While we know many of our users are from outside the United States, and others perhaps voted for the other guy, Team Cruxy is proud to congratulate the new President-Elect of the United States, Barack Obama. Here’s to a bright future for all, for the freedom to create and dream, and for regular people to be able to gain success through hard work.

We’ll have our special background image up on Cruxy for a few days… and then we’ll be making the shift over to the new Cruxy 3.0 beta. Enjoy!

We just found out about a new film on Cruxy, “419: the Nigerian Scam”, via this Digg post:

Inspired by his best friend’s ordeal but having only $180 to spare, a Canadian student created a movie that won a film festival last week, in Virginia, and had the worldwide premiere at the West Hollywood International Film Festival. There is the trailer and more info about the movie - called “419: the Nigerian Scam”.

Here is more about the film, from their own website, 419thenigerianscam.com:

Every year, more than 50,000 people worldwide fall victim to the Nigerian Scam. Usually contacted by e-mail about a business proposal or winning a lottery, the victims lose their life savings after they are persuaded by stories with very tempting outcomes.

According to some reports, the scam is the third most lucrative industry in Nigeria, generating over 5 billion dollars in the last 20 years. Authorities have named the scam after the number of the article in the Nigerian constitution that deals with the matter - 419.

For the last few months, a talented filmmaker from Canada produced a movie, showing how the e-mail scam works. As far as we know, this is the first movie ever made on this topic - but if there are some other ones, please let us know.

and here’s the trailer!

We’ve talked about indie film Easter Bunny, Kill Kill! before on this blog, when it was released on Cruxy a few months ago. Now, blog of all things geeky and strange, Geeks of Doom, has a review:

Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill! is just the kind of gut punch indie horror needs, both for its original and unapologetic story and for its raw execution. Despite its limited budget and limited change of scenery, the film never lets any potential weaknesses slow it down, and charges through its 85-minute running time like a coked-up dusthead whose eaten one too many chocolate bunnies. The hunt is on, and this year it isn’t for dyed eggs, but for those who dare enter the home of little Nicholas.

Then a great bit on why they chose to use Cruxy to distribute their film:

Originally filmed in 2006, Chad Ferrin and producer Trent Haaga attempted to find distribution for their movie again and again, only to be turned down every time. In order to bring his film to the masses, the pair have turned to digital self-distribution through Cruxy.com. Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill! is available exclusively online and can be purchased for only $3.99. Once downloaded, the file is yours to keep. This is a huge file with a very high resolution picture, and features no artifacting or pixelation when watching it. If you’ve ever felt the need to support true independent cinema, now is the time to do it!

Read the full review and then make sure to watch the film yourself.

• There are over 7,000 content items available for sale on Cruxy
  ranging from award winning short films to innovative new songs to very
  odd sound effects.
• We've generated millions of media plays for content creators on
  Cruxy and across the network of content widgets on social networks and
  blogs
• We've processed thousands of content purchases for tens of thousands of dollars
• An best of all, over 70% of the gross transaction revenue has gone to the creators

 

 

Today, in Second Life, will be the fourth weekly short story session with Warren Adler, author of books that include “War of the Roses” and “Random Hearts”. Today, Mr. Adler will be announcing and reading the winners of his recent Short Story Contest.

This event is co-hosted by Amazon, providing the virtual location for the event, and Cruxy providing the physical location and assistance for Warren in real-life. Cruxy has also developed a new format for distributing audiobooks in Second Life, which we hope to formally announce soon…. for now, you can see a few pictures below:

Please join us today at 12pm SL/Pacific time. Coordinates are posted here: Amazon Island Event Info. You can read transcripts and blog coverage of the previous events on Jeff Barr’s Blog.