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This project successfully raised its funding goal on March 23, 2010.
Pledge $10 or more
DON'T FEEL BAD PLEDGE ♥ You will receive a download of your choice of any one of Andrew's albums (including STWPT, Your Heart and any side projects).
Pledge $30 or more
CRUNK JUICE PLEDGE ♥ You will receive the $10 reward plus a download of Your Heart's upcoming Autumn album, a signed and numbered copy of the limited edition CD pressing of Autumn, and a recipe card for Andrew's favorite juice smoothies.
Pledge $50 or more
HOW TO ACTUALLY WEAR PANTS PLEDGE ♥ You will receive everything included with the $30 reward plus a download of the entire STWPT back catalog and signed copies of all 3 STWPT CDs.
Pledge $100 or more
YOUR HEART PLEDGE ♥ You will receive everything included in the $50 reward plus a t-shirt that either says LISTEN TO YOUR HEART or PANTS (your choice) and downloads of Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring - the four seasons-themed albums that Your Heart is releasing within the next year.
Pledge $150 or more
HEY AN MP3 PLAYER PLEDGE ♥ You will receive everything included with the $100 reward plus an MP3 player filled with never-before-heard music of Andrew's.
Pledge $250 or more
WE ARE THE ROBOT PIRATES PLEDGE ♥ You will receive everything included in the $100 reward and your name will appear wherever credits for the video are displayed, including a commemorative STWPT page. You will receive an mp3 of the Robot Pirates singing about you. You will receive a video of Andrew, dressed as a Robot Pirate, dancing to a song of your choice - under 8:59 please (that's the length of 'November Rain').
Pledge $500 or more
ZOMBIE PLEDGE ♥ You will receive everything included in the $250 reward plus Andrew will write a song for you, any kind of song you want, up to 3 minutes long. He will change his Facebook and Twitter profile pictures to a picture of you for a week. He and a friend will spend one evening playing Left 4 Dead with you and a friend on Xbox Live. Or some other game on Xbox or online... but that would reduce the zombie-ness of it all.
Pledge $1,000 or more
SNESLY WIPES PLEDGE ♥ You will receive everything included in the $500 reward plus Andrew will give you the ukulele he used on "The Story Of Snesly Wipes", "In The Sun" and most other songs of his which involve a ukulele. Signed, if you want.
Pledge $1,500 or more
GUITAR PLEDGE ♥ You will receive everything included in the $500 reward, plus Andrew will give you the acoustic guitar that he used on every single STWPT song that has an acoustic guitar on it. Signed, if you want.
Pledge $1,500 or more
BAN JOVI PLEDGE ♥ You will receive everything included in the $500 reward, plus Andrew will give you his beautiful 1960s long-neck banjo. Signed, if you want. (By the way, the banjo's name is Ban Jovi.)
Pledge $5,000 or more
HOT DOG EATING CONTEST CHAMPION PLEDGE ♥ Andrew will record an album for you. 12 songs or 77 minutes, whichever comes first. Whatever you want them to sound like and be about. As long as he doesn't have to sing anything that would shock and offend the average grandma.
Pledge $10,000 or more
I LOVE YOU MORE THAN BUNNIES PLEDGE ♥ We will fly you to the video shoot. You will make a brief appearance in the video itself. You will be there for everything, including the wrap party. After which you will spend two days doing activities with Andrew, such as song-making, cosmic bowling, yoga, and pottery. All your costs will be covered, including transportation, food, and ironic thrift store outfit. After all, you will have just given us $10,000.
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Born in small-town Canada, Karl Richter was heavily influenced by his older brother’s interests to pursue the arts at a young age. Through secondary school into highschool he studied comics for inspiration in illustrating and story-telling, always looking to movies for inspiration. By the end of highschool he pursued design and moved to Toronto to learn about graphic arts at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Within 6 months of living in Toronto, his love of film and the possibility that making movies was real, he realized motion picture was the means to fulfill his desire to tell stories using all facets of art— from composition and colour to emotion of performance and movement.
After a few false starts, ‘The Boy and His Wolf’ was the first short film that Karl felt he had made something worth talking about. This was the beginning of his journey as a Director, which lead to the creation of ‘wendel’, a collective based moniker to take the emphasis off of Karl as the sole creative force behind any project he would write, direct, edit or produce due to the collaborative nature of motion picture.
'The Boy and His Wolf' was a Platinum REMI award winner at the 2009 International Film Festival while his second short film 'The Door' was an official selection at the 2009 SoCal Independent Film Festival.
The end of 2009 released wendel's second music video and first for Your Heart, titled 'In the Sun'.
2010 was a very transitional year for Karl and wendel as it officially became an entity unto its own, created out of the inclusion of Philip Bowser (visualFX) and Russell Greene (Producer) as well as Nicole Martens (PR + styling).
With the full 'cast' rounded out, wendel has relocated to Los Angeles to get into the industry proper, having started 2011 with Discovery channel and riding that to transition into doing continuous TV branding and motion graphics. This of course alongside all the continuous shooting for more musicians and brands including Quiznos, US Bank, Brother Printers, the NCAA, Colin Munroe, The Working Hour, TiRon and Ayomari and Lexdray.
Always keep your eyes peeled for new things from wendel.
When are you guys sending out the stuff? :)
Hey Kara. That's amazing. We weren't really sure what to say about the importance of this song here and hadn't answered for that reason. We're very glad that this has that much importance for him, even though the video isn't quite parallel to his story. We've felt the same loss and I dearly hope this video will be honourable (at the very least) in its execution.
Kara: Well now I'm just even happier to know that I've helped fund the video :)
Good voice, easy to listen to - my kind of music of this genre. Interesting to watch the many interactions on screen. Keep 'em coming and well done Karl. Encouraging to see that the pledges continue to come in, even to over the amount needed.
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That's what the original (unfinished) song reminded him of. It's cool it seems to mean so much to so many people (looking at the comments on STWPT)!
Just FYI: When he paid for Andrew to extend the song he was actually thinking of a high school best friend who was killed in a car accident while my husband was away at college. He didn't hear of the accident for over a week and missed saying goodbye at the funeral.
My husband paid for him to finish this song! We went to Songs to Wear Pants To to just see what comments had been posted and saw about the video! He was blown away and teared up.
ohhh, okay. XD Thank you. And then I remembered I had money in the bank so, I'm still good, either way.
Congratulations! Believe it or not, I DID keep checking back to see if anyone else donated... I'm very glad you guys succeeded and even overshot your goal. XDD This vid's gonna kick BUTT.
Oh my goodness and a MASSIVE THANK YOU to everyone!
We'll be sending you all video love really soon.
ANd…
Actually. They won't have charged your credit cards yet. That happens very soon though so if you can avoid the ol' OD then I think you've got some time.
They say it'll be approximately 15 days before the funds are all approved.
Wait, I thought they charged your credit card the moment you clicked and made the donation.
I'm going to have an overdraft...
Eight thousand ten dollars! It was at 8000 and then I contributed because I hate round numbers.
(just kidding round numbers are great)
Thanks Andrew!
We are closer! ONLY 9 HOURS LEFT!
We're so close to 8K I can taste it!
It's DELICIOUS!
We can get there I know it! Someone out there has to have a heart for independent music and might just LOVE Your Heart enough to become a backer!
Tell everyone!
we're closer now!
Hey everyone! Thanks so much for getting us to where we are so far.
It's huge. BUT.
DON'T STOP NOW!!! I dare everyone out there to get us to 8K!
Possible?
I think so. But we gotta get the word out there!
Huzzah! Congrats all! We made it!
Congratulations, boys! Can't wait to see the final product!!
WOOOOOOH!!!! We made it!
Your Heart is the best !!!
If we get 3 more guys and all of us pool $330 a person for the "I LOVE YOU MORE THAN BUNNIES" package, you think Andrew would fly us all out to be in the music video?
I'm just saying because we really need some more support if any of this is happening (also it would be funny to see this all play out).
I thought the Ghostface Kilobyte video was awesome enough, but this concept sounds really fantastic. Also, I think this is my favourite of your songs (that I've heard) so far, so I'm stoked to see a video for it!
I think I'm the first South African backer :D Gogogo!!
I could have stopped watching the video at the point where it surpassed my budget, but i thuroughly enjoy watching you talk to the camera. Even your low-budget videos are entertaining! Best of luck, can't wait to see the final product!
Wow, that guitar went fast. At this rate, someone might actually do the $10K pledge.
I think you have to specifically choose the MP3-player pledge award to get it, seeing as it says there's only one of them... but I don't know, really. $50 was all I could afford, but I hope it helps :)
Wooh, first to pledge enough for the mp3 player! Now, all we've got to do is wait for others to get us to the goal. This music vid will be awesome. Can't wait guys.