Kickstarter Reads
Here’s a few things from outside Kickstarter we’ve been reading and thinking about this week. Most are about art and creativity in general — things that caught our eye and stuck with us. We hope you enjoy.
Arthur Ganson’s poetic machines
Arthur Ganson makes gorgeously complex machines that execute a simple task. In one of his most affecting (shown above), an intricate series of springs and wheels are employed to make a single wishbone walk. Here he talks about love, art, and machines.
Famous Japanese anime director Satoshi Kon died last week at the age of 46. Shortly before, he penned this extraordinary farewell letter. It’s intensely personal and intimate but also speaks to a larger human audience with incredible honesty about something we all fear: the inability to finish what we started.
We cannot survive without cultural expression
Simon Brault argues passionately that creative expression is a basic human need. Never mind that he’s referring to policy in Canada, when he says “The conversation around arts is reduced to the economy or to presenting a cultural product…not a broad conversation about what arts and culture bring to people who have a need for expressive life,” we hear him loud and clear.
