Progress Report, Day 1: Here we goooooooo...!

Alright, here's my first blog post since the Kickstarter ended. I'm going to try and update this whenever I make a step towards the project's completion in the interest of transparency. That way you guys won't think that I pulled a Deakin and left for Mexico with the money. None of this would have been possible without all you generous people who funded this project and I really can't state enough how grateful I am.

I've sent out my first round of emails to those whose email addresses I have. For those I don't have I've sent out survey questions through Kickstarter so I can get your information. Amazon won't let me access the money from the project for another 14 days which kinda slows me down. Assuming I will eventually be able to access that money I'm just gonna dig into my savings and start ordering materials tomorrow (Monday) and drop off my insert at the printers to get that going.

Since I'm printing on 11" x 17" I had to figure out a creative way to edit down the First Issues collage so it would fit and still get the information across. That felt a little like maiming my child but I guess it was like cutting off a gangrenous leg or something. There's no way that thing would fit on the page and still be legible. Once upon a time I had a dream of printing it, like, 35" long but I've scaled my dreams down and separated my 11x17 canvas into six parts and made a "collage" of my collage using parts that I thought looked the coolest. I'll add a download link in the insert if anyone wants to download the whole thing in all its glory but for now I'm moving on. That shit's so 2011 newayz.