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There are many ways to start a relationship with OPP. But sticking around is better...

By subscribing you create a more sustainable platform for our artists and journalists and a portion of our revenues always go back into the communities where we are telling stories. So feel good about donating to a valuable cause.

Donating at the Basic subscription level ($150 suggested donation) is a great way to stay "down with OPP".

Choose this option and along with your membership we'll surprise you at least three times a year with our OPP Care Packages -- collections of our unique products (books, DVDs, posters, cards, stickers, your basic multimedia what-have-you). A basic subscription keeps you "down with OPP," supports our artists in a sustainable way and makes you part of our "for-profit social venture."

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Be an OPP Big Shot at the Benefactor level.

Artists have always relied upon benefactors in various forms, and a donation at the  Benefactor subscription level ($500 or more) helps OPP keep things moving and growing. To show our appreciation, we start with the OPP Care Packages, the free event-passes, the original art -- and then we go up from there. Add on:

1. A Benefactor pass that gets you backstage with the artists and musicians at our events;
2. Invitations to our pre-event receptions;
3. A chance to bid on the art for sale at our OPP auctions -- before the auctions begin;
4. Inclusion of your logos, links and information on the OPP website.

Enjoy all the benefits of membership and become a collector of OPP Art.

Looking for a good value? Choose the Collector subscription (Suggested Donation: $450). You'll get the OPP Care Packages and the free event-passes, but here's the best part: Each Collector subscriber gets an original piece of art by one of our OPP artists.

Think of it as an easy (not to mention cheap) way to build your personal art collection. Think of it as an investment, think of it as a way of supporting the arts.

Or think of it as a sweet little way to invite a little serendipity into your life and home.

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A book of images by visual artist Ben Timpson. A stunning coffee table paperback of haunting images using natural materials, these images are created on micro-slides, shot on film.

"I want people to see how much detail there is in everything. I use flowers, insects, blood, and plastics because these are the elements of the world. I am a collector and I find them everywhere.”

- ben timpson

New Paperback from Geshe Dakpa Topygal

Many people think of ethics and morality as merely religious concepts. They think that a serious consideration of ethics is reserved for seriously religious people. I think that this attitude is mistaken. This book is written to help readers understand the importance of ethics and to find a way of establishing basic ethical and moral principles regardless of religion. This book emphasizes the individual’s responsibility for his or her own actions. Establishing good karma and merit through wholesome conduct and helping others is the most direct route to improving the condition of the world as well as the best method for gaining personal happiness. These benefits are powerful incentives for ethical conduct.

- From the introduction by Geshe Dakpa Topygal 

• Paperback: 210 pages
• Publication Date: May 24, 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1419668617
• ISBN-13: 978-1419668616
• Product Dimensions: 13 x 7 x 4 inches

SOLO JOURNALIST & DOCUMENTARY ARTIST Farrah Hoffmire was inspired by grassroots organizing and volunteer efforts in the weeks and months after Hurricane Katrina. She has traveled to New Orleans numerous times to create a solo work that is part art-vignette, part documentary film and part grassroots journalism.

In stark contrast to the failure and corruption stories that have dominated mass-media coverage, Falling Together introduces us to powerful people fighting to save lives, preserve culture and bring a sense of well-being back to New Orleans. Conceived as an ongoing, subscription-based platform to follow events in New Orleans as they unfold over the next few years, it also explores the ongoing complexities of rebuilding in areas of the city still severely damaged -- such as the Lower 9th Ward.  The film features music by Ani Difranco as well as some of New Orleans’s top musicians.

The film series has been featured at the:

• Oral History Association national conference (Little Rock, AR)
• Langston Hughes African American Film Festival (Seattle, WA)
• Lake Eden Arts Festival (Asheville, NC)
• Zeitgeist Film Series (Tulane University, New Orleans)
• Hurricane Katrina Campus Media Project (worldwide 2007-2008)
• ConvergeSouth 2007 Film Festival

A balance of physical and mental health is neccessary in order to find meaning in your life and succeed in every area, whether spiritual or worldly. Maintaining good health will help you to fully enjoy the material objects you encounter in your daily life, but more importantly it will enable you to realize the true purpose of your life. There are many factors involved in the process of building good physical and mental health, including: food, rest, excercise, mental attitude and a calm positive state of mind, solitude, silence from verbal noise, meditation, a sense of contentment, and external rejuvenating therapy. Each of these is discussed in a concise and pratical way with the hope that they will be easy to learn and incorporate into your daily life.

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Get an assortment of 24 of our Media Circus Postcards, designed by OPP and Fuzzco. Price includes shipping and handling.

Come on...be a patron of great media.

Donating at the Patron subscription level (suggested $250 donation) gets you all the goodies included in the Basic subscription plus a nifty perk: A pass that gets you and a friend in the door for free at any event OPP puts on (flash your card for half-price discount on food and drinks, too). If you like to get out and have fun, we've got a Patron subscription with your name on it.

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Pieces of Sanity, the book, was published in real time with the production of the Charleston multi-media art event of the same name. Featuring the works of participating artists, musicians and poets. This was OPP's first live event / book publishing project and is a unique collaboration between over 20 artists.

Designed by Marcus Amaker

Baird Hoffmire was the illustrator for the cover.

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Solo journalist and filmmaker Dylan Bergeson was still a college student when he spent four months in the occupied West Bank shooting the footage that would become his debut documentary This Body is a Prison. Originally intended as a senior project, this unflinching look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a sympathetic-but-apolitical lens has gathered critical acclaim ever since its release in May 2006.

Bergeson and OPP partnered in a distribution agreement in 2007.

Buy This Body is a Prison, Dylan Bergeson's powerful documentary on the Israeli-Palenstinian conflict, for unlimited showings on your campus on in your classroom.

Not quite ready to take the plunge? Take a no-risk dip into OPP with a sample OPP Care Package.

To get things rolling, here’s the deal: You send us a $59 donation we’ll send you our Winter 2008 OPP Care Package (ships in January) with a full money-back guarantee if you’re not satisfied.

If you love it as much as we think you will, we’ll give you a good deal on upgrading to one of our full 2008 subscription packages. Which means there’s really no reason not to give it a try.

Offer expires November 15, 2008.