UPDATE: Donate $350+ to Bob and The Monster and have John sign your film poster, too!
Written on February 23, 2011 in General & with 18 responses
Tags: bob and the monster, bob forest, film
This is an addendum to yesterday's alert to donate to Bob and the Monster film's completion. A new attractive reward for the donators has been added...and it will be super-attractive to visitors of Invisible Movement and fans of John Frusciante. So...drumroll, please:
NEW SPECIAL MONSTER PACKAGE - You will receive everything above, SPECIAL THANKS credit in the film and on IMDB, first run DVD, and the very framable hand-sceened film poster signed by the director, Keirda Bahruth, Bob Forrest, Josh Klinghoffer AND John Frusciante! TO THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE DONATED, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO UPGRADE IF THIS IS ATTRACTIVE TO YOU!!
To make yourself eligible for this special monster package, rush over to the film's Kickstarter page and donate $350 or more to the film! There are only 10 spots, so be quick, be quick, be quick.
18 Reactions to UPDATE: Donate $350+ to Bob and The Monster and have John sign your film poster, too!
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Okay, I'm 5 of 10 on the list!!!! I cant wait to get my stuff!!!! Thanks for the ups.
This is really great package but I unfortunately cannot afford it, it is way too much. Anyways, congrats to all future owners. I am getting 35 buck one and cannot wait.
To me a name written with a pencil to a paper isn't worth that much money or money at all. My name written somewhere isn't worth anything either.
Maybe the thing that bugs me here, is that they are selling something rather than asking for a donation. John could of just donated the sum himself instead of donating his autograph for the people with less money on their accounts to buy.. And don't get me wrong, I support art, people making it with no financial resources and so on. But an autograph doesn't really do anything for me, art does all... And luckily art finds it's ways and flourishes even without huge financial support and marketing. Image isn't the thing for me, for real.
Plus I think that the film isn't a true picture of the person Bob Forrest, but more like a bunch of talking heads (and no offense to the great band) creating an image, creating a myth, and at the same time emphasizing how hard it is, when people see you as an image. But I appreciate the point, if it is a film about surviving, changing, exploring new sides in yourself and maybe that way being a film, that offers something else for the audiences than what a typical rockumentary does.
I've gotta agree. Sure, it'd be cool to get John's signature... but for $350? Or any money, for that matter? I feel like the only reason an autograph would have much value to me would be if it had some sort of personal touch - like if I had actually met John and he'd given me an autograph or something. But for him to sign something that's gonna come in the mail to me... it doesn't really mean too much. I really agree with your point though - why couldn't John have just given the money himself instead of asking for it from those less able to donate?
Once again, John did not ask anyone for money. The team behind the film did.
And I have bad feeling that this is just another way to sell the film... But maybe their intentions really are pure and honest. I hope so.
Minna, I couldn't agree more with you. You bring up the age old question of financing art and the people that make it. Somewhere in there, I would suspect that there are some artistic consolations being made. Even so, as a consumer, and an addict, I like supporting this film and I especially like getting John and Josh's signature!
It's silly to covet a simple signature, but I do, and I cant wait to stare at it and think that John touched my poster, the same hands that make the music I love. I guess I'm the ultimate consumer and fanatic!
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I totally agree with you Minna... I feel very surprised and disapointed... $350 is a lot of money and it's not fair to use the admiration and love of the fans to get some money from them to finish the film, even more because they are all Hollywood stars that live in the abundance...
Is it the consideration that they have for their fans: some admirers ready to do everything for them, even to give their own money that is sometimes so hard to get...
It's very simplistic, they forget that they became rock stars with the support of their public.
Talent doesn't allowed to do anything, even great talent...
Well, now I just hope that they will realize that,
and that John will come back for better actions soon, as to prepare new album and show, I guess we all wait for that, a nice and sane interaction.
Peace
This film is about battling addiction and winning.
You say it's not fair?
You're right, it's not fair that we all can't be born artists... Darwinism isn't fair either.
Why do you feel like the artist, because he has has a modicum of success, should lay down his equity to perform a favor for you? Are you owed something? Do you even deserve it? I don't deserve it.
Whatever the case, should we not be celebrating art instead of coming up with financial platitudes about politics and purpose?
It's a donation, not a bill.
Peace...
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I have to emphasize from my part that I don't want to or have no need either to judge or look down to the people who have given their money. I can't say that a poster with an autograph that wouldn't be much value to me wouldn't, couldn't or shouldn't be value and importance to somebody else. And it's a donation, like you said. But now that they are offering something, I was just kind of concerned that some young kid on a whim will go for this and at the end feel betrayed and empty. With that amount of (at least in my case hard earned money) you get a big pile of good music, good books, good experiences or just a decent meal every day.
And the film is finished already. It's going to be aired somewhere, for sure, whether we "donate" or not to get a DVD with an autograph back with the "donated" money. And like I said I appreciate the film if it can move something in someone somewhere, give help, comfort, inspiration... Then it's done it's job, whether I like it or not. Be artists of your own life and do what you see as the right thing to do! I am not to judge you, so peace...
Minna, there's one thing you didn't read well - the film received an invitation to the festival prior to actually being finished. The picture was put together only the other day, they're still working on the sound.
As far as I'm concerned, someone will give money, someone won't, someone else will just enjoy the film. And artists are artists - they will always be ignorant and expecting people to admire them if you choose to look at it that way. Even little crappy poets at a monthly event I attend who are nowhere near influential as the protagonists of this film think they're stars. Art comes with a certain dose of bleeeeeeeurgh.
That crappy poet part... - touché!
Well, as a bilingual and often trilingual poet with undeniable talent, I got waaaay too sick of being constantly treated like shit whenever I apply for a contest (they "forget" that I was taking part, or they make a special set of rules different from those they stated, solely for me, as they know who will win even before the event takes place!); I just have to be bitter.... :p A tiny bit, at least.
Everyone is free to think or do whatever they want - FOR SURE, but I'm still shocked about this situation and really believe that to ask $350 to the fans for a DVD and an autograph is indecent!
To help and save junkies from addictions is an important cause but it will be more effective to give directly money to specialized organizations, as by many other ways as volunteers, etc.
I'm artist myself and I could not ever imagine to ask money to my public for anything....
I've got two different activities, the first : theatrical performer, is the profession that gives me money to live,
and the second one : a collective project of acting and dancing in schools and festivals that I finance myself (and believe me, I am not rich at all!) to help young artists in troubles (homeless, addictions, etc..). And I have to tell that the team and me always performed FOR FREE. All the time, the energy, the work (writing, directing, choregraphy, customs) are made by ourselves in the only purpose to share with the public, and to help as much as we can with what we've got.
I deeply and truly believe that Art must be done with HeART...
To end my message, I'm following John's music since BSSM and I met him few times in backstages, when he was touring in europe, after his come back with the band. Our discussions was really nice and he appears as a warm, kind and humble guy. So I really don't recognize him in this action...
yeah, I just feel really disapointed...
I wish that he will think about and realize that $35 is reasonable, but $350 is not at all...........not respectful.
I am not sure if this is a language barrier or if you read what you want to read, but John did not ask for this. Bob Forrest promised he'd get his autograph. It's not John's idea, most likely, he was included in the fundraiser because he's a friend of Bob's and he's in the film.
Film is an expensive art form and I'd much rather a filmmaker raise money this way than by corporate sponsorship or "shopping around" for a company willing to pay to complete the film. I gladly gave $35. I'll get a DVD about a person I admire and a subject important to me (overcoming addition) and the filmmakers are $35 closer to a finished film.
Saw Bob Forrest on CNN's Piers Morgan. He looks good and sounds good. I love seeing a victory.
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i want to know how much money the featured artists in the movie donated, if any.