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<big style="color: rgb(51, 255, 255);"><small><span class="style5"><span class="style30">________________________________________<br>
R I P P L E S<span class="style6"> .</span>I N<span class="style6"> .</span>T H E<span class="style6"> . </span>N E R V E P O O L</span><br>
Written & Created by Ebon Fisher</span><br>
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<span class="style34"><em>"Unknown and distant worlds, <br>
where all is mystery and holiness."</em><br>
<em>- Gustave-Moreau</em></span></p>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><blockquote>
<p align="left" class="style12"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ff55"><span class="style40">I</span>NTRODUCTION</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span class="style32"><font
color="#00ccff">R</font></span><span class="style12"><font
color="#00ccff">ipples in the Nervepool is a live-action TV series/DVD
combining <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">the biomorphic pluck of Dr. Seuss</font> with the otherworldly sensuality of Cirque
de Soleil. Geared for the 18-35 set, this sci-fi
production
features 5 characters coping with peculiar environmental disturbances in a parallel
world.
It's an edgey comedy with ethereal, contemplative moments. Love of nature, in all its bubbling weirdness, is
the
underlying spirit of the production. Edgey, contemporary music, often with an Eastern flavor, accompanies every episode.<br>
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</font></span></font></p>
<p align="center"><span class="style43"><span class="style16"><span class="style43"><img src="N-Mama-in-pool.jpg" width="300" height="225" border="2"><br>
</span><br>
<span class="style46"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Nerve Mama drinking from the Nervepool.</font></span> </span></span><span class="style16"><span class="style28"><span class="style43"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><br>
</font></span></span></span></p>
<p align="left" class="style12"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff">THE STORY: Five unusual beings
are on a quest for meaning and affection in the midst of toxic leaks,
indoor hurricanes, intestinal worms and pimple
outbreaks. <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">The core group of Nervians protect the Nervepool at the center of their world from various knuckleheads, speculators and elitists who populate the outer chambers.</font></font> <font
color="#00ccff">Complicating matters, the characters are caught in a
bewildering love spiral: Nerve Mama loves the rather mad Sluker; Sluker loves
pensive Zoota; Zoota loves the spritely Treen; and Treen's affections
spiral
out to all of nature. Watching from the sidelines is Glooky, a smart,
sinewy
nymph who coyly taunts all the characters but can never be caught. </font></font></p>
<p align="center"><img src="COS-Glooky-COURT.jpg" width="201" height="347"> <span class="style6">. . . . . . . <img src="COS-Treen-Courtney-BL.jpg" width="200" height="360"></span></p>
<p align="center" class="style12"><span class="style43"><span class="style26">PERSONAL ECOSYSTEMS: </span>Glooky and her luminous friend (left),<br>
</span><span class="style43">and Treen with her nectar-generating "water wig" which provides a habitat for birds (right).</span> <span class="style16"><br>
</span></p>
<p align="left" class="style11"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span class="style12"><font
color="#00ff00"><span class="style40">L</span>IVING<span class="style40"> G</span>ARMENTS </font></span></font></p>
<p align="left" class="style11"><span class="style35">T</span><span class="style12">he characters in "Ripples in the Nervepool" are engulfed by living garments, underscoring the ecological ethos of the production. Sluker wears a turtle-like creature on his belly. Treen dons a "water wig" which collects rain water at the top and produces nectar in a mesh of roots. Glooky's creature coils around her neck and bobs its glowing head infront of her like a flashlight.</span></p>
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<p class="style12">These organisms enhance their hosts in some fashion, not with the overkill capacities of a superhero, but with charming, biological nuances. In effect, a miniature ecosystem is represented by each character and her symbiotic critter. Furthermore, each personal ecosystem interconnects with all the other systems. Nerve Mama draws liquid from the pool of water and streams it into Treen's "water wig." This, in turn, produces nectar which is fed to Sluker's turtle creature. Going full circle, the turtle creature incubates Nerve Mama's offspring, Nerve Baby.<br>
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<p align="center"><span class="style16"></span><span class="style43"><img src="COS-Matt-grub-flat.jpg" width="292" height="233" border="2"></span></p>
<p align="center"><span class="style43"><span class="style26"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">A character whose "personal ecosystem" has grown unchecked.</font></span></span><span class="style16"><span class="style28"><span class="style43"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"></font><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"></font></span></span></span></p>
<p><span class="style32"><font color="#00ff00" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Z</font></span><span class="style40"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ff00"></font></font></font><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ff00"></font></font></font></span><span class="style12"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ff00">OACODES</font></font></font></span></p>
<p><span class="style35"><font color="#00ccff" face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">W</font></span><span class="style12"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff">here many popular television dramas have spiced the dialogue with unusual medical and forensic terms, the Nervian's speak often of ecological systems. Their plans for crisis resolution are aided by a biomorphic network language, the
Zoacodes. </font><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span class="style36">(See</span> <font size="-1"><a
href="tunnel_2.html" target="_blank">Zoacode Preview</a></font> <span class="style36">)</span></font></font><font
color="#00ccff">. Zoacodes spell out
nonviolent, eco-friendly networks of energy and information. <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">They usually appear as momentary flashes in the minds of the Nervians, but also in patterns performed by nervelike creatures in the Nervepool. </font></font>Some viewers may not comprehend these simple network forms initially, but the inquisitive will find the vocabulary of nodes (minds) and probes (hands, tentacles) actually make sense. As is the tendency with new games and gadgets the world over, early adopters will inevitably inform the uninitiated. </font></font></span></p>
<p class="style12"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff">These symbols and their
corresponding
aphorisms spread through other media as well: T-shirts, stickers,
internet
experiences, cell phones and conversations. The author has already exhibited Zoacodes at museums, galleries and numerous raves and social events. Magazines and newspapers, from Wired to the Wall Street Journal have displayed them. Where Pokémon had its
monsters emblazoned on countless trading cards, Nervepool has its
Zoacodes.
Collect 'em, trade 'em, change the world:</font></font> </p>
<p align="center"><img src="4_Mini_Zoacodes3.jpg" width="532" height="100"></p>
<p align="center"><img src="SCR-Cellular-UNCLEAR.jpg" width="143" height="282"></p>
<p align="left"><span class="style12"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff">The Nervepool is ultimately a celebration of our
biological interconnectedness. With its symbiotic creature-clothing, media-friendly Zoacodes and extensions into the
internet, it is geared towards a generation which embraces
both technology and ecology, gizmos and goo. Like Teilhard de
Chardin's notion of the Noosphere, The Nervepool's audience can be seen
as an actual pool of alert, nervous minds spanning the planet. "</font><span class="style24">Where is the Nervepool?</span><font
color="#00ccff">" or </font><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff">"</font><span class="style24">Enter the Nervepool</span><font
color="#00ccff">"</font></font><font
color="#00ccff">could be coy slogans for the production, referring to our increasingly global mesh of interconnection and interdependence.</font></font></span><br>
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<td class="style12"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#5dbaca">See index, above, for <a
href="screenplay_episode_1.html"><font size="-1">EPISODE</font> 1</a>,
<a href="screenplay_episode_2.html"><font size="-1">EPISODE</font>
2</a>, the <a href="screenplay_opening.html">OPENING SEQUENCE and its </a><font size="-1"><a
href="screenplay_opening.html">THEME SONG</a></font>, and <font
size="-1"> <a href="Ebon_Fisher_Bio.html">BIOGRAPHICAL</a></font>
information on Nervepool's writer/creator, Ebon Fisher. The following
items have been completed:</font></font>
<ul>
<li> <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#5dbaca">Screenplay for 18 episodes.</font></font></li>
<li> <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#5dbaca">Recording of theme song.</font></font></li>
<li> <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#5dbaca">2 video studies.</font></font></li>
<li> <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#5dbaca">3D database of the set (for dreams and difficult shots). </font></font></li>
<li> <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#5dbaca">A database of 50+ Zoacodes. (See </font><font size="-1"><a
href="/bestiary/zoacodes_mini.html">Zoacode Preview</a></font><font
color="#5dbaca"> )</font></font></li>
<li> <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#5dbaca">An interactive Zoacode presentation system for the web.</font></font></li>
<li> <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#5dbaca">Studies for costumes, creatures and characters.</font></font></li>
<li> <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#5dbaca">Prototypes of posters, T-shirts, collectible cards and other media.</font></font></li>
</ul>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#5dbaca">All inquiries, suggestions and contributions are
welcome. We are currently seeking sponsors and producers: <a
href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected] </a></font></font></td>
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<img src="Outer_Nervepool.jpg" border="0" height="241" width="321"><br>
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<p class="style12"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ff00"><span class="style32">N</span>ERVEPOOL'S <span class="style32">W</span>ORLD</font></font>
</p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"><span class="style35">R</span><span class="style12">ipples in the Nervepool
centers around a small body of water teaming with life residing at the hub of a
living, spherical matrix. Six bulbous chambers orbit this central
hub, connected by tubes just wide enough to crawl through.
Smaller <i>"chill pods"</i> are situated between the chambers for
sleeping. The passages, pods and chambers host a
variety of creatures, including the stewards of the Nervepool, the
Nervians. The entire matrix and its denizens constitutes a large,
spherical creature floating in an infinite liquid. The impression the audience should come away with is that EVERYTHING in Ripples in the Nervepool, including its architecture, is <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">biomorphic, squishy and alive. The themesong celebrates this with the refrain:</font></span></font></font></p>
<p class="style45"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">S<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">o kiss me squishy, twisty hive<br>
It's so nice to be alive<br>
</font>In the quivering Nervepool<br>
My green and watery jewel.
</font></p>
<p class="style12"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff">The uppermost chamber is airy and full of birds. The
five middle chambers contain pools of water. These pools lead down to a bottom chamber submerged in
water and swirling with fish. <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Nervians assume that their interlocking chambers are the extent of the universe, </font>although periodic visitors from our own world sometimes make an appearance, evoking considerable
bafflement. (Some Nervians speculate that there may be other worlds out there.)</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ff00"><font size="+2"><br>
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<p> <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ff00"><span class="style32">P</span><span class="style12">RIMARY</span> <span class="style32">C</span><span class="style12">HARACTERS</span></font></font></p>
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<p><span class="style12"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#6600ff">GLOOKY:</font></font> <br>
<br>
</span><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" class="style12"><font
color="#00ccff">Glooky is a free spirit, often seen climbing high up in the hypertrees or bubbling up out of the water. She wears a sly creature on her head which helps her to see behind her and in total darkness. She can be very skittish and surly, but also very insightful. The other characters are often spell-bound by her sinewy movements. No one is sure whether she's a boy or a girl. Glooky's creature spits out a chewable gum which she partakes of on a regular basis by sticking out her tongue and waiting for a dollop to drop. </font></font> </p>
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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#6600ff">TREEN:</font></font> </p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff">Treen's personal ecosystem includes a "water wig" which collects rainwater (and Nerve Mama's own watery effluence) into an array of petals on the top of her head. Nutritious nectar collects in little bulbs which grow at the rootlike tips of the wig. Treen is a dreamy character, very much in love with nature - especially small, tender creatures which often drink from the top of her wig. She let's her friends squirt nectar from the wig's bulbs into their mouths. Sluker regularly feeds his turtle creature this way. Driven by a deep love of living things, Treen's attention is everywhere. She wears a collection of creatures strapped to a living tool-belt which come in handy while cultivating plants and animals in the Nervian world. She is prone to drift into hallucinations.</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#6600ff">ZOOTA:</font></font> </p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff">Zoota worries a lot and is often the first to take responsibility whenever ecological disaster strikes. She is quite smitten by Treen. Sometimes she feels the need to fuss over her, hoping for a return of affection. (Treen's affections, however, lie with the infinite delights of nature). A lizard of sorts clings to Zoota's back and wraps its antennae around her arms. Zoota is not very comfortable with this arrangement, especially when sparks fly from the tips of the antennae, causing her to sneeze. (The lizard wails whenever Zoota tries to extricate herself from the animal, so she ultimately accepts the situation). The lizard's sparks come in handy for waking up Nerve Mama when she dozes off.</font></font> </p>
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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#6600ff"><br>
SLUKER:</font></font> </p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff">A rather mad fellow who slinks about picking at and probing things. He is visibly taken by Zoota. Sluker wears a turtle-like creature on his belly which is incubating the fetus, Nerve Baby, in its transparent shell. As a result of this arrangement, Nerve Mama exhibits great tenderness towards Sluker. It is not clear what odd method of reproduction managed to get Nerve Baby into Sluker's strap-on reptile, but the whole arrangement makes Sluker more than a little nervous.</font></font> </p>
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<p><span class="style12"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#6600ff">NERVE MAMA</font></font></span><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#6600ff">:</font></font></p>
<p><span class="style15">Nerve Mama is an enigmatic creature with mothering tendencies. She periodically drops into the Hyperhive for a lugubrious look around with her one eye. Approaching a giant squid in size, she has five tentacles which can suck water and small organisms up from the pool. She can also shower the other characters when it suits her. The suctions on her tentacles fit comfortably over the other character's heads, playing a nervelike connecting role during ceremonies. She speaks with a dreamy, oracular voice. She has an affection for Sluker who is incubating her baby in a turtle creature that clings to his belly. </span></p>
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<p align="center"><img src="N-mama-oily-m-bl.jpg" width="170" height="434"></p>
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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ff00"><span class="style32">M</span><span class="style12">EANINGFUL</span> <span class="style32">E</span><span class="style12">NCHANTMENT</span></font></font> </p>
<p align="left"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"><span class="style35">A</span><span class="style12">nyone can
concoct a fantasy.
Creating a <i>meaningful</i> fantasy is another matter. Good fantasy material
needs to be grounded in real experiences and insight into historical
and natural forces. In recognition of this, Ripples in the Nervepool is rooted in an
emerging systems culture born of environmentalism and global internet
exchange. It embodies a <i>hypergreen</i> attitude
blending high tech with high touch, the machine with the green.</span></font></font> </p>
<p align="left"><span class="style12"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff">In addition, Nervepool's screenplays were written with
a sense that coping with biological disasters is not a trivial exercise. Encountering ecological systems is
potentially a strange and revealing process with no definitive
conclusions. By presenting ecological parables in a pop, sci-fi
fashion, replete with Zoacode symbols, strange Nervian advertising,
dynamic ensemble performances and extensive use of the web and viral
media, Nervepool is poised to inject something weird, romantic and
life-affirming into the fertile communications matrix of a new
generation.</font></font></span><br>
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color="#00ccff"><font size="+1">A</font>ccording to polls, three out
of four
US citizens characterize themselves as <i>environmentalists. </i>The
website
for </font><font style="font-style: italic;" color="#6876e7">Business
and Sustainable Development: A
Global Guide</font><font color="#00ccff"> states: <i>"Over the
past 20 years the environment has been a growing priority for people,
both at home and at work. New markets are emerging as consumers and
large organizations move towards green buying decisions."</i></font></font></p> </td>
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<p align="left"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ff00"><span class="style40">E</span><span class="style12">NSEMBLE</span> <span class="style40">I</span><span class="style12">NTENSITY</span></font></font> </p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"><span class="style35">A</span><span class="style12">ll too often the technical demands of science fiction squelches the quality of interaction between performers. Stiff gesturing before a bluescreen stage is the bane of many an over-processed production. The Nervepool is to be shot with a small cast on an actual set strewn with terraces, climbing poles, and a pool of very wet water. With a nod to the dynamic theatre director, Jerzy Grotowski, and the wild, emotional grit of James Brown, Patti Smith and Nirvana, it is the intention of the author to encourage an inspired and physically engaged performance from the actors. Digital 3D animations of The Nervepool's set and its more complex creatures would be added in post-production, but are no substitute for an emotionally rich performance from the actors as they interact on the set. Wherever a creature is called for, building it physically (with simple robotic elements, if necessary) would take precedence over an animated version. </span></font></font> </p>
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color="#00ff00"><span class="style40">B</span><span class="style12">IOMORPHIC</span> <span class="style40">A</span><span class="style12">TTITUDE</span></font></font> </p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"><span class="style35">A</span><span class="style12">ll of the costumes, props and tools used by the Nervians suggest living things. The organic touch, however, goes one step beyond Dr. Seuss and his swirling biomorphic machines and landscapes. Complex biological systems appear in every episode involving liquids, gases, food-chains, and microorganisms. And the Nervians are not squeamish. Treen will happily plunge into the pool of water at the center of her world and drag gobs of mud up from the bottom if it helps sooth a friend's rash. Finding actors who can throw themselves into Nervepool's wilderness with graceful abandon is critical to the show's success.</span></font></font> <br>
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<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ff00"><span class="style40">D</span><span class="style12">EEP</span> <span class="style40">E</span><span class="style12">COLOGY</span></font></font> </p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"><span class="style35">W</span><span class="style12">ith a nod to Star Trek, The Nervepool boldly slithers where no one has slithered before. The Nervepool is THE OTHER WEB. It has been conceived as a fantasy in order to transmute the complex relationships between organisms and their environment into a vivid drama. It's an allegory for ecology in the tradition of Aesop and Rudyard Kipling.</span></font></font> </p>
<p class="style12"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff">Pursued deeply enough, ecology has a remarkable tendency to subvert our myth of individuality and solidity. We can begin to see ourselves as flows of chemistry, energy and interpenetrating forms. The Nervepool's parables attempt to reveal, and delight in, this shapeless weirdness and interdependence at the heart of nature.</font></font> </p>
<p class="style12"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff">Even thought and media are considered important elements in The Nervepool's total ecosystem. Through its Zoacodes, The Nervepool's fictional jungle extends onto T-shirts, posters and the internet. A mysterious ambiguity is built into Nervepool's media so that it seems to hover in our collective mental garden. Here's an example:</font></font> </p>
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<p align="left"><span class="style12"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ffb7"> Sluker and Treen attempt to revive a sick crop of vines by licking them. </font></font><font
color="#00ffb7">The character, Zoota, looks at them with reservation. "Don't you think the roots might get a little jealous?" she jokes. Missing the joke, Sluker pulls up a vine and very gingerly touches a root with his tongue while looking at Zoota. Zoota patiently places her hand on Sluker's head. "Sluker, my dearest," she says, "they're also really good boiled - with parsnips and carrots." Sluker, completely confused, hands her the roots. Zoota begins eating one, staring at Sluker. Sluker licks the leaves at the other end. Treen is dumbfounded in the background. Glooky appears out of the water and into the leafy scene. Facing the camera Glooky deliberately closes her eyes while the camera zooms into her face, past a brain and into darkness. A vinelike Zoacode appears, seeming to float both in her mind and conspicuously in your living room (see image below). As Zoota intones, "PROBE BEYOND YOUR NICHE," the Zoacode pulses on your TV screen. You have entered the Nervepool.</font></font></span></p>
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<span class="style28">"PROBE BEYOND YOUR NICHE." </span></p>
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color="#00ff55">N</font></font></span><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ff55"><span class="style12">ERVEPOOL</span>'s <span class="style32">M</span><span class="style12">EDIA</span></font></font> </p>
<p class="style12"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span class="style38">• TELEVISION: </span><font
color="#00ccff">Funny/strange sci-fi fantasy involving 5
characters in an alternate ecosystem. A single set & small cast
keeps production costs down. For web, cable or network television.</font></font>
<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"><br>
</font><span class="style38">• ZOACODES: </span><font
color="#00ccff">A set of biomorphic network symbols
suggesting delightful, problem-solving routines. These appear in the TV
show as well as a wide variety of ads and products.</font></font> <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"><br>
</font><span class="style38">• WEBSITE: </span><font
color="#00ccff">A central location for dialogue, music,
games, images and Zoacodes. The website could act as a portal
to green activism, culture and markets.</font></font> <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"><br>
</font><span class="style38">• GAME: </span><font
color="#00ccff">Nervepool's architecture, with its spherical
network of passages and chambers, is a natural for a computer game
involving a quixotic obstacle course (as in the Legend of Zelda).</font></font> <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
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</font><span class="style38">• POTENTIAL SPONSORS:</span><font
color="#00ccff"> High technology,
music/entertainment, and the emerging green industries.</font></font> </p>
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<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ff00"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ff55"><span class="style32">P</span><span class="style12">RODUCTION</span> <font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span class="style32">E</span><span class="style12">FFICIENCIES</span></font></font></font></font></font></p>
<p><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff"><span class="style12"><span class="style35">E</span>very one of The Nervepool's seven
chambers is essentially like the others so a single set suffices for
all of them, simplifying production. No outside locations are necessary. The submerged chamber, and
the topmost one filled with birds, can be simulated. A 3D, wire-frame database for the architecture has already been produced. Creatures can be
digitally simulated or built in-house with re-engineered toys or standard robotic elements. A small studio can be put together with 4 or 5
Macintosh computers, digital video cameras, Maya's 3D animation
software, Final Cut Pro for editing, and Dreamweaver and Flash for the
web. Only a few web and video artists, working in a tight, ensemble
team, would be needed to manage the technical core of the production. 5
principle actors, with a handful of extras, completes the cast.</span></font></font>
<span class="style12"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
color="#00ccff">Ripples in the Nervepool is a relatively efficient
show to produce. Its close-knit production environment would help to foster an inspired production culture. <span
style="font-family: monospace;"></span></font></font></span><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font
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