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Don Hertzfeldt wrote:2,343
backers

$125,223
pledged of $30,000 goal

20
days to go

another stretch goal has fallen and today BILLY'S BALLOON will be joining its friends on blu-ray....

stretch goal # 5 and the next mystery short film will be added to the disc at $150k

in other news we've added a few more books and art prints into the tiers that had run out & you are all now getting closer to unlocking the mystery tier where i will make this cat available:

one cat: used, but all original parts. frequently dreams of flying

Hertzfeldt Kickstarter wrote:hey everyone! we've just sailed past $150,000 and as punishment WISDOM TEETH will now be added to the blu-ray! i'm so sorry about this

stretch goal # 6 and the next short film on the disc is set for $175,000! with only 8 days to go, we're gonna need everyone's help to get there :<>

please remind your deadbeat friends, this is their very last week to sign up for a blu-ray before there's only rare, overpriced copies available on e-bay from weird basement dwellers with wet hands and lingering stares who refer to things as "VG+ condition." this collection will never be available at their local walmart unless i guess someone walks inside the walmart with a copy and just sort of leaves it on the floor

swo17 wrote:The campaign just hit $150K and Wisdom Teeth has now been added to the Blu-ray as a result. I've also updated the first post of this thread to show DVD availability for Hertzfeldt's entire filmography, which will give a feel for how close this is to becoming a "complete works" set (although donations have slowed down recently to the point that it might only hit one or two more stretch goals).

swo17 wrote:

Hertzfeldt Kickstarter wrote:please remind your deadbeat friends, this is their very last week to sign up for a blu-ray before there's only rare, overpriced copies available on e-bay from weird basement dwellers with wet hands and lingering stares who refer to things as "VG+ condition."

Calvin wrote:For just over $40k, Arrow managed to restore Borowczyk's Goto plus 7 additional shorts so I'm not convinced that it takes $25k to restore the 5 minute Wisdom Teeth alone. Though I'll concede that some of that will inevitably go towards production costs of the Blu-Ray and rewards.

Don Hertzfeldt wrote:On top of funding the bluray, and maybe more importantly, your $ will go towards funding our future films, with no distributors or third parties between us.

Calvin wrote:I pledged $140 for the print. Hopefully, regardless of the final amount, he tries to get the remaining shorts on there. For just over $40k, Arrow managed to restore Borowczyk's Goto plus 7 additional shorts so I'm not convinced that it takes $25k to restore the 5 minute Wisdom Teeth alone. Though I'll concede that some of that will inevitably go towards production costs of the Blu-Ray and rewards.

hey hey we've just rocketed past $175k which means please welcome student film LILY AND JIM to the blu-ray!

we're in the final 72 hours of the fundraiser now and y'all have blown the doors off this campaign. this campaign has no doors. breezes fly freely throughout the campaign and strange cats wander in and out.

i'm not actually sure how many additional things we can realistically fit onto this disc at this point so i don't want to introduce a final stretch goal just yet until i do some investigating! but rest assured if we actually hit $200k in these final hours, we'll be fancying up the release one last time in some way. for instance, i am already pleased to announce that the discs will now be scented, and flavored blurayberry.

swo17 wrote:Is there any reason it couldn't include those?

Don Hertzfeldt wrote:i straight-up can't locate any of the elements for the "animation show" cartoons that i did back in 2003: my negatives, dupe negatives, IPs, everything is just weirdly gone. i've been contacting vaults and old labs and nobody has information... i simply don't know what the animation show did with it all. hopefully they're safe somewhere but it's still a mystery. i have here two rather beat-up release prints of the "intermission in the third dimension" segment, we just screened one of them in vienna last month, but i am now thinking that maybe these should be in permanent refrigeration.

officially, this will be an it's such a beautiful day blu-ray. the shorts will be extras, with world of tomorrow having a prominent presence...

a "totally everything"-disc is easier said than done, so let's lower those hopes a little. we'll keep you posted as things move along here but i doubt we'll be announcing new titles, extras, or bonuses soon... i have a lot of ideas and there's lots of things that still need to be figured out and some of it should also probably remain a surprise, right?