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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

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The Dry Bones Kickstarter Haggadah campaign ends in 3 days, on Friday afternoon. * * * If you don't know what we're talking about, please click on Dry Bones Kickstarter Campaign. No obligation. An alternative is to click on the kickstarter link at DryBones.com Remember! The Kickstarter Haggadah Campaign ends on Friday ...In just 3 days!
Don't say I didn't warn you.

Labels: crowdfunding, Haggadah, Jewish, Judaism, kickstarter, Passover

3 Comments:

At 6:20 AM, Anonymous said...: Since you have now gathered over 3x what you were originally shooting for, what are the plans for the excess? I thought of contributing, but it seems like you have what you'd need. Hope this doesn't seem like a criticism, I've just been wondering about it.
At 7:22 PM, Yaakov Kirschen said...: anonymous 6:20 AM

We originally planned to do a haggadah by using MS Word to type in the text and to paste in Dry Bones cartoon illustrations ...We would then be able to save the Word document as a PDF file. That original idea was a "down and dirty" plan which would have actually enabled us to create a Dry Bones Haggadah for our goal of $5,000.

Thanks to the amazing support of Dry Bones Friends and Fans we've reached 3 times that original goal!! With these additional funds we can now approach the project in a totally new way.

It's sort of complicated, but I'll try to explain. Instead of just pasting pictures into MS Word, and then saving it at a size that would be printable on letter-size paper at a fairly low resolution, I will now be creating original Dry Bones artwork for each and every page. Then we will scan all the artwork at a very high resolution.
From those high resolution scans we will be able to use layout professionals to use professional programs (Adobe's Adobe inDesign, etc.) to create a number of different versions of the Haggadah.

These different versions will be: A larger hard cover "Leader's Haggadah", slightly smaller soft cover versions, special versions for IPads and tablets, and the possibility of a giant, coffee table version.

Thanks for asking, it gave me the chance to explain the fantastic opportunities that reaching our "Stretch Goal" has opened.
At 9:03 PM, Nighthawk700 said...: Okay, you got me convinced, just kicked in my Chai. (and I forgot to log in when I asked my question, thanks for answering)