Almost Famous

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The other day I received an e-mail from Colin at WOM World/Nokia. It said this:

I’m writing to invite you to take part in a mobile film challenge in LA on August 20th as part of a new Nokia project. We’re only inviting 4 people, and it should be a pretty exciting day, so I hope you can join us.

Basically, it’s a shot to film some death scenes for entry into the Nokia Productions movie that will be edited by Spike Lee. Yeah, how cool is that? (BTW, anyone can participate.)

To say I was excited at the opportunity is an understatement. As I was reading this e-mail, Drew from The BenSpark hit me up on GTalk, wondering if I got an e-mail from Colin. After asking him if it was legit, he said something like, “Yes and I’m going.” To my dismay, the e-mail was delivered 14 hours from the time I read it. That time gap had me a bit worried, but I replied anyway, thinking that just maybe there’s a 4th spot open.

After a restless night of sleep, I woke and checked my e-mail. Nothing. Colin was in the air on his way from England to Los Angeles and I wasn’t sure if I was going or not. I figured that I’d hear something sooner or later. That sooner or later came at about 11 am.

Another Nokia rep, Siobhan (whose name I misspelled in my e-mail reply - sorry!), contacted me and broke the news that I missed the 4th spot on the team by a few minutes, however, they would fly me out and put me up in a hotel anyway so I could take part in the event! Now that’s customer service right there. Unfortunately, there’s this lame tropical storm named “Fay” floating around my home state, threatening to close airports and make air travel miserable. Said storm caused a rush on tickets, which caused a price increase, thus prohibiting me from flying to LA.

After Siobhan broke the news to me, I was still happy that I was even considered to take part in the events they had planned. It probably worked out for the best, because I could have gotten out of Florida easily, but getting back in would be a problem, given the storm. Spending a few days in an airport isn’t all that appealing.

Instead of being there in-person, I’m going to live vicariously through Drew (though it would have been great to actually meet a fellow blogger). He assured me that many photos would be taken, so I’ll witness the excitement from a distance. Many thanks to the Nokia team for an excellent effort to get me to LA and back, but it wasn’t meant to be this time. Until then, run over to Jumpcut and join the Nokia Productions group. See if your entry makes the cut.

Photo credit: monkeytime (via Flickr), aka Michael Zara.

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