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Peters, whose own avowed political views tend toward the left, spent a great deal of time on his ad hoc Reel Trek episode defending Benjamin' | Peters, whose own avowed political views tend toward the left, spent a great deal of time on his ad hoc Reel Trek episode defending Benjamin' | ||
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==== Dark Money ==== | ==== Dark Money ==== | ||
- | Peters tried to assuage | + | Peters tried to assuage |
That alternative would create a revenue stream for Ares without any accountability. Peters ran similar operations for Axanar, with direct donations at conventions and via PayPal, as well as sales on his Donor Store, raising an undisclosed amount over and above the $1.2 million in crowdfunding. That money has never been accounted for. | That alternative would create a revenue stream for Ares without any accountability. Peters ran similar operations for Axanar, with direct donations at conventions and via PayPal, as well as sales on his Donor Store, raising an undisclosed amount over and above the $1.2 million in crowdfunding. That money has never been accounted for. | ||
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- | * Ares Studios' | + | * Ares Studios' |
* Six smaller, newly built warehouse spaces are in fact available next door to Ares Studios. At about 3,000 square feet, each is about half the size of Peters' | * Six smaller, newly built warehouse spaces are in fact available next door to Ares Studios. At about 3,000 square feet, each is about half the size of Peters' | ||
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- | //**__Peters: | + | //**__‘<fs smaller>Right now, we're paying $4,000 a month. For the past four months I've been paying that out of my pocket. I don't have $4,000 a month anymore to be paying for the studio.</fs>’__**// |
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- | Counting four months backwards from January means OWC had pulled out by the end of September 2018 | ||
===== When OWC Walked Away ===== | ===== When OWC Walked Away ===== | ||
Peters has been vague about the circumstances under which tech company Other World Computing [[ares_patreon# | Peters has been vague about the circumstances under which tech company Other World Computing [[ares_patreon# | ||
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==== Peters Paid Rent ==== | ==== Peters Paid Rent ==== | ||
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Counting four months backwards from January means OWC had pulled out by the end of September 2018, with Peters taking over rent payments in October. That coincided with when **AxaMonitor** first heard OWC may have pulled out. | Counting four months backwards from January means OWC had pulled out by the end of September 2018, with Peters taking over rent payments in October. That coincided with when **AxaMonitor** first heard OWC may have pulled out. | ||
- | One of the last direct references Peters made to OWC's sponsorship | + | One of the last direct references Peters made to OWC's sponsorship |
- | > I have been working on a program to open OWC Studios to high school students, and we had our first student film filmed at the studio! <wrap hi>This program is being expanded as we work with OWC studios to make the studio more robust and able to handle more professional productions. Our conference call with OWC last week went very well, and I am pretty excited</ | + | === 'Still Very Happy' === |
- | by Alec Peters]], 6/12/18.)) | + | |
- | About two months later, OWC was no longer paying | + | **SEPTEMBER 2018** In an interview, published on Axanar surrogate Jonathan Lane's Fan Film Factor blog on September 24, 2018, Lane asked Peters, " So no one is giving any money to Axanar or OWC Studios at the moment … other than you, of course?" |
- | As Peters has demonstrated several times before, he did not publicly share bad news for months | + | > No one is funding Axanar right now except me. <wrap hi>OWC Digital is still sponsoring the studio that bears their name, and they’re still very happy with what we’re doing both now and going forward.</ |
- | For those who have followed the Axanar saga, the circumstances sounded familiar. | + | Three months earlier, in June 2018, Peters had also described |
+ | > I have been working on a program to open OWC Studios to high school students, and we had our first student film filmed at the studio! <wrap hi>This program is being expanded as we work with OWC studios to make the studio more robust and able to handle more professional productions. Our conference call with OWC last week went very well, and I am pretty excited</ | ||
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+ | **OCTOBER 2018** About two months later, OWC was no longer paying Peters' | ||
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+ | ==== Staying Mum ==== | ||
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+ | As Peters has demonstrated several times before, he refrains for months from publicly sharing with supporters any bad news (see " | ||
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+ | For those who have followed the Axanar saga, the circumstances sounded familiar. | ||
===== Patreon Mirrors Failed 2017 Effort ===== | ===== Patreon Mirrors Failed 2017 Effort ===== | ||
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===== Effect on Axanar Shorts ===== | ===== Effect on Axanar Shorts ===== | ||
- | Unaddressed by Peters was the impact the prospect of losing or moving his studio might have on his always-slipping production schedule for the two //Axanar// short films for which donors have been waiting for nearly two years. He had recently said he was aiming for a spring 2019 shoot. {{page> | + | Unaddressed by Peters was the impact the prospect of losing or moving his studio might have on his always-slipping production schedule for the two //Axanar// short films for which donors have been waiting for nearly two years. He had recently said he was aiming for a spring 2019 shoot. {{: |
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