End of the crowd-funding campaign = start of a new business!

Hi all, and welcome to what, in theory, is the last posting of the wowlookwhatigot.com fundraising campaign...

"The Tree of Love" : Handmade collage : Copyright © 2007 by Vivi-Mari Carpelan

So what happened in the end ?

By the end of the crowd-funding campaign at indiegogo.com, 13 lovely people helped us raise a total of $286. Our thanks to everyone who helped - we'll be in touch to thank everyone individually shortly! A tad short of our original target, of course, but as we've been saying all along, every little really does help. My worst fear was that we wouldn't raise enough to do anything useful, and we'd have to give everyone their money back but, strange as it may seem, even that total is enough...

The whole concept was meant to be scalable from the beginning, whether we raised enough to go into full scale production with a new major publishing business, or only enough to start a little 'kitchen table' enterprise. As it happens, we do have just enough to do the latter.

The other thing that happened in the end was that we immediately had to go and hang Vivi-Mari's new exhibition at the Art Cafe in Llandrindod Wells (continues until 24th May, hint, hint), and then complete and deliver the work for my new show at MOMA Wales in Machynlleth, which actually stated this week, ahead of schedule. (There'll be a private view on Sat May 18th at midday, just in case you're not doing anything). We then collapsed in a heap for a whole weekend and are now in the middle of preparing Vivi-Mari's submission for the ArtAngel Open using her pictures and my music. Hence the reason it's taken a little time to prepare this final update!

So what happens next?

Coming soon to a studio near us ...

We're going to put your contributions towards buying a second-hand A3+ size giclee printer (i.e. an inkjet printer which uses pigment inks rather than dyes, for permanent images, and can take heavyweight fine-art paper). We'll most likely go for an Epson 2100 - it's an old model but reliable and inexpensive, producing professional-quality prints. As soon as the money is transferred from indiegogo, we'll be looking out for a suitable one on eBay... We're hoping to get everything up and running so we can start redeeming those perks on schedule in a couple of months time, and then we can start accumulating some subscribers!

So - we'll keep everyone posted as to further developments as they happen, and once more, thanks to all our supporters! (If you missed the final campaign date and you'd like to contribute, you are most welcome, just drop us a mail at info@wowlookwhatigot.com)

Love

Martin & Vivi-Mari