Tag: Kickstarter
Wednesday afternoon marks the final 24 hours of a now-viral Kickstarter campaign to erect a museum for figure skaters Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan in a Brooklyn apartment hallway. With the modest goal of $75 having been met and far surpassed, the museum is already underway. The museum’s proprietors are Matt Harkins and Viviana Olen, […]
Hillary Clinton may have found herself in the middle of an email scandal, but it’s nothing she can’t handle. At least, that’s what the makers of a new Hillary Clinton action figure hope. Brooklyn design studio FCTRY and Art Army General Mike Leavitt are Kickstarting the mini-Clinton to show support for her potential presidential bid. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Nate “Igor” Smith is a NYC-based photographer who mostly conducts photo shoots with porn stars and other Suicide Girls-type models. He posts lots of those results on website Driven By Boredom, which has been warehousing his images and adventures for over a decade, like this entry from 2002 via the WayBackMachine. “Yeah, I am on […]
Another celebrities has taken to Kickstarter, but before you rolls your eyes, know that this is a “first of its kind” experiment by comedian David Cross. In other words, this project may be well worth your money. Cross is gearing up to release dark comedy Hits, his directorial debut that stars Matt Walsh, James Adomian, […]
A new documentary-in-the-making seeks to recapture the spirit of the ’90s-era Lower East Side squatters and their fight with the NYPD under then-New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton. Anytime, Baby: The War for the Lower East Side, by Queens resident and filmmaker John Frisbie, revisits the sordid era of New […]
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 […]
Do you really love your subway line? Do you want to feel like you’ve arrived at Coney Island every time you walk into your house? Then these handmade replicas of the iconic MTA signs are just what you need. Carlton Cutz is just under $1000 away from meeting his goal on Kickstarter. If you donate, you can get one […]
