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This project successfully raised its funding goal on May 15, 2010.
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BETTER THAN FOUND PHOTOS!! oh yeaah!! we send you a random postcard that you'll think you got by mistake, like maybe a photo of the campfire circle in our back alley, or of something inspiring found at the dump, or some other local treasure ... FUN!!
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DFLUX STICKERS -or- NEIGHBORHOOD SPOKE CARDS! your choice: carry around a little residency in your pocket (or on your lunchbox) -OR- spruce up your ride with a hand made laminated spoke card made with found (flat-ish) objects from the neighborhood - rad! (and a thanks! in the dflux 2010 journal)
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DFLUX DIRTY DOZENS!!! no kidding: we send you an mp3 (maybe more than one) of one of our foulest-mouthed neighbors as she regularly drops in - completely uninvited - and starts telling us how our house is (actual quote) ".. no good house, this is sh!+ house, no basement, sh!+ house, no basement .. " despite our walking her to the stairs down to the basement on each occurrence. we can't imagine a cooler reward for a $13 pledge - do it!!!
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$100 HOUSE COASTER SETS! it was just plain weird to buy such a photogenic house for so cheap, so we decided to celebrate the snow drift in the attic and the abundant scorch marks into a lovely coaster set for you! so we'll send you a set of 4 beautiful cork coasters made with photos of the $100 house at the time of purchase! (and a thanks! in the dflux 2010 journal)
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RENOVATION ARTIFACTS -or- BONUS AUDIO CD! we'll send you an exotic and rare artifact (some dating back to 1923) unearthed during renovations to the $100 house / DFLUX studios -OR- the bonus audio CD featuring stories, interviews and field recordings (all from walks and bike rides around the neighborhood and city). and if we have enough found CDs from vacants we'll send one along just for kicks. (and a thanks! in the dflux 2010 journal)
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DFLUX 2010 JOURNAL & AUDIO CD ... yes! confound your house mates and dinner guests with a signed and numbered copy of the 2010 DFLUX journal, from a limited ALTERNATE edition (including audio CD), signed by sarah, jon, resident artists and everyone they (we) can wrangle within 100 feet at the time of signing. probably for this amount we will even call you up sometime and talk about what's going on with the residents, the house and neighborhood stuff too, maybe try to hug you over the phone. sounds uncomfortable but it will probably be fun. (and a thanks! in the dflux 2010 journal)
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NATURALLY DYED TEE SHIRT & DFLUX 2010 JOURNAL & AUDIO CD ... truly the mother lode of stuff. the journal & cd are signed and numbered like before but now includes a hand-dyed tee shirt too, dyed with locally-harvested indigenous flora cooked up on a donated stove in our kitchen!! seriously - get your look good on! and there is no doubt that this level of support will include at least a couple of phone calls thanking you a lot and probably trying to introduce you to some of our residents or neighbors while they're around. the phone calls will probably be weird and kind of uncomfortable but you will definitely like it ... afterward!
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BIKE TOUR & DINNER!! join us for a biking tour of the neighborhood and city (or as far as your legs will go!) and then retire to the $100 house / dflux studio with us for a vegetarian meal made from local Detroit-grown produce. you'll also get the bonus audio cd and as it stops playing as dessert arrives, conversation will likely pause as we all marvel at how surreal and normal it all seems, then probably slowly and uncomfortably turn to prostitution and drug activity in the neighborhood just to keep us all in check, at which point we probably show you our scrap of plywood with license plate numbers on it and try to explain it's the newest thing, better than photographic surveillance, then we will likely try to lift our own spirits by talking about how many different kinds of birds we saw and bugs we heard on the bike ride through the greenest city you may have yet encountered, and then if all else fails we can always just talk about our kid and how awesome he is, losing track of time and space. we will probably even have photos of you in the book too by this point and make use of your phone number randomly afterwards. (and a thanks! in the dflux 2010 journal)
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TOTAL REWARD MELTDOWN!! you get pretty much any of the above as a box set of Detroit love including: stickers, found object spoke card, journal & audio cd, naturally-dyed tee, and whatever else we can cram in the box for you. at this level you should probably expect phone calls, digital hugs and your logo on our website and in the book .. whoa!! told you it was too much but worth considering right?
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Sarah Wagner and Jon Brumit are an accomplished artist team and couple of over 17 years. They have collaborated successfully on countless projects ranging from remodeling jobs to teaching at the Boys & Girls Club of San Francisco or the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to such creative works such as 'Life Laws', an evolving collection of humiliating life-lessons and absurdist cautionary tales and 'Bridge Music', a public sound piece in which they conducted traffic using speed limit signs over one of their favorite singing bridges, wherein a faint and abstracted rendition of 'Chattanooga Choo Choo' could be heard emanating from the chorus of car tires on metal grating over the course of 30 minutes.
Their passion for design-build efforts, coupled with storytelling, problem-solving, rigorous research and good old-fashioned bike-riding, has led them to their newest collaborative endeavor, utilizing their $100 house in Detroit as the studio hub for a seasonal residency program: DFLUX.ORG, the Detroit Research Studio, in efforts to explore, celebrate and publish or broadcast reports from the complex and vibrant surrounding neighborhood.
They have exhibited their solo and collaborative works extensively in exhibitions ranging from museum shows to alternative spaces and from apartment galleries to formerly-vacant public-access storefronts. Their work has been in the Whitney Biennial, SF Museum of Craft & Folk Art, Novi Sad Serbia Contemporary Museum, Artists Television Access, Homie (Berlin), In-F (Tokyo) and has been included in several corporate collections such as Microsoft, PG&E and the San Francisco Recycling & Disposal. Furthermore, reviews and images of their work have been published in Art Papers, Penthouse, ArtForum, the New York Times and Punk Planet. They've been awarded numerous residencies including Headlands Center for the Arts and Skowhegan and consider themselves very fortunate to have received awards and commissions from the Creative Work Fund, CEC ArtsLink, Pollack-Krasner and the San Jose Public Arts Commission, among others.
