Santa Cruz Guerrilla Drive-In Collective
This article caught my eye after reading a story last week about guerrilla gigs. Basically, a guerrilla event is cloaked in secrecy and only the organisers know exactly where and when they will take place. At last minute they let people know, set up their equipment and put on a free show. The Santa Cruz Guerrilla Drive-In Collective do exactly that…with movies. Wes Modes, the main man, jumps out of his car and begins setting up by “rigging together a nest of digital projectors, DVD players, and radio transmitters or stereo speakers, spreading the word online, and assembling on parking lots or fields to watch obscure films beneath the stars.” The punters then “tune their car stereos to a designated FM frequency, and sit back and enjoy the show. The only thing they do not do is ask for permission.” Cool. [via]
Actually, I’m just one of a half dozen people in the Guerilla Drive-In Collective. I’m only my sweetheart’s “main man.” And we publish a well-ciculated schedule about town that tells what films, when, and where we’ll be showing. Other than that, all true.
Wes
March 9th, 2005 at 3:22 am