The following manifesto is intended to inform and inspire the Parasites collaborative community.
PROJECT GOALS
#1: To create an open-source, transmedia storyworld that belongs to everyone
#2: To help those who contribute find what they need in life: recognition, reward (emotional, financial), friendship
#3: To pay back the financial investors, plus an acceptable return, then use the money that's left to have the biggest wrap party(ies) in history with simultaneous drinking and live link-ups in five continents
#4: To find a successful (i.e. profitable, repeatable) business model for filmmakers and those who contribute to their work
RULES and GUIDELINES
#1:
There is no absolute truth, only the search for truth. Multiple explanations and stories can exist within the same world. You don't have to ask permission to create a new character, a new location or a new story and you can build on other people's ideas without permission. There's no right answers, only answers that might take us more quickly to a version of a truth
#2: Lurking, reading, watching is active participation and we thank you. Linking, digging, forwarding and recommending is participating too and comes with increased good karma. Commenting, collaborating, creating is the highest endorsement you can give us and we hope you'll get a creative high... but we can't promise nirvana
#3: If you create something for Parasites we hope you'll give it away for free. But if you want to sell it, it must only be sold on our marketplace where we'll take a commission to help repay the project
#4: Less is more. Try to focus your thoughts, your words, your work and your creative energy - you will have a bigger impact and it's respectful of other people's time
#5: Don't be a dickhead. While we'll try hard not to censor, if you post something to a website we control that's racist or nasty in other ways, it's gonna get pulled. Only give constructive, specific criticism if you have to - and after re-reading Rule #1 - but better is to show how you think it should be done. Be considerate of other people's feelings - you'll find the love will be returned to you (The Beatles: “the love you take is equal to the love you make”)