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August 7, 2014 Marina Galperina

“I would like to start a network of Dead Drops in Northern NJ starting in my hometown of Rockaway and branching out towards NYC,” writes a self-described “highly motivated, middle age” IT tech James W McCloughy on his Kickstarter Page. The route will be loosely guided by Interstate 80 with a final goal being to establish […]

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July 24, 2014 Sophie Weiner

“Whether it is a terrible sketch on a bar napkin or a beautiful painting on a canvas; a dick drawing is a dick drawing,” artist Alex Wong states on his Kickstarter page. Wong has one mission — to draw the world’s biggest dick. He’s asking for $100 dollars to complete the project. Each dollar will fund […]

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July 18, 2014 Sophie Weiner

OwnPhones is developing highly personalized 3D-printed wireless earbuds. The process is shockingly simple — the pattern for the earbuds will be created with “Photogrammetry,” a method that uses photo and video images to create a 3D model. All OwnPhones needs is a short video of your ears to create custom-fitting buds. What separates OwnPhones from […]

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July 10, 2014 Sophie Weiner

Even if are not a beautiful or unique snowflake, your dildo can be! The premise of the Snowflake start-up is that our orifices how their own individual curves and quirks, and we should all have our own custom thing to shove in them. Unlike 3D printed dildos, Snowflake doesn’t require any advanced technological knowledge. They’re counting on you […]

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July 8, 2014 Sophie Weiner

“Electric Objects,” currently funding on Kickstarter, bills itself as “a framed high-definition screen and integrated computer that hangs on your wall and brings art from the Internet into your home.” The idea behind EO1 is to give the infinite variety of digitally-produced art a new way of being exhibited, instead of letting it languish forever in […]

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June 2, 2014 Sophie Weiner

Even if you lived in New York while Louis Hardin aka Moondog was stationed on the corner of 6th Avenue and 54th Street, you might pass off the story as a typical eccentric tale of the city. But Moondog who busked and sold poetry dressed in Viking garb for 30 years, was much more than that. […]

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May 28, 2014 Sophie Weiner

It’s been a rough few days, full of death, grief and depressing news regarding the future. In this atmosphere, LeVar Burton’s new Kickstarter campaign to bring Reading Rainbow to the web is a welcome relief. Burton’s endearingly silly video finds him walking into a school where teachers and children are rendered speechless by shock that the […]

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May 27, 2014 Sophie Weiner

New York artist Scott Cummings has nearly completed a 30 minute experimental film starring the Juggalo community of Buffalo, NY, and is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter. BUFFALO JUGGALOS is not a documentary, but a collaboration between Cummings and the people he met over his six months “embedded” in the Juggalo community. The artist explains […]

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May 15, 2014 Andy Cush

When you ride a bike in the city, a lock is a necessary evil. They’re bulky, heavy, and can never totally ensure your ride’s safety against a well-armed thief, but what are you going to do — not lock it up? SkyLock aims to make the bike-locking experience a little smoother. It connects to a […]

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April 14, 2014 Andy Cush

Richard D. James, he of many monikers, recorded an LP’s worth of music under his alias Caustic Window in the early ’90s that never saw release. Now — twenty years and a slew of Aphex Twin, AFX, and The Tuss releases later — it may see the light of day. A crowdfunding campaign to purchase […]

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