Jun 4, 2010

FINAL PUSH

Dearest Friends, Family, BASE jumpers, Skydivers, Kind Strangers,

Thank you!  I feel so much gratitude for your support. We are very close to our goal as I am writing this. I can’t begin to express to you how kind, generous and supportive people have been. Thank you !!! Also a special thank you to our sponsors. MORPHEUS TECHNOLOGIES, PHOENIX FLY, ProBASE World Cup, BLINK MAGAZINE, APEX BASE and my dad Stephen Strauch, Jean Boenish, BASE 507, The American BASE Association, Mike Allen/Bryan Scott for their enthusiastic support.

If you have donated already please consider forwarding this email or blogging about our efforts or what have you. If you have not donated now is the perfect time.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marahstrauch/help-us-transfer-carl-boenishs-archive-and-finish

For Pay Pal we can prize you this way too
http://gravitythefilm.blogspot.com/ via the pitch in widget

We have a little over a week left. Although we will make our goal there is still a lot of money needed to completely transfer the archive, the 10,000 is a great start. Please remember not all that money goes to the transfer. I have to pay out a lot just to send out all the prizes and pay Kickstarters fees(%5 percent) so there is a lot left to raise. If you haven’t donated I urge you to add your donation even if we have reached our goal.  It’s a big, big job. I also want to start to move stuff into temperature controlled environment and get an air conditioner for the archive, studio itself so we don’t die in the California Summer and the footage stays cool.

Your money will be used in great ways. We still have some amazing prizes to offer including Japanese prints, DVDs, parties that at this point are very intimate( only 3 people have signed up) , great Mike Allen photos and so much more!!!

Much Love and Gratitude,

Marah


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Gravity is a non-fiction feature that captures what it feels like to jump off a building, cliff or bridge and walk away alive. It is about the essence of life, of freedom, of what it feels like, for a moment, to defy gravity, and to fly.

In the early eighties Carl Boenish coined the acronym “BASE” (standing for Buildings, Antenna, Span, and Earth, the objects jumped) and invented a sport. Carl was the catalyst behind modern BASE jumping; an electrical engineer and filmmaker who believed that BASE jumping would allow mankind to overcome artificial limitations. He religiously chronicled the early days of BASE in beautiful 16mm film, often with cameras mounted to the jumpers’ heads. He saw BASE as the next amazing thing to film. Subscribe via RSS.