{"id":3238,"date":"2014-04-22T03:03:15","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T03:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3238"},"modified":"2014-04-22T04:00:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T04:00:50","slug":"dear-wrench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3238","title":{"rendered":"Desperate Albanian &#038; Crowd Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sam-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2787\" alt=\"sam-poster\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sam-poster.jpg\" width=\"2342\" height=\"2249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sam-poster.jpg 2342w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sam-poster-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sam-poster-1024x983.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/sam-poster-624x599.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2342px) 100vw, 2342px\" \/><\/a>I spoke with Sam in 2011 about crowd-funding to complete the record. I suggested different ideas for making funny videos and he considered it but in the long run he couldn&#8217;t bring himself to proceed. He felt too weird about asking anyone for money.<\/p>\n<p>Then by chance I saw a crowd-funded campaign by a photographer Neil Muscott and I sent it to Sam to take a look at. Unknown to me Sam knew Neil and he loved reading his pitch. After he felt like he could proceed to make a campaign if it had the kind of dignity that Neil brought to his.<\/p>\n<p>That was all great but unfortunately we still didn&#8217;t get around to making it before Sam was gone. I&#8217;m hoping I did this thing right by involving other friends of Sams to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/quack-quack-the-swan-songs-of-sam-larkin#home\">take a look at it<\/a> before making it public.<\/p>\n<p>Thought I would reprint his advice column from 1984 just for fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pg-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3239\" alt=\"EPSON MFP image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pg-31.jpg\" width=\"1428\" height=\"1712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pg-31.jpg 1428w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pg-31-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pg-31-854x1024.jpg 854w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/pg-31-624x748.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1428px) 100vw, 1428px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke with Sam in 2011 about crowd-funding to complete the record. I suggested different ideas for making funny videos and he considered it but in the long run he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3238\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[669,668],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-3238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-production","tag-when-did-sam-larkin-make-his-last-record","tag-who-is-sam-larkin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}