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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on April 8, 2011.
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A personalized post card featuring a photograph from the Rest Stop series with a thank you message from the artist, plus a thank you on my website and my everlasting gratitude!
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A post card from the artist picked up while on the road shooting Rest Stops AND a 4x6 signed and editioned c-print from the Rest Stop series! + everything else above!
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Lizzy Oppenheimer is an internationally exhibited and published artist based in Brooklyn. She attended Parsons School for Design, receiving a BFA for Photography. Lizzy’s work as been exhibited at Chlesea Art Museum in NYC, Thomas Werner Gallery in NYC, The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, NM, Three Gallery in NYC, Calumet Gallery in NYC, MaxMara in NYC and The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Lizzy was awarded a winner in the PDN Photography Annual for 2010 and The Tierney Fellowship for 2010.
Set this up again, but maybe in a couple campaigns: map Route A and get funding for that route and it's production costs; then set up another one for Route B. I've seen a few projects that have broken up their funding, so at least something gets paid and done.
I'm surprised that you didn't achieve your goal, but I'm sure that most of us backers will support you all the more strongly next time. You've got an excellent project.... nothing like a little adversity to get the spirit up!
So sorry it didn't get funded. It is a fabulous project, so please keep me posted on your progress.
So close! Please do keep us in the loop. I would still very much like to have one of your photos. Best of luck! ~M
I tweeted and emailed and talked about it a lot. It's a well-deserved project so don't give up on it. I'll be here for you again!
Sad, very sad.
This project needs to go to round 2 ...
Doh Sorry it didn't work out!!
Also sorry to see it didn't make it.
So sad to hear it didn't make it. Please keep us posted on you future work/projects.
We have tweeted, and posted your project everywhere we could. We hope you make it. The shots in your video were amazing.
I LOVE this project, your eye, your commitment and the keepsake of Americano your journey represents. Two hours to go...SO hoping you get funded. I want to see this body of work realized. All the best!
Lizzy, I'm actually a former classmate of the poster below(Michelle!), we were photo majors together. I drove across the country twice, and have probably been to a number of these rest stops(all I took was a Hasselblad though) :-)
Definitely impressed at your dedication to the 4x5, and the use of film in general. Those of us who still know how to use these "old skool" tools are a dying breed, just as these rest stops are. So, hope ya make it in the next 3 hours, your work is pretty damn terrific!
This is an amazing project! I'm especially in awe that you are using a 4x5 camera because, that too may become extinct in the future.
I love this and want to go with you! But your photos will have to do.
I hope you're funded!
Awesome project! I can appreciate something like this after my road trip across the US and staying at many rest stops. Good luck!
Good luck on this wonderful project. Road Wanderers of the world thank you.
Woohoo, you got featured in the KickStarter weekly email. Hope the exposure gets you to the goal.
Great project! I hope you reach your goal!
Congratuations about reaching the halfway mark! I'm a photographer myself and this is a project near to my heart in many ways. Also, I didn't even know that many stops will be shuttered -- quite saddening news. Looking forward to the fuition of your work se we can see these oases immortalized.
I love this project, it immortalizes my childhood where my father would inevitably wake me up and say pack for two weeks were going on vacation . We stop at rest stops across the country and this reminded us of where we had been by the brochures that we collected and the places that they directed us to. In my childhood I visited 43 states and in my maturity I knew this only by the pamphlets that I collected at the rest stops. Your next destination is the South so come to Georgia and let us take you to the southern rest stops.
i really hope you make it. i'm obsessive about alignment and parallel lines in photographs and really appreciate your eye. i find your photos very relaxing. i hope you share some photos as your project unfolds.
You might enjoy "Autonauts of the Cosmoroute" by Julio Cortazar and Carol Dunlop. It's a travelogue of rest stops between Paris and Marseilles in 1982. Similar to what you are doing but in prose more than pictures.
Rest Stops - Otherwise known as "Iron Butt Motels" to the long distance motorcycling community. Good luck.
I really hope this project gets funded. Your photos would also make a fabulous book. Good luck!
Mahesh - Thank you for your pledge and for sharing your experience. And, you will definitely still get a post card, regardless of the fact that it has to traverse the ocean!
Ken - Thank you for catching that. I have corrected it.
Hi -- in your bibliography, I think the domain should be .org, not .com.
Hey Lizzy - I am contributing from India as I wanted to work on a similar concept during my 4 years living in the south west (Vegas...Runnin' Rebels!); the rest stop history fascinated me as I traveled quite a bit in that region, it is just so awesome to see this project on Kickstarter. Good luck with achieving your target!
(I am supposed to get a thank you card with this pledge but it might cost you a bit sending it across the ocean so suggest you hold back on that ha!)
Cristin - I would love to get to the Pacific Northwest! On my trip out to the west coast I simply didn't have enough time or money to continue driving North. Someday, hopefully, it will happen!
Thiago, Steven, Adora, Film, Walter, Anonymous and Alan - Thank you so very much for your pledges and you words of encouragement. It means a great deal to me to know that there are so many people who support this project!
Too bad you skipped the Pacific Northwest, particularly Oregon. Rest stops always creep me out anyway, but It's I still think that this is an interesting project.
WOW, good!
This is going to be so good!
This such an awesome concept! Keep going!
Attached to the rest stops are irreplaceable memories, both past and future.
Politicians use fear of closing public projects that really cost very little to get support to raise taxes. Anyway your a Photographer and Photographers are the Best. Keep up the wonderful art dear one.
As a fan of rest areas* and of Bernd and Hilla Becker's Water Towers, I am happy to add my modest contribution. Good luck with the project!
*Whenever I think of a memorable road trip, and my family took lots as a kid because my mom is afraid to fly, what really sticks in my mind are the rest stops. You're right, the homegrown ones really do convey a sense of place.
Good project! I am working on something similar, but more around the whole landscape of highways, medians, and rest areas. Best of luck on getting all 2,000!
Daniella - A book is definitely in my future! And thank you for your amazing blog entry about my project! You totally get it and it is such a good feeling to have my intentions understood so well.
Alina - I actually photographed that one already this past August! It is so beautiful in person. It will be on exhibit at the NY Photo Festival this May so if you're in NY you should definitely come by. Thanks for your support!
Ooh, I love this project. Can I suggest a rest stop?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dicentra/273403965/
It's my favorite ever. :)
P.S. One day when this series is more complete please make a book. :)
This brings back so many memories...and feelings of guilt for perking up at a McDonald's sign. ;) This is a wonderful project. Thank you for documenting this endangered cultural species, and long live classic Americana!
Thank you Simon! This means a lot!
Lizzy, I do so hope you can continue this project into the future. I think it is such an important documentation of a disappearing part of American life.
I do hope others can contribute to your project, I thank you for the passion and determination you have given to something that is really such an important part of American history.
Good luck with everything