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New, updated Wizard People

The Illegal Art Exhibit is pleased to report that we've just received a new, updated version of Wizard People, Dear Readers, Brad Neely's much-loved (albeit unauthorized) take on the first Harry Potter movie.

For those of you in New York, we will be screening the new WP in a couple of weeks:

Tues., May 31, 8 pm (sharp!)
at Southpaw
Park Slope, Brooklyn
(part of our SF! issue #24 release party). 

I've also posted lo-res mp3s of the audio on the Illegal Art website, so you can get it for free as long as you are reading this.

The most significant changes are in the second half of the movie, so if you don't want to fuss with downloading the whole thing again, just get disc 2. The new version reflects the improvements Brad made in the course of performing the movie live. Basically, he continually added new, funnier lines and took out the dead ones, then rerecorded the audio and improved the syncing.

For more on Wizard People, see NPR, Salon, and the New York Times.