Updated October 31, 2012: Fundraiser hits $140 000. Jarett and Geoff say thank you:
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Original Announcement:
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They're trying to raise funds for it right now. Go here to contribute:
http://www.indiegogo.com/purepwnage
Some interesting points:
"Based in the webseries universe"
"Going back to our guerrilla film style roots"
"possibly go to korea, involve real pro gaming"
For those of you who are not familiar with Pure Pwnage may still remember Jarett from casting Frag for Mental Health and hosting IEM Cologne.
Pure Pwnage was a popular web series mockumentary about the life of a pro gamer. It started in 2004 and later became a short lived TV show. For anyone interested I would consider episodes 1-5 of the webseries required watching. (Youtube)
Interviews
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ESFI World (Oct 2, 2012)
http://esfiworld.com/feature/jarett-cale-pure-pwnage-film-contemporary-e-sports
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Hello, Jarett. Thanks for sitting down with us. It's been eight years since the first episode of Pure Pwnage and four years since the end of the web series, so would you like to describe the show to those who might not have been familiar with it?
So Pure Pwnage—I hate to say it was the first [web show] because out there someone might say “No, my little brother had this thing before,” but it was the first internet series way back in 2004, so pre-YouTube and pre-streaming media. Back when you wanted to distribute that kind of data, that kind of content, you had to use files—we used BitTorrent back then. But it was a long-form, T.V.-style show that we made very cheaply, me and Geoff Lapaire, about our own culture at the time, which—when the show first started we were both addicted to Command & Conquer Generals.
I played it competitively, like in clan wars, and he played a lot, but not competitively. I'd just moved to Toronto, so he was my only friend and we would get together and all we would talk about was C&C Generals And then we wanted to make a show where we would talk about C&C Generals, sort of like, you know, the modern equivalent of podcast or something. But we were going to film it and we were going to just distribute AVIs to this forum called C&C Replays and instead by accident we took some footage of me pretending to be a huge douchebag from the forums and we put that on the web after when we thought it was funny.
We posted it the forum site and they thought it was funny and hosted it for us, and it sort of took off from there. So it sort of just organically grew into this internet television show that we hadn’t set out to make in the first place.
It was just a show about our own culture, about C&C Generals and then we expanded into other cultures that we knew or we used to be in or start to becoming into as we got out of Generals, like getting into World of WarCraft or Counter Strike, and we brought in some of our friends who wanted to be actors and stuff and made them into characters and so we organically developed a T.V. show and it got way bigger than anyone, especially us, could have predicted.
read the rest at esfiworld.com
So Pure Pwnage—I hate to say it was the first [web show] because out there someone might say “No, my little brother had this thing before,” but it was the first internet series way back in 2004, so pre-YouTube and pre-streaming media. Back when you wanted to distribute that kind of data, that kind of content, you had to use files—we used BitTorrent back then. But it was a long-form, T.V.-style show that we made very cheaply, me and Geoff Lapaire, about our own culture at the time, which—when the show first started we were both addicted to Command & Conquer Generals.
I played it competitively, like in clan wars, and he played a lot, but not competitively. I'd just moved to Toronto, so he was my only friend and we would get together and all we would talk about was C&C Generals And then we wanted to make a show where we would talk about C&C Generals, sort of like, you know, the modern equivalent of podcast or something. But we were going to film it and we were going to just distribute AVIs to this forum called C&C Replays and instead by accident we took some footage of me pretending to be a huge douchebag from the forums and we put that on the web after when we thought it was funny.
We posted it the forum site and they thought it was funny and hosted it for us, and it sort of took off from there. So it sort of just organically grew into this internet television show that we hadn’t set out to make in the first place.
It was just a show about our own culture, about C&C Generals and then we expanded into other cultures that we knew or we used to be in or start to becoming into as we got out of Generals, like getting into World of WarCraft or Counter Strike, and we brought in some of our friends who wanted to be actors and stuff and made them into characters and so we organically developed a T.V. show and it got way bigger than anyone, especially us, could have predicted.
read the rest at esfiworld.com
Cadred (Oct 5, 2012)
http://www.cadred.org/News/Article/184845/
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You're the main character in the series -- a fictional professional gamer who lives the life of someone that plays games and hangs out with his girlfriend all the time. Why the name 'Jeremy' and who's idea was it to wear the bandana?
The show essentially started by accident; there was zero planning put into Jeremy's initial wardrobe. That Ubergamer shirt was a gift from a friend prior to moving Toronto and was my favorite shirt. I happened to be wearing it the day we filmed our 'test footage'. I was wearing a bandana because I had longer hair then and used it to keep the hair from falling in my eyes while pwning n00bs in Generals. I ddn't usually wear it outside of the house unless I hadn't showered in a long while and wanted to hide the grease. Such was the case the first time we filmed. Gross but true.
read the rest at cadred.org
The show essentially started by accident; there was zero planning put into Jeremy's initial wardrobe. That Ubergamer shirt was a gift from a friend prior to moving Toronto and was my favorite shirt. I happened to be wearing it the day we filmed our 'test footage'. I was wearing a bandana because I had longer hair then and used it to keep the hair from falling in my eyes while pwning n00bs in Generals. I ddn't usually wear it outside of the house unless I hadn't showered in a long while and wanted to hide the grease. Such was the case the first time we filmed. Gross but true.
read the rest at cadred.org
Hype
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Jarrett Cale (Jeremy) tweeted the following this morning:
Along with the following mildly cryptic video being posted on the purepwnage webpage and youtube:
010100100100010101010100010101010101001001001110 decoded as ASCII = "return"
And I believe that is dApollo casting in that clip.
Jarett Cale
@jarettcale
When I shaved this morning, I left a tiny patch underneath my lower lip... http://www.purepwnage.com/
@jarettcale
When I shaved this morning, I left a tiny patch underneath my lower lip... http://www.purepwnage.com/
Along with the following mildly cryptic video being posted on the purepwnage webpage and youtube:
010100100100010101010100010101010101001001001110 decoded as ASCII = "return"
And I believe that is dApollo casting in that clip.