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Earlier this year, comedian Kurt Braunohler ran a Kickstarter appeal to “hire a man in a plane to write stupid things with clouds in the sky”. He raised $6,820 out of the $4,000 he asked for. The result is this beautiful skywritten piece of work. Enjoy.
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A few years ago, garbage picker Cola teamed up with local musician Favio Chavez to cobble together instruments out of trash for some Paraguayan kids living in their slum. That’s violins and cellos from oil drums, flutes from water pipes and spoons and guitars from packing crates. The Landfill Harmonic — you have to love [...]
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A fantastic new book project from illustrator Jess Smart Smiley, Rumpus on the Run: A Monster Look-N-Find Book is Where’s Waldo with monsters! Can you spot The Rumpus before he takes over the book? Hunt for the Rumpus among hoards of spooky-fun creatures in a variety of imaginative scenes and landscapes, including The Snowman Parade, [...]
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Here’s a product that’s both pragmatic and innovative: a light generator that charges your gadgets on the go as you pedal. Targeted at cyclists, the Siva Cycle Atom is a 1300mAh removable battery pack that takes the idea of green transport one step further — it harnesses kinetic energy from all that pedaling to charge [...]
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The Grabit Robot Multipurpose Holder was inspired by the world of art toys and minimalist design. Grabit is the first creation by husband and wife team Leo and Angie Fajardo, and it’s now live on Kickstarter. This little robot is not only cute but also functional: it can keep your toothbrushes free of germs and [...]
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Can everybody’s favorite maniac Patrick Bateman sing? Well, if the casting is right, sure. A musical adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ iconic novel does sound like a potential catastrophe — but still, it’s endorsed by the author himself, no less. It’s slated to arrive at the Almeida Theatre in London by year-end, and Duncan Sheik’s [...]
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This great little stool is a genius blend of gorgeous, minimalist design and function. When you order this rocking stool, it comes with simple instructions to help you assemble it in no time. But here’s the ace up their sleeve: you don’t just order a pre-cut, mass-produced chair from some factory in another country. No way, that’s not an [...]
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Author Cary Polkovitz’s whimsical collection of over 70 short stories and photographs range from the absurd to the horrific. What began as a fun project to share with a small community of friends and family on Facebook ended up reaching tens of thousands of readers on a weekly basis. At the behest of his readers and [...]
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Graphic design student Nick (you guessed it) Black is starting a campaign to create universal custom shades of black. He plans to partner with Pantone to create these unique color code formulas, but he needs funding in order to get off the ground. Check out his Kickstarter page to help him make black the new [...]
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‘We believe this story is too important to go untold!’ Rubble Kings is a feature length documentary by Shan Nicholson about the New York city street gangs of the late ‘60s & ‘70s and their influence on hip-hop. From 1968 to 1975, gangs ruled New York City. Beyond the idealistic hopes of the civil rights [...]
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Fifty Shades of Grey? Yawn. 99 Shades of Grey? Now we’re talking. Purporting to be ‘a book for people who like the color grey’, 99 Shades of Grey is a real book — following some rather overwhelming support on Kickstarter that had it bagging close to $10,000, well ahead of its $600 goal — with 99 pages of grey shades in progressive intensity. What a brilliant idea.
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Te wonderful history of indie Hip Hop label Stones Throw Record is being brought to life in a deserving documentary entitled Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton. Since 1996, Stone Throw has released critically acclaimed albums and now the label has launched a Kickstarter pledge to help fund the incomplete film. The pledge ends November 29.
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My Kickstarter book project, Seas Without a Shore, features all new photographs and is a magical, mysterious photography book of tintypes, portraits, still lifes and seascapes. Even if I do say so myself.
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This short animation, currently in post production and in some need of financial help, tells the story of the cicadas as they prepare for their End of Life Ball. I love that the filmmakers combine both elements of stop motion and live puppetry in the movie to create their stunning magical cicada world.
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Kickstarter project Instacube — a digital canvas that basically runs on Android to display images pushed from, yes, your Instagram feed — hasn’t even ended its run on the crowdfunding site, but it’s already garnered more than double the $250,000 goal it asked for. With its $500,000 stretch goal met by supporters, the device will now display Facebook photos too. Which will only potentially make it easier for the nosey folks at home to snigger at all the compromising Facebook photos you’re tagged in while you’re out misbehaving in real time.
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