Hooray, our new artistic enterprise is now LIVE!!! Please watch the promo video above, it's a great and amusing little video Martin has created, with the possible exception of my silly face in it! It will tell you all about what we're trying to do, and how we hope to fund this venture so we can get started. If all goes well, you and anyone else out there in the world will be able to subscribe to our art for very little money... there's also more information on the crowd-funding website where we've just launched the campaign. It's a fun page which also tells you all about the perks you get if you donate us a bit of money... I know I'm biased but I do think Martin's done a great job at all of this and deserves to be noticed - on top of everything, it's a lot of fun! We have a strong ethos, which is that art should be available for all, and at prices people can normally afford... and we are also committed to fair play and no BS!!
Here's a link direct to the indiegogo.com crowd-funding site for our new project, along with a personal plea to our friends, family, acquaintances colleagues and EVERYONE OUT THERE who loves art - we HAVE to raise our first funds within 2 days to even appear on the indiegogo website campaign browser so people can actually find us, so to all our supporters, please visit the campaign page and make a contribution - the minimum is just $1, (about 70p), so it's not going to break the bank! Also the more visits we get, AND the more comments, the higher the campaign's rating is, and the more it is likely to be featured on the site.
Thanks!
You can now browse our website, and have a look at what you could get if we manage to raise the money we need to start up this business! Here's some more information too...
From our newsletter:
Do you love art ?
Think it's too costly ?
We can fix that
... and you can help
Think it's too costly ?
We can fix that
... and you can help
What are we doing ?
Martin Herbert & Vivi-Mari Carpelan are today launching their new creative enterprise. We're setting up a new way of buying art at a price which everyone can afford - less than the cost of a newspaper, magazine or satellite TV subscription. To find out more, watch the video by clicking here or below.
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How are we doing it ?
We´re starting our venture to create a new way of appreciating art using crowd-funding. Crowd-funding is an exciting and innovative new system where instead of us begging banks and business backers for big loans and grants to get started, we ask thousands of people for just a few pounds each. (The minimum contribution is just $1 (70p) !). Our campaign is on the crowd-funding website indiegogo.com, where you can read all about the project in full, what we are asking you to do, what you get from us in return, and so on.
How can you help ?
In two ways, but ... first a heartfelt plea - we HAVE to raise our first funds within 2 days to even appear on the indiegogo website campaign browser so people can actually find us, so to all our supporters, please visit the campaign page and make a contribution - the minimum is just $1, (about 70p), so it's not going to break the bank! Also the more visits we get, and the more comments, the higher the campaign's rating is, and the more it is likely to be featured on the site. Now read on ... and thanks!
- Contribute
Obviously we'd love you to go and read about it & watch the video by clicking here, and contribute a small amount to the project. In return you can get trial issues of our artwork, with extra pieces FREE! The sooner you contribute the more choice of perks there will be. The first 50 contributors will be put in a prize draw to win an original dragon drawingby Martin worth £150.
(Note: By contributing to the project you are not committing yourself to any subscription or membership. You will not be re-billed. Later on we'll ask nicely whether you'd like to take out a regular subscription.)
- Share
Crowd-funding will only work if thousands of people go to view the project page onindiegogo,com. That will only happen if people like you tell others about it. Please click here to open a form in your web-browser which you can use to forward this bulletin.Please send it to your friends, colleagues and professional networks and ask them to forward it in turn.
If you have a mailing list to send to, you could copy and paste this link into an email (all on one line, with no spaces!). It will link to our campaign archive:
http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=cd2b83a32e776fafe45e4b226&id=957e9c1a97&e=5af28db335
There are lots of other buttons for sharing just below here - please use them to share onevery social media site where you have an account:
Publish!
If you´re a journalist, broadcaster or blogger, please consider featuring our project - a new and exciting way of presenting art. You can contact us at the address below and via phone or email (see the website for contact details) for further information or interviews!
Click on the links below to take a look at:
indiegogo.com/wowlookwhatigot - the crowd-funding page where you can contribute to the project.
wowlookwhatigot.com - the main website where you can find out much more about the project, including more about us, about the idea, and a gallery of sample artwork.
wowlookwhatigot.blogspot.co.uk - the project blog, with loads of information about the whole idea, crowd funding, video making, blogging and much more - how we set up this whole thing!
There will be regular updates on our progress throughout the campaign - we hope you enjoy hearing all about it! You never know, maybe it will inspire you to set up your own project!
Until next time,
Martin & Vivi-Mari
Martin & Vivi-Mari
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