Lately I’ve been looking back at photos taken in previous years…I guess to try and remember where my head or heart was at a given time.
This is a screenshot I took of @AmandaPalmer’s “Theatre Is Evil” @Kickstarter almost a year ago to the minute for some reason or another.*#AmandaPalmer #AFP #Kickstarter #CrowdFunding #latergram #iPhone #screenshot #Safari
Amazing internet time warp
It was gonna be my graduation party from high school. But then she could [only] do it in July, so it was just a normal backyard bash. My parents were here. She came here about 4:30. And then we hung out and talked and swam. I knew she liked hummus and pita bread, so we had to go somewhere special to get that. And she enjoys her wine, so we had wine. Well, she had wine. Her manager brought her piano to the backyard underneath the lamppost. And she played for like an hour. We got to hear the album before anyone else. Then we sat around a campfire. I couldn’t even think straight when she was near me. We were lying in the grass together, and then one of my friends was like, ‘Can you sign my phone?’ So she was on my stomach, like, signing people’s phones. And I was, like, lying there shaking. It was amazing.
—Weston Verdegaal, age 19, on the time he backed Amanda Palmer’s project, and then she played his parents’s backyard, via NY Magazine
still of my #TED2013 talk by @daddybetes. totally wondering if TED will airbrush my insane pit stains for the final cut. they might. they have SCIENCE.
Love seeing all these creators on stage at TED. Can’t wait to see the talk, and we really hope they don’t photoshop AFP’s pit stains.
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#theatre is evil
This is what one extremely happy Amanda Palmer fan looks like.
Mail call!
Kickstarter HQ just received our reward for backing Amanda Palmer — a package stuffed to the brim with artwork, new tunes, and even a really spiffy stereopticon emblazoned: “Thank You.”
Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra thanking their backers.
Not gonna lie, Amanda Palmer may be the only person we know with a Gucci chainsaw.
Incorporating an entire gallery filled with visual art created by Palmer and her friends, all connected to the forthcoming album, with live performance and lots of interaction with the crowd, the event did appear to be one giant art project. And the message wasn’t simply that Palmer has a new album on the way and it’s going to be awesome. It’s that you can create too.
—Amanda Palmer Brings Her Traveling Art Party To L.A. Kickstarter Backers. Love you, AP.
Amanda Palmer held a block party for backers as her project was ending. It was awesome, as you can see in this video. Which reminds us, all projects should have countdown parties!
We love a good parody.
Our own Yancey Strickler reflects on what Amanda Palmer’s million dollar project means and how she did it. A must read.
Amanda Palmer’s latest project update gets real. Really real: “Here’s some very back-of-the-napkin costs to manufacture the goods, with a rough estimate of about what we’d have sold if we got to a million.”
Transparency has always been a hallmark of a well-run Kickstarter project, and while nobody is surprised to see Palmer hitting the home-run of all cost-breakdown-project-updates, we are still really psyched about it. Plus, this:
ONE…we are committed to doing amazing things for all of you who pledged. sure, it’s going to cost more to make things extra fancy (and for us to ship things for FREE all over the world), but making this stuff amazing IS THE POINT. if i skimped on making the packaging and actual products INCREDIBLE, i’d be an idiot.
You might already know Amanda Palmer from her stint with indie-cabaret act The Dresden Dolls, her marriage to author Neil Gaiman, or any number of her exploits as a piano-playing, ukulele-wielding, creativity-inspiring indie star. Her latest release, anticipated by eager fans for years, will be a multimedia explosion of collaborative art featuring contributors like Tao Lin, Shepard Fairey, and Robyn Hitchcock. When you’re Amanda Freakin’ Palmer, you go big or go home. Or, you go Project of the Day — which she’s doing rightthisminute.
Amanda Palmer: Still goin’ strong, posts her first project update. (Warning: language!)
This is a pretty awesome Twitter timeline of Amanda Palmer’s Kickstarter project. (If you haven’t yet, check that out here.)
