Summary

My name is Tyrone Davies.  I am a life-long experimental filmmaker, and a professor of video production.  I have toured North America multiple times with my own film series, and have created a wide variety of films, videos and other media-art works.  See a few of my earlier projects at http://tyronedavies.com/home.html

I am passionate about making videos that are informative and educational, but that also push production boundaries and stand alone as works of art.  I want to raise the money to hire a crew and travel to relevant locations across the globe in order to record research and interviews on the very timely subject of surveillance technology, and then edit these recordings into an engrossing documentary series.

It is important to me that the fruits of our efforts are available for free to anyone who wants to watch them.  I will not sell this video series to any entity, but plan to make it constantly available online without advertisements or corporate control of any kind.

Invisible Ink will be a very detailed documentary series.  It will be at least thirty hours (one hour per episode) in total length.  I hope that it will offer deep and substantial insights that can help citizens (of any country) to critically asses the topic of mass-surveillance.  

We live in a paradoxical time in which technology floods us with information of all kinds while also obscuring insights that are crucial to democracy, equality, and individual freedom.  Your contributions are crucial to funding the creation of this series.  Your contributions to this campaign are also a GIFT to anyone wishing to better understand the social and moral issues surrounding the topic of mass-surveillance.

What We Need

While I seriously hope we make our goal, we will really be able to get started on whatever we make!  One important thing to know about funding Invisible Ink, is that (even though the goal of $600,000 is VERY ambitious) my crew and I can probably start producing the series even if we only make $20,000.  $600,000 will be enough to fund 30 incredible episodes, but if we make less, we will still begin production.  At about $20,000 per episode (that's a TINY fraction of the production cost of any television show), you can imagine how we could make 15 episodes if we get 300,000, or 5 if we get 100,000, etc.  If we exceed our goal, it will certainly expand our abilities, but even if we fall WAY short, we can start production... It just means we will have to fundraise some more down the road.

What You Get

Since this series will be offered free to all online when it is completed, the rewards I am offering are mostly other films and videos (and some audio recordings) that I have created in the past. Luckily, I have created a pretty large variety of works over the years, so there are MANY REWARDS offered for your help.  Also, if you don't mind waiting, there WILL be 4K DVD copies of Invisible Ink available eventually.  Other rewards will, of course, come to you much sooner. Please see the perks list for details.  Additional perks will be added throughout our campaign as well, so keep checking back!

NEW PERK!!!  

SPOOKY DARPA PATCH

YES! we are converting this image into a quality embroidered patch that you can wear to scare friends and enemies.  If you are wondering what this is, read here: 

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2...

The Impact

As stated before, your contribution to this project is a gift to anyone in the world with Internet access who wants to learn more about the topics covered in this series.  Nobody will be asked to pay to see this series online, EVER.

Other Ways You Can Help

Sometimes people just can't contribute.  If you want to help, but can't give money, this project can REALLY benefit from exposure.  We need as much of it as possible.

• Do you know people who might contribute to Invisible Ink?  Just send them a link to this project, and tell them what you think is great about it.
• WE NEED PROMOTERS!  Contact us and we can tell you how else to help spread the word!