More on The Seattle Freeze

It looks like someone discovered our little documentary over in the Seattle LiveJournal community, which has garnered it a little bit of publicity and a good chunk of YouTube hits.

The LJ post is sort of an amusing tie-in to a prior blog post I made a while back during pre-production:

"In an effort to recruit personal stories for the movie, I wrote up a very simple post for a local LiveJournal community, knowing full well the mere mention of the term "Seattle Freeze" there would get peoples' pants in a jumble, simply because it has been posted about several times in the past. Although I did not quite realize how much of a jumble it would cause, as I thought I'd made my needs pretty clear. 101 responses later, and still 0 people for the movie. Even after mailing a few to followup, thinking perhaps by commenting they were somehow interested, no response. A little icy, perhaps."

We actually in fact did not end up using anyone from the community, however the number of responses to the original LJ post and this latest one clearly show it is a subject everyone has an opinion on which I think is pretty great in and of itself.

I notice there are a lot of Favorites and five-star ratings on the YouTube video link which seems a bit inflated (likely due to our friends) but I suppose it's better than a single 1-star rating glaring back at you from across the internet.

I really do hope it continues to get more publicity. Not just because I think the whole idea is kind of fun to monitor, but because the subject does deserve to be out there on the table. People may or may not agree with its premise, but the fact is that it has been observed and commented upon by a fair number here and that's something at least worth talking about.