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every 2 dollar donation gets you a signed stir stick and a jonathanbrilliant.com sticker
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If you pledge $3.33 in honor of my 33rd birthday I will send you a special limited edition birthday card. On the cover is an original drawing, and inside is the text "Happy Birthday from those who adore you", I will also throw in a signed stir stick, and a sticker. The cards will be printed with soy based inks on archival paper using a local mom&pop shop wedding invitation printer. They will be signed and numbered and include a standard invitation envelope. My way of saying happy birthday to you for saying happy birthday to me. To see an image of the card look at update number 2 under updates in the top tab
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A selection of jonathnbrilliant.com stickers and a personalized postcard will be mailed to you
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This is a special fall harvest pledge reward. Pledge $7 and you get one of 10 pieces of cast aluminum corn bread. The casting is creating using an antique cast iron corn bread mold which is filled with molten recycled aluminum to create this unique series of castings. This is genuine southern charm turned into the perfect paper weight, desktop sculpture, or thanksgiving centerpiece. includes stickers, postcards, and signed stir stick.
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A selection of jonathnbrilliant.com stickers, official tour poster(designed by Sarah Lowe), and a couple postcards
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Brilliant the Blinding elightenment- Is one of five unique compact flourescent ultrabright desk lamps feturing my favorite portable consumer fetish object as lightsource.
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The Rubaiyat Shatner is a Unique jonathanbrilliant.com glow in the dark t shirt printed on an xl black shirt. This shirt is the only one of it’s kind, because everything that can be made black, can also be emblazoned with a jonathanbrilliant.com logo, did I mention I am web 2.0 try www.jnthnbrllnt.com look ma no vowels. I will even throw in some of my black jonathanbrilliant.com stickers
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This is the wedding mug reward. You get everything from the ten dollar level, plus one of the limited edition coffee mugs designed collaboratively by both Mr. and Mrs. Brilliant in honor of our wedding. This is a very exclusive gift formerly available only to guests of our wedding, but now you can share in both that experience and support art that you love in the process.
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jonathanbrilliant.com glow in the dark t shirt. there has been some confusion so this is the level to pledge if you just want a t shirt and nothing else. i mean it.
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A glow in the dark Jonathanbrilliant.com t shirt and A selection of jonathnbrilliant.com stickers, official tour poster(designed by Sarah Lowe), and a couple postcards
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Brilliant 33rd Birthday vibrating Pledge- In Honor of my 33rd birthday on November 9, I am offering the following special: Your very own vibrating coffee cup. The cup is created from a genuine to-go coffee cup from any one of the many fine coffee establishments I frequent. The cup is then modified with it's very own vibrator similar to the cups depicted in this installation http://www.jonathanbrilliant.com/vibrating.html plus you get all the gifts listed at the ten dollar level. Show some vibrating birthday love won't you.
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pledge $50 get this beautiful cast polished aluminum coffee cup lid. This lid makes a beautiful focal point to any desktop arrangement, or may be hung on the wall as mandala for focused meditation on the very nature of the coffee cup. includes, stickers, postcards and a signed stir stick
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A one color screenprint emblazoned with the woven stick patter plus A glow in the dark Jonathanbrilliant.com t shirt and A selection of jonathnbrilliant.com stickers, official tour poster(designed by Sarah Lowe), and a couple postcards
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My Rauschenberg Moment is a unique editioned screenprint layered on starbucks napkins, collaged onto rives cover stock, with stenciling, spray paint and a custom printed coffee sleeve affixed to the surface, you also get a tshirt, a poster, stickers,and a postcard.
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Pledge $100- get 1of 3 original coffee cup drawings The Bradshaw is named for my favorite british Germanic Californian conceptual photographer Julia Bradshaw. She has tolerated me and my work for many years which is why this special limited gift is designed to both honor her and her art while simultaneously guilt her into getting that brilliant drawing she always wanted. All drawings a gouache and sumi ink on arches cover stock.
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I found one more coffee cup drawing available from now until i run out or find more
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Tools of the studio drawing. 1 of 2 sumi ink on paper drawings depicting power tools and coffee cups, the tools of my studio.
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everything from the $75 level, plus a dvd portfolio with all the documentation of the project a digital catalog of the tour to date and all videos in full quality,plus i will send you a coffee mug from all the places i visit on the second half of the tour in 2010(limit ten prizes at this level)
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The Zinnia This Pledge level entitles you to your very own custom woven acrylic wall panel. The panel will be created by weaving and plastic welding custom milled clear acrylic strips into a panel approximately 36”round. The weaving pattern used is the same one I use for the woven stir stick installations. The advantage of the clear acrylic is it’s permanence, and the beauty of the shadows cast directly on the wall. To see an example of a larger 85”x85” woven panel go to http://www.jonathanbrilliant.com/clear Of course I will still throw in a poster, postcards, stickers, and maybe a little something extra if your nice…
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pledge $250 and get this cast aluminum grande coffee cup portable consumer fetish alter. This is a unique casting of one of my favorite portable consumer fetish objects. This particular one has been the incense holder for my studio, and if you pledge at this level you get the cast coffee cup, the stickers, the postcard, a signed stir stick, and some nag champa incense, my favorite.
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1cast aluminum coffee cup, postcard, stickers, and a signed stick This unique casting is created through the lost latte process of aluminum casting. This venti coffee cup was actually destroyed through the metal casting process in order to release it’s true essence into the atmosphere, creating this very sacred portable consumer fetish object which is now available to you only if you pledge at this level.
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a very special stir stick embossing monoprint(created by inking and running the actual woven stir sticks through a printing press) plus A one color screenprint emblazoned with the woven stick pattern plus A glow in the dark Jonathanbrilliant.com t shirt and A selection of jonathnbrilliant.com stickers, official tour poster(designed by Sarah Lowe), and a couple postcards
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all the awards mentioned above, plus i will create a portable installation in a crate for you. I will take an old art travel crate and convert it into a portable gallery complete with motion activated lighting system. The crate will contain a woven stir stick installation built directly into the crate. It will be shipped to you (sorry us locations only) and all you will do is simply open the crate plug it in and enjoy your very own installation to-go.
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Jonathan Brilliant was born in 1976 in Charleston, South Carolina. Brilliant holds a B.A. in studio art from the College of Charleston and an M.F.A. in Spatial Arts from San Jose State University. He has exhibited his work in several group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. He has received numerous fellowships to artist residencies and communities including: McColl Center for Visual Art, The Ox-Bow school of Art, The Vermont Studio Center, The Penland School of Crafts, The Redux Contemporary Art Center, The University of Oklahoma, The University of Memphis, and The East/West Project in Berlin Germany. From May 2009-December 2010 he conducted his “Have Sticks Will Travel world Tour”. The tour was a marathon series of site-specific installations that took place in thirteen galleries in eighteen months, in three countries, on two continents. Brilliant is a recent recipient of an individual artist grant from the Pollock Krasner Foundation and is the South Carolina Arts Commission 2011-2012 Visual Arts Fellow. In November 2011 a large comprehensive exhibition, titled “Stick, Stack, Show” including new site work, sculptures, prints, and other gallery interventions opened at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond. In 2012 he will be on the road again creating both temporary and permanent works for a variety of venues.
