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BlessedBlogger · Veteran Joined: 06 Dec 2008 Posts: 111 Location: Delaware

Hoopeston Documentary

**Posted:** Sun Dec 21, 2008 5:00 pm

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riquardo · Decorated Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 280

Nice! Thanks for that! About 4 minutes in, the first reference of basketball (not counting the obvious Hoopeston!). I don't think it's IG, but if it turns out to be, this ARG could be even bigger than we've been thinking: to produce this documentary (which seems very legit), to the sole purpose of an ARG, would probably be very, very expensive.

-watching the rest now-

**Posted:** Sun Dec 21, 2008 5:29 pm

Toclafane · Boot Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 10

Vermilion County, huh? Looks like another major reference to the color red, if IG (and the more I watch, the more it feels like it might be).

**Posted:** Sun Dec 21, 2008 5:34 pm

riquardo · Decorated Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 280

I find the attitude of an ARG player very amusing (myself included): this could be (or not) a perfectly legit documentary and I'm seeing the people in it as fictional characters, and trying to find a clue in every frame! Wouldn't it be awsome if this would be in fact IG?

**Posted:** Sun Dec 21, 2008 6:01 pm

hatpins · Boot Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 54 Location: Outside

I so wish this was IG.

Under "Projects", they have TIMM listed..

**Posted:** Sun Dec 21, 2008 6:54 pm

FlamingSheep · Veteran Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 90

Yea, it's nice to see their website got updated.

There's a Werewolf Battle project too, which looks pretty interesting. Synydyne really likes doing quirky projects.

**Posted:** Sun Dec 21, 2008 6:57 pm

Deanodon

Well, I just watched Hoopeston and while I wouldn't say the time was wasted, there's not much there for TIMM. It is perhaps the genesis of some of the ideas in TIMM, other than that, it's an okay documentary that promises conflict between fundamentalist Christians and Wiccans in a small, midwestern town, and really doesn't deliver.

**Posted:** Sun Dec 21, 2008 8:57 pm

FlamingSheep · Veteran Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 90

If you check the front splash screen for Synydyne, you get a random picture. Some of them are the unaltered photos from the TIMM video (Black Star building without the star, a building without the Rupture class sign). Kind of neat.

**Posted:** Sun Dec 21, 2008 9:06 pm

thebruce

strangely, this clip from the vide reminds me a lot of Hoopeston after watching that first part Confused

eta: also, I'll add that the guy mentioned a while back in this post who has a youtube account and videos describing the "crytsal web" does in fact make his appearance in the hoopeston documentary.

**Posted:** Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:47 pm

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MNUMHKEN · Boot Joined: 29 Nov 2008 Posts: 25

**Posted:** Mon Dec 22, 2008 8:59 am

chrismenning · Boot Joined: 06 Dec 2008 Posts: 28

I really don't think the Hoopeston documentary is IG.
Synydyne's shorts "How Not To Get Mugged" and "How to Warm Coffee With Body Heat" seem like they'd be more likely to be IG than the Hoopeston doc. They're entertaining, but I'm really doubtful that these have anything do with the ARG.
http://www.vimeo.com/2587577
http://www.vimeo.com/2587479

**Posted:** Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:02 am

TheRyuujinMike · Veteran Joined: 12 Dec 2008 Posts: 87

Haha, ya know, if at the end of it all TIMM just ends up being a big promo for a new show or movie made by these guys, well, that'd just be alright IMHO.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:21 am

krystyn

**Posted:** Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:39 pm

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Giff Hoyt · Boot Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 47

I wouldn't mind watching a full blown sci-fi movie about TIMM by Syndyne.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:42 pm

hatpins · Boot Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 54 Location: Outside

**Posted:** Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:31 am