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This project successfully raised its funding goal on February 11, 2010.
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A personal thank you. I will email you personally and thank you for your contribution. Also, I'll add your name to the "Funded By" section of the credits.
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A personal thank you and a postcard. I will email you personally and thank you for your contribution. Also, I'll add your name to the "Funded By" section of the credits. And also, I'll mail you a postcard (you'll have to trust me with your address). Not just any postcard, but a fine art, limited edition, archival, signed by the artist, real-deal, it-should-be-in-a-museum-or-at-least-a-frame postcard.
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A personal thank you and two coloring books. I will email you personally and thank you for your contribution. Also, I'll add your name to the "Funded By" section of the credits. And also, I'll mail you a copy of "The Boys and Girls Guide to Nuclear Energy" and "The Boys and Girls Guide to Fossil Fuels" two 'zines I made, part of "The Boys and Girls Guide to the Energy Crisis," that are coloring books that teach kids about the pros and cons about the different types of energy we burn. Or if you want 2 post cards, that's cool too.
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A personal thank you and a limited edition silk screen. I will email you personally and thank you for your contribution. Also, I'll add your name to the "Funded By" section of the credits. And also, I'll send you a limited edition screen print- limited to one per everyone that contributed $20 or more (and one for me to keep). It won't be huge so you won't have to spend a lot of money to frame it, but it will be so awesome you will want to tattoo it on your body a couple of times. So cool I don't even know what it is yet. Or you can opt for two postcards and the two zines, or four zines, or 4 postcards, or whatever combo you really want.
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A personal thank you and a limited edition relief print (they're harder to print than silkscreens and I spend a lot more time making them). I will email you personally and thank you for your contribution. Also, I'll add your name to the "Funded By" section of the credits. And also, I'll send you a limited edition relief print- limited to one per everyone that contributed $50 or more (and one for me to keep). Again, It won't be huge so you won't have to spend a lot of money to frame it, but again, it will be so awesome you will want to tattoo it on your body a couple of times. Again, so cool I don't even know what it is yet. And again, if you'd prefer to exchange your relief print for any other combination of rewards that equals the $50 level, thats cool too. I can wheel and deal.
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A personal thank you, a post card, two zines, a silk screen, a relief print, and, gosh, I don't know... I'll promise to pledge $15 to your kickstarter project. How's that sound? A little counter productive, but the way I see it, If I get the money I need to start this project, I'm going to get so rich and famous its going to be ridiculous, so by then I'll have the money to pledge to your project.
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You've finally made it to the map level! If you are so freaking generous that you're willing to donate $200 to little ol' me trying to make this crazy cooky project, when I'm finally done, I will mail you a copy of two maps, one from the "bad" or "real" side, and one from the "good" or "fantasy" side. Believe me, it will be worth it. Whether or not these posters will change the world, I cannot say, but what I do know is that they will be fantastic maps and fantastic works of art. FANTASTIC. They will belong in museums and libraries across the globe. 100 years from now, your grandkids will take these maps onto Antiques Roadshow and the appraiser is going to practically faint and say, "How did you ever get these?! These are original Julia Samuels's, first run, limited edition, printed and signed by the artist herself, the most notorious work of her entire career, (blah blah blah)" For real. Just imagine it. A story for the ages...
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Wow, you're making me blush. You must be really rich (or crazy), and you're obviously very generous, and I don't really know how to repay you. Certainly I'll send you some sets of maps. Certainly I'll send you a screen print and a postcard and all that other junk. All I can think of right now is Homer Simpson saying "I'll sell my soul for a doughnut!" I'm not going to sell you my soul. But I will be eternally grateful. And I'll put your name at the top of the list in "Funded By" section of the credits, in bold.
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Julia Samuels was born in 1985 and raised in Portsmouth, NH, until she made a fateful move to New York City at the ripe age of 18. Since that brisk fall in 2003, Julia has hit the ground running and has never looked back. Of corse, she does travel back to the mother land for an occasional Rosh Hashanah or Hanukkah, but she certainly prefers when her family and friends come to visit her in the big apple.
Julia studied at Pratt Institute and was awarded a BFA in Printmaking (with highest honors) and a minor in Art History in early 2007. During her career at Pratt, Julia learned and developed an un-dying love for all forms of fine art printmaking, and she was able to exercise that love in Venice, Italy for two months during her last semester.
Since graduating, Julia's ambitions have torn her in two opposing, but oddly related in a too-roundabout way to explain here, directions, and she has been attempting to reconcile those differences for some time. Her day job is managing a pedicab business out of Chelsea. There she is responsible for anything that ever lands on a sheet of paper. She is constantly talking with advertising agents trying to sell them on the idea of "eco-mobility." Those that do buy into it, buy big and buy again. That's one of the big selling points. Julia is also the co-owner of Chicago Rickshaw, http://www.chicago-rickshaw.com, a Chicago-based clone of the Manhattan company. Julia enjoys working with the pedicabs because it gives her an ability to flex her management and entrepreneurial muscles while trying to make a little money and trying to make a difference in the world (the whole carbon footprint thing).
While much of her days can be consumed with the trials and tribulations of running two small business, Julia still exhibits a strong passion and commitment to printmaking and the fine art community. She has taken on the roll of managing the printmaking workshop at the Gowanus Studio Space, http://www.gowanusstudio.org, where she is responsible for maintaing the equipment and chemicals needed in the shop and also hosting workshops, and publishing various printed materials for the studio.
She is a self-publishing artist, and her work is photo-based environmentally conscious. Her current form begins by snapping photos on the highway of high-tension power line towers, and then she brings the images into the studio and converts them into fine prints.
She hopes to return to school to get her MFA in Printmaking so she can become a printmaking professor at various NYC-area colleges. She also hopes to publish prints for artists professionally. All in due time.
As if that weren't enough, Julia loves cooking in general and baking in particular. Winter is her favorite season. She loves to ski, and eat seafood, but not at the same time. She loves road trips and traveling abroad (who doesn't?) and is trying to save up for a trip to London, or Germany.
