CrowdsEye: A New Way to Share Memories
(Photo: Shelly Siegel)
Phish tour is filled with adventure and madness of all shapes and sizes. Think of all the crazy things that you’ve seen and experienced during your show-going adventures, and now imagine if you could actually see and read about some of these twisted moments that others have experienced as well? This is the crux of CrowdsEye, a new website that hosts digital scavenger hunts of live music events. Having already conducted unoffical competitions for SXSW’s Screenburn, Coachella, and Lightning in a Bottle, Crowdseye will be an official sponsor of Sonic Bloom, Denver Comic Con, and Electric Forest. And on Wednesday, the Los Angeles based company will launch The Phish Tour Challenge.
Here is an explanation of how the site works from the company’s co-founder and resident Phish head, Andy Magnes:
12.31.11 (Shelly Siegel)
“CrowdsEye was created as a digital scavenger hunt for live events, where you can submit photos, stories, and reviews based on categories determined before each event. Once fans vote on the best content, the most popular submissions receive points. Whoever has the most points in the end wins. (A full description of the point system can be found on the CrowdsEye FAQ).
We, essentially, built CrowdsEye for ourselves and our friends. We needed a place to channel the excitement and energy felt after a concert or other live event. A place where people shared based on similar interests rather than friend-based social networking. A site where you could visit after the show to see all the photos, hear all the stories, and read all the fan reviews. A place where the best content rose to the top and you could sort by popularity, category, etc. A place where up-and-coming writers could get discovered by other fans (this summer, top Phish reviews will have a chance to be published on Headstash Magazine). Last, we wanted to create a place for the regular fan to be able to tell their story. Unfortunately, some of these amazing stories—miracle tickets, avoiding arrest, tales from the road—never make it past a circle of friends. We hope that the best stories will rise to the top on CrowdsEye and reach a much wider audience.
(Shelly Siegel)
Our Phish Summer Tour Challenge begins on Wednesday, June 6th and voting lasts until Sunday, September 16th. Although many will be playing to win, everyone is invited to browse around and check out what’s happening on tour from the eyes of the fans. CrowdsEye is a free service, and we hope to reward our users with prizes that fans really appreciate. We’ve already seen, read, and heard such amazing things from fans whose creativity would never have reached us otherwise. The community atmosphere and boundless creativity that has come to define the Phish family is exactly what CrowdsEye was created for. We can’t wait to see what will be posted on the upcoming summer tour!”
For now, sign up and browse the contests that currently have content and preview the categories for The Phish Tour Challenge! The contest will officially start Wednesday when YOU begin uploading YOUR photos, stories, and reviews!
1st prize = 4 tickets to any 2 future shows (not NYE), a Summer 2012 AJ Masthay triptych, and a signed copy of Mr. Miner’s Phish Thoughts.
SuperBall IX (Shelly Siegel)
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Jam of the Day:
“Stash -> Free” 11.30.97 II, Worcester, MA
A dirty piece of Centrum history from the Bunny Archives. Two more days…
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Tags: 2012, Culture, Summer 2012
All I want from the livephish app is the ability to FF/RW and see where you are in the song time wise. I’ve lost signal/crashed so so many times in the middle of a 20 minute track and had to say ‘fuck it’.
Of course, once this is fixed I’ll have another “all I want…”
boo to middle of the night bb’ing. Work sked is fckd.
Word of advice to the morning people. I just figured out I can offer to send my wife to stay with her sister any time I want to travel and do something awesome. Works like a charm. I can’t believe I just figured this out after 3 years of marriage and almost a decade together.
Mound opener
Ok gentleman I’ve arrived in Worcester and I am tired. My flight to Boston from Charlotte was cancelled but I wouldn’t have known until I checked my boarding pass and noticed that it had Providence as the destination. Apparently Expedia switched me without even notifying or asking me. Good thing though as I was able to get my prepaid car rental switched from Boston to Providence and thus made it to Worcester. Tomorrow I’m hitting up Legal Seafood. I hear they’ve got the best clam chowder around.
Well i got hosed by my airline…
But i just put out a fire so
i guess it was to be
working on connecting
Congratulations m00n!
Work is over tour is on bitches
@ pigsong, I hear that. Sending my wife to visit her sister for the midwest run, did the same last year. Means that she gets to see the sister and I dont have to go either. Everyone wins!
Last night’s first set was one for the AGES
face
melting
roses