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on December 6
aaron sinift
backed a project
booklyn.org 2.0 by The Booklyn Artists Alliance
You want BOOK ARTS? Booklyn is putting it all online.
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122% funded $14,666 pledged
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- Funded Jan 16, 2012
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on August 4, 2011
aaron sinift
backed a project
U.V.A. 2011 tour by Andrew Ranaudo
U.V.A. is taking the show on the road!
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103% funded $3,300 pledged
- 66 backers
- Funded Sep 16, 2011
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on April 2, 2011
aaron sinift
backed a project
Get Your Dance On NYC! by Natasha Blank + Sascha Lewis
Get Your Dance On is changing the way the planet parties with badass music, superfood fuel, creative bolts of lightning, YOU.
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196% funded $5,899 pledged
- 173 backers
- Funded Apr 07, 2011
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on December 8, 2010
aaron sinift
commented on a project updatewow Nancy, thank you for posting these videos. you film like a photographer.... it's a worthy project!
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on November 13, 2010
aaron sinift
backed a project
The Ray Project: The Man Corporations Love to Hate by nancy siesel
The Man Corporations Love to Hate is a feature length documentary about Ray Rogers, a world renown labor and human rights activist.
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on July 13, 2010
aaron sinift
Posted project update #295 YEAR PLAN BOOK IS COMPLETE! SHIPPING AS SOON AS THE BOOKS ARRIVE!
hi everyone,
I am back in NYC and the project is complete. At the moment the books are in Delhi, awaiting necessary signatures before they are to be shipped via insured courrier, we should have them by August.The 5 Year Plan book looks fabulous, much better than we expected.
Rudraksh Printers in Jaipur did an amazing job, Nandita Devraj is the perfect ally for a project like ours. We'll be working together in the future.The 5 Year Plan Literary Companion grew into a 180 page hardcover book. I hope you will find it a good read, we worked very hard to make it a work of real quality. Please let me know your thoughts on it...
The jhola bags we made are also amazing, they were completely hand made at a Gandhi Ashram near Delhi with artwork by David Dunlap. The folks at the ashram are super cool and love the 5 Year Plan project, I am considering the possibility of doing a "People's Edition" that would be much less expensive, rougher, and funkier.
We have been offered fiscal sponsorship, this means that we become tax-deductable. I will see if we can make this happen for all of us who made this round happen. One way or another, I will find a way to cut you in somehow.
I am currently updating the website from pre-production to post production with updates.
To my dismay i find that nobody received the postcards i sent back in March from Jaipur. I sent 108 postcards and letters to all project participants and to my family, they took 3 days to write. I will have to send you a postcard from somewhere soon.
(after stamping all the cards and letters i gave the bundle to the smiling lady behind the counter at the Jaipur General Post Office. That was the last anyone saw of them. What probably happened was that the person who was to cancel the stamps soaked them off the cards and sold them. it's been a decade since i mailed a card from India. I forgot that you MUST see them cancel the stamps...it's my fault)the last photo is of myself at the blue ice glacier source of the Ganges river, giving thanks for a successfully completed task. The gratitude that i feel for all of you who joined me on this fantastic journey is immense. I am anxious to send you your books and jholas and my sincerest gratitude.
much Love,
Aaron
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on June 11, 2010
aaron sinift
Posted project update #28JUNE 20 RETURN TO U.S. WITH YOUR BOOKS AND BAGS!
Post Commenthi everyone,
i decided to delay our return to the states til the 20th to be able to complete everything with the necessary TLC and ensure it has the considered and thoughtful touch all the way through.the 5 Year Plan Literary Companion is looking beautiful, 180 pages , hardbound and pocket-sized with brilliant rare writing by Allen Ginsberg ,Mahatma Gandhi, an as yet unpublished piece by Peter Lamborn Wilson, terrific new poetry by India Radfar, Lee Ann Brown, Louise Landes Levi , Greta Byrum and Gloria Williams. A very interesting scholarly article about jute bags by Prof Andy Rotman ; several short pieces by Reverend Billy; and an exerpt from "Walking With the Comrades" by Arundhati Roy that will open you eyes wide, images by David Dunlap and many interesting surprises.
We're also working with a Gandhi Ashram collective in Khanpup U.P. to complete our jholas with a design by David Dunlap that i think you'll dig.. It's a dream to work with such awesome people.
I'll be sending your books out as soon as i get home-
Watch your mailbox, something wonderful is on it's way!many thanks to all of you who made this possible,
love,
Aaron(picture is the Himalayan source of the Ganges with your friend Aa)
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on May 14, 2010
aaron sinift
Posted project update #27learning to spin cotton thread on the charka
thought you might find this interesting. filmed by Pranati at a class taught by Mr. and Mrs. Handa yesterday at the Indian Institute of Craft and Design in Jaipur Rajasthan.
it's a strangely beautiful process, watching combed cotton emerge from your fingertips as thread.
very calming and meditative.
it takes 1500 meters of thread spun this way to make a single meter of khadi cloth.
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pranati trivedi on November 18, 2010
hey aaron remember me, pranati. i just wanna thank u for mentioning me. i hope u get a great responce. all the best. gud luck. hope to see u soon at r college. take care.......
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on May 14, 2010
aaron sinift
Posted project update #26Almost Done! back in NYC June 9! Videos/photos
Post CommentThanks to YOU!
Our 5 Year Plan Artist Book project is almost done!
It's a huge project, involving hundreds of people, and it's beautiful.We've created 2300+ days of work for people of the Manav Seva Samiti Ashram,
weaving 1.4 km of hand spun, hand woven khadi cloth.
Every thread has passed through a persons fingertips (80% are women)
This is real value in a lot of people's lives.
Khadi Being Woven for the 5 Year Plan Book Project!
http://www.youtube.com/watch...The people at the Gandhi Ashram Collectives really dig the project, it touches a chord here, the response has be overwhelmingly positive from all perspectives.
The 5 Year Plan Book is being printed in Jaipur at Rudraksha printers.
The second video is the page "Gandhi's Watch" by Donald Baechler being printed.
Blockprinting Baechler Page in Rajasthan
http://www.youtube.com/watch...It's a huge project but we'll be done by June.
Total edition will be 180 copies only.
(copies are still available!)Thanks to all of you who helped make this possible!
Updates + Pictures: http://5yearplan.org/news.html
See You in June
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on April 8, 2010
aaron sinift
Posted project update #25Kumbha Mela festival/ Khadi Ashram in Modinaghar
Dear Friends,
I find I have a few days more to wait for the first delivery of 325 meters of khadi from the ashram, so I am taking the opportunity to go to the Kumbha Mela in Haridwar.
The Kumbha Mela is a gathering of pilgrims and sadhus and saints from all over India to bathe in the Ganges on a particularlly auspicious day ( New Moon, April 14 i am told). It happens according to astrological confluences and at different places in India, in a cycle that has gone on for possibly thousands of years. Attendance is said to be around 20 million people.
I'll bring my camera.("ok, everyone say cheese!)
It is difficult to imagine how that many people can squeeze into a small town like Haridwar but i guess i'll know soon enough. We started the project in Varanasi on Shivaratri, the Night of Shiva, and we begin printing on the 15th the final day of the Mela.
It is also Greta and my 4th wedding anniversary and i miss her terribly. It'll be my way of honoring that day.
Our order of 1km of khadi will provide about 1800 days of spinning and 300 days of work for weaving.
This is a substantial contribution to the welfare of people living around Modinaghar.
The ashram suggests that they make our jhola bags, the ones that many of you are waiting for.
I'll give them the design very soon. I'll show you the images for them latter.
(these images show one of the weavers working on our khadi, the spools of handspun thread, and a lady spinning the thread)
Again, we thank you for helping us make this happen.
much love,
Aaron-
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Bonbon Oiseau on April 16, 2010
AMAZING!!! WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU HERE ON NOBLE STREET!!!!!! oxox deb and jim!
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aaron sinift
aaron sinift joined Kickstarter on August 09, 2009
Aaron: Welcome home.....congratulations on what looks like a great book project!
love from steve and arda