Anybody get a screen capture of the Snakes on a Plane silhouette at the Oscars tonight?  I’ll try to get the video online tomorrow, but if anyone has it now, let me know.

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Guess who’s going to London?

Ok, it’s me.

I’ve been asked to give a presentation at Marketing 07, a marketing conference being held on June 11th and 12th in London. Here’s my blurb:

Brian, a first-year student at Georgetown University Law School, saw the title of proposed film “Snakes on a Plane” and turned it into blog. The blog turned into an internet phenomenon. Some of his blog statistics include: “I’ve been online for 90 days. I’ve had 265,000 visitors and posted 185 stories. There have been 770,000 requests for pages, and a staggering 18,100,000 requests for all files. I’ve transferred 375 gigabytes of data. There are currently 31 translations of “Snakes on a Plane” into foreign languages. I’ve been interviewed by TV crews. According to Google, SnakesOnABlog.com has appeared in 34 newspaper stories, been linked to by 521 blogs, and over 6,500 other webpages.

So what motivates bloggers? What are the keys to having a successful blog? How should companies respond to bloggers? What are the challenges for marketers and how much control should companies try to exert?

Also speaking at the conference is Lord Bell, who is a Lord. I have to admit, I think I’m outclassed: I’m not even a Duke or a Squire.

The real question is, what should I talk about? Anyone want to suggest a script for me? I have to come up with something that at least keeps me in competition with Lord Bell for best speaker.

During the summer I did an interview (on camera no less!) with Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba (of Church of the Customer) for a book they were working on called Citizen Marketers. Well, it’s out.

They sent me a copy and I’ve been slowly working in through it (it’s pretty good, I’ve just had other activities on my plate) and it talks about me and Snakes on a Plane quite a bit. Here’s some quick images:

You can pick it up at Amazon.

The afore mentioned Epic Movie, which features a parody of Snakes on a Plane, gets an extraordinarily harsh review from the San Francisco Chronicle featuring this comment about Snakes:

The movie even indulges in a parody of “Snakes on a Plane.” That movie is already ridiculous. It can’t be made more ridiculous.

Touche (there should be an accent there, I know).

Weird:

Bandar Seri Begawan - It was indeed a live enactment of the hit movie snakes on a plane when a real life snake allegedly smuggled by a Bruneian couple on budget carrierAirAsia caused a frenzy over one-hundred flight passengers boarding a tight from Kuala Lumpur to Miri on Sunday morning, the Malaysian daily newspaper Berita Harian reported.

The married couple however denied smuggling the pet snake which was spotted by a horrified passenger on the floor of the aircraft but admitted to illegally importing forty-six baby rats that they stored in a box, hidden inside a backpack they carried into the plane.

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“The couple admitted to bringing baby rats by concealing them inside a box which they stored in a bag they carried into the plane. The baby rats were smuggled to feed the pet snake,” the official was quoted as saying in Berita Harian.

Which leads to the obvious question, what were they planning on feeding the snake to?

While Snakes on a Plane was nominated for no Oscars OR Razzies, it did win two GAG awards:

• Worst Special Effects
• Cinematic Tragedy of 2006 (Snakes on a plane didn’t make any money)
  

Nintendo’s Wii lets you make Miis (basically an avatar that you can then use in your games). Irrelevant was kind enough to whip up a couple images of his Samuel L. Jackson Mii.

Yeah, his name is Sam MuthaF and he golfs.  I also put up a few images of his Bruce Campbell Mii if anybody is looking for more of this sort of thing.

While Snakes on a Plane didn’t receive any Oscar nominations, it appears to have snuck its way into the official marketing:

Who would have thought?

Zero.