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By Jolie O'Dell

"Artist Molly Crabapple has just been given $17,000 to lock herself in a paper-covered room for five days and make art until the walls are covered.

But that sum didn’t come from the National Endowment for the Arts or a wealthy patron; Crabapple, like many in her subversive art-making shoes, turned to Kickstarter to find funding for the stunt.

In her Kickstarter proposal, she outlined the basic premise of the project, dubbed “Molly Crabapple’s Week in Hell.” Anyone who donated a dollar to the effort would get to watch a live stream of the whole five-day shebang. Anyone who pledged $10 or more would get to name an animal for inclusion in the artwork; donations of $20 or more would get an actual piece of the ink-filled paper sent to them. And backers who fronted $1,000 or more would get an absinthe-infused lunch with the artist.

Crabapple set a $4,500 fundraising goal; so far, the total raised is $17,000 — enough to make a short film about the project, which Crabapple says will debut online shortly after Crabapple’s Week in Hell wraps...."

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Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:04:00 -0700 Sweet! 'I Have Your Heart' - A Short Animated Film by Jim Batt » Updates — Kickstarter funding completed :) http://1001tales.posterous.com/sweet-i-have-your-heart-a-short-animated-film http://1001tales.posterous.com/sweet-i-have-your-heart-a-short-animated-film
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Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:53:00 -0700 How Kickstarter Became a Lab for Daring Prototypes and Ingenious Products | Magazine http://1001tales.posterous.com/how-kickstarter-became-a-lab-for-daring-proto http://1001tales.posterous.com/how-kickstarter-became-a-lab-for-daring-proto
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Excerpt from original article by Carlye Adler:

"Ivan Wong struggled with his camera strap. It would whip through the air when he turned his lens, occasionally flapping into the frame and destroying the composition. It’s a common issue, but for Wong it was more than an annoyance—as a professional sports photographer, he depended on his ability to capture the perfect moment. A wayward strap could kill an entire assignment. Wong talked to some fellow photographers—his brother, Ben, and his friend Anne Bui, a product developer at Fox Racing. They agreed it was a problem. So they did what any modern maker would: They designed their own solution. The idea was to connect the strap to one point on the bottom of the camera—the threaded tripod mount—instead of two points on the top. That should keep the strap out of the shot and reduce tangling. They grabbed some nuts and bolts from a local workshop and hit Ivan and Ben’s parents’ garage. Their prototype wasn’t pretty, but it worked. They called it the C-Loop and began to think it might have commercial potential.

The team had some manufacturing experience, but they had no idea how to bring a product to market. And money? They didn’t have that either, and it would cost $15,000 to produce a minimum run of 500 C-Loops. They considered pooling their savings (including Ben’s college money) and taking out a loan, but nobody relished that idea.

Then they found Kickstarter, a website where people post descriptions of their projects and anyone can chip in to help fund them. Ben had discovered the site after hearing about a couple of guys who wanted to manufacture a tripod mount for the iPhone 4. Ivan pledged $20—in effect preordering one of the gizmos. “I thought, that could be us,” Ivan says. Using Kickstarter was an appealingly offbeat approach, and there was no risk. Even if they couldn’t raise the full amount, they’d build a following and win some free publicity...."

Read the excellent long article on Wired.com

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Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:19:45 -0800 Nearly 1/2 Kickstarter Funds Up in One Day! The Future of Facebook Project by Venessa Miemis http://1001tales.posterous.com/nearly-12-kickstarter-funds-up-in-one-day-the http://1001tales.posterous.com/nearly-12-kickstarter-funds-up-in-one-day-the

About this project

With over 600 million users and a valuation of over $70 billion, Facebook is the world's dominant social networking platform. What are the challenges a social media company of this size will face? What are the strategic moves it should make? How can Facebook users take advantage of the platform and its increasingly rich social graph?

These are the questions we are addressing with the Future of Facebook video series. Using the STEEP forecasting methodology, we’ll be viewing the challenges and opportunities for this company through the lenses of Society, Technology, Environment, Economics, and Politics. Each of these five categories will become a short focus video that fleshes out that topic area. The final video will be a big picture overview of the potential pathways for the evolution of Facebook.

Interviews are still underway, but here’s a look at who we’ve talked to so far: 

David Armano - SVP, Edelman Digital

Stowe Boyd - futurist, social technologies blogger

Jamais Cascio - ethical futurist, Senior Fellow of the IEET

Amber Case - co-founder Geoloqi

check the site for the full description & video - great line-up of interviewees! can't wait!

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Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:19:00 -0800 Nearly 1/2 Kickstarter Funds Up in TWO Days! The Future of Facebook Project by Venessa Miemis http://1001tales.posterous.com/nearly-12-kickstarter-funds-up-in-one-day-the-0 http://1001tales.posterous.com/nearly-12-kickstarter-funds-up-in-one-day-the-0

About this project

 

With over 600 million users and a valuation of over $70 billion, Facebook is the world's dominant social networking platform. What are the challenges a social media company of this size will face? What are the strategic moves it should make? How can Facebook users take advantage of the platform and its increasingly rich social graph?

These are the questions we are addressing with the Future of Facebook video series. Using the STEEP forecasting methodology, we’ll be viewing the challenges and opportunities for this company through the lenses of Society, Technology, Environment, Economics, and Politics. Each of these five categories will become a short focus video that fleshes out that topic area. The final video will be a big picture overview of the potential pathways for the evolution of Facebook.

Interviews are still underway, but here’s a look at who we’ve talked to so far: 

David Armano - SVP, Edelman Digital

Stowe Boyd - futurist, social technologies blogger

Jamais Cascio - ethical futurist, Senior Fellow of the IEET

Amber Case - co-founder Geoloqi

check the site for the full description & video - great line-up of interviewees! can't wait!

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Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:23:00 -0800 Napoleon Dynamite Star Turns to Kickstarter to Finance Film http://1001tales.posterous.com/napoleon-dynamite-star-turns-to-kickstarter-t http://1001tales.posterous.com/napoleon-dynamite-star-turns-to-kickstarter-t
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Jon Heder of Napoleon Dynamite fame is working on a new project with writer and director Nick Peterson. The short film, tentatively titled 'Drained,' will combine live actors and stop-motion animation, and sounds like it's about how men are dirty, rotten bastards. (Either that or it's about sewage.) What's interesting here, though, is that Heder and Peterson have turned to the Internet to help fund the film. The duo took their pitch to Kickstarter -- a place for people to post the ideas and projects they just don't have the money to complete, and beg for donations. Anyone can contribute as little as $1 to 'Drained,' but donating more earns you certain perks. For example, at $10 you get your name in the credits, and $250 gets you an associate producer credit. Cough up $5,000 and you get a full producer credit and a private screening of the film in L.A. with Heder and Peterson...

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Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:41:00 -0800 This is a Great List: The Kickstarter Blog - Kickstarter Awards: By the Numbers http://1001tales.posterous.com/this-is-a-great-list-the-kickstarter-blog-kic http://1001tales.posterous.com/this-is-a-great-list-the-kickstarter-blog-kic

Most… Everything?: TikTok+LunaTik Multi-Touch Watch

Kickstarter 2010 Statistics:

Total Successfully Funded Projects: 3,910
Total Dollars Pledged: $27,638,318
Total Pledges: 386,373
Total Rewards Selected: 322,526
Total Pageviews: 50,234,521
Total Visits: 15,766,248
Total Visitors: 8,294,183

read the full awesome list on Kickstarter's blog:

http://blog.kickstarter.com/post/2686751109/kickstarter-awards-by-the-numbers

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Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:01:00 -0800 "Finding Vivian Maier" - a feature length documentary film by Toneloof — Kickstarter funding complete http://1001tales.posterous.com/finding-vivian-maier-a-feature-length-documen http://1001tales.posterous.com/finding-vivian-maier-a-feature-length-documen

About this project

Update: Here is a wonderful segment that Chicago Tonight just aired: http://www.wttw.com/chicagotonight/video/A1hO97qcWo7ViDL_rWniVH2LakYxNa7J/

About the Film
Finding Vivian Maier
- a feature-length documentary

Vivian Maier’s photographs were seemingly destined for obscurity, lost among the clutter of the countless objects she’d collected throughout her life. Instead these images have shocked the world of street photography and irrevocably changed the life of the man who brought them to the public eye. This film brings to life the improbable saga of John Maloof’s discovery of Vivian Maier. Along with her documentary films, photographs, odd collections, and accounts from people who knew her, we take you on the journey of 'Finding Vivian Maier'.

What started as a blog to show her work quickly became a viral sensation in the photography world. Photos destined for the trash heap now line gallery exhibitions, a forthcoming book, and this documentary film. The world wants to know more about Vivian. In order for us to deliver the quality documentary film that we would like to produce, we need funding.

The Status
The film is currently in the pre-production stage. We have recently joined forces with an award-winning Danish filmmaker, Lars Oxfeldt Mortensen (www.mortensenfilm.dk). Once we have pre-production financing, we can move forward with the promotional trailer to seek broadcaster financing for the feature-length film we are set out to create.

Funds
Monies raised will go to the pre-production budget for the film. This includes equipment, research, trips to conduct interviews and collect footage, editing costs for promotional trailer, and miscellaneous financing. All funds will be used for the film. If we exceed our pre-production budget goal, then all proceeds will go toward the production budget. With your funding help through Kickstarter, we'll be able to move forward on this film with less of a funding hurdle.

It all started here:

http://www.vivianmaier.com

...and here:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/onthestreet/discuss/72157622552378986/

Press
Vivian's work has received a considerable amount of press and much more are to come. Here is a list of links to some of the more notable recognition available online:

New York Times LENS:
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/new-street-photography-60-years-old/

Chicago Magazine:
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/January-2011/Vivian-Maier-Street-Photographer/

Chicago Sun-Times:
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/2973223-421/maier-maloof-vivian-chicago-negatives.html

NPR's Kitchen Sisters:
http://www.kitchensisters.org/girlstories/the-lost-found-photographs-of-vivian-maier/

MIR Appraisals:
http://chicagoappraisers.blogspot.com/2010/05/vivian-maier-tribute-part-iv-interview.html

The Design Observer:
http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html...

The Independent (New Review) in the U.K.:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/little-miss-big-shot-fifties-america-exposed-ndash-by-a-french-nanny-1811040.html

Repubblica (Italy):
http://static.repubblica.it/repubblica/gallerie/gente/foto_america/index.html

Clarin (Argentina):
http://www.clarin.com/diario/2009/10/22/um/m-02024494.htm

Clarin also (neat slideshow):
http://www.revistaenie.clarin.com/notas/2010/02/03/_-02132908.htm

Danish news:
http://kpn.dk/article1871460.ece

Thank you for your time. Your generous contributions will aid in our efforts to assure a lasting appreciation of Vivian Maier's art, and presenting this story to the world.

Kind regards,

John Maloof
Anthony Rydzon


Project location: Chicago, IL

Amazing story.

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Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:24:00 -0800 Check this! Inspiring!: Discover Projects/Hall of Fame — Kickstarter http://1001tales.posterous.com/check-this-inspiring-discover-projectshall-of http://1001tales.posterous.com/check-this-inspiring-discover-projectshall-of
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Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:21:24 -0800 Excellent Post on 'Rise of the Micro-Medici' http://1001tales.posterous.com/excellent-post-on-rise-of-the-micro-medici http://1001tales.posterous.com/excellent-post-on-rise-of-the-micro-medici
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From : Change Observer: Design Observer

By Maria Popova

Excerpt:

"...Crowdsourcing, however, has become valuable for creative projects in a different way. While efforts to tap the wisdom of crowds may fall flat in bringing creative visions to life, tapping the wallets of crowds has been incredibly successful. Microfunding platforms like Kickstarter, alongside a handful of copycats and competitors, are liberating innovators everywhere from film to industrial design to programming. Just this month, Scott Wilson funded his TikTok+LunaTik Multi-Touch Watch Kit concept on Kickstarter, raising a staggering $941,718. His idea — a snap-in design that transforms the iPod Nano into a multifunctional timepiece — had so much merit in the eyes of the microfunding community that it raised 6,827 percent more than the original goal of $15,000. LoudSauce allows supporters of causes and nonprofits to buy media space to help their message reach a wider audience and facilitate mainstream awareness. ProFounder enables entrepreneurs to microfund small business ventures; IndieGoGo does the same for independent filmmakers. ArtistsShare and PledgeMusic give artists the means to subsidize tours, shows and installations by sourcing donations directly from fans. Founded by a pair of World Bank and UN Development Fund alums, Kopernik uses the model to connect innovative humanitarian designs and technologies with the communities that would benefit from them, allowing local organizations to take the fulfillment of their needs into their own hands.

This new kind of patronage is essentially a return to the Medici, only in fragmented form via micropayments. An intelligent evolution of crowdsourcing, it preserves the nucleus of a creative endeavor – its singular point of view – while harnessing collective power to bring it to fruition...."

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Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:14:00 -0800 NY Restauranteur John Fraser goes Guerrila with Kickstarter: Temporary Restaurants - Now You See It, Now You Don't http://1001tales.posterous.com/ny-restauranteur-john-fraser-goes-guerrila-wi http://1001tales.posterous.com/ny-restauranteur-john-fraser-goes-guerrila-wi
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From NY Times:

By FRANK BRUNI
Published: January 4, 2011

JOHN FRASER’S new restaurant is doomed. It may make a splash at the start, but by this time next year it will be over, done with, kaput.
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At least if you take him at his word.

For his follow-up to Dovetail, an elegant success on the Upper West Side, Mr. Fraser has chosen a project with a death foretold. He signed a short-term lease for a space in SoHo whose landlord cannot promise that the building, likely to be demolished, will be around past July. In return he received a rent of about $9,000 a month, well below market rate....

read full post on nytimes.com

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Fri, 03 Dec 2010 04:33:00 -0800 Very Cool. TikTok+LunaTik Multi-Touch Watch Kits by Scott Wilson — Kickstarter pledges @ 30 x original request! http://1001tales.posterous.com/very-cool-tiktoklunatik-multi-touch-watch-kit http://1001tales.posterous.com/very-cool-tiktoklunatik-multi-touch-watch-kit

About this project

Hi! Thanks for checking out our project. With your help we would love to make our idea a reality and get them on as many wrists as possible.

TikTok and LunaTik simply transform the iPod Nano into the world's coolest multi-touch watches. The idea to use the Nano as a watch was an obvious one ever since the product was announced. But we wanted to create a collection that was well designed, engineered and manufactured from premium materials and that complemented the impeccable quality of Apple products. Not just clipped on a cheap strap as an afterthought. We wanted to create a product that your friends and strangers would stop you and ask "WTF is that??? And where can I get one?!"

TikTok is a simple snap-in design. It allows the user to easily and securely snap the Nano into the wrist dock. It cleanly and simply integrates the Nano and transforms it into a modern multifunction timepiece.

LunaTik is designed and intended to be a premium conversion kit for someone that wants to dedicate their Nano to being a watch and the newest conversation piece with their friends. It is forged from Aerospace Grade Aluminum and then machined via CNC into its final form.

The straps are made from high grade silicone rubber and the hardware is solid stainless steel not some chrome plated brass that will wear off. The quality of these watch cases and straps will be scrutinized very carefully and produced in the same factories that produce the best watches for companies like Nixon, Diesel, Vestal, and Nike.

So many watch companies have struggled to make a multi-touch color display watch to date. It is no small task. The Nano itself is an engineering wonder. Multi-Touch, color display, long battery life, MP3, radio, photos, pedometer, Nike+ and clock all in an impossibly small package. Just like reinventing the phone it took Apple to make it possible. And in clock mode the Nano battery lasts at least a week before recharging. We are excited to help complete the effort in converting it to a watch that everyone can enjoy.

So here is where you come in. Designing products is what we, MINIMAL, do day-in and day-out for big brands. But like most designers our dream is to eventually make our own products. But funding, manufacturing and distributing a new product is a whole other story. Kickstarter is a great way for us to realize many of the ideas that we have in our small studio that we know people will love but big companies are scared to do. We love creating cool stuff without the big company politics and indecision. We believe in the emerging power of community and the individual to bring ideas to life and we hope that this is just the beginning. By pledging at least $25 you are pre-ordering TikTok or by pledging $50 you are pre-ordering the LunaTik and helping make what we believe is a very cool iPod accessory a reality.

And if you pledge at the Limited Edition levels you will get one of the red anodized Backer versions.

With your support we are targeting to have the TikTok shipping to Backers by late December and the LunaTik by mid January. We hope that you are inspired and excited by the idea and choose to support the project. Either way please spread the word and share with your friends. Everyone has at least one friend that is a watch geek.

Thank you!

Note: TikTok will retail for $34.95 and LunaTik will retail for $69.95. iPod Nano not included. iPod Nano, Apple logo and Apple are registered trademarks of Apple Inc.


Project location: Chicago, IL

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Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:50:00 -0700 Great Share: The Kickstarter Blog - Tips from Creators and Beyond http://1001tales.posterous.com/great-share-the-kickstarter-blog-tips-from-cr http://1001tales.posterous.com/great-share-the-kickstarter-blog-tips-from-cr
Tips from Creators and Beyond
Posted by Daniella Jaeger

We get a lot of questions about how to put together and run a great Kickstarter project, and we’re always happy to share whatever insights we have, either from personal experience running a project or from simply seeing what works well on the site day after day. But we’re hardly the only people worth asking. There are more and more great write-ups from project creators and media outlets alike popping up all the time. We’ve blogged about some of these articles in the past, like Craig Mod’s wonderful piece about his experience — a must-read! Here are a few more good ones.

Grassroots Funding with Kickstarter.com

Jason Brubaker blogged some seriously relevant tips about his successful campaign for his graphic novel reMIND. It touches on everything from making a sweet video to spreading the word to keeping organized. Check out his nifty graph for tracking his project:

I especially liked his insights on rewards:

“Don’t make too many pledge options. I strongly believe that the more options you have the harder it is to make up your mind and a person will likely leave before deciding what to do.”

and

“Your pledge rewards should be better than what you normally offer your product for. I think this is really important. Many people make their rewards so lame for the amount pledged and nobody pledges. The pledgers are doing us a favor by giving money so they need to be rewarded with better prices and offers than someone just buying our product after it’s finished.”

He also touched on something we wish every project creator would do: Look at other projects for inspiration and get a sense of what works well.

“Study the successful and the unsuccessful. Look closely at the campaigns that are ending soon. Here’s a link. What’s interesting is they’re either fully funded or have next to no funding; there’s very few in between. If you can’t make a splash when you jump in then nobody will notice, so study which ones work and which ones don’t.”

Much more in the post itself; check it out here.

Kickstarter and me: What I learned from my mistake, and a friend’s success, using Kickstarter for crowdfunding

James VanOsdol tried his hand at a Kickstarter project to fund his book and got an impressive 139 backers on board. While he didn’t quite reach his goal, he now has a slew of lessons learned under his belt (great bait for a future project, perhaps?). He writes about his friend’s successful (and still live) project for the Rogues Gallery in particular and gets right to the point:

“The simple reason for the project’s success is that it’s a great idea which appeals to a talented and passionate community of artists and fans. Beyond that, Patrick asked for a relatively modest amount, making the funding all but guaranteed.”

James then outlines the careful budget he prepared for his project and his strategies, followed by what went wrong.

“I had asked for too much money to fund a fairly niche book…in a recession. My book strategy of ‘doing it right’ led me to not doing it at all.”

We often remind people that funding is all or nothing, so while of course one should choose a goal that will cover costs and allow for reward fulfillment, it’s probably a good idea to be conservative as well. You can always raise more, but never less. At the end of the day, each project is different and has its own needs and its own audience.

Trust, mobile, and money: New focal points (and hints for applicants) for the new Knight News Challenge

We were excited to find this article from the Nieman Journalism Lab. It’s not about Kickstarter specifically, but it provides tips on applying for a tech grant called the Knights News Challenge that can be useful when thinking about how to approach a Kickstarter project as well. The article profiles one of our more successful tech projects, LocalWiki, and I found this point to be especially telling:

A working prototype is great. When the creators of Davis Wiki … applied for grant funding to expand their project, they weren’t just pitching a concept. They could point judges to a thriving local website which collects community insight and serves as an open forum for residents to deal with everything from scam artists to lost kittens.”

Kickstarter audiences respond to this kind of work-in-progress evidence too. People are much more keen to support a project that has something exciting clearly brewing.

Any personal experience of your own you’d like to share, or something you know you’re looking for as a backer? Drop it in the comments!

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Sat, 08 May 2010 17:07:14 -0700 TITANIA — Kickstarter http://1001tales.posterous.com/titania-kickstarter http://1001tales.posterous.com/titania-kickstarter

KICKSTARTER IS A FUNDING PLATFORM FOR ARTISTS, DESIGNERS, FILMMAKERS, MUSICIANS, JOURNALISTS, INVENTORS, EXPLORERS....

"Last week, Neil Gaiman recommended Titania's world of high fantasy and gothic stylings to his 1.4 million followers on Twitter. Lisa Stock's melding of Greek mythology to Shakespeare and Russian fairytales left an impression on the master of gothic fantasy himself. Click to see why."

PROJECT BACKGROUND
TITANIA is written and directed by Lisa Stock, and produced by InByTheEye Films.

A low-budget fantasy which relies on a strong story, compelling characters, and creativity. TITANIA is a retelling of the fairy tale of the Armless Maiden through Shakespeare's faery queen. The story is romantic, shocking, intense, and ultimately hopeful!

This unique project has already garnered an enthusiastic fan base, numerous features in the press, and growing interest within the fantasy industry. To learn more - please visit our official website at: www.TitaniaFilm.com

(those outside the US can pledge via Kickstarter, but if you have trouble - please see the Investor page on our website for further instructions or drop us an email. Thanks!)

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