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This project successfully raised its funding goal on December 29.
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Congratulations, you just pre-ordered a copy of iheart poetics for the iPhone! This can be for you, or as a gift to anyone of your choosing. Thank you, your name will be credited in the app at the WHITMAN tier.
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Pick one of three limited edition, letterpress poetics cards to be sent to your doorstep. You will also become a member of Poetic, a backers-only email list that will feature news about the project and poetics created by me. Includes the app + your name credited in the app at the RUMI tier.
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You receive all three poetics as a backers-only limited edition print on 4”x6” archival paper! Includes membership to Poetic + the app + your name credited in the app at the CUMMINGS tier.
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Your choice from one of five limited edition 8"x8" 'iheart variation' prints from ArtWeLove sent to your doorstep. These fine art prints are made with fade-resistant archival-quality ink and are printed on 100% cotton rag, acid free ph neutral 255 gsm paper. Includes all 3 poetics card prints + membership to Poetic + the app + your name credited in the app at the NERUDA tier.
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A signed, backers-only first edition of the 'iheart poetics chapbook 001'. This 30-page book will feature the first series of full-color, image meets text poetics, perfect bound and delivered to your doorstep with an original vinyl iheart sticker as a bookmark. Includes all 3 poetics card prints + membership to Poetic + the premium app gift code + your name credited in the app at the AUDEN tier.
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Both the book and the print! You will receive a signed chapbook + one of five 8"x8" 'iheart variation' prints + an iheart sticker + all 3 poetics card prints + membership to Poetic + the app + your name credited in the app at the BLAKE tier.
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A complete set: All five 8"x8" 'iheart variation' prints from ArtWeLove + the signed chapbook + an iheart sticker + all 3 poetics card prints + membership to Poetic + the app + your name credited in the app at the SAPPHO tier.
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Two complete print sets! You will get four edition 8"x8" prints from ArtWeLove created as a collaboration with Douglas Rushkoff and Shaun Friesen. Each print features text by Warhol, Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Leary. Also includes the complete set of five 8"x8" 'iheart variation' prints, the signed chapbook + an iheart sticker + all 3 poetics card prints + membership to Poetic + the app + your name credited in the app at the APOLLINAIRE tier.
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You and I create a poetic together as a contemporary version of mail art. We will email and/or chat, during which images and text are exchanged. The interaction is channeled into a custom poetic for you or as a gift for someone. Your custom poetic will be printed on archival paper with archival ink, sent to your doorstep + the signed chapbook + an iheart sticker + all 3 poetics card prints + membership to Poetic + the app + your name credited in the app at the YEATS tier.
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All of the above! You will become a significant collector of this new work, receiving a poetic we create together + the complete set of five 8"x8"' 'iheart variation' prints + the complete set of four 8"x8" prints with Rushkoff and Friesen + the signed chapbook + an iheart sticker + all 3 poetics card prints + membership to Poetic + the app + your name credited in the app at the RILKE tier.
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Come to NYC and we’ll wander the downtown streets together as flaneurs. Out of this journey comes a custom poetic portrait of you or anyone you'd like to bring along. The final mixed-media poetic will include some combination of vinyl-cut magnetic text with image(s) and magnetic paint. This level also includes an exclusive 24”x24” 'iheart variation' print from ArtWeLove + the signed chapbook, an iheart sticker + all 3 poetics card prints + membership to Poetic + the app + your name credited in the app at the BAUDELAIRE tier.
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The whole kit and kaboodle, starting with a day-long flaneur journey of poetics and life in NYC, ending in a downtown dinner together. This experience will inspire and feed into a medium to large-scale mixed-media poetic piece created for you. This pledge also includes one of the five 24"x24" 'iheart variation' prints + the complete set of five 8"x8"' 'iheart variation' prints + the complete set of four 8"x8" collaborative prints with Rushkoff and Friesen + the signed chapbook + an iheart sticker + all 3 poetics card prints + membership to Poetic + the app. Your name credited in the app at the MALLARMÉ tier and a big iheart u!
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Seth Indigo Carnes
Manhattan, NY
Born in California, Made in NYC. Seth Indigo Carnes is a conceptual media artist whose works focus on the creation of emotive experience and spiritual goods. His projects explore the boundaries that permeate contemporary society: high / low culture, private / public, self / group, nature / machine.
Past exhibitions include P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, White Box (NYC), Emily Harvey Foundation (NYC), Witzenhausen Gallery (NYC), Fountain Art Fair (Miami), Lund 2014 (Sweden), The Drop (NYC), and the luggage store (SF). He has collaborated in the past with Paul D. Miller, Shepard Fairey, and The Roots.
Carnes holds a BA in History from Pomona College and a MS in Integrated Digital Media from NYU Polytechnic.
Hi all,
Just wanted to update that the app is underway! Quite exciting to see it starting to work with the hands and eyes. Will update more when the launch approaches.
Can't wait to see the app. Glad to be a backer of this great project!
Fabulus news! Congratulations Seth (and DSB)!!!
dude, i'm so freakin' stoked that this got funded. what a great way to start the new year, eh?! congrats seth! keep us posted on any other projects you start!
Thanks to everyone for helping this project get there!! It's been such an inspiring journey, and now it's time to start making the app!
To backers, your Rewards will be coming asap. Thanks again and happy new year!!
Congratulations! I knew we could do it :)
Yeah! I'm so happy for you Seth! This is great!!! :-) May the New Year be full of great successes for all!
I <3 this idea. Cant wait to check out the app. ...& get our art in the mail!
Congrats Seth! Big love.
I'm proud of you and your dedication to this project...onward and upward!
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
With much love,
Mom
i wish you the best of luck, and apologies for the seemingly insignificant email as you drive towards your goal - is there any way to change what name appears in the credits? I'm giving this as am gift to my wife. COMPLETELY understand if you ignore this question for a while. :)
Diggin this idea.
I have useful some ideas... feel free to ping me. I'm in NY too.
Looks awesome, Seth :)
the images look beautiful!
I love this idea and can't wait for the app!