{"id":1657,"date":"2012-11-01T09:35:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T13:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2012-11-01T09:35:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T13:35:52","slug":"send-these-retropolis-public-library-prints-to-your-favorite-library-and-to-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/01\/send-these-retropolis-public-library-prints-to-your-favorite-library-and-to-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Send these Retropolis Public Library prints to your favorite library (and to mine)"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/public_libraries_fb01.jpg\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\" onClick='popup_2016_setup(\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/public_libraries_2up_900.jpg\",900,696);'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/public_libraries_2up_501.jpg\" alt=\"Retropolis Public Library prints\" width=\"501\" height=\"387\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<div style=\"width:450px;margin-left:25px;margin-top:12px;\">\n<p align=\"left\">Late yesterday I launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/public-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Indiegogo campaign<\/a> that aims to send my upcoming <em>Retropolis Public Library<\/em> prints to your favorite library &#8211; and to about ten libraries that have meant something to me. The campaign&#8217;s pretty modest goal of $3200 is just enough to do that; but it&#8217;s when we meet and exceed that goal that things get really interesting.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/project\/262564\/widget\/1667253\" width=\"224px\" height=\"429px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"float:left;margin-right:12px;margin-bottom:8px;margin-top:8px;\"><\/iframe><p align=\"left\">That&#8217;s because for every 250 prints that we send to <em>your<\/em> favorite libraries I&#8217;ll be able to donate $1000 of actual cash money to my own local library. If we send off 500 prints, I get to donate $2000, and so on, up to&#8230; oh, wait. There&#8217;s no limit. That means that if we were to send 10,000 prints to your favorite libraries, I&#8217;d donate $40,000, which is an astonishing chunk of change even though I have to admit it&#8217;s not likely we&#8217;ll get <em>quite <\/em>that far.<br>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\nI&#8217;m fond of my local library, but when I tell you that our town has a population of about 15,000 people in a region whose economy was once based on manufacturing, well&#8230; I think you can imagine what&#8217;s happened to <em>every <\/em>kind of local agency&#8217;s budget in the past few years in a series of reductions that &#8211; everywhere &#8211; often <em>starts <\/em>with the local library. So when I figured out what the stretch goals for this campaign might be I felt quite excited to think that I might be able to give a boost to my library&#8217;s budget.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Now of course that&#8217;s not the primary goal of the campaign. The primary goal is for people like you to do something nice, improbable and, just maybe, a little bit odd for your own local (or other favorite) libraries, by sponsoring a gift for them of one or both of these twenty by thirty inch archival &#8216;Public Library&#8217; prints. When you sponsor that gift I&#8217;ll send the print(s) to your chosen library along with a letter that explains just how this happened and that you&#8217;re the one responsible.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/public-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/indiegogo\/libraries\/Library_Right.jpg\" alt=\"the Public Library - a Retropolitan Promotional Poster\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 17px; margin-bottom: 9px;\" title=\"the Public Library, Right Panel\" \/><\/a>\n<p align=\"left\">There are other rewards (&#8216;perks&#8217;, in indiegogospeech) including getting the prints for yourself. But the real aim is to put these retro-futuristic promotional prints on the walls of as many libraries as possible. In about thirty days.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/public-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">So go look! <\/a>And, I hope, decide to dive in and do something peculiar and interesting for the people who also serve by standing, waiting, and then giving you the books you want to read. Please: stop and think about how wonderful and unlikely that is. No, I mean it. <em>Really<\/em> stop and think. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/public-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Then, please, join in.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late yesterday I launched the Indiegogo campaign that aims to send my upcoming Retropolis Public Library prints to your favorite library &#8211; and to about ten libraries that have meant something to me. The campaign&#8217;s pretty modest goal of $3200 is just enough to do that; but it&#8217;s when we meet and exceed that goal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thrilling-tales","category-works-in-progress"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}