PROBLEM RESOLVED.

After a week in limbo, our Facebook Page and all the event pages for our Party Safari 2011 Tour have finally been restored. The new Facebook URL is fb.com/theddp

Only 8 days remain on the Kickstarter fundraiser– please invite everyone you know to the event pages and encourage them to donate. The Party is in your hands.

T&G

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So you like to Party?

PHASE TWO OF PARTY SAFARI WAS A SUCCESS:

AND PHASE THREE OF PARTY SAFARI IS A GO.

Thunder Bay- Oct. 17, Ottawa- Oct. 20, Fredericton- Oct. 22, Charlottetown- Oct. 24, Halifax- Oct. 26, Montreal- Oct. 29, Toronto Oct. 31, Saskatoon- Nov. 5, Kamloops- Nov. 8

BUT ONLY IF WE HIT OUR KICKSTARTER GOAL.

(Which offers THESE FINE-ASS DONOR REWARDS)

Kickstarter is an ALL-OR-NOTHING fundraising method. If less than the $20,000 goal is raised, Kickstarter will refund the individual cash donations to each donor and THIS PARTY SAFARI WILL NOT HAPPEN. Help us help you Party. Donate. Spread the word. It’s in your hands 🙂

(CLICK HERE FOR FULL PARTY SAFARI EXPLANATORY PAGE)

THE OFFICIAL PARTY SAFARI PRESS RELEASE:
http://pitch.pe/170239

PHASE ONE OF PARTY SAFARI 2011 TOUR (August)

DDP on bikes in Vancouver (Kickstarter funding successful)

PHASE TWO OF PARTY SAFARI 2011 TOUR (September)

Regina, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary, Victoria (Kickstarter funding successful)

PHASE THREE OF PARTY SAFARI 2011 TOUR (October)

Thunder Bay- Oct. 17
Ottawa- Oct. 20
Fredericton- Oct. 22
Charlottetown- Oct. 24
Halifax- Oct. 26
Montreal- Oct. 29
Toronto- Oct. 31
Saskatoon- Nov. 5
Kamloops- Nov. 8

(Kickstarter fundraising page HERE!)

You can also donate via Paypal using the “Donate” tab to the RIGHT. Don’t forget to specify the size/style of the item and your shipping address. Paypal does not require a credit card and can be hooked up to your bank account!

PHASE FOUR OF PARTY SAFARI 2011 TOUR (December)

United States of America tour

THE GLOBAL PARTY PANDEMIC (2012/Onwards)

The Global Party Pandemic will include the “Stan Tour” (Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Kyrgzystan, Kazakhstan, New Year’s in Transnistria)

MORE INFORMATION:

(CLICK HERE FOR PARTY SAFARI EXPLANATORY PAGE)

All of this will be funded via Kickstarter and your support is required to make it happen. Phase Three donation page is HERE.

We’ll also be recruiting Ten Elite Partiers in each city to round out our Elite Banana Task Force. All ten will be equipped with banana suits in order to help us prepare the boomboxes, facilitate the madness and other Elite Party Tasks. Want in? Send us a resume telling us why you deserve to be chosen.

We need as many people as possible to show up with THEIR OWN BOOMBOXES in order to pull this off. Please keep searching for them at garage sales and thrift stores. There are hundreds of sick ones on Ebay for cheap also. Selection+Preparation info HERE.

We also want this to become a Crazed Party Convoy, so let us know if you want to join us for any portion of the journey.

Get yourself a suit / sexy secretary getup ASAP. Dress code is Strictly Business!

Get into the Party Manifesto and get ready to Party our way into the history books.

Regards,
T&G

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BIG PROBLEM.

While trying to change our Facebook page name from “Tom and Gary’s Dynamic Dance Party Delivery Service” to “Tom and Gary’s Decentralized Dance Party”, Facebook outright deleted the old one, and all the Party Safari 2011 events and information for both Canada and the USA along with it. Now we are just sitting here, emailing back and forth with them and waiting to see if they will fix it. If you know anyone on the inside, please let them know that this blunder is going to ruin our fundraising efforts and cancel the tour and make thousands of people very sad if it’s not fixed asap. Thanks.

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DDP + BOOMCASE = ULTIMATE PARTY PARTNERSHIP.

The good people at BOOMCASE have handcrafted the ultimate Business Boombox specifically for our  Strictly Business Tour.

It’s a 200watt leatherbound MONSTER w reinforced blue woofers and an insane LED light system. Nothing compares to this Party-Rocking BEAST. Big thanks to Mr. Simo and the Boomcase team!

Every single Boomcase features an internal rechargeable battery and ipod input and crazy output volume. Order quick to get yours for Party Safari 2011!

And if you haven’t yet, please consider supporting via the Party Safari Kickstarter.

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The Wait Is Nearly Over.

Gary’s apartment is full to the brim with boomboxes, banana suits and beans.

 

Almost 350 boomboxes are ready to rock and roll. Once we get to 500 we will be equipped for Party Safari 2011- the Strictly Business Tour. All dates and details will be announced right here on Monday night!

In the meantime, start hitting up yard sales and Ebay to get your very own badass boombox to tune in to the Party Broadcast- it’s the only way to guarantee you will get one and the Party always needs MORE VOLUME.

We’re also planning to take the DDP to Burning Man and are on a mission for tickets (they just sold out) so please get in touch if you have any to sell or want to join us there for the first ever DDP in a desert. It’s going to be a very good time.

Party Hearty.
T&G

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Enjoy Life.

When an elderly person warns you to “seize the day”, you might roll your eyes. But when a young friend dies, you look at every day they had and admire the ones they stole. The times they set apart from apathy and declared the moment, the feeling, the impetus for action as their own to ignite, engage, and rejoice.

You see in their life primarily the things in them you admire–that which you yourself wish to achieve, but that through them provided richness in your own life. Never does it get reduced to possession. Never does it get reduced to beauty. Never does it get reduced to titles or vanity or even how many bitches be rollin’ with your top down.

When someone dies your response is entirely a selfish one: how did this person affect me? ME? Invariably, your fate will bring the same response.

If you worry that your friends and family, upon your death, will have nothing to remember of the ideas you bring, the comfort and connection you make, and the inspiration you incite daily into their lives, then clearly your days are yet to be seized.

The old adage was correct. Seizing the day, attacking life, growing some damn balls, just givin’er–these aren’t expressions to pass lightly or to validate some fraternity prank. They are urgent warnings and dire pleadings from both those that have decided to pursue their own self-defined happiness as well as those who sank in misery of never having taken a risk.

One must believe in themselves, their connection with everyone around them. When this happens, one becomes un-contained and self-determined, and more importantly, their community of friends are enriched not only by the expanded potential of their being, but by the integral wholeness that now imparts their strength. Life is not an option, but living it is.

Jeff Carr (“Canis Minor”), a ripe banana in the DDP army, a rare character, and a friend to a surprising melange of friends from all walks of life, passed away last weekend, three weeks after his 24th birthday.

Tragedy is not in his death, but the potential it removed. Had Jeff not traveled, lived dangerously, ridden bikes, taken risks, made friends, challenged authority, danced madly, explored humanity, valued connection, and made many hundreds of others smile with him, the tragedy would be that he’d never have even truly lived.

His most recent adventure was a second tour through South Asia including Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia, bringing colour, costumes, and the Party Manifesto with him. That takes balls–that takes a righteous disregard for how anyone else might want to determine your experience, your happiness, your life.

He became fearless enough to enjoy the world around him, and inventive enough to create an atmosphere in his life that was bold and exciting. I was fortunate to be his friend and still envy others their friendship in him.
Jeff Carr’s waves still ripple.

Written by Michael Jenkins

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Help Us Help You Party!

Nearly 100,000 have now signed up across Canada and we’re almost ready to make the final city selections for Party Safari 2011.

If you haven’t heard, the tour isn’t starting until late July, as we’re still seeking the money to make it all happen.

Accordingly, Gary is in New York working on a crazy project that just might accomplish this: www.storebuyout.com

Please help us help you Party by sharing the above website+video everywhere (art sites, fbook, twitter, boing boing, etc) and voting her up on Reddit.  This needs to go big on the internets to succeed!

Or you could just buy the all of our limited-edition art.
Its value can only increase.

PRESS RELEASE FOR ALL MEDIA CONTACTS

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP- WORKING HARD TO DELIVER YOU A PARRRTY!
FINAL CITY SELECTIONS, DATES, ETC. COMING VERY SOON!

xoxoxox
T+G

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BIG NEWS!

Gary is headed to New York with the guy who traded a paperclip for a house in order to execute an outrageous action that will help finance Party Safari 2011 and a bunch of other cool things. We will need your help.
Please join our Mailing List and This Group and stay tuned for details!

UPDATE! Things are going very well…

UPDATE!! Things are going very, very well…

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PARTY SAFARI 2011 IS COMING.

Tentative dates for Party Safari 2011 have been planned and the final city list will be released very soon.

The Cross-Canada portion will be from approx. July 10th to August 20th.
Then we will hit Burning Man for the first week of September.
Then we will tour the USA for a month or two, starting in October.
Get ready to GET WILD!

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DDP ON WHEELS

The next DDP is going to be in Vancouver and on bikes and it will happen in June.  So get yourself a bike/ back-rack to attach your boombox!

UPDATE! looks like she’s not going to be happening until August…

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