About this project
(A spread from our third issue, "Borders and Beans")
Oprah says we’re happy. We think that statement bears examining. Last November author Dan Buettner announced that San Luis Obispo—along with Denmark and Singapore—was one of the happiest places on the planet. While the Chamber of Commerce leapt with giddy pride, and Oprah raced a film crew down to our sleepy metropolis to discover the source of our alleged happiness, we were left wondering: Isn’t that a little simplistic? How do you even begin to measure happiness? What about our sizeable homeless population? Are they happy? And why does everyone feel compelled to jump on the public relations bandwagon?
And what does happiness mean, really, anyway? The Beatles memorably claimed that “Happiness is a warm gun.” For some of our ancestors, it was the nearest whorehouse. For a few, those irascible Dunites who filled Oceano with artists and thinkers, it was living off the grid, free from social constraints. For us? Happiness is collaborating with San Luis Obispo’s sizeable population of artists, writers, and thinkers.
The Happy Issue will be our fourth, since we began publishing San Louie in August 2010. We’re happy to work for free, and so are our dedicated and magnificent team of contributors. But we still need to cover our printing costs. In fact, our fundraising goal of $3,500 just matches the print cost for 1,000 copies of the magazine. Additional funding will allow us to begin the happy task of repaying the many artists and writers who have dedicated their time and money to this endeavor. So, if you’d like to help San Louie take on Oprah (OK, not really, but you have to appreciate the show of bravado, right?), if you are a fan of provocateurs, a supporter of lost causes (which some say print as a media is—but we refuse to succumb to such cynicism), a believer in creative minds that spin visions that we can’t always afford to realize, please jump on the San Louie bandwagon.
Find out more about San Louie at http://www.sanlouie.com
(A spread from our second issue, "Animalia")
(A spread from our third issue, "Borders and Beans")
(A spread from our second issue, "Animalia")
(Our cut-and-paste project for Issue 3-- Build your Own Octagon Barn. Read about the project here.)
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This project reached the deadline without achieving its funding goal on May 19, 2011.
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Your $10 donation will get you a copy of San Louie's Happy Issue. Also, your name will be printed in the issue's sponsor page.
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Your donation of $25 will get you a copy of The Happy Issue and a signed, limited edition letterpress print of a selection of the bean drawings from the cover of our third issue, Borders & Beans. The letterpress was hand-pulled on a Chandler & Price press in the San Luis Obispo studio of Sugar Plum Invitations. Also, your name will be printed in the magazine's sponsor page.
Pledge $50 or more Pledge $50 or more
Your pledge of $50 will get you a copy of The Happy Issue and a signed, limited edition letterpress print of a selection of the bean drawings from the cover of our third issue, Borders & Beans. The letterpress was hand-pulled on a Chandler & Price press in the San Luis Obispo studio of Sugar Plum Invitations. Also, your name will be printed in the magazine's sponsor page. And last but certainly not least, a mystery grab bag of ephemera compiled by the creative types that put San Louie together. Expect whos-its and whats-its aplenty, and the odd doodad as well.
Pledge $250 or more Pledge $250 or more
Your donation of $250 will get you five copies of The Happy Issue, one limited edition letterpress print, and the opportunity for you to sponsor the word, punctuation mark, or integer of your choice in The Happy Issue. (The word, integer, or punctuation mark will be highlighted and your name will be printed at the bottom of the page, indicating your sponsorship) Also, as above, your name will be printed in the magazine's financial sponsors page.
Pledge $3,500 or more Pledge $3,500 or more
This sum will earn you: 25 copies of the magazine; five signed, limited edition letterpress prints; your name highlighted on the issue's sponsor page; 2 facing pages (a spread) of advertising in The Happy Issue, and a dinner prepared by the San Louie team just for you (the dinner works best if you happen to reside in San Luis Obispo County).
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The Central Coast magazine that sounds like your robust old uncle but reads like Shakespeare.
The core “we” is a team of four women who reside in San Luis Obispo: Editor Ashley Schwellenbach (also the Managing Editor for a local alternative newsweekly), Art Directors Catherine Trujillo (a special collections curator at Cal Poly) and Mignon Khargie (artist and co-founder of Salon.com), and photographer Jen Manuele (proprietor of Sally Loo’s, a café in the city’s Railroad District). With the help of our ragtag, misfit artists and writers, we are committed to exploring the vast cultural and artistic potential of our small town, telling the stories, large and small, of the Central Coast. Our first Superhero-themed issue was printed in August 2010. Animalia followed three months later, then Borders and Beans in February. The Happy Issue will be our fourth.
