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This project successfully raised its funding goal on December 10.
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We'll thank you personally on the "Visual Animals" blog where photos and videos of our Park City public choreographies — flocking Paparrazi, Steadicam-dancing, as well as staged protests and press conferences — will be uploaded daily.
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An ABACUS postcard mailed to you from Sundance during the festival, with snow rubbed on it.
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We will include your name, or the name of someone you choose, in a harmonic chant during one of our choreographed protests on the streets of Park City, UT, or as a response to a question during a staged press conference. We'll post video containing your name online and send you the link. Perfect for perplexing your friends.
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Postcard Set of 5 "Pre-Data Visualizations of The Natural World” — images taken by Paul Abacus during his stints as a park ranger in White Sands (NM) and Dry Tortugas (FL) National Parks + all the above.
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A lovingly-authored DVD of ABACUS filmed live + Two hand screen-printed 'golden' tickets good for any future Early Morning Opera performance after Sundance. We will honor them wherever, whenever.
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ABACUS or Early Morning Opera hand screen-printed T-Shirt. 100% cotton, Alternative Apparel + the Postcard set + yes, the harmonic chant of your name.
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Small-batch crafted 36-page ABACUS folio designed by Rick Valicenti, 2011 Cooper-Hewitt Design Winner, featuring ABACUS text, visualization stills, and nifty printing techniques. A steal for design aficionados.
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ABACUS AT SUNDANCE 24 x 36” poster (limited edition of 100) designed by 2011 Cooper-Hewitt Design Winner, Rick Valicenti.
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All of the above: Postcard set, DVD, two T-shirts, Folio, and Poster + Two VIP tickets to ABACUS at Sundance. Performance tickets, people, not plane tickets. We wish.
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Your choice of an 18x24” archival C-print (each a limited edition of 10) from Paul's "Pre-Data Visualizations of The Natural World" series, taken during his stint as a national park ranger.
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Paparazzi Camera used in public choreographies at Sundance (from a limited edition of 10) hand fabricated from vacuformed acrylic by Lars Jan + 8x10" photo of your camera in action at the 2011 Sundance Opening Party + all of the above.
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A presentation by Paul Abacus and Lars Jan at an event of your choosing in LA or NYC ...on any topic of your choosing. (Please add $500 for anywhere else in the contiguous US or not super-distant parts of Canada)
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'Executive Producer' credit on ABACUS at Sundance 2012 + everything described above.
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A personal appearance by Paul Abacus and Lars Jan anywhere on any of the six natively populated continents + all of the above, except the mailed postcard, which we'll just bring with us to save money.
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Lars is the founding artistic director of Early Morning Opera, a multi-disciplinary art lab based in Los Angeles that specializes in live, cinematic performances about America right now. His genre-bending original works have been commissioned by EMPAC & The Whitney Museum. Lars is a 2011 TEDGlobal Fellow and has amazing collaborators.
