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3/4 funded. Amazing. This is tempting but a little dear, no matter how much I love you guys and your various art forms.
As today's special, I wrote a poem to my headache. But it didn't take the hint.
OOOOOOOOOOOOh congrats!
i wish i had the money.....
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2012-04-30 04:40 pm (UTC)
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From the Kickstarter page Pledge $100 or more:
{BACKER-EXCLUSIVE SIGNED ART BOOK} a copy of the forthcoming heavyweight art book/album companion…SIGNED BY YOURS TRULY, AFP. includes over 70 pieces of artwork created by over 30 artists inspired by songs on the album, along with photographs, writings, lyrics, musings, meet-the-artist bios, and interviews. So the book seems to be "only" $100. (Also, an edition of 666 at $1000 is a bit ambitious even by Kickstarter standards.)
you're lookin' at the wrong one!
Annnnd.. we're funded! :)
Might a well be a million dollars... Stuff like that, while probably wonderful, makes those of us who will never have $1,000 dollars for something like that, feel fairly discouraged. The project is above its funding level now, at over $131,000, with 31 days to go, and if I have the jack, I may spring for a copy of the album at the lower level. I love to support kickstarter projects when I can, but I don't like the "here's a shiny prize for the rich" kinds of premiums.
If you go to the page it gets more depressing.
There are $5,000 and $10,000 levels. The kickstarter target may be $100K, but if all of the "limited edition" items sell, they're looking at $1.2M, plus whatever they take in from the unlimited sales.
So, cutting out the record company/middle man certainly sends an interesting message.
The above comment says pretty closely what I was struggling to express. It's great that this project (and others like it) can generate enough support to ensure that the work gets done, the art gets made, the tour goes on the road, the fans get the music and the books, and the artists get paid, all without corporate sponsorship! But from my perspective, donations of $1000 and up are how the other half rocks -- and solicitations for such high premiums are kind of alienating and discouraging. If this is the future of art and music, I guess I really had better start making my own!
Any hope of a traveling exhibit for those of us plebians without $1000, who live nowhere near any of the cities it will show?
Again, I echo the comments above: swell prize, you needed something for bigger donors (and I recognize the need for them), but we've been getting teasers about this for a while now. And I have a friend in one of the photos. And the majority of people excited about the project do not yet seem to have a way of viewing the finished product. Which is kind-of poopy.
Hell, why not put a few up for raffle, at least. But I'd really like to see it.
Don't know. My contract says that the art can be used on all sorts of things and that I'll get my originals back in a year. So you might see them on other things, some or all of them might be in the cheaper book and in a year they might be in the gallery under my sofa.
Gallery Under Kyle's Sofa?!?!?!! That's even MORE exclusive! Tatty will be guarding it fiercely. Perhaps I could get Roswell to let me in under the guise of giving her her diabetus shot.
Huzzah for Potential!
And to continue my whining, this is now funded over $155,000. If no one had donated at this level, (orany of the higher levels, cool as they may be), funding would still have been met. Amanda Palmer has legions of fans, including me, who love to support her. I really don't think funding would ever have been in doubt.
Yaaay! Congrats!
So I gotta know... Can you divulge which models' shots they wound up using?
oh goddddd i wish i could afford that book. kickstarter has been so amazing for so many people... afp being just one of those!
also, don't let the negative comments get you down. shit... i'd love to own an original diane arbus print, but that's out of my budget. am i going to whine about it on livejournal? no.
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