Yama Ploskonka wrote: > A while back I had a conversation with Adam and SJ, and this idea came > to me, about a TV show whose theme would be super-children, the XO Kids. > > Sort of Spy Kids 3 meets CJ7 meets Teletubbies, and all together in > Sesame Street ... > > I kept going slowly. > > Providentially a nephew of mine and a couple of his fellows are > published comic magazine authors with a name already, despite being only > 14 years old ... They accepted to do a few drafts, available at > > http://xokids.com > > That's a great idea! And it is amazing what the teenies did ... > Publishing a comic is a lot cheaper to do than a TV show, but I am > already in contact with a producer and great friend in Uruguay seeing > possibilities for filming. > > I left total creative freedom to the artists, so I do not know exactly > where they are going to carry the story (my sister tells me they're > doing a couple of plates per week), but the storyline is basically about > this group of children encountering some anthropomorphic XOs (we decided > that these came from an underground civilization that had its origins > when a spacecraft collided with the Earth many years ago). The children > in this encounter gain super-powers and become friends with the XOs, and > together live many adventures. (an obvious superpower is to be able to > communicate using the mesh ... a fantasy world :-)) > > The adventures obviously have a strong educational component, with a > special section in each magazine. Side note: my knowledge of > hydroponics, which indirectly got me tenure in Montevideo years ago, > began with a Donald Duck magazine where the nephews used this > technology, so I can attest to the potential of comics to introduce > valuable ideas. > There sure will be an Etoys section?
Rita > Another element that I want to add is interactivity, a website where > children can not only find the stories, but live virtual adventures > where kids themselves are the protagonists. > > Now seeking funding to publish the first issue, and to try out some > ideas on the web, and ideally even support a pilot for television. If > any of you have contact with any company or advertising, please connect us! > > Yamandu > uncle to 'Plosko', one of the authors of XO Kids > > BTW, I had to wait until mid February to pick up xokids.com, as only > then was it coming available. .net and .org are available now. Maybe > someone friendly should fetch them. > > _______________________________________________ > Grassroots mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots > -- Rita Freudenberg FIN-ISG Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/isg/rita.html _______________________________________________ Grassroots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots
