8th November 2012

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Awesome video

rawkblog:

Today, we launch our Kickstarter campaign for UNCOOL, a new longform music journalism site devoted to great writing and triumphing over the pageview/advertising/clickbait journalism monopoly. We’ve gathered a number of our favorite writers (you may know a few) and we’re ready to get started — spread the word and pledge generously. Let’s do this! (Spoiler: I maybe do the “Gangnam Style” dance in this video. You’ll just have to watch.) 

For $12 (the cost of one craft cocktail in most major cities), you can get a one-year subscription, a monthly newsletter with bonus content, an “issue” ebook and a button.

Do it.

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22nd February 2012

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A nice image

fascinated: Kickstumbler lets you stumble into Kickstarter projects you’d never see otherwise. Kickstarter is the coolest new thing on the web that I know. When not making Hype Machine, I’ve been obsessively browsing and funding projects. I quickly noticed though, that I haven’t been exploring more than just a few categories. I knew there must be a way out of my comfort zone. Instead of sleeping last weekend, I made Kickstumbler, an easy way to explore random projects on Kickstarter. You can explore within a category, or across the entire site, for maximum delight. I’ve also made a continuous video channel that plays the brilliant videos where project creators share their missions. What do you think?

fascinated:

Kickstumbler lets you stumble into Kickstarter projects you’d never see otherwise.

Kickstarter is the coolest new thing on the web that I know. When not making Hype Machine, I’ve been obsessively browsing and funding projects. I quickly noticed though, that I haven’t been exploring more than just a few categories. I knew there must be a way out of my comfort zone.

Instead of sleeping last weekend, I made Kickstumbler, an easy way to explore random projects on Kickstarter. You can explore within a category, or across the entire site, for maximum delight. I’ve also made a continuous video channel that plays the brilliant videos where project creators share their missions.

What do you think?

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8th January 2012

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Super hyperlink!

New York Shots

Just discovered this Tumblr by Katie O’Beirne, who started the Leaving a Disposable Camera in the Park public art project on Kickstarter.
I have recently been placing disposable cameras in New York’s lovely parks (the last two parks being Brooklyn Bridge Park and Prospect Park). I also include a note, stating that if passers-by would like to be a part of this ongoing project, they should snap a photo of themselves. The way they choose to shoot the photo is up to them, though, the more faces on film, the BETTER.

The project’s gone international, and she posts some of the sets on this Tumblr. Kind of fantastic, if you ask me!

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A memorable quote

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The story I always tell is about a girl named Emily, who raised money very early on to sail around the world alone. Ironically, this is probably not a project we’d allow now. But, she wanted to sail around the world and one of her rewards was for $15 and she would take a Polaroid from somewhere on her trip and she’d mail it to you when she got into port. About six months ago, I got an envelope in the mail with a stamp I didn’t recognize and I open it up and there’s a map and one side of the map is a letter written to me and it describes this jungle, this island, and what she sees around her. And as soon as she finished writing that letter, she took a picture with the Polaroid, which was stuck inside. And the Polaroid has a jungle in the forefront and then a strip of white beach and then the crackling blue ocean just past that. And it’s amazing and it’s romantic. And that was a really great experience; I have the letter and the Polaroid all framed in my house. But that was just an example of something so out of the ordinary and so emotional, so real and it really surprised me. I was just someone who gave her $15 on the Internet and I got this. So that to me crystallizes what I see is so special about what Kickstarter does.
— Yancey Strickler, Kickstarter: Funding “Creative Independence” (via Maura)
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