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 ==== Dark Money ==== ==== Dark Money ====
  
-Peters tried to assuage his putative supporters' feelings by saying he would also launch a PayPal account they could use for recurring monthly payments to support Ares Studios.+Peters tried to assuage potential supporters' feelings by saying he would also launch a PayPal account they could use for recurring monthly payments to support Ares Studios.
  
 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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 Lawrenceville, Ga., warehouse real estate listings examined by **AxaMonitor** revealed the following: Lawrenceville, Ga., warehouse real estate listings examined by **AxaMonitor** revealed the following:
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-  * Ares Studios' current space at 248 E. Crogan St., Suite 301 has already been advertised as available for lease. Its rent is listed at $4,250 a month.(([[https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/248-E-Crogan-St-Lawrenceville-GA/14203564/|LoopNet listing for 248 Crogan St., Ste. 302, Lawrencevill, GA 30046 (Industrial For Lease)]], retrieved 1/21/19.))+  * Ares Studios' current space at 248 E. Crogan St., Suite 301 has already been advertised as available for lease. Its rent is listed at $4,250 a month.(([[https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/248-E-Crogan-St-Lawrenceville-GA/14203564/|LoopNet listing for 248 Crogan St., Ste. 301, Lawrencevill, GA 30046 (Industrial For Lease)]], retrieved 1/21/19.))
   * 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' 6,000 square foot current space. The monthly rent ranges from $1,700-$2,000.(([[https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/248-E-Crogan-St-Lawrenceville-GA/12289914/|LoopNet listing for 248 E Crogan St, Lawrenceville, GA 30046 (Industrial For Lease)]], retrieved 1/21/19.))   * 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' 6,000 square foot current space. The monthly rent ranges from $1,700-$2,000.(([[https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/248-E-Crogan-St-Lawrenceville-GA/12289914/|LoopNet listing for 248 E Crogan St, Lawrenceville, GA 30046 (Industrial For Lease)]], retrieved 1/21/19.))
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 Peters has been vague about the circumstances under which tech company Other World Computing [[ares_patreon#owc_sponsorship|walked away]] from the sponsorship in which they had won naming rights to Peters' warehouse, implying the sponsorship was time-limited, though OWC gave no such indication when they announced the partnership in 2017.(([[https://blog.macsales.com/40978-owc-announces-sponsorship-of-film-production-company-studio|"OWC Announces Sponsorship of Film Production Company, Studio"]], MacSales.com Newsfeed, 5/11/17.)) Peters has been vague about the circumstances under which tech company Other World Computing [[ares_patreon#owc_sponsorship|walked away]] from the sponsorship in which they had won naming rights to Peters' warehouse, implying the sponsorship was time-limited, though OWC gave no such indication when they announced the partnership in 2017.(([[https://blog.macsales.com/40978-owc-announces-sponsorship-of-film-production-company-studio|"OWC Announces Sponsorship of Film Production Company, Studio"]], MacSales.com Newsfeed, 5/11/17.))
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 +<WRAP>//**__«<fs smaller> 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.</fs> »__**// <wrap indent>//— Axanar producer Alec Peters, a week before OWC stopped paying his rent//</wrap>
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 ==== Peters Paid Rent ==== ==== Peters Paid Rent ====
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 > 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</wrap> about what we can do here.  Stay tuned as we develop the studio into a laboratory for film students!(([[https://axanarproductions.com/captains-log-june-12th-2018/|Captain’s Log – June 12th, 2018, by Alec Peters]], 6/12/18.)) > 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</wrap> about what we can do here.  Stay tuned as we develop the studio into a laboratory for film students!(([[https://axanarproductions.com/captains-log-june-12th-2018/|Captain’s Log – June 12th, 2018, by Alec Peters]], 6/12/18.))
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 +<fs smaller><wrap em>UPDATE</wrap> [[owc_contradictions|Contradictory Details Emerge in OWC Sponsorship]].</fs>
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 **OCTOBER 2018** About two months later, OWC was no longer paying Peters' rent. **OCTOBER 2018** About two months later, OWC was no longer paying Peters' rent.