I just saw The Institute
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I just saw The Institute on Netflix and wish so badly that I could have been a part of that! I live in Portland, Oregon. Any folks from Stumptown know of anything like this around here? I will probably watch The Institute again tonite, I know I missed a lot of details the first time around. So fun, a bit scary, and explosions of Happiness!

See you in Elsewhere,
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hinoai
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 		Hi YAG!

I don't know about any other ones, but thanks to you I'm just watching that documentary right now. What an amazing experience those people must have had! It makes me want to run an ARG of my own one day (when I have the time and money).

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 		Thank you people, now I'll watch this one too!
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gimlet
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kosmopol wrote:
Thank you people, now I'll watch this one too!


Have you not seen it before? If so you're in for a big treat! It has it's issues, but it's pretty fun. More mind fuck than documentary, but still. Well done.

As to finding something local to this wherever you are, well, local interactive theatre can - if well done - sometimes give you a similar feeling.

But ultimately I think the Jejune thing was pretty specific to it's time, place and the people running it. It's one of those unique Bay Area phenomenons I don't know if anything like it will ever happen again really. Which is sad having never experienced it myself. Most specifically it sounds like it had a lot of capital behind it - both venture & private and that's what's REALLY hard to come by. Big money.

But who knows? The Latitude - the project Nonchalance tackled after this one was pretty ambitious, but collapsed just last year. Which for me is actually a good thing as it was hush hush and far away, and now I get to at least read about what it actually was.

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hinoai
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 		[quote="gimlet"]
kosmopol wrote:
As to finding something local to this wherever you are, well, local interactive theatre can - if well done - sometimes give you a similar feeling.


It's not local theater, but I tried one of those escape rooms a few weeks ago, and it was something that I think anyone into ARGs would love. It was lie a dead drop and puzzle game all combined into one of the most fun hours I've ever had!

This is the one that I did: http://www.breakoutwaikiki.com/

We did The Hatch, which actually had Lost references! Crazy, right?

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gimlet
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 		Yes, I forgot about how ubiquitous Escape the room puzzles have become, they probably are the most accessible example of this kind of thing.

The Tension Experience being talked about in News also sounds an awful lot like a horror themed Jejune Institute, so if you're happen to be near LA it sounds like a thing to try (although a stomach for horror themed things seems a prerequisite).

Also, kinda elaborating my point about how about how this kind of project seems to just eat through money, here is a freshly posted great read about his aforementioned Latitude project and how it totally collapsed:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/my-year-in-san-franciscos-2-million-secret-society-startup

Although, all the talk of experience design in it also reminds me that one of the best ways to experience this kind of this stuff for yourself might be to visit a Disney Park.

In fact one of the original designers of Jejune is now an Imagineeer who hellped design the recent Tommorowland Arg.

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