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Tag Archives: kickstarter
Afghanistan: The Power of Photography
Free and open media are at the heart of maintaining a free and democratic state. This is especially applicable to photojournalism, due to the power of photographs to convey emotion and meaning often eluding other media forms. This was a … Continue reading
Camera Lucida – Get Yours Now!
What if you could use a simple device with a prism to “trace” an object on paper that was actually in front of you. Would this revolutionize how we do art? It turns out that according to theory, that’s exactly … Continue reading
Free Animation Course by Bill Plympton
Want to learn more about animation from one of its masters? Bill Plympton is an animator who hand draws all of his frames – a dying art that has almost been completely replaced by Pixar-style computer animation. Don’t get me … Continue reading
Peace through Dance
Every now and then, I like to see what people are up to on Kickstarter, and how they make their pitch – in particular the video projects. Now and then you come across some really interesting projects. “Dancing in Jaffa” … Continue reading
Project Wild Thing: childhood’s not what it used to be
According to a 2007 study released by UNICEF, children in the U.S. and UK are among the unhappiest in 21 industrialized countries. One British filmmaker thinks it’s because our kids no longer play outside. When I was young, we’d head … Continue reading
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iPhone meets Polaroid
File this under “How Come I Didn’t Think of This First?” I know they have little printers you can attach to your iPhone, but this is by the people who bought the very last Polaroid factory, and they’ve found a … Continue reading
Documentary: Youngest Woman to Box in the Olympics
Meet 17 year-old Claressa “T-Rex” Shields, the youngest woman – and one of the first – to ever box in the Olympics. Filmmakers Zakary Canepari, Drea Cooper, Sue Jaye Johnson and Bianca Darville have been collaborating to document Shields’s journey to … Continue reading
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Cabbit J. Tutelary – a Kickstarter Animation
I was introduced another interesting animation project on Kickstarter by John Kassab, the project’s sound designer. The animation, called Cabbit J. Tutelary, consists of a unique style of hand-drawn (with ultra fine sharpies) frames running at 12 fps. The creative … Continue reading
Back the short film “Cicada Princess”
Ever think about backing a film? “Cicada Princess”, by Mauricio Baiocchi will, with a little support from reg’lar folks like us, become a 5-minute short film and companion book. It’s a story based on the remarkable lives of cicadas, which … Continue reading
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Lovin’ the Lunch Love
Via Kickstarter.com, which could be a blog post in and of itself, I had the opportunity to take part in a film project. An old friend of mind from college who decided to pursue a (successful) career in film (unlike … Continue reading