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# What a cooperation looks like: Long Monsters
- URL: https://developing.coop/what-a-cooperation-looks-like-long-monsters/
- Published: 2026-10-18T13:18:54.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-18T13:21:19.000Z
- Author: Hippie Hacker

> An ii.coop initiative. You don't need paperwork to cooperate. A cooperation starts when people show up and do the work together, then keep showing up.

developing.coop helps people work together beyond the usual corporate boxes: nonprofits (501(c)(3)s), associations (501(c)(6)s), small businesses, and groups with no paperwork at all. We call what they build **cooperations**.

Here's what one looks like.

![Little monsters at the door of Longmont Public Media](https://developing.coop/content/images/2026/10/door-glass.jpg)

Little monsters at the door of Longmont Public Media · photo: Chris McClimans

## A Saturday at Longmont Public Media

On 17 October 2026, **Longmont Theatre Company's Stages Academy** ran a sold-out **Zombie Film Lab** at **Longmont Public Media**. Christopher directed. Erica played a TV news anchor. A pack of kids in candy-coloured zombie makeup became the monsters. Heather May organised it, and we came to help: running sound, slating takes, and taking pictures.

The film is a Halloween short about a strange new virus spread by too much trick-or-treat candy. The anchor reads the breaking news, eats a little too much candy herself, and wakes up in a black-and-white nightmare where the kids of Longmont have become little monsters.

![“Scene three, take one!” On the news set](https://developing.coop/content/images/2026/10/asher-slate-wide.jpg)

“Scene three, take one!” On the news set · photo: Chris McClimans

![Shuffle. Drag. Shuffle.](https://developing.coop/content/images/2026/10/lunge.jpg)

Shuffle. Drag. Shuffle. · photo: Chris McClimans

![Too much candy: the anchor falls asleep](https://developing.coop/content/images/2026/10/asleep.jpg)

Too much candy: the anchor falls asleep · photo: Chris McClimans

![The nightmare version of the same studio](https://developing.coop/content/images/2026/10/red-set.jpg)

The nightmare version of the same studio · photo: Chris McClimans

## Why it's a cooperation

No one signed a contract. A theatre company, a public-media station, a director, an actress, families and a few volunteers each brought something, and an afternoon later there was a film. Nobody owns it; everyone made it.

After the shoot we gathered everything (audio from every take, behind-the-scenes video and photos, a ready-to-edit project) and handed it back to the people who made it. That's the kind of infrastructure developing.coop is for: websites, lists, files and media that stay with the group that made them.

## Long Monsters

We started calling them **Long Monsters**: Longmont, plus monsters. It's a people group of our own, and the first thing we're developing together. Families and friends can join at [longmonsters.developing.coop](https://longmonsters.developing.coop/?ref=developing.coop).

[Visit Long Monsters](https://longmonsters.developing.coop/?ref=developing.coop)

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