Otherwise Award Auction donations & commissions

[brainwane]

Hi all! Two years ago I started a bit of discussion about how vidding and a fundraiser that I emcee could cross-connect, and I'm following up on that now.

I love the Vid Party and I am one of the people who runs the Otherwise Award (formerly Tiptree) Auction. The Otherwise Literary Award encourages the exploration & expansion of gender, and holds a 90-minute fundraising auction at WisCon each year -- usually on Saturday night, and earlier than the Vid Party. I'm the auctioneer.

We're seeking donations of objects to be auctioned -- handcrafts, books, memorabilia, games, and art, especially with scifi/fantasy or feminist elements, are welcome. And I would personally love to get some donations this year of types I haven't usually seen, such as DVDs or CDs of feminist media, or tea.

But I request two things of this community specifically:

• If any vidders would like to contribute art commissions, we could do what other fanvidding auctions do, e.g., the winning bidder gets to suggest what they like and you make a custom vid for them (you can specify constraints like fandoms, genres, length, deadline, etc.). If you're interested in doing this, leave a comment below by May 15th.
  
• If any of you own physical media you despise, I could potentially raise money by promising to destroy it, live, onstage. In 2016 the audience paid me something like USD$130 to take a hammer and smash a "Pilates for Weight Loss" DVD. If you're interested in doing this, please leave a comment below by May 15th (although I will update this instruction once we have the auction donation online form going for this year).
  

(Now that the auction is only 90 minutes, I'm not going to try to show vids during it, despite me considering that in 2018.)

Thanks!