Bottlecap Gazebo project for 2012 burn

[agrinberg]

Hey guys
Thought I'd start promoting a project that I'm working on with some friends for next years' burn. It's a gazebo made of reclaimed lumber and bottlecaps. I just launched a tumblr page and a facebook page for the project to help with fundraising, get people involved and show our progress. Hope you all like it and can help out!

Right now the top priorities are getting people to collect bottlecaps for us. We need about 60,000 of them! If you can help out, let me know. We are based in SF and would greatly appreciate any caps that you can collect for us, even if it's only a few. Of course we also need funds. The tumblr page has an easy wepay.com link set up so feel free to give us your money

Here are the links for our FB and tumblr pages
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bottlecap ... 3670696599

http://drinkupsnitch.tumblr.com/

in 2007 for the Green Man we did a smaller scale project that inspired this one. Hopefully you remember and loved the Power Plant:
http://www.moonski.net/burningman/bm200 ... 007_21.htm


The Gazebo will utilize the same bottlecap technique as the Power Plant, yet will be about 10 times the size.

Thanks so much for checking this out. Can't wait to make it happen!

[Foxfur]

You've probably thought of this a dozen times already, but...
Are there any bars in your town who'd uncap bottles into a coffee can?

[agrinberg]

Yeah. We've got some bars and breweries collecting for us. It's never enough though!

[BlackRockCityPimp]

10 times the size of the plant! Thats fawkin awesome. I wish you the best of luck and I am too far away to send caps but I might be able to add to your donations. Fawk, 10 times the size of the plant!!!!

[tummler]

Where can we mail our bottle caps?

I thought I was a person who would make bottlecap and chopstick sistrums, but now I admit I am just a person with a shoebox full of bottlecaps, a plastic bag full of used chopsticks, and a dream.

[Bob]

Flowers? Why not hop vines?

[agrinberg]

anyone can send us caps to the address listed here: http://drinkupsnitch.tumblr.com/donate

[agrinberg]

Just an update: We're up to about 35,000 caps collected! About halfway there, but we need lots more fast. Seriously, if you are reading this, please collect your bottlecaps and mail them to us or drop off at:

526 Shrader St.
San Francisco CA 94110

thanks
Bottlecap Gazebo team

[beckydono]

This project is so tight. I'm glad someone finally found a way to make beer beautiful
I'm starting a collection jar in my house in SF, so I'll bring them by your place. Do you guys have a meeting schedule for work nights or something??

LOVE IT!!

[agrinberg]

Sweet! We are working every monday evening and sometimes other days too. Bring your caps over and get to smashing. Stay updated on our website and FB page. We communicate about upcoming work days and bottlecap pickups.

www.bottlecapgazebo.com
http://www.facebook.com/bottlecapgazebo

Also:

We submitted our proposal for a Burning Man art grant. *fingers crossed*

[agrinberg]

We are throwing our first fundraiser event for the Bottlecap Gazebo this Saturday 3/24 in Oakland. Come one, come all!

Check out the event on FB

[agrinberg]

Kickstarter campaign up and running!



We launched our kickstarter campaign and would love your help. We did not receive any funding from Burning Man, so we will be relying 100% on our own wallets and the community to get the Bottlecap Gazebo to the Burn. We are well into the project and have made a lot of progress, although most of our expenses will be kicking in soon.

Thanks to many of you who have already helped either with generous donations, bottlecap collecting, or sorting/smashing/stitching. We have already had over 50 volunteers help us out at our workdays and countless more send us bottlecaps from all over the world. It has been a truly collaborative and interactive piece already. Aside from donating to the kickstarter, we still need more volunteers, so give me a holler if you're interested.

[cpart]

Hows the collecting going? Is there a deadline for mailing you caps? Me and my girlfriend have been saving for a month or so.

[agrinberg]

Collecting is going great. We are still in need of caps, but need them ASAP. Ideally we'd have all caps in by mid June.