Outpost #31

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The above is taken from the Executive Order signed by Nixon in 1970 that ensured an American victory in Vietnam. It’s the latest piece of history to be found in the New Frontiersman dossier. I figured you’d get a kick out of the military patch that troops wore in that operation:

It’s actually a real patch given out to members of the crew on Watchmen. I stumbled across it while doing research on another project last year and filed it away. Once Station X is up and running we’ll be going down the embroidered patch route too. T shirts and badges are so 2008…

And if you’re in London, have a blog and are interested in answering the question ‘Who watches the Watchmen?’ then the answer could be you.

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If you’ve been keeping an eye on the New Frontiersman Twitter feed you’ll already have seen new updates on Flickr - including this rather splendid shot of a Dr Manhattan aided moon landing:

But the first of the video archives just went online with this rather interesting bit of retro TV:

I think this just surpassed The Dark Knight campaign.

As good as that movie was it was a mongrel - Watchmen, however, is shaping up to be a little more purebred. The extra material doesn’t detract from or contradict the original graphic novel, but rather adds a further appendix to the book itself. The movie will stand or fall on its own merits, but stuff like the Flickr stream, the use of Twitter and now this filmed supplemental material have really upped the game.

Gonna be a fun ride through to March.

Disclaimer: Despite my namesake, Jim, up there I’m not working on this campaign - but I am keeping a very close eye on it

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The New Frontiersman seal has been broken…

That should send the Interweb into a tizzy.

You can follow the New Frontiersman on Twitter and Flickr or just subscribe to their friendfeed. Nice to see them embrace the social side of the web - now let’s get some conversation going.

You can see the background to one of the photos on the latest Watchmen video journal here.

Attention to detail much? Roll on March…

Note: As I was writing this the Flickr stream continues to be populated. Just noticed Mothman being sectioned…

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In typical idiotic fashion I contrive a new Twitter account for this place and then when I stumble across an exclusive bit of movie news  while drinking by candle light in a Blitzed out pub I drunkenly tweet the secret URL on my other account. Oh well.

The link was to The New Frontiersman dot net and is all over the shop now. Just a holding page for the moment, but I’m assured by reliable sources that there’s some killer stuff going on behind there.

I’m just about to pull Watchmen down off the shelf for a re-read ahead of the (probable) March release. Care to join me?

Pic via Total Film. Oh and I stuck some of last night’s tweets after the jump for those that missed them…

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