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maxistentialist:

Hey Tumblr friends, I made this game called Cards Against Humanity and it’s in stock right now.

Better get on this one, guys. It’s known to sell-out quickly…

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Once upon a time, a woman named Bethany Heck launched a Kickstarter to create an old-school style baseball scorebook. “The book is designed for beginners,” she wrote. “With lots of spaces to take notes on what you ate, who sang the national anthem, where you sat and what the weather was like…The goal is to make scorekeeping fun again.” Her project was a success, and quickly became an all-time staff favorite — we still remember fondly the day our books arrived. We spent all afternoon passing them around the office, crowing over the thoughtful details, the lovely design, and fantasizing about all the hot days (and hot dogs) ahead of us at the ball park. But Bethany wasn’t finished! Since then, she’s wowed us with The Eephus League of Baseball Minutiae, a site for fans to share everything from player nicknames to baseball cards and photographs, and now, the debut of The Eephus League Magazine:

Through this publication I hope to delve deeper into the nooks and crannies of our game, and preserve these small pieces of triviality lovingly and permanently. It is as much a tribute to the game itself as to its enormous and diverse group of fans. Much of the content inside was generated by passionate and talented fans, expressing their love of the game in infinitely unique and personal ways. Baseball touches each of us in different ways, and in turn the manners in which we express our connection are incomparable.

With its impeccable design and spirited content, we predict many a future baseball fan to come. Be sure to check it out!

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Not too long ago, the International Supper Club successfully raised funds on Kickstarter for a 15,000 mile journey across Europe and Asia, during which they planned to document the continent’s myriad people, culinary styles, and sub-cultures. It was something they’d already been doing for years — a map of the meals they’d had at the time their project launched spans fifteen countries, from the Netherlands to Italy — but they were hungry to finish the tour.

As fans of anything that involves food or travel, we’ve since become readers of the couple’s blog, where we’re regularly charmed senseless by tales of adventure, food, life, and people. A great example? The story of Robb and Ania (above), which begins simply: “When Robb met Ania, he fell in love almost immediately.” The rest of the post goes on to detail the pairs unusual courtship over a three year around-the-world bike tour, pairing anecdotes from the road with cool videos and photos of wonderful, home-cooked Polish food. Says Ania about the overall experience:

Traveling with another person is not easy, and it is even more difficult when it’s someone you love. But, being together so much on the road has made our relationship stronger. Of course we had bad times, and not only few, but we managed. We got through all of our difficulties holding hands. 22,000 kilometers later, we still hold them. This, to me, is beautiful.

We love that. And you can follow along, too! Just visit their blog for regular updates from the road.

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Last year, the ambitious found-sounders behind The Silk Road in Stereo raised enough funds on Kickstarter to embark on an audio exploration of Europe, Central Asia, and Mongolia. They drove from the U.K. to Mongolia, collecting the sounds of this massive — and massively diverse — landmass, like local pop music, off-air radio, field recordings of performances, and the murmurs of daily life. But the best part? They did it all from the front seat of a car plastered with the names of their backers. This morning, our own Elisabeth Holm received a photograph of hers in action. So cool.

"Q: What advantage did going on Kickstarter give you?

A: Kickstarter is really cool because basically you can chat with the community, talk directly to the customer and find out what they want, what they are thinking, and impress them."

— Aww.

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Aww.

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16 Under-The-Radar Food Magazines Worth Reading. We spy some former Kickstarter projects in this round-up: twice successful creators Put A Egg On It and Remedy Quarterly. Nice!

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The 100 Most Creative People in Business, 2012. Hi Cindy!

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tacanderson:

Zombie Apocalypse, the Board Game. Want! I obviously need to hang out on Kickstarter more often to see all the cool stuff. 

We know, right?!?!

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hannahmiet:

I wrote about Crazy and Proud for The New York Times in February, while Lowell Handler was raising money for the project through Kickstarter. 

In 1999, Lowell Handler, who has Tourette’s syndrome, began teaching photography to mentally ill women at a city shelter. He has already reached his $3,300 goal and will use all the money he raises by his deadline — Saturday night — to make an e-book of the photographs taken by these women, accompanied by audio interviews he conducted with them.

“I found that these women in these shelters were taking better photographs than the students I taught in colleges,” Mr. Handler said. The students “knew a little about photography, but they knew nothing about life,” he said, adding, “The women knew nothing about photography, but they knew everything about life.”

The e-book was funded, and is now on sale to general public. The first chapter is free on the Crazy and Proud website. 

The successfully funded animated film The Price continues to plug away, updating us frequently via their super cool production blog. A recent project update pointed out to us that animating hair is rather difficult, something we never fully appreciated until we witnessed this series of “Neil Hair Tests” (Yes, that Neil):

That lead us to using 3D hair systems (which, although they have been around awhile now, are still notoriously difficult to work with). After much trial and error, we’ve gotten most of the bugs worked-out, but I thought you might get a kick out of some of these not-quite-successful experiments.

Ha!

maxistentialist:

I kept some bees with Bike·a·Bee today. BIke·a·Bee is a project that my friend Jana started on Kickstarter. She has five hives all around Chicago right now and she’s looking for a summer intern.

Hey Chicago! Who wants to hang out with some bikes and bees? (We would if we were there.)

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housingworksbookstore:

innocents-abroad:

Last night’s launch at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe was wonderfully successful! Thanks so much to everyone who came out and supported us. And especially thank you to those who’ve already donated to our Kickstarter. If we can keep up this pace, we’ll hit our goal in 17 days, and actually get to keep the money!

PS - Haven’t seen the new episode yet? Here it is!

Watch, kick the start, all the things.

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mrjakeparker:

Starting to draw the sketches for the Antler Boy books. #kickstarter (Taken with instagram)

EXCITED!

Tables For Two: Littleneck Clam Shack →

Our Kickstarter-funded buddies at the Littleneck Clam Shack in Gowanus just got honored with a restaurant review in the New Yorker:

Opened by a couple of former rock musicians, the enterprise is almost a compendium of the Zeitgeist: furnishings are made from salvaged materials, nightly specials are tweeted, and capital was raised on Kickstarter. In their fund-raising video, the owners hang out near the canal. “You know what goes great with clams?” says one. “Beer.” His colleague: “You know what goes great with beer? Clams.”

Having dined their recently ourselves, we add our enthusiastic endorsement to the heap! This spot is tops.