Kickstarter

PROJECT OF THE DAY

Put the word "artisanal" next to any beloved food item, and consider us hungry. Same goes for Lindsay Laricks' fresh snow cones, which she crafts in a Kansas City food truck. Backers are rewarded with recipes, flavors, and snow cone-inspired letterpress artwork.

Fresher than Fresh Snow Cones

by Lindsay Laricks

In order to bring our all natural snow cones to the masses, we need to purchase more equipment and make some renovations to our Shasta trailer.

$2,021 pledged

32% funded

36 days to go

ANIMATION

Joe Murray is the Emmy-winning animator behind cult kids' shows Rocko's Modern Life and Camp Lazlo for Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network. He's skipping the studios to start his own all-cartoon web channel, with exclusive videos, limited-edition DVDs, original artwork, and animation classes for backers.

Launch an All-Cartoon Web Channel called KaboingTV.com with Rocko Creator Joe Murray

by Joe Murray

Rocko's Modern LIfe/Camp Lazlo Creator Joe Murray is starting a new high edge Cartoon Web Channel. Help fund the first animated Series Frog in s Suit

$8,405 pledged

50% funded

26 days to go

TECHNOLOGY

Diaspora is a project from four NYU developers who hope to build an open source social network that will allow users to fully control their online privacy and identity. Their Kickstarter project embraces openness as well: rewards include access to the nightly build server as development continues.

Decentralize the web with Diaspora

by Maxwell Salzberg

Help four talented young nerds raise money to build Diaspora, an open source personal web server to protect and share your all of your stuff online!

$19,176.13 pledged

192% funded

22 days to go

FILM

"Nothing Can Hurt Me" is Danielle McCarthy and Drew DeNicola's documentary on Big Star, a legendary and wonderful band from the early '70s enshrined in lore. Big Star's iconoclastic singer Alex Chilton died just a month ago, and this project will send Danielle and Drew to document a star-studded tribute in Memphis next month.

Nothing Can Hurt Me: The Big Star Story

by Danielle McCarthy & Drew DeNicola

A feature-length documentary about the massive acclaim, dismal commercial failure and enduring legacy of pop music’s greatest cult band, Big Star.

$13,050 pledged

217% funded

3 days to go

MUSIC

DJ Carl M. Hamm has long had a fascination with '60s Malaysian pop, collecting hidden gems and sharing them with the world. His devotion has paid off: the legendary label Sublime Frequencies has agreed to release a comp of new recordings, provided he can raise the money to collect them. Click for the full story.

MALAYSIAN 60s POP YEH YEH RESEARCH TRIP -meet artists, request interviews, plan CD

by Carl

fly to Singapore, meet contacts, travel from Spore to Johor to KL, seek legendary Malaysian and Singapore 60s pop singers & musicians, do interviews

$2,286 pledged

65% funded

5 days to go

COMMUNITY

Brooklyn Brainery hosts collaborative classes on everything from making perfume to cooking pork shoulder -- now they just need a home base! Backers of the initiative will receive everything from "seed paper" to notebooks hand-made from found materials.

Brooklyn Brainery Needs a Home!

by Jonathan Soma

We host awesomely cheap, collaborative classes on everything from making perfume to what to do with pork shoulder. Now we just need a home base!

$3,896.95 pledged

41% funded

53 days to go

FILM

"The Argument" is a short movie by a crew of award-winning film students. Backers will receive DVDs, tickets to the premiere, and a list of recommended films -- custom tailored to your taste by scriptwriter Clara!

"The Argument / L'argument" a short film

by Clara Aranovich

THE ARGUMENT is Super 16mm short film, written and directed by Clara Aranovich (USC Graduate Film Student), shooting at the end of 2010.

$10,600 pledged

106% funded

18 hours to go

PHOTOGRAPHY

“Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America” uses short film and portraiture to explore the varied experiences of queer lives in America. With Kickstarter, creators Molly and Amelia hope to turn the project into a free, traveling gallery installation.

Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America

by Molly Landreth & Amelia Tovey

Embodiment is a collection of short films and photographic portraits which explore the varied experiences of queer lives in America.

$9,170 pledged

92% funded

57 days to go

FILM

Jon Goldman's family has a long history of both being in the oil business, and of strident environmentalism. That fact is the centerpiece of his graphic novel and film, "Oil in the Family," which is nicely presented here.

Oil in the Family a film

by Jon Goldman

A feature documentary about an environmental artist's connection to the oil industry and the historic 1948 film Louisiana Story.

$8,427 pledged

84% funded

4 days to go

ART

Peep Show is an inventive art installation from PlayLab, a Brooklyn based design company. PlayLab will install a dozen large, colorful pyramids in a storefront window, each with a peep hole revealing something unexpected.

PlayLab's Peep Show

by The Office of PlayLab, Inc.

Peep Show is a sculpture inside a vacant storefront in Norfolk, VA. It offers what someone normally wouldn’t see, something that makes them smile.

$868.91 pledged

72% funded

21 days to go

FILM

Last week, Neil Gaiman recommended Titania's world of high fantasy and gothic stylings to his 1.4 million followers on Twitter. Lisa Stock's melding of Greek mythology to Shakespeare and Russian fairytales left an impression on the master of gothic fantasy himself. Click to see why.

TITANIA

by Lisa

The faery queen, Titania, embarks on a journey of rediscovery after she is betrayed and brutally attacked within the forest of her realm.

$6,848 pledged

68% funded

10 days to go

FOOD

Yes internet, there are still Brooklyn rooftops without urban farms. Brooklyn Grange is an enormous one-acre farm on a Brooklyn roof growing all sorts of sustainable vegetables. Most of the produce is for local pick-up only, but they invite backers outside NYC to get in touch for arrangements.

Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm

by Brooklyn Grange

Brooklyn Grange will be a 1 acre rooftop farm in New York City.

$6,977.50 pledged

35% funded

18 days to go

MUSIC

Help beloved indie label Kill Rock Stars re-issue the collected works of influential punk band Kleenex/LiLiPUT as a deluxe 4LP boxset! Rewards include downloads,test presses, tour diaries, and rare footage.

Kleenex/Liliput "Liliput" 4lp box

by kill rock stars

Kill Rock Stars needs your help to make the 4-LP box set of Kleenex/LiLiPUT's collected works a reality!

$3,895.63 pledged

19% funded

10 days to go

PHOTOGRAPHY

For the last five years, photographer Rachel Sussman has traveled the world photographing its oldest living things. Her spectacular finds have included everything from predatory fungus to 100,000 year old sea grass - but she's not done yet! With Kickstarter, she'll complete the project and turn it into a book.

The Oldest Living Things in the World

by rachel sussman

I'm researching, working with biologists, and traveling all over the world to find & photograph continuously living organisms 2,000 years old or older

$7,198 pledged

72% funded

40 days to go

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