A new Kickstarter aims to build a forest in one of the unlikeliest places on the planet: the middle of Times Square. The idea comes from urban ecologist Mariellé Anzelone, founder and executive director of NYC Wildflower Week, and environmental analyst Hugh Reed. The project, Anzelone explains in a video on the campaign’s page, will […]
Farts in a jar: once a homeopathic cure for the Black Death, later a video game accessory and a crappy parody song, are now the scatological inspiration behind a shitty Kickstarter project. The project, founded by Roy Stanton, sells farts from 80 different countries that come to you in tightly sealed, small glass jars. For […]
A card game for “people who are into kittens and explosions and laser beams and sometimes goats,” created by The Oatmeal’s Mathew Inman and game developers Elan Lee and Shane Small, has raised $8.7 million on Kickstarter. It is now the site’s highest-earning game of all time, and has broken the record for the most-backed […]
A Brooklyn man has invented the perfect way to drink alcohol in public discreetly, and even help you look like a good, responsible parent while doing so. Well, as long as no one looks at you too closely (and knows you’re not the parent of an infant). Simon Philion has launched a Kickstarter for a […]
Unlike his 1975 Dune adaptation that never was, if Alejandro Jodorowsky doesn’t get to make upcoming film, it’s not Hollywood execs he’ll go after — it’s you. The surrealist filmmaker has launched a Kickstarter to partially fund the second installment of his visual autobiography, Endless Poetry. In return for donating, Jodorowsky will give you something […]
Move over Citi Bike — New Yorkers may soon have a better way to move around the city. Meet Impossible, a lightweight electric bike that folds into your backpack, has a waterproof battery case, and lets you go up to 12.4 miles per hour at a 45-minute stretch. Instead of pedals, the Impossible Bicycle is […]
“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 […]
You have less than an hour to buy My Daughter’s Painting Of A Famous Potato Salad From The Internet on eBay! Zack Danger Brown from Columbus, Ohio had his “Making Potato Salad” Kickstarter campaign go viral and at this moment, with 16 days to go, the campaign has amassed $50,629 in donations — that’s $50,619 over his $10 goal. He […]
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 […]
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology analyzed the linguistics of tens of thousands of Kickstarter proposals over the year 2012, to find whether the words people use in their pitches impact whether or not they’re successfully funded. Their findings? You’re more likely to convince people to give you their money if you’re not a […]
