running a kickstarter in a time of plague and panic

Added to The Freelance Mentalists post, along w this thread---haven't been on twitter yet today, but please continue adding links there (and maybe email), thanks.

(via lively discussion of Kind of Blue in xpost freakytrigger comments, slipped you into Rolling Jazz)

haha cool :)

“To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize ‘how it really was’. It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger… The only writer of history with the gift of setting alight the sparks of hope in the past, is the one who is convinced of this: that not even the dead will be safe from the enemy, if he is victorious. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious.” <-- w.benjamin

"Don't let it be forgot/That once there was a spot/For one brief shining moment that was known/As Camelot" <-- lerner/loewe

also this was one of my favourite books as a kid (abt sustaining a space for good when everything has turn to stupid chaos war and blood):
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b7/Lantern_Bearers_cover.jpg/220px-Lantern_Bearers_cover.jpg

chronicles of internet beef: https://vimeo.com/69155

the coyote is me

three related pieces by me:
1: http://dubdobdee.co.uk/2015/06/02/whalers-on-the-moon-curious-despatches-from-an-old-dream/
2: http://dubdobdee.co.uk/2016/07/10/re-litigating-the-70s-what-we-wanted-what-went-right-what-went-wrong-where-do-we-go-from-here/
3: http://dubdobdee.co.uk/2016/07/25/dont-let-it-be-forgotthat-once-there-was-a-spot/

third is a piece i tried unsuccessfully to place variously in the last few days, to get actual print interest in the kickstarter -- somewhat confusingly topped and tailed by gloomy but oblique rumination on why all projects ultimately fail

anyway, today is the second-last day -- only 27 hours now!

feeling faintly hmmm abt piggybacking various music mag tweets to promote this UNTIL it struck me that i was worried abt the feelings of rival ad-promo feeds

(w/faint possibility the actual human running them may be interested, after all)

yesterday evening was busy and exciting! today has been sluggish so far (with nice surprises now and then)

get Ned and J0|-|N D to tweet links to it. (Not retweets, original tweets to their own accounts). and/or Facebook link posts.

lol naturally the month i picked to launch is the first month since IRL creation that new picked to take OFF the internet

he'll make an exception for you! it'll make waves!!

xp

NED i mean, not new -- his absence must have caused that to auto-correct

REMINDER: for anyone on the us west coast that this kickstarter closes at 4.26pm BST tomorrow, which is like 8.26am PST i think? anyway breakfast time unless you rise super-early!

so if you're planning to pledge, set yr alarm -- or maybe do it tonight!

it's here, for convenience: http://bit.ly/HiddenLandscape

FINAL PUSH (less than six hours) and then I'm out of yr hair :D

all those ppl hanging fire till the last moment, now's yr time to shine

this is why some people watch sport isn't it? 93% funded w/two and half hours to go

omg

YASSSS

ok it is now the following morning and i have an ANTHOLOGY to edit apparently

anyway many thanks and many apologies in all the relevant directions

(quick shout-out to thread-title: i was pretty much certain for most of the last three weeks that this ordinarily somewhat fundable project was not going to prosper in this month of all months so i am even more delighted to have bucked my own pessimism, and even more grateful to ppl for supporting it, when other more important matters were seriously looming)

get to editing! i'm watching my mailbox