Tag: Kickstarter
It’s impossible to overstate the influence of Johann Sebastian Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier on the nearly three centuries of western music that have followed it. It’s the kind of cultural landmark that should be freely available to anyone who’d like to listen, play, and marvel at its beauty, and now, thanks to this Kickstarter campaign, it may […]
Last year, artist Andrew Ohanesian built a fully functioning replica of a suburban home inside Pierogi Gallery’s Boiler in Brooklyn. I was there, in a manner of speaking, before the overturning of the bed and ceiling punching and the “Punk Rock for Rich Kids” wall writing, but everyone wilded out. The artist pretended to be mad but […]
Check out that intricate wood and foam maquette for Detroit’s upcoming ten-foot-tall Robocop statue. The project, based on an original design by Fred Barton Productions, was fully funded on Kickstarter earlier in 2011 and is nearing the final steps of its completion. See a glimpse of the large statue arriving in several pieces at Venus Bronze Works, where much of the initial […]
From the average joe who’s strapped for cash to celebrities who may or may not really need the money, it seems as though everyone has Kickstarter campaign these days in hopes of funding their very own art institute or their latest “joint.” While we continue to debate whether or not it’s morally acceptable for people who […]
Peter Mayhew, the 7’3″ man behind the Chewbacca mask, isn’t in the best shape. Chronic knee issues due to his gigantism have forced him into a wheelchair much of the time, and he’s regularly in intense pain because of it. Fortunately, double knee replacement surgery may restore him to his towering height and allow him […]
Willy Hartland is an animator who worked on both Beavis & Butthead and Daria. For his latest project, he’s creating what he calls an “Animated Documentary” of NYC. What does that mean? It’s a ten-minute film depicting “the everyday challenges that urbanites meet in public spaces,” using Hartland’s drawings of real-life New Yorkers and their situations as source material. […]
I’m 100% comfortable with this headline. I would have also been comfortable with “Look at Lady Gaga’s Naked Nude Boobs and Other Nude Nakedness and Give Marina Abramović Some Money” and also “Lady Gaga and Marina Abramović Make Hot Mutual Masturbation Video.” Last week at a three-day retreat in upstate New York, Marina instructed Lady Gaga in […]
For his project Touching Strangers, photographer Richard Renadli says he wanted “to create spontaneous and fleeting relationships between complete strangers.” To do so, he approached people who had never before met, and had them pose together as intimately as if they’d known each other for years. The results vary from painfully stiff and awkward to […]
In addition to Marina Abramović’s Kickstarter created in hopes to fund the Marina Abramović Institute, the legendary performance artist has taken to the internet to answer questions from the public in the form of a Reddit AMA (“ask me anything”). The inquiries of supporters and critics seem to cover a broad spectrum of interests, from […]
Kyle McDonald, an artist working with code has decided to put his own spin on Marina Abramović’s Kickstarter campaign by starting one of his own on GitHub. new project: mutual gaze intervention for marina abramovic. https://t.co/UAHefTLbKN if you're moved to donate leave a comment on the gist! — Kyle McDonald (@kcimc) July 29, 2013 McDonald’s […]
