HOLA COMRADES!!

this is the biggest announcement i've made in a while. i'm freakin out.

poetically, last night at my show for PEN american DIY at the ace hotel in new york, a NYC artist named jules banks handed me these flowers he made for me, out of dollar bills. it was such a beautiful fucking gesture (these dollars will never be spent, they've transformed into art forever) and it seemed so fitting given today's announcement...

....i've been hinting for over a year about launching a new subscription system, and BLAMMO, i just did it. last year was eaten writing and putting out "the art of asking", and this year i want to GET BACK TO MAKING ART.

i have lots of plans, lots of projects, lots of ideas for videos. i want to get back into the studio with john congleton (who produced and engineered "theatre is evil", the kickstarter record, and just WON A GRAMMY for his work with st. vincent).

• i want to finally get to berlin and make a collection of songs in german. i want to do the same thing in paris, and make a bunch of french-language recordings.
• i want to make some instrumental piano music.
• i want to finally release "bigger on the inside" (which i just recorded with zoe keating on cello) and "the thing about things", and i want to make videos for them.
• i want to finally, as i've been promising, do a collection of recordings with MY DAD. i want to put all this music out on the internet.
• i want to start a podcast.
• i want to do a LOT of things. they're gonna cost money.

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i've finally taken the plunge and, instead of launching a new kickstarter, i've decided to use PATREON.COM to fund my new musical & artistic undertakings. if you're not familiar with patreon, it's basically a rolling kickstarter, a subscription site for people who really want to support artists in an ongoing way.

patrons agree to pay a set amount of money per piece of content that's released (say, $3 per song, video, etc), and you can CAP the monthly limit, so you never have to pay more than your budget allows.

so if you've pledged $5 per piece of content, cap your limit at $15 a month, and i release 11 things that month, you'll be charged $15, but you'll still be emailed MP3s of all 11 songs. and you'll still get access to all the content (everybody does) and access to the patron-only feed of the site, which is where i'm going to be holding an ongoing conversation about my work and the patreon system itself.

all patrons are charged at the end of the month, and you can cancel anytime during the month and be charged nothing.

i'll be going back into the studio this spring, making new videos, i already have recorded studio songs i've been hanging onto, and this is how i'm going to release things from now on...

i'm really, realllllllly, excited about this, dudes.

this is a platform where we can be in constant communication, and i plan to tweak as i go.

i'm hoping to drop my first piece of content (a newly record song) within a few weeks, and do my first webcast (for patrons of $10+) in about a weeks time.

i would love it if you would help. if you want to read tons more, i wrote a longer blog about it HERE. .....and the direct link to the patreon (with a schmancy new video, filmed in the very same alley i made my kickstarter video) is HERE.

like i say in the blog: if kickstarter was like dating, this is more like going steady.

i dont expect 25,000 to back this, but that's fine.

i'm psyched to go on this ride with whoever's willing to come.

i love you guys, so much.....and thank you.

SUPPORT AT:

http://www.patreon.com/amandapalmer

xxxx

AFP

p.s. I'm going to be announcing a UK tour fairly soon, watch for it. and as far as the SOLO PIANO TOUR in the states in APRIL: Dallas, Vancouver and Austin are pretty much sold out but there are still tickets for DC, Raleigh, Atlanta, Richmond, New Orleans and Birmingham. all tickets here: http://amandapalmer.net/shows

p.p.s. oh and "dear daily mail" nudie pens are back on sale:http://shop.amandapalmer.net/products/dear-daily-mail-pen