The entire five-year Age of Stupid adventure has been funded by 620+ ordinary people investing and donating more than £850,000 (see running total at top of this page).
Now we have one last mountain to climb: producing a daily 20 minute live web TV show, The Stupid Show, from the Copenhagen Climate Summit in December 2009. Just on the off-chance we can influence public opinion and therefore the politicians before they sign us all up to a suicide pact.
Please sponsor something from the wedding list below or, even better, join our crowd-funders by buying a share in the film. More info down there on the right.
Thanks so much,
Team Stupid
November 11th 2009
AMOUNT RAISED SO FAR
£19,892
The Stupid Show will be webcasting live from the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen in Dec 2009. Our mission: to make "the most important meeting in human history" comprehensible for ordinary people. Help fund the show - and see your name in the credits - by paying for something from the wedding list below.
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"The Stupid Show brought to you by XXXX and (other lead sponsors*)" onscreen, on the website and everywhere it's mentioned. * no more than 4 
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A series of interviews with rhyming titles (we're going for mainstream appeal remember). 'In a rickshaw with...', 'on a bike with...' Franny Armstrong is our fearless interviewer and she will get beyond the typical politician responses.
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Felix, from Aussie funk/jazz/ska trio The Cat Empire, responds to the day's events in a song. We asked him what his technical requirements were and he asked for a wurlitzer keyboard, a vocal mic, and a local cellist. We'll do our best.
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A daily slot explaining why it's been quite so hard for humanity to get our act together on climate change.
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An explanation of the international negotiations to date. Who have historically been the baddies and the goodies?
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Following a delegate's progress
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A positive look at which delegations have done something to get towards securing a safe planet for the next generation.
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A two minute look at what the days' newspapers and news broadcasts are saying about the climate world and analysis of whether this is helping or hindering the situation.
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Featuring the best of what the activists are up to each day, always with a request for viewers to help too.
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Tom draws complex climate change terms live, with viewers guessing the word by tweeting or instant messaging in. Prizes for correct guesses.
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Does anyone know any funny climate change jokes? We're on a mission to find some and will be looking
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SMALL BUT SIGNIFICANT
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Team of nine taking a train from London to Copenhagen. And back.
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Franny & Lizzie will travel from Brussels to Copenhagen on a special UN train, screening Stupid for politicians, delegates and media. 
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Lizzie & Franny may have places on the UN train to Copenhagen, but first they need to get to Brussels, and then stay over night so they're ready to catch said train in the morning.
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Executive apartment for the editorial meetings / brawls to take place.
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Team Stupid will be primarily fuelled by adrenalin, but after three or four days, this will need to be topped up with food calories.
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Because it's the fastest, cheapest and greenest way to get around town. (Team of 10 x 2 week hire.)
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To keep soft London based Team Stupid functioning in a Copenhagen December. Can't have those fingers freezing when the politicians suddenly & dramatically make a deal that saves humanity can we?
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Taking our own science expert out of his shed and bringing him to Copenhagen so he can make sense of the developments for our viewers around the world.
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Got to keep science expert fed & watered so he can explain things properly.
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A one person, self shooting/directing unit, creating video news items from the delegate centre every day.
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Camera gal needs caffeine and somewhere to sleep.
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Justin Badger (editor of the 50 min Making Of documentary) will be the one with the difficult job of editing each day's actions into snappy video pieces for the show, in a tenth of the time he'd normally take. His costs are covered by a very generous offer of a free one bedroom flat - soon to be Stupid Show edit suite.
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Campaign co-ordinator of 10:10 and before that Not Stupid, Dan will be keeping us up-to-date with the best campaigns and actions kicking off around Copenhagen and the rest of the world. He'll be filming, editing, and hosting his segments all by himself so he'll definitely need a decent nights kip and a good meal at the end of each day.
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Andy has the uneviable job of making sure we have all the videoclips, cables, cameras, lights, and so on in the right place at the right time. And many more techie things that the rest of us won't understand but will be essential to the show being seen.
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We're going to need visuals to make the show look good, and Tom will be creating them all. From straplines to closing credits, to a game of climate related pictionary played with live tweets... Help him out with a bed and food.
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Without Rhiannon we wouldn't have places to stay or work, or internet, or the updated daily script and last minute props, or any of the background things that are essential to Team Stupid's survival in Copenhagen. Help her out with bed and board whilst she runs around fixing problems.
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Luke is volunteering his time to come and help us get the Show together. So we definitely need to put a roof over his head and feed him well.
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Former Spanner girl Sylvia has taken a week off work to come back and help the Team Stupid Copenhagen mission. She'll be coordinating lots of screenings in Copenhagen so we get as many delegates to watch the film as we can.
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Awarded to delegates who make a stunning, positive contribution to the negotiations. We hope to be able to give out one a day.
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Unfortunately it probably won't be a problem giving out one of these awards a day, which recognise the countries blocking progress.
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These will make things at Copenhagen clearer, we promise.
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For explaining complex points to one's faithful internet viewers. No seriously.
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When it comes to ideas and scripts, Franny abandons her blackberry and laptop and turns to good old fashioned notebooks
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Producer Lizzie says we all need clipboards. Yes ma'am.
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To upload our show each day as fast as we can to youtube for maximum number of viewers.
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The Stupid Show will be part of OneClimate's 24/7 live webstream. The conference center has all kind of techie requirements which they have to meet, including these cables.
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For filming actions and news around the official centre, and then edit into news items.
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Some poor soul will be cycling non-stop back and forth between our 'edit house' (ie flat) and the live broadcast spot in the Bella Centre with the video news inserts.
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Need funky pages to get people coming back to watch the show, night after night.
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Jonathan Hodgson, the genius responsible for the 'History of War' animation, is creating an opening animated sequence for the show.
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Chris Brierly, the genius who composed the main theme tune in The Age of Stupid, is making a toy town version for the opening credits.
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To promote the Stupid Show on sites, blogs, facebook pages and Twitter around the world.
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No doubt lots of long distance phonecalls arranging the high-profile interviewees.
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Lve stream on Copenahgen: 24/7, a live broadcast throughout the UN Climate Summit run by oneclimate.net and streamed on justin.tv.
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The impromptu backing band for Felix. May create a lot of noise elsewhere if needed.
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Can't lose our show after all this work putting it together.
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Transportation of all camera & edit gear from London to Copenhagen inc heavy tripods, computers, drives - everything needed to make a live TV show and then broadcast it on the internet. All carried on Team Stupid's backs.
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Buy a slice of the Stupid pie and share in the film's profits. Minimum: £5,000. 380+ shares sold so far, 3 left.
Cash coming in once a week or month is enormously helpful, even if it's just a few quid. Join our regular donors. 67 people so far.
