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KICKSTARTER DIGEST, 5.17: Everything you need to know about today, in a glance.
Project of the Day: Darling Magazine
On the blog: A round-up of cool, new projects that are taking back the streets, like Brooklyn’s Tumble Mural:
Every day, thousands of people walk by the library on Cortelyou Road in the vibrant, community-orientated neighborhood of Ditmas Park in Brooklyn. The problem? The building’s bare, brick exterior is nowhere near as inviting as the dynamic pubic institution it conceals. So resident/ambitious artist Kathryne Hall is hoping to dress up the drab wall with a colorful, graphic mural. “It is abstract,” she explains in the project description. “But evokes falling leaves, children playing, floating flags or even a windswept piece of paper; all possibilities with no right answer.” She’ll accomplish the feat with help from local high schoolers, making this a true community effort from start to finish.
Projects We Love:
This week’s newsletter features a banana piano, video game heists, and the chance to be part of a major Hollywood production.
Curious?
Kickstarter IRL:
NPR’s “MonkeySee” blog gave some love to The Sonnet Exchange project (only nine hours left!).
Bitch Magazine Q&Aed the Speculative Feminist Anthology, which collects the last 40+ years of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writing from women authors.
The Creator’s Project explored the studio of artist Melissa F. Clarke, who just
launched a project to fund the production of her next piece:
…her ongoing work Untitled Antartica, deals with gathering seismic data from beneath the ice, mapping and rendering real-time results as two video sculptures with accompanying soundscape, and a series of stills printed as silver gelatin prints.
Something you may not have known about:
Our newsletter archive. You can browse all the past Projects We’ve Loved — many of them have gone on to do some pretty amazing things!
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![Kickstarted: my conversation with Kickstarter co-founder Perry Chen.
We would like [Kickstarter] to be a fundamental tool for the liberation or the acceleration of our own creativity. I think that, when we’re younger — whatever that means — we have ideas all the time. We embrace our ideas. We say, ‘Oh, I’m going to do this. I’m going to throw this event with a friend. I’m going to have this play, this movie, this thing.’ You have not yet been taught the realities of life, that, “You can’t do that because of this and that or the other thing.” Very often, that other thing is money. Over time, because of the constraints, with money being the biggest one (or the most common one) we start to squash down our ideas.
We don’t have to squash down our ideas because of the harsh realities of the real world. From a very emotional level, that’s the dream.
That’s the dream!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4fqx4ButQ1qzbiclo1_500.jpg)
