Welcome to the website.

For any newcomers, let's start off with a little photo gallery from last year's "outdoor" season.

Click to visit last year's gallery

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Hey! Will you guys do me a tremendous favor today.

Just to counteract the negative and harmful stupidity that is coming from people like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh concerning the nightmarish situation in Japan, will you take a moment today to lend a hand. I know times are tough, but I hope this makes a difference in some small way. When thousands and thousands of ordinary people are hurt and suffering, and this organization has always been one of my favorites to support. Might be a way for you to help if you can or if you wanna.

Click to give

These physicians always show up all around the world, getting direct help on the ground, right there with their nose in it, helping ordinary people who need real help.

There are real people suffering over there. There are real, beautiful, sweet, good people hurting terribly and living through a challenging and scary event in their lives.

It's important that we pay attention. I mean, most of the people in my audience don't listen to lightweights like Limbaugh. But I monitor people like him and Beck because I think it's important to pay attention to what's going on across the country when it affects so many people in this world.

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In Beck's version... the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan and killed thousands because you're not following the 10 commandments.

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Okay... breath. Calm down... breath.

Okay.

Now. Why do I write some of the songs I write?

Why do I do what I do when sometimes people say, "Oh man, David. We just wanna have a good time."

It's because spiritually-bankrupt people like this reach so many millions of people and reinforces the very, very worst things instincts in human beings. This man and his "ditto-head", non-thinking asshole of a listener are mocking Diane Sawyer for reporting on sweet and good people for recycling and living by their principles in the face of unspeakable hardship. They deride and spurn the very best qualities in human beings which Abraham Lincoln called "the better angels of our nature".

I feel so sorry for people who live in the world of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter and the rest. But...

MAYBE IT'S TIME FOR US TO DO A SHOW LIKE THE ONE TONY WALTON DESCRIBES IN THIS VIDEO!!!

HERE's the video from Academy Award-winner Tony Walton and his wife.

We're trying to put a theatrical piece together that, hopefully, will be a positive thing.

Click to watch the video

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OKAY! Step one!!!

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Those of you in the arts know what a storyboard is. For everyone else... a storyboard can be a series of sketches, or even just a series of index cards and on them are different songs and scenes and dialogue and moments for a particular play or performance... which can then be arranged and rearranged to see what the thing will look like, how it will flow. The cards are often stuck to a wall or... a storyboard.

I was thinkin'... what if I did a couple of nights in which I took a series of songs and stories from over the years and shared them with a roomful of people, with an audience -- but shot video of both sessions in segments. Then I could take each individual segment of video and arrange them in a time-line in the Final Cut editing program... and rearrange them... and arrange them again, so that I could actually see and hear how they held together. In other words, it would be a living storyboard with music and transitions and everything.

This is where you come in.

If you think it would be fun to be a part of this process, all you have to do is find one friend, one acquaintance, one other person who has never been to one of my concerts at Merkin Concert Hall or The Thalia or anywhere else. If you email me and tell me you'd like to reserve a spot for yourself and your friend, or even a couple of friends, I will put your name on the guest list for one of the nights. BUT... it's important that you or the person with you haven't been to one of my concerts... ever.

I'm very serious. I need to be assured that at least half of the audience each night is coming in cold with NO idea what to expect. (You can see what I'm trying to do and why, right?)

So please... no cheating.

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NOW -- IF YOU WANT TO PLACE YOUR NAME IN THE GUEST LIST FOR EITHER OF THOSE SATURDAY NIGHT SESSIONS...

CLICK HERE AND EMAIL ME with your name and the number of people you're bringing with you.

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SO WHAT CAN YOU DO?

First of all...

HERE's THE PLACE TO JOIN THE TEAM!

You are everything. Just like on "The Hill" in Central Park, none of this happens if you don't show up. The 3 most important things we need from you...

1. A generous donation of real money. (Yeah, like everything else... it's gonna take money to actually make it happen.)

3. We need you to take it upon yourself to be a little Paul Revere-ish... take it upon yourself to spread the word about this project every day to friends and family. Make it your own. We need you to come up with Creative ideas to get the word out about this effort.

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FIND THE EASIEST WAY TO HELP

Your donations are tax-deductible!!! Whatever you decide to give! (So cool.)

Just go to the IndieGoGo website and make a donation with your credit card or debit card...

Click here to visit the site and make a direct donation. INDIE GOGO

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Or if you like doin' it "old school" -- just make out a check to:

Fractured Atlas
(And write "David Ippolito" on the memo line.)

Then mail it to:

TABAK
360 East 72nd Street
Suite A 1108
New York, NY 10021

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WHAT YOU GET

Cool stuff -- really cool stuff -- amazingly cool stuff -- ridiculous stuff -- really ridiculous stuff -- f*cking ridiculous stuff...

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You'll see!

I'LL BE SETTING UP THE PAGE WITH A LIST OF ALL THE COOL PEOPLE WHO HELP US OUT. (If you'd like to remain anonymous... just let us know that, too.)

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If you're new around here, you might wanna make a pot of coffee or pour a glass of wine and browse through The ARCHIVE. Lotsa really fun stuff in there going all the way back to... to.. well, they go a long way back!

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VIDEO TIME

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WATCH THESE VIDEOS IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY -- and then shoot me an email to tell me if you think they might become a part of the story.

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Click to watch the very first LIVE performance of this song.

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I'm really enjoying all of your comments about the newest songs, so keep 'em comin'! This was the LIVE debut of this next song in December here in NYC.

CAN'T YOU SEE?

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HIT THIS LINK TO EMAIL YOUR THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS

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THE (entire) DECEMBER CONCERT

For you guys again today... the entire concert... "The Something'th Annual Year End Concert" is here for you to watch. Go make a pot of coffee. Pour yourself some tea or a nice glass of wine and sit back and watch this thing. Plug in some headphones or some earbuds if you feel like it. You can actually jump around and watch different parts o the show.

We had such a great time again this year in that theater!

(The audio got a little funky during Teresa Reynolds' Christmas song... but I'm do everything I can to fix that sooner than later. Check back.)

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Here are a couple of different fun galleries to check out.

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HAVE FUN TODAY!!!!!! (And be cool to each other, okay?)

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Thanks for everything.

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Peace ☮