Red Mosquito

Hey everyone, I'm filming a documentary in Chicago for the Wrigley Field show for a website I recently launched, http://www.fantrotter.com. It's the first and only site to help fans plan travel to see their favorite bands, sports teams and other events by showing estimated ticket, flight, hotel and car rental prices for every scheduled date in one fast and easy search. (And soon we'll be adding estimated costs for train, bus, self-drive etc, as well as enabling people to communicate about carpooling, tailgating, giving each other travel advice etc.)

I think a website like this for fans is long overdue, and we plan to build a big community of people who love to travel for events. (We call it "fantrotting") In the documentary we want to interview people who have traveled a great distance to be at the Wrigley Field show and highlight their stories about why they did it, what it took to be there, and how much it means to them. If you are interested in being interviewed we will be more than happy to meet up with you somewhere in Chicago or at Wrigley Field before or after the show. The Fantrotter crew will be in town from Thursday night to Sunday afternoon. Just email me at mikec@fantrotter.com. The documentary will be posted in all our social media channels and we are in talks with some major online distribution outlets to get it syndicated.

Pearl Jam was actually one of the main inspirations behind Fantrotter, and I wrote a blog post about it. Check it out here: http://blog.fantrotter.com/the-inspirat ... otter-com/

Thanks, and hope to see you in Chicago!
Mike

(cross posted from http://community.pearljam.com/viewtopic ... 5&t=209861)

Good luck

Hey everyone, the initial documentary video is finally ready, just in time to coincide with the album release and the N.A. tour!

This is the short version, at 8 minutes and 20 seconds running time. A longer, more detailed version, running closer to 30 minutes and elaborating on many of the answers and stories we heard from fans, is still in the works.

We had a blast meeting and interviewing people from all over who had traveled to be at the Wrigley show, and we were humbled by the passion and dedication of PJ fans to go to great lengths to see this band.

Without further ado, here's the link! http://youtu.be/vSo_G1ROSrI

Please feel free to share it with anyone you think might enjoy it. I'll be happy to answer any questions about it here, and I'll be back in touch to share the longer version when it is ready. Probably will be another month or 2. Video editing is a lot of work!

Hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed making it!

Thanks,
Mike

P.S. We couldn't use Pearl Jam music in the background, but hope you enjoy the music, it's my band

stip wrote:Good luck

Having watched the 1st minute of that video I now suspect stip was paid for his initial endorsement.

This is your Target moment stip - you used to mean something to me man.

he found my price point

Spoiler: show

stip wrote:

southp wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:There are a range of little sheep warrior action figures to accompany this.

I'm not kidding.

You mean other than the 7 we've seen?

to be honest if I had the money right now I would totally buy this shit

Spoiler: show

Yeah Yeah Yeah

stip wrote:he found my price point

Spoiler: show

stip wrote:

southp wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:There are a range of little sheep warrior action figures to accompany this.

I'm not kidding.

You mean other than the 7 we've seen?

to be honest if I had the money right now I would totally buy this shit

Spoiler: show

Yeah Yeah Yeah

Thanks for selling out stip!