Okay — here we go!
Because we have met our targets for both the billboard in Glasgow and the target for an animator to create and impressive motion projection work on the SEC Armadillo. We’re now raising money for a much much much more ambitious project:
JokeKeeper:
A $1,000,000 fund to pay comedians, satirists, filmmakers, producers and data scientists to create a season of digital sh**stirring from November up until the election.
This full time team will create satirical content in any medium to undermine incumbent coalition politicians who continue support continue to support fossil fuel extraction and are also strategically most vulnerable to climate action centric candidates.
A Rational Fear is going to become the Lincoln Project for climate action this election.
This will include but not be limited to:
- Billboards that we’ve already designed and funded as well as new ideas.
- Using robust data science to target satirical comedy videos mocking incumbent politicians who are beholden to fossil fuel donations.
- Pranks: Like the Capital Empathy College. A pop up store in Cronulla where visitors can learn empathy in under an hour.
- The Brass Plaque initiative: We’re going to be making 100 Brass Plaques that say “During a National Crisis — Prime Minister of Australia Stood Upon This Spot And Did Nothing” These will be sent all over Australia and Hawaii.
- Australian Government Against Humanity: We’re going to make an expansion pack for CAH where you can throw in the dumbest solutions to Australia’s most pressing problems.
$1,000,000 isn’t a lot to build a team of 30-40 master sh**stirers to work for three months.
Here’s other things $1m can buy.
- Approval of a $60b coal mine
- 1 day in court of a defamation trial that you started and decided to end but definitely didn’t lose.
- 1/6 of a Car Park in Kooyong.
- 1/3 of a Rugby league change room in North Queensland.
- 1 episode of Ted Lasso.
See — if just 1000 people give $1000 so a bunch of comedians and filmmakers who have been out of work for two years have the opportunity to make certain ministers regret not replying to an email from Pfizer — so that they can help get some climate action for the 7 billion people that live on this Earth — It’ll all be worth it.
Cheers
Dan
