A not-so-birthday and global-action-related one.
Invisible Movement is three years old!
Invisible-Movement.net officially turned 3 years on Saturday…although it’s technically older, as the domain name was bought on 13th April 2004. For its first three years, it has had 621 000 visitors. During this period of time, it raised from the depths to one of the most common places people visit when searching for John Frusciante-related news and media; very often the RHCP-related stuff as well. The record breaking days were those of the 2005 performance at the All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival in UK, the centential celebration in Las Vegas, the release of RHCP’s Stadium Arcadium, time after all three shows Marian took videos at and the whole last leg of the RHCP world tour, with extremely heavy traffic around Green Fest and Live Earth.
Unlike many other sites of this type, Invisible Movement relays on original content: as in, live photography provided by site visitors, videos and audio taken by people at shows and I do hope that it’s become a big enough source for everyone who’s looking for extended archives of magazine scans, TV clips and lyrics as well. A couple of guitar enthusiasts from the message board are working on giving the site what it’s been missing for now: information on John’s gear, in studio and on stage
As for news as-it-happens and people asking why the site wasn’t that fast in the past, the answer is simple: the site maintainer had dial up at home until January this year. For these three years of running Invisible Movement, I was trying to be non-biased, barely ever off-topic when it comes to matters such as Josh Klingoffer with RHCP, Californication lawsuit, events that turned out to be cancelled, even the Green Fest fiasco (which is, ironically, what introduced more local RHCP fans to John’s music and now it’s really hard to get John’s albums in Serbia, as what we had is sold out!).
It officially begun here
This was when it reached 500 000 visitors
This is something amazing,
…actually, it makes no sense but confess it, you looked at it.
I do not have enough time to thank everyone for now, but an extended contributors list and a site history page is coming up soon.
I-M.net fanlisting!
As of now, there’s one of them fanlistings for Invisible Movement (the site) as well. You can see it here and join it if you are, simply, a fan of this website. The fanlisting was created by one of I-M.net’s first ever contributors, a massive RHCP fan and one of my best real life friends, Mira; so…if you’re polite and nice, you’ll also pay a visit to her extremely original and smart personal website. You can even adopt a butt there. Confess it, guys, you’ve always wanted to have one more at least, if not even three additional ones, didn’t we all watch South Park at some stage? 🙂
Regarding the global action
So far, the following languages have been used or in the project: Croatian, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portugese (Brazilian), Russian, Serbian, Slovakian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. I am most likely to get in touch with people who can provide translations in Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Macedonian, Persian and Ukrainian.
That means OTHER languages are still needed. Like, those NOT ON THE LIST, among them the most widely-used ones being Portugese (Portugal), Japanese and Chinese. I also guess the not-so-small Romanian and Czech audience overlooked the previous notice so…come on, apply. It’s not dangerous and it won’t take you more than fifteen minutes to participate.
Same goes for Slovenians, I know there are Slovenians who visit this site.
If you’re speaking any of those languages I mentioned above or any other language of the world, including those which are not that common among the people who regularly comment on this website and/or mail me (e.g. Hindu, Korean, Arabic…)
DEAR BALKANS PEOPLE, if you think your Bosnian or Montenegrin translation of whatever the subject of translation is would be significantly different from the Serbian and Croatian ones (which are almost the same), why not, email me. Dialects existing in the known south-Slavic dachsprache are absolutely OK to go separately from each other, as each of them represents a different part of the region. U redu? U redu.
I am sorry for bolding things like an idiot, but last time people didn’t get it right.
Also, the project will be finally revealed at the end of the first week of December. There will be other surprises to go with it, as people who worked hard deserve a special surprise. So, stay tuned!
