(i'm online for a bit, talka to me)....to thing or not to thing, some questions (Patreon)

hallo loves. HAPPY DECEMBER. 

love from my work-desk in london. i'm also going to send out merch today, if all goes according to plan.

quick question and i'll try to keep this short....i'll be online here to discuss for the next half hour or so. 

(i'd also like to remind you that i'm still working on a few other posts about other topics, and all is comin, all is comin'....everything's a bit behind. bear with me. i'm fitting this shit in between practicing piano and picking ash up from his nursery in an hour :). 

OKAY:

i am doing what i always do when me and/or the team hit a thinging schedule-conundrum. the community is always incredibly responsive and thoughtful, and often even comes up with creative solutions that we didn't think of, so here goes:

when jack and gaby came on board (literally, on board the tour bus) to create these "there will be some introspection" pieces of tour & community reportage, we thought there were going to be one, maybe two, parts. 

the first one came out and, despite the additional twitter kerfuffle, the feedback on the piece from patrons was fantastic. (it's here: https://medium.com/we-are-the-media/there-will-be-some-introspection-on-the-road-with-amanda-palmer-a32ff8dc0fbc)

i just read the draft for jack's second piece. it focuses on the climate crisis and it's really, really good. it blends the world and the community together in a way that i'm so happy to see, it's really what i was hoping these pieces would be: a snapshot of this community against the landscape of the real world. jack's really impressing the shit out of everybody, and gaby's photographs are such a gorgeous slice of tour life that i can't imagine NOT having partered up with her for this project. she's capturing more than images with her camera. she's stitching things together. she's making a special kind of visual medicine. i am so, so, so happy we are doing this project.

meanwhile:

jack has been writing a LOT. a LOT a lot. 

the sum total of the four pieces he will probably publish is nearing novella-length. 

and in the end, if we make 4 pieces, gaby will have worked on something like 300-400 final photographs - balancing their color, captioning them, cropping them for the piece, etc -  before this is all done. it's a shit ton of work. 

it seems like we are going to have 3-4 pieces in the end, instead of 1-2. so.

how many things to thing?

to jack and gaby, this part doesn't matter much.

they are doing the work they are doing regardless of how it gets thing-ed, and they are loving it (well, it seems so to me, though the burn-out is setting in for all of us a bit), and they are going to get paid their standard going rate for a pro writer and photographer, by us, via the patreon, whether we thing one piece, four pieces or anything in between. 

the finished pieces are going to be coming out about every 3 weeks to month. possibly less if they work hard to finish up pieces 3 & 4 in december and january....but the holidays are coming.

however, the team is scratching our heads as to whether it makes sense to Thing all four pieces. we can, of course, make up all the rules as we go along, because there were never any rules to begin with. piece one has been THUNGED. we could thing pieces 1 and 4. we could thing pieces 1 and 3. we could thing pieces 1, 2 3 and 4. we could do...anything. 

we also have other pieces of art coming out - the artbook PDF, a recording or two i'm excited to share...there's plenty in the pipe.

my heart often leans towards thinging everything and encouraging you to please, please for the love of god, cap your pledges so you never feel over-thanged. 

thoughts?  talk to me please.

peanut gallery is open, i'll be in comments for at last the next 30 min

i'm here reading in the kitchen.

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