Tag: Kickstarter
The camera lucida is not a new invention — the optical drawing aid has been used by many master artists throughout the 19th century. With a clever application of optics, this tool lets artists “see” both their hand as well as a holographic-like illusion of their subject on paper, allowing him to draw with photographic precision […]
Over the past 30 years, the Coney Island Mermaid Parade has become the country’s largest art parade. With its shimmering, extravagant floats, fabulously zany performers, and pastie-plastered nips as far as the eye can see, there’s really nothing like it. But after Sandy destroyed the freakshow, museum, and performance space whose revenue provides funding, this […]
What happens when you can’t connect to the internet on-the-go? Nothing, absolutely nothing. Ushahidi, a non-profit tech company based in Africa is hoping to change all that with what they call “a backup generator for the internet.” BRCK is not exactly a new technology, but it’s a great way to use older technology yet much more wisely. […]
Mother Nature might be a bit of a ring pop-sucking club kid, because she made bioluminescent bacteria. Woo. While it occurs naturally in aquatic settings, it’s become prime fodder for genetic engineers, who are constantly trying to reproduce that neon glow-in-the-dark splendor in lab settings. That’s pretty cool. But don’t you want YOUR OWN genetically engineered […]
Three Brooklyn-based artists want to put a 10-foot interactive music box on Governors Island for this year’s Figment art festival, but they need your help–to the tune of $3,500. Naturally, the’yre turning to Kickstarter. Geddes Levenson, Ashley Goeller, and Kelly Goeller envision a giant box with two spools and two handles–one for the melody, one […]
A new Kickstarter project was launched today for a documentary about Aaron Swartz. Directed by Brian Knappenberger, The Internet’s Own Boy explores the life of internet activist and programming pioneer from his formative years on the internet and involvement in both RSS and Reddit up into his final days of arrest and prosecution involving the downloading of nearly four million academic […]
Michael Malice is a very successful celebrity ghostwriter, co-authoring books with D.L. Hughley and Bret Michaels, and then there was this one time Harvey Pekar wrote a book about him. For his seventh book, he’s doing something crazy. Also, he’s never going back to North Korea. “I would never go back there,” Malice tells ANIMAL. “People go to the gulag if […]
The Library of Congress has added another tour de force to its collection: Emoji Dick, welcome to the literary canon. The 735-page “book” is an adaption of Moby Dick, fully “translated” into emoji form by NYC micro-engineer Fred Benenson (along with thousands of contracted helpers). The Kickstarter-funded project is the first emoji book ever to […]
Photographer Cheyne Gallarde took to Kickstarter last year with a unique way to raise hype and funds for his Universe of One self-portrait series. The project was designed to be a book in which he’d take on the likenesses of a large cast of characters from a variety of backgrounds and genders — an idea derived […]
Designer Derrick Cruz created this appropriately creepy, minimal bust of Ian Curtis, which shows the late Joy Division singer emerging, face-only, from a 10-inch solid porcelain block. He’s also made perhaps the artsiest Kickstarter video of all time in hopes of getting the thing funded, which you can watch above. Cruz is no stranger to […]
