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updated 9d ago
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I think a better definition might be UWYC: “Use What You Can.” It is, unfortunately, not a very catchy term.
If you want to make someone your real friend, ask them for a favor.
On a good day, I couldn’t tell who was giving what to whom.
The recorded songs, the tangible CDs, were only the tip of the iceberg: the perfect, frozen, beautiful soundtrack for something far bigger, and far deeper.
Given the opportunity, some small consistent portion of the population will happily pay for art.
Effective crowdfunding is not about relying on the kindness of strangers, it’s about relying on the kindness of your crowd.
The opposite of “Indian giver” would be something like “white man keeper”…that is, a person whose instinct is to remove property from circulation…The Indian giver (or the original one, at any rate) understood a cardinal property of the gift: whatever we have been given is supposed to be given away again, not kept…The only essential is this: The gif
... See moreWho can know? He risked, his crowd helped. He asked, he got. There was no reason for me to be skeptical. The only people who can really judge if a request is fair are the ones being asked—the ones who have the relationships are the ones who understand the complexity of the situation.
My theory: one of the biggest reasons people usually want to help an artist is because they really want…to help an artist. Not get a fancy beer cozy. If they make the decision to help, they will help at the level at which they are able, no matter what token, flower, or simple thank-you awaits them at the other end.