SOME COMPANY UPDATE (2/2/11)

It has been a wild, wild ride, and expects to get much bumpier.

Live Action Role Playing

Similar to interactive theater and pervasive games, transmedia, Aaron is heavily involved in the larp community around the globe.

His essay on larps in America was published in the Knutepunkt 2011 book "Talk", and a blueprint for a game he co-designed with Morgan Joeck appears in the book "Do". Both are available for free here.
Aaron wrote some scenes for Mike Young's psychodrama larp called The Road Not Taken. This larp was runner-up in the larpwriter challenge. Aaron rewrote some scenes specifically for its run in Minsk, Belarus, last weekend, as part of an NGO effort to serve the youth of a country called by western sources as "the last dictatorship in Europe." One scene was censored because it was deemed "too political."
Earlier in January, Aaron organized, managed, and ran a class for a day-long seminar on larp and performance for about eighty Girl Scouts of America. His class on movement theory for character was paired with voice acting. Other classes taught costuming, props and set design, combat, and living history.
Aaron is very busy working on events for Intercon K (Boston, March), and Wyrd Con (Orange County, June) with a loose group of designers known as Enigma Live Game Labs.
Work continues on developing an educational program to use larp to improve student achievement. Hopefully we will be testing at a charter school in the next few months.

Aaron is developing programming (booking movies, panels, etc.) for the Lovecraft portion of the Famous Monsters of Filmland Film Festival, April 1-3 in Oxnard, California, If you want more information, or want to attend, let me know. It's going to be fun! My programming role has everything to do with the fact that all four Lovecraft movies from Some Company will screen together for the first time ever: The Outsider, My Necronomicon, Call of Tutu, and Return to Innsmouth (the first time of this new, remastered version).
Work continues as an exciting pace on the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival®, which for 2011 will be held September 16 & 17 at the historic Warner Grand Theater in San Pedro (Los Angeles). We confirmed that we'll be playing the newest feature from the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, The Whisperer in Darkness. And we'll have many more great flicks and events coming. This is something you do NOT want to miss! More info about the fest forthcoming, but mark your calendars for two nights of creepy, scary, great weird tale thrillers!

Aaron continues to write about cocktails in Los Angeles for Examiner.com. He was a featured Examiner for the winter cookbook, and through contacts, was a guest (for a third time) on the Ridin' Dirty talk radio show, and will be a guest on an upcoming Imbiber podcast.
Aaron received an offer to expand an unpublished article about psychedelic drugs in Lovecraft stories into a full supplemental book for the Call of Cthulhu role playing game. Hopefully this will see fruition late this year.
Rumors of Aaron co-writing a book with his wife, which pairs food and cocktail recipes as analogies for sustaining a long-term relationship (22 years plus for us), are not unfounded.

Only one thing to report on the movie front, and that's the slow but continual progress of the first feature, Latchkey. Nothing is set, but sparks are flying.

Aaron and Kirsten will be taking a needed vacation to the Dominican Republic in late February. Aaron's plan is to do nothing but sleep, eat, drink, and read. Bathing, maybe.