Another handbill for ya!

I put "meet in front of the New Daisy" on this one, because I'm not sure people will know what we mean by the Old Daisy. I'll change it if you guys don't like it.

And I called the event "Memphis Zombie Massacre." I don't know why, but it just felt more right than "walk" and even "crawl" when I was laying it out.

See any problems? Hate it to bits? Let me know before I go have it printed up.

So far, the 320 I had printed last week are gone, gone, gone.

Big flyers to come.

Handbills for this week's art trolley tour

Last night we talked about going ahead and getting some publicity materials downtown in time for the art tour crowd to see so they have some sort of idea of what's going to be happening next month.

This design is for a quarter-page black and white handbill. Should be super cheap to print up and cut, and they will be the perfect size to just lie on counters for people to pick up. Or, if the mood ever strikes, to be slid under windshield wipers.

I'll be coming up with other handbill designs, but this is something I just wanted to push out to have done in time.

If there are no objections to the wording or anything, I'll plan to have them printed up some time tomorrow and I'll hand them off to Sharon and whoever else might be able to make this Friday's art tour (I have to work, naturally).

Any idea how many copies we'd need?

Check out what's opening May 11

More e-flyers, if you want 'em

If you want to use the largest versions of these flyers (which I recommend but were too wide to fit on this here blog body-text area), click them and it'll take you to the Flickr page, where you can select "all size" and get the originals.

Now we can start planning the photo flyers and whatnot, which should be lots of fun.

I'm also going to work on some small buttons and banners to put on web sites and blogs and MySpace pages and whatnot.

Nashville Zombie Walk

I was reading on their myspace page and group about what they are planning to do and what time, etc. They are having a registration period before the walk - apparently from 5-6 from what I could gather from the posts on the myspace group. I'm not certain the purpose except to gauge how many zombies are participating. Does this seem like something we ought to do? I'm thinking not.

I have to say, even in the early stages of planning, we seem a LOT more organized than the Nashville group - they aren't even looking into getting a permit or anything like that.

So - basically, it's on Saturday, April 7th from about 5-6 or so onwards at Riverfront Park in downtown Nashville.

Basically - my point is to say, that I believe that Nashville is NOT the group we want to follow. Chattanooga and others seem much better.

Zombie Movie Night

Monday, March 12th

6:30 p.m.

(or whenever you can make it)

Dawn of the Dead

followed by

Shawn of the Dead

898 South Cox Street

(between Oliver & Nelson)

Drag your reanimated corpse on over!

Memphis Zombies website

Planning for the future of the website - what kinds of things will need to be included?

We mentioned the following:

• Route Map
• Rules of Conduct
• Why We are Doing This
• Links (I would like a much larger and better organized collection of links than what is present now.)
  

I am sure there is other stuff I am missing. Just want thoughts, suggestions, critiques...

So, Zombie research?

Does anyone have any suggestions for where a beginner might find good information about Zombies? Like, how one becomes a Zombie, characteristics of a Zombie, etc.? I am, admittedly, not NEARLY as knowledgeable as most in this group on Zombies (though I have seen Cemetery Man - as I have said ad nauseum).

Communication with Nashville and Chattanooga

Hey guys. I messaged back and forth with Nashville and Chattanooga last night. I'm just going to copy our emails below, so you can read them yourselves. They were both very nice. Chattanooga really encouraged making sure all municipal bases are covered.

NASHVILLE
----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Sarah Date: Feb 28, 2007 4:52 PM
Hey Nashville Zombie Walk planners. My name is Sarah, and I just wanted to say hello. We're planning a Zombiewalk here in Memphis on May 25th, and we'd love any advice you have to give at this point. Is this Nashville's first Zombiewalk? We're hoping to come up to Nashville for your walk in April. Anyway, Arghhhh, brains. . . Memphis Zombie Sarah

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Nashville Zombie Walk Date: Feb 28, 2007 5:13 PM
This is the first one I'm planning, but some people have told me about smaller ones with 12 or so people.

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Sarah Date: Feb 28, 2007 5:19 PM
Wow. That would be pretty small. We're hoping for a bit more than that, but I guess it doesn't take many zombies to make an impact, huh. I think a bunch of us will come up in April. I'm sure we can help out if you need. Are you planning your walk in conjunction with any event? If you'd prefer email to myspace messages, you can email me back at saraherutledge@yahoo.com. We've just put up our own zombiewalk myspace page over at http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=162806983

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Nashville Zombie Walk Date: Feb 28, 2007 7:08 PM
There were some people trying to put together a show for during the day before the zombie walk, but we haven't gotten it all together or confirmed yet.


CHATTANOOGA
----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Sarah Date: Feb 28, 2007 7:57 PM
Hey Chattanooga Zombie Walk planners. Sarah, here, from Memphis. We are planning a Zombiewalk here for the same night as yours. I think we're going to try to head to Nashville for thier zombie walk in April, so maybe we'll get to meet up with you guys then. Anyway, it looks like you've been planning your walk a bit longer than we have. I'd love any advice or ideas you have. Arghhh . . . Brains . . . Memphis Zombie Sarah

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Chattanooga Zombie Walk '07 Date: Feb 28, 2007 5:22 PM
helpful hint 1: Get all your ducks in a row to appease the gods of city hall. If you don't mind could you send that same message to chattanoogazombiewalk@yahoo.com ? just don't mention this email. To have another major Tennessee city doing this on the same night would be awesome Now this could be an idea I will contact Holly @ NZW and see if they would like to do the same thing again there too on may 25th. Now you got my juices flowing. MZW NZW CZW AND KZW on same night? Hmmmmmmmm But yea we can plan a meeting on 4-7 in Nashville and talk it out.

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Sarah Date: Feb 28, 2007 8:33 PM
Done. What have you guys done to appease the gods of city hall? That is, specifically, my job, and I'm not sure how to broach the topic and who to broach it with. Did you guys apply for a parade permit, or just call?

----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Chattanooga Zombie Walk '07 Date: Feb 28, 2007 7:50 PM
We have 311 call system here I called made reservation for park I wanted and now I am having to "sell it" to committees and boards. My biggest road block is they all say "WHY MAY?"

Special interest groups

Sorry for bogarting the planning blog, y'all! It's just that as things occur to me, I figure I better go ahead and get them written down, or else there's a good chance that I'll forget completely. So, onward:

Stacy, I think you were the one who mentioned Roller Derby women the other night, right? I think we should definitely try to hook up with the Roller Derby and, if possible do some cross-promotion. According to their website, they've got several matches between now and May. I envision a trade-off: Zombies come and work the crowd at a couple of roller derby events, and then during the zombie walk, rollergirl zombies take to the streets on their skates. Could be a beautiful partnership.

Of course, it might not even take that much. The roller derby participants might be into coming to the march of their own volition without so much as any cross-promotion.

What other groups around town should we maybe look to recruit?

Electronic flyer

Here's a vague electronic flyer that we could use first on the Goner board and elsewhere on the web. If you guys would like me to add a web address on there, just let me know.

This is the first time I've ever gotten to use my Rocky Horror typeface, which makes me kind of giddy for completely dorky reasons.

Please pass along suggestions if you see anything wrong with this.

Zombie illustrations

Hey everyone, I guess I'll go ahead and kick the planning blog in the ass a bit tonight by passing along the first wave of zombie illustrations lent to me by my friend Jamie.

He said these were the ones already on his hard drive; he's going to scan in more and send them along too.

My favorite is the first, because it's the simplest and cleanest and it's already colored (although we could easily take it to black and white).

Have a look:






Let me know what you guys think about these — strong opinions one way or another. I'll post the next batch when he sends them along.

Lindsey