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We're having SO MUCH FUN!!

An update for Support our debut feature film -- 7x7!

May 12 2016

Hey everyone!

There is no doubt about it -- we're feeling the heat with production just over two weeks away. We're working long hours, feeling stressed, getting frustrated, eating LOTS of chocolate... But you know what? WE ARE HAVING SO MUCH FUN!!

This is our passion and our purpose, and we're living it every day. How cool is that??

Yesterday we celebrated our gorgeous and outrageous producer and co-writer Katherine's birthday! She turned 26. I know, she's already producing her first feature, which she also wrote... Can we say POWERHOUSE?! We started the day off at Daybreaker, the morning dance party revolution, then had brunch before putting in a full day at the production office.

And some REALLY GREAT STUFF happened on Katherine's special day. We confirmed 2 more cast -- the supporting roles of Hayden and Eric, who work at the protagonist's tech start-up firm, and Liam met with two actors for Vince, the final piece of our core casting puzzle. We also confirmed our Director of Photography, who has worked with the best in the business as a 1st Assistant Cameraman including triple Academy Award winner Emmanuel Lubezki. He transitioned to being a DP a few years ago and is VERY excited to work on this film at this budget level, despite his epic career. We're going to start announcing all these wonderful people officially next week!

Your dollar contributions are making this all possible, so THANK YOU again for your support! Who can you reach out to with an invitation to join you, and us, in making this film happen?

LET'S DO THIS!!

7 x 7

New reward just added! Graffiti Workshop with Miss C!

An update for Upfest 2016 - Europe's largest street art & graffiti festival

May 12 2016

NEW REWARD AVAILABLE - Grab yourself and up to nine friends or work colleagues a half day graffiti workshop with the incredible Miss C from Graffiti Academy! Whether for a kids party, team building, a hen or stag do, or just a group of friends it'll be one colourful afternoon! Activity can take place anywhere within 10 miles of Bristol, materials included.

We've achieved just over 80% of our target, with five days to go it's going to be close finish....

Thanks again for support Europe's largest Street Art and Graffiti festival!

On our way to paradise again

An update for E Tuk Tuk for Sri Lanka

May 11 2016

After a businesstrip to Bangkok, the team will meat again in Colombo Sri Lanka on May 15th.

Mission: introducing the concept of converting polluting threewheelers into electric to the president of Sri Lanka.

It took us two years to get to this point, but finally we can show the concept to the Sri Lankan government: the most polluting vehicles (two stroke threewheeler taxi's) will get a new electric engine and a battery-pack. On top of that, the brakes, lights and other vital parts will be modified to 21st century standards. Ths will result in better air quality and general road safety on the streets of Colombo. The example can be multiplied all over Asia and other countries with air quality issues. Ultimately, it will not only result into fresh air in Colombo, but also into lower carbon dioxide emission: by changing from oil to electric power for transort, we allow renewable energy like solar- and wind power to gain territory. This results into less consumption of fossile fuels, witch will lead to a stop of global warming.

Sri Lanka is our starting point, we like to refer to it as the gateway to Asia. And if Asia no longer breathes out greehouse gasses, the rest of the world will benefit.

Our grandkids will have questions: "Why did y'all take out aal of our feedstock? And why is the sea level so F...... High?

Join the mission, become a soldier for the next generation!

2 weeks left to reach £50,000

An update for Help Refugees - #holidaysforgood - shelter campaign

May 10 2016

With 14 days left to donate, we are £12,700 away from our target of £50k - keep sharing and spreading the word, we want to help as many people as possible and our target is in sight.

#holidaysforgood / fundsurfer.com/holidaysforgood

If you need reminding of what this is all for, please watch and share this incredibly powerful video by Jim Kroft

2 weeks left to reach £50,000

An update for Help Refugees - #holidaysforgood - shelter campaign

May 10 2016

With 14 days left to donate, we are £12,700 away from our target of £50k - keep sharing and spreading the word, we want to help as many people as possible and our target is in sight.

#holidaysforgood / fundsurfer.com/holidaysforgood

If you need reminding of what this is all for, please watch and share this incredibly powerful video by Jim Kroft

2 weeks left to reach £50,000

An update for Help Refugees - #holidaysforgood - shelter campaign

May 10 2016

With 14 days left to donate, we are £12,700 away from our target of £50k - keep sharing and spreading the word, we want to help as many people as possible and our target is in sight.

#holidaysforgood / fundsurfer.com/holidaysforgood

If you need reminding of what this is all for, please watch and share this incredibly powerful video by Jim Kroft

Seven days to go...

An update for Upfest 2016 - Europe's largest street art & graffiti festival

May 10 2016

bigUP to all our crowd funding supporters!

It's been a crazy few weeks here at Upfest HQ and we're stoked that over 200 of you have supported our fundsurfer campaign already, we're now on the homeward stretch but with just under £4,000 still needed to hit target one final push is needed! If we don't hit our goal of £15,000 then we wont receive a penny, so if you've supported please share the project with your friends and help us get over the finishing line enabling us to release your rewards, support the festival artists with materials and help us keep the festival free to the thousands planning on attending.

Keep up to date on how we're doing at www.fundsurfer.com/upfest

Please share with your friends

Thanks again foryour support!

The Upfest Crew

Recording update!

An update for Victoria Klewin & The TrueTones debut album

May 9 2016

Hello everybody,

Firstly, please accept my sincere apologies for not being in touch with you sooner. I am so very grateful for your support and would never want any of you to feel as if it's not appreciated. The start of the year was pretty horrendous for me personally (I'll spare you the details) and then we were very busy recording throughout March and April...so I feel as though my feet have only just touched the ground! Recording the album was like a life line for me during a very difficult time, but it was also a bit of a whirlwind of emotions. As it currently stands, we have finished recording all the songs and are now just about finishing off the mixing. Next step is to send it off to be mastered and getting all the artwork and packaging sorted. I can tell you that the album will be 11 tracks (of pure musical delight!), 9 of which we recorded with Ben Capp at The Island and 2 with Jeff Spencer at J&J Studio earlier in 2015. It's going to be a very eclectic affair, a true mix of soul, jazz, blues and funk originals...with other influences appearing too. I've done this on purpose because I want to create music I love and not try to pigeon-hole it just for the sake of marketability. Call me crazy, but I have faith that people can handle more than one musical genre in a single album! I know you guys will! :)

So...I promised you exclusive content and here it comes! Here's a slideshow of photos from our time in the studio, which will be shortly followed by a short video which I need to edit together from all the various clips I've collected. You'll get to see and hear the album coming together, with a few sneaky previews of the tracks!

http://www.photosnack.com/victoriaklewin/vkttalbumrecordingexclusivecontentforfundsurferbackers.html

Thank you for making this possible!

Victoria x

Urgent collection needed. Please pledge and share now!

An update for Calais Refugee Solidarity Bristol

May 9 2016

Hi everyone - supplies are running very low in the Calais warehouse - so much so that some distributions are unable to take place at all.

The situation is still very bad indeed so we need to do a big push this week.

We will be holding a collection for urgent items this week. We ask you to please stick to this list only - there will be a quick turnaround and this will help us check and sort things quickly to ensure everything we send is suitable.

Usual rules apply - clean, washed, undamaged items only please. Small and medium items only.

Drop-off is at The Palestine Museum 11am - 7pm.

Please do share this with anyone who can help! Thanks everyone.

Just 4 days left

An update for The Imperial Plan by The Fable

May 7 2016

Hi pledgers,

Just wanted to thank you again for investing. It doesn't look like I will hit the overall target but as I am not in a gigging band building a fan base I sadly don't have a huge email list of addresses by which to promote it. I have had to rely on social media and people sharing the links.

However, your help has enabled me to crack on with the studio work and several tracks have advanced dramatically over the past few weeks. I am even considering setting a date for the album release as 1st July 2016 (exactly 100 years since the first day of the Battle of the Somme). I shall keep you posted on that one.

In the meantime, here is the latest version of a very short but important track in my story. I wanted to depict the troops marching through their town after signing up to fight en-mass. Friends, workmates and family members all rushed to join up in the early months of the war - the Pals Battalions as they were known.

Conscription didn't actually come into force until late spring of 1916. This track is designed to depict the patriotic nature of those early soldiers and their excitement at going off on such a big 'adventure'. The track is yet to be mixed or mastered but I hope you like it.

https://soundcloud.com/thefable_ww1/hearts-full-of-pride-arr4

Mike (The Fable)

NB. I sounds better on headphones that on your average computer speakers :-)