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Hello Friends and Strangers,
My name is E.D.W. Lynch and I am an artist and writer concerned primarily with people, technology, and goats. I’m raising money to support a period of creative work and field research known as my Hunter S. Thompson Period. That period began earlier this summer, when I left my writing gig, sold my earthly belongings, and moved out of the San Francisco Bay Area. It will continue, in August, with my participation in a cross-country touring art project called Everyhere Logistics . And it will proceed into this fall, when I will shoot videos that promote my tech-skeptical goat-positive agenda.
I am raising money for the following: 1) My expenses for the Everyhere Logistics project 2) A smartphone, video camera, microphone, and editing software so I can document my travels and produce groundbreaking goat-related video content 3) Expenses from my recent move.
If you are suspicious of selfie sticks and feel warm feelings towards farm animals, truth, and beauty, I encourage you to support my Hunter S. Thompson Period. In return for your support, I will give you a vicarious sense of adventure, the lordly bearing of a patron of the arts, a bag of diamonds, or a handwritten post card--I haven’t decided.
For the curious, here are MORE DETAILS AND WORDS:
WAIT…WHO ARE YOU??
I’m E.D.W. Lynch, noted Internet personality and goat marketing expert. You may know me from my articles on Laughing Squid or my humor project Yelping with Cormac . Or this satirical video about San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood. Or—and this is awkward for both of us, I assure you—you may not know me at all.
TELL ME MORE ABOUT EVERYHERE LOGISTICS!
Everyhere Logistics is a touring art project that will bring free art exhibitions (called Night Markets) to seven U.S. cities during the month of August. The exhibitions are not in galleries, but in fleets of rented moving trucks (think U-Haul.) Each truck houses the work of a different team of artists--the installations include a secret noodle restaurant and a plate smashing gallery known as the Smash Truck.
In addition to bringing very entertaining free art carnivals to America’s Great Middle, the project will forge connections between disparate creative communities. Furthermore Everyhere is an opportunity for me to collect experiences and meet all sorts of people, from artists to not-artists. And it just so happens that experience and outside perspectives are the raw ingredients I need to create art.
WHAT ARE EDW LYNCH’S EXPENSES?
EVERYHERE LOGISTICS: I will be volunteering for the Everyhere Logistics project for the entirety of August. The organizers are working diligently to raise money to feed, house, and transport their volunteers, but I need to finance anything the project does not cover. My expenses include camping equipment, coffee, some money for housing, air and transit tickets, and coffee.
VIDEO: I believe that video is the most powerful medium for my pro-goat and tech-skeptical message (who’s with me?!) I’ve shot comedic videos for about 20 years but I’ve never had a proper camera/microphone setup. I’d like to remedy this problem! After talking to a lot of video folks, I’ve zeroed in on the following video tools: the Panasonic GH3K camera, Tascam DR-40 microphone, Oben monopod, and Final Cut Pro. For lightweight video blogging/photography on the road, I’m also investing in an iPhone 6.
CALIFORNIA MOVE: In order to cut expenses and start fresh like the mighty butterfly, in July I sold/gave away most of my stuff and moved to Northern Washington. I moved on the cheap (ask me about Amtrak Express!) but I did rack up some moving expenses which I could use some help with.
SHOW ME THE BUDGET
Everyhere Logistics--$1,165
$300 Camping equipment (sleeping bag, sleeping bag liner, sleeping pad, camp towel, travel pillow)
$90 Coffee budget ($3x30 days)
$250 Air and Transit tickets (this is partially subsidized by Everyhere)
$375 Lodging (partially subsidized)
$150 Incidentals/contingency
Video—$2,300
$850 Panasonic GH3K camera body
$250 Panasonic LUMIX G VARIO 14-42mm Lens
$750 Apple iPhone 6, 64 GB
$300 Apple Final Cut Pro
$60 Oben ACM-2400 4-Section Aluminum Monopod
$90 Tascam DR-40 Microphone
California Move--$750
Itemizing this will be boring for everybody. But the big ticket items are: Amtrak Express shipping, airline ticket, Zipcar rentals.
Gofundme Fee--$330
Total—$4,545
STRETCH GOALS
$7,500--I will buy additional camera equipment (lenses and a fancier microphone.) I will also produce a light-hearted animation about life and death, for which I will be hiring a voice actor.
$15,000--I will self-fund an artist's residency at a small farm in Northern Washington, where I will shoot tech review videos in pig pens. And mend split-rail fences.
$79,425--This is the median income for a copywriter in the San Francisco Bay Area. If I raise this amount, I will stay out of the advertising industry for one year. During that time I will produce rockstar social media content about truth, goats, life, pigs, and death.
THIS IS AMERICA…WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?
Full disclosure, friends: this is not a Kickstarter project. I cannot offer you a smart coffee grinder that utilizes a machine learning algorithm to predict your caffeine needs. I do not sync with your Android or iOS device. I am the opposite of rapid manufactured. I am not available in four colors and limited edition brushed aluminum. I do not contain an American-made high carbon steel grinding wheel. I will not be delivered by December 2015. I am not controlled by an open-source Arduino microcontroller.
Instead my controller is made of fats and proteins and is housed in my head. My heart is a flawed thing, of muscle and sinew. And unlike a smart coffee grinder I make mistakes on a daily basis.
But while a smart grinder can reduce Rwandan single origin to a uniform brown powder, I have a boundless love for humanity. A coffee grinder does not know forgiveness, cannot identify a human foible and say: Let us laugh about this. I wake each morning knowing I am not USB 3.0 compliant and yet I get out of bed and rejoin the human drama.
And unlike the Mill® Smart Grinder ($199 early bird) I have beliefs. That, for instance, the technology we are creating is making our lives easier while simultaneously making us unhappy. That conversely, tech, as a concept is a bit of a boogie monster. That an iPhone is conceptually just a shovel…a special shovel that transforms us into anxious, narcissistic man-children.
Or to put all this another way, in return for your support I will produce art. Not usable art that I can send you, like dog paintings and poems. But maddening, quite possibly useless satire. Which, presumably you like, if you’ve read this far.
Also I will send you a postcard.
Thank you.
E.D.W. Lynch
My name is E.D.W. Lynch and I am an artist and writer concerned primarily with people, technology, and goats. I’m raising money to support a period of creative work and field research known as my Hunter S. Thompson Period. That period began earlier this summer, when I left my writing gig, sold my earthly belongings, and moved out of the San Francisco Bay Area. It will continue, in August, with my participation in a cross-country touring art project called Everyhere Logistics . And it will proceed into this fall, when I will shoot videos that promote my tech-skeptical goat-positive agenda.
I am raising money for the following: 1) My expenses for the Everyhere Logistics project 2) A smartphone, video camera, microphone, and editing software so I can document my travels and produce groundbreaking goat-related video content 3) Expenses from my recent move.
If you are suspicious of selfie sticks and feel warm feelings towards farm animals, truth, and beauty, I encourage you to support my Hunter S. Thompson Period. In return for your support, I will give you a vicarious sense of adventure, the lordly bearing of a patron of the arts, a bag of diamonds, or a handwritten post card--I haven’t decided.
For the curious, here are MORE DETAILS AND WORDS:
WAIT…WHO ARE YOU??
I’m E.D.W. Lynch, noted Internet personality and goat marketing expert. You may know me from my articles on Laughing Squid or my humor project Yelping with Cormac . Or this satirical video about San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood. Or—and this is awkward for both of us, I assure you—you may not know me at all.
TELL ME MORE ABOUT EVERYHERE LOGISTICS!
Everyhere Logistics is a touring art project that will bring free art exhibitions (called Night Markets) to seven U.S. cities during the month of August. The exhibitions are not in galleries, but in fleets of rented moving trucks (think U-Haul.) Each truck houses the work of a different team of artists--the installations include a secret noodle restaurant and a plate smashing gallery known as the Smash Truck.
In addition to bringing very entertaining free art carnivals to America’s Great Middle, the project will forge connections between disparate creative communities. Furthermore Everyhere is an opportunity for me to collect experiences and meet all sorts of people, from artists to not-artists. And it just so happens that experience and outside perspectives are the raw ingredients I need to create art.
WHAT ARE EDW LYNCH’S EXPENSES?
EVERYHERE LOGISTICS: I will be volunteering for the Everyhere Logistics project for the entirety of August. The organizers are working diligently to raise money to feed, house, and transport their volunteers, but I need to finance anything the project does not cover. My expenses include camping equipment, coffee, some money for housing, air and transit tickets, and coffee.
VIDEO: I believe that video is the most powerful medium for my pro-goat and tech-skeptical message (who’s with me?!) I’ve shot comedic videos for about 20 years but I’ve never had a proper camera/microphone setup. I’d like to remedy this problem! After talking to a lot of video folks, I’ve zeroed in on the following video tools: the Panasonic GH3K camera, Tascam DR-40 microphone, Oben monopod, and Final Cut Pro. For lightweight video blogging/photography on the road, I’m also investing in an iPhone 6.
CALIFORNIA MOVE: In order to cut expenses and start fresh like the mighty butterfly, in July I sold/gave away most of my stuff and moved to Northern Washington. I moved on the cheap (ask me about Amtrak Express!) but I did rack up some moving expenses which I could use some help with.
SHOW ME THE BUDGET
Everyhere Logistics--$1,165
$300 Camping equipment (sleeping bag, sleeping bag liner, sleeping pad, camp towel, travel pillow)
$90 Coffee budget ($3x30 days)
$250 Air and Transit tickets (this is partially subsidized by Everyhere)
$375 Lodging (partially subsidized)
$150 Incidentals/contingency
Video—$2,300
$850 Panasonic GH3K camera body
$250 Panasonic LUMIX G VARIO 14-42mm Lens
$750 Apple iPhone 6, 64 GB
$300 Apple Final Cut Pro
$60 Oben ACM-2400 4-Section Aluminum Monopod
$90 Tascam DR-40 Microphone
California Move--$750
Itemizing this will be boring for everybody. But the big ticket items are: Amtrak Express shipping, airline ticket, Zipcar rentals.
Gofundme Fee--$330
Total—$4,545
STRETCH GOALS
$7,500--I will buy additional camera equipment (lenses and a fancier microphone.) I will also produce a light-hearted animation about life and death, for which I will be hiring a voice actor.
$15,000--I will self-fund an artist's residency at a small farm in Northern Washington, where I will shoot tech review videos in pig pens. And mend split-rail fences.
$79,425--This is the median income for a copywriter in the San Francisco Bay Area. If I raise this amount, I will stay out of the advertising industry for one year. During that time I will produce rockstar social media content about truth, goats, life, pigs, and death.
THIS IS AMERICA…WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?
Full disclosure, friends: this is not a Kickstarter project. I cannot offer you a smart coffee grinder that utilizes a machine learning algorithm to predict your caffeine needs. I do not sync with your Android or iOS device. I am the opposite of rapid manufactured. I am not available in four colors and limited edition brushed aluminum. I do not contain an American-made high carbon steel grinding wheel. I will not be delivered by December 2015. I am not controlled by an open-source Arduino microcontroller.
Instead my controller is made of fats and proteins and is housed in my head. My heart is a flawed thing, of muscle and sinew. And unlike a smart coffee grinder I make mistakes on a daily basis.
But while a smart grinder can reduce Rwandan single origin to a uniform brown powder, I have a boundless love for humanity. A coffee grinder does not know forgiveness, cannot identify a human foible and say: Let us laugh about this. I wake each morning knowing I am not USB 3.0 compliant and yet I get out of bed and rejoin the human drama.
And unlike the Mill® Smart Grinder ($199 early bird) I have beliefs. That, for instance, the technology we are creating is making our lives easier while simultaneously making us unhappy. That conversely, tech, as a concept is a bit of a boogie monster. That an iPhone is conceptually just a shovel…a special shovel that transforms us into anxious, narcissistic man-children.
Or to put all this another way, in return for your support I will produce art. Not usable art that I can send you, like dog paintings and poems. But maddening, quite possibly useless satire. Which, presumably you like, if you’ve read this far.
Also I will send you a postcard.
Thank you.
E.D.W. Lynch
Organizer
Evan Wagoner-Lynch
Organizer
Bellingham, WA