IMOOGI TV Lands in SL - p1
IMOOGI TV Lands in SL Is This The Year Of The Dragon? Ar cle By Cobra Momiji Photos By Filipa Thespian
It's 2014 and something has come to Second Life -something BIG, breathing fire and ready to spread its wings onto avatar worlds everywhere just as its doing in the physical world. What is this force making its presence known here first via Nu Vibez Magazine? Well it's an IMOOGI, but what is an IMOOGI you ask, for the answer to that ques on (and the others that will naturally follow) we have with us the CEO of IMOOGI TV, Tracy Renee. NVM: Tracy thanks for si ng down with us for this exclusive interview. TR: I'm thrilled to be here, thank you for having me! NVM: The first thing we should cover Tracy is, what exactly is an IMOOGI, and how does that relate to IMOOGI TV? TR: Oh this is my favorite story. An IMOOGI is something very unique out of Korean mythology, a type of dragon. When born, the imoogi, while very large, resembles a king cobra more than a dragon. It has no arms or legs, no wings, no spade tail, nor fins or any other part that would make it obvious to be a dragon. In the lore, during an imoogi's first 1,000 years it must learn and do honorable, good things to nurture and grow spiritually -- not just physically. Always an imoogi must seek to improve upon itself and as it achieves these goals, its missing dragon parts develop and grow. In the end, an imoogi will resemble what is commonly perceived as a dragon, fire or other types of breath and all. Taking the connota ons from that lore, on iMoogi.tv, our content creators are just like the
imoogi of lore in that they start out as one thing and through the interac on, vo ng and input of our viewers and our industry professionals, they learn and grow, evolving into something much more than where they began. NVM: So really, IMOOGI TV gives up-and-coming content creators a chance to be an evolving IMOOGI as well? TR: Yes, definitely. iMoogi is a test marke ng and fan-base genera on solu on for creators, just as much as it is an online television or entertainment network for our viewers. There are two sides to what makes iMoogi what it is. For a creator's content to make it in the world, especially if the final des na on is the big screen, distributors want to see that you have an established fan-base in order to gauge how well the property will do at the box office. Without one, it will be very unlikely they'll take a second glance. It's the primary reason you find nothing but remakes of past successes and comic book hero's coming to life these days. NVM: I no ced something on the IMOOGI TV site called the Hatchery what's that all about? TR: I'm glad you did no ce that Cobra. The Hatchery is where new creators can upload their brand new concepts and works, not requiring iMoogi approval, to compete for viewership and ra ngs. When a property climbs to the top of the ra ngs, we award them their first iMoogi part so to speak, and move them up to their own channel on iMoogi.tv prime me. When this happens, the creator partakes in a share of the revenues generated from adver sing on their property and has the opportunity to earn other iMoogi incen ves and support which includes funding, under the right circumstances. NVM: So we can gather that IMOOGI TV plans on being an online Television network like Ne lix or Hulu that showcases the work of unknown film Nu Vibez Magazine - January 2014 - 33