update! - Fwd: I'm writing a book, and i need your help.
Andrew Boyd
hey, everyone--
Thanks to all of you who chimed in on the subtitle discussion. The battle of the book title rages on. Will keep y'all posted.
IMPORTANT: In the last email, I think the listserve stripped out the links, so some of you didn't even realize it included an appeal to pitch-in on our fun fundraising push on Kickstarter. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/151304769/beautiful-trouble
Well, there's still 15 hours left! Check out the cool video, and super-exciting mock-ups of the first few pages (in the updates area), and get yourself some great rewards!
Here's the official update:
We did it! Thanks to the generous support of 232 backers and counting, we’ve surpassed our $12K funding target by almost a thousand dollars. We now have the resources we need to see this sprawling, massive undertaking through to completion. Thank you!
(In case you haven’t heard, Beautiful Trouble will be a book & freely available web toolbox that puts the best ideas and tactics of creative action in the hands of the next generation of change-makers, connecting the accumulated wisdom of decades of creative protest to the popular outrage of the current political moment.)
The need for this sort of resource has never been greater: the #occupy movement is making great strides in creative activism, bringing in thousands of emerging and veteran activists, many of whom are hungry for creative tools and resources to help them build a vibrant, effective, sustainable movement.
We’ll be working furiously over the next couple of months to finalize the book and build the website, but thanks to your support, we won’t be scrounging around in the cushions of our couches to raise the cash to make it happen. From the bottom of our troublesome hearts, thank you.
On behalf of the Beautiful Troublemakers, with gratitude,
Andrew Boyd
p.s. If you still want to kick in and get some great rewards, there are still 15 hours left in our kickstarter campaign. Any additional $ raised will go towards the web component of the project -- an evolving web toolbox that will be available to all.
From: Andrew Boyd <andrewo...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:15 PM
Subject: I'm writing a book, and i need your help.
To: daily afflictions <dailyaff...@googlegroups.com>
I'm writing a book.
I know what you're thinking: that guy is always writing a book.
Yes, but this one's different.
It pulls together most everything I've learned about politics, art and
the media over the last many years (And not just what *I've* learned
-- The project is an unusual collaboration among over 40 cutting-edge
political troublemakers from around the world as well as some of the
most ass-kicking groups around -- The Yes Men, the Ruckus Society and
SmartMeme, to name three.) We're taking our best ideas and tactical
innovations and distilling them into a design manual and web toolbox
that anyone can use to design effective creative actions.
We've been crowdsourcing the content, now we're crowdsourcing the
title and the funding. That's where you come in.
The current title is:
BEAUTIFUL TROUBLE: Toolbox for the Next Revolution
but we're thinking of changing it to:
BEAUTIFUL TROUBLE: How to Spark a Revolution with Pranks, Stunts and
Other Spectacular Acts of Daring
Do you have a preference? I'd like to know.
Also, if you've got any outside-the-box, awesomely way better title
ideas than these, please send along immediately. Let 10,000 title
ideas bloom.
As for funding, luckily there's this cool thing called KickStarter,
which makes helping out more fun and collaborative. Basically, if you
throw down a little something (or, even better, a big- or medium-sized
something), then you get something back. For a $60 pledge, for
instance, I'll mail you a signed copy of the book once it's published.
For $250, you'll get a copy of the infamous "Iraq War Ends!" prank New
York Times signed by the Yes Men.
Have a look at the rewards, watch the project video, and then please
consider helping to make this baby happen.
My aim when I launched this crazy project was to put the best creative
tools and tactics in the hands of the next generation of changemakers.
We're now a good chunk of the way there. Help me bring it home.
Yours in trouble,
Andrew
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Andrew Boyd
347/228-7416 (cell)
http://andrewboyd.com
http://agit-pop.com
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Hopefulness only makes sense when it doesn't make sense to be hopeful.
--Paul Hawken
Andrew Boyd
347/228-7416 (cell)
http://andrewboyd.com
http://agit-pop.com
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