Tag: Kickstarter
Today, Marina Abramović — the most (only?) mainstream-famous performance artist in the world and a very, very rich person — launched a Kickstarter campaign to build the Marina Abramović Institute dedicated to the performance, preservation and audience participation of long durational works. $600,000 y’all! Oh, I know. YOU HATE THAT. YOU HATE THAT SO MUCH. Because… […]
To mark the 30th anniversary of Graffiti Rock, a hip-hop variety show that aired one nationally syndicated episode from WPIX in 1984, Michael Holman, the show’s creator, is reissuing the show, along with a documentary that goes behind the scenes of how the show was made. As is de rigueur these days, he’s set up a Kickstarter to fund it […]
Savn.tv, a media production company associated with the religious and conservative Salvation Army is asking for $100,000 to fund their new anti-porn and anti-prostitution documentary Hard Corps on Kickstarter. The documentary contains interviews with “current and former porn stars, directors, anti-porn specialists and addiction therapists,” as well as “undercover footage” taken in brothels. Aside from exhibiting all the aesthetics […]
Here’s an exciting development for investigative journalists and anyone else interested in uncovering what their government is doing: FOIA Machine, a new service designed to simplify the often arduous, complex, and time-consuming process of filing a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain federal government documents. FOIA Machine’s creators bill it as a “TurboTax for […]
Because many of the best subway musicians will never get the audiences or recognition they deserve, one New Yorker is starting a series of concerts to bring them above ground. Subway Sets, produced by Dan Pierson, will feature one concert per month at a TBD rooftop location, each showcasing three veterans of the underground circuit. […]
For the past three years, Burning Man has featured what it calls a Circle of Regional Effigies–that is, a set of wooden sculptures contributed from groups of artists around the world that, naturally, are eventually set on fire and burned to the ground. That pleasantly clean and minimal thing you see above is New York […]
We’ve seen robotic roaches and tweet-controlled critters before, but nothing quite like this. RoboRoach, currently funding on Kickstarter, is a $99 kit that would allow users to turn a cockroach–yes, an actual, living cockroach–into their own personal cyborg. See the thing in action above. Getting the bug under your command is just as gruesome as you might imagine. […]
Pirate 3D, a startup out of Sinagpore, raised $200,000 dollars in just hours on Kickstarter yesterday. Why? Because it promises to make 3D printing more accessible than ever, with a printer called the Buccaneer that will retail for just $347 and could begin shipping as early as December. Pirate 3D also hopes to lower the barrier […]
File this one under “things I’m glad exist even though I’ll never actually use them myself.” Monkey Light, currently funding on Kickstarter, is a series of LED lights that attach to your bike’s wheels, displaying full-color animations when you ride between 10 and 40 miles per hour. Take a look below: Not exactly sure what […]
Inspired by the miniature Pixies renaissance of recent years, the band’s webmaster began compiling vintage photos of the group and hopes to release a book, PIXIES: A Visual History, later this year. He’s taking to Kickstarter to fund the thing (natch), and for a $75 donation, you’ll get a first pressing of the book in all its […]
