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31 Kickstarter Films @ SXSW 2012!
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Project of the Day

Northern Spark is a free, dusk-to-dawn, participatory arts festival that presents visual arts, performance, films, and interactive media indoors and outdoors in both Minneapolis and St. Paul. Explore a constellation of urban arts and discover these cities in a whole new light!

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Northern Spark Twin Cities nuit blanche June 9-10 by Steve Dietz

Northern Spark is a free, dusk-to-dawn arts festival. "Explore a constellation of urban arts and discover the city in a new light."

  • 24% funded
  • $2,479 pledged
  • 38
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Technology

After a chance encounter with ambient music and a police scanner, Eric Eberhardt created You Are Listening To, a site that combines blends the two into a hypnotic, real time audio experience. Now, Eric is readying You Are Listening To for the iPhone!

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You Are Listening to Los Angeles by Eric Eberhardt

Want to help support an iPhone version of "You Are Listening to LA" and get some cool rewards in the process? Donate here!

  • 25% funded
  • $7,535 pledged
  • 8
    days left
Art Book

Lauren Fleishman spent three years interviewing and photographing couples around New York who have been together for at least 50 years, and is turning them into a sweet book of photos and stories. The results will make you misty-eyed and sentimental. You've been warned.

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Love Ever After by Lauren Fleishman

An inspiring photo book by photographer Lauren Fleishman that will share the stories of couples married over five decades.

  • 150% funded
  • $22,586 pledged
  • 14
    days left
Public Art

Bringing books to the street, The Hundred Story House is a miniature brownstone in Brooklyn that functions as a tiny lending library. It operates on the honor system and is open to all passersby. Celebrate literature through sharing!

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The Hundred Story House by Julia Marchesi

A miniature lending library and public art installation intended for Brooklyn's Cobble Hill park.

  • 92% funded
  • $11,973 pledged
  • 8
    days left
Photography

Photographer Ethan Rafal has been visually analyzing the relationship between on-going war and the declining American landscape since the outbreak of the war on terror. The appropriately titled Shock and Awe is a compendium documenting his photographic journey.

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Shock and Awe: Pre-Order the First Edition. by Ethan Rafal

A ten-year, autobiographical image, text, and found object journal examining the relationship between war and homeland decay.

  • 71% funded
  • $10,656 pledged
  • 19
    days left
Periodical

theNewerYork doesn't care about your typical fiction, or even the literary establishment at large. Instead, they publish internet forums, classified ads, love letters, punctuationless stories, and other crazy things that prove that lit mags can be whatever you want them to be.

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theNewerYork Lit Mag: We M∑§§ w/ Yoµr H£åd by theNewerYork

We publish strange forms: glossaries, epigrams, lists, flashes. With innovative design and quirky narratives, it's weird by definition.

  • 110% funded
  • $7,723 pledged
  • 31
    days left
Webseries

Set in liminal spaces for liminal moments, The Stoop Chronicles is a series of short films that connected by one common thread — the stoop. Each short follows 2 characters in 1 location as they transition into and out of love and all the juicy bits in between.

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The Stoop Chronicles by Alex Schwarm

A series of 6 unique shorts filmed in NYC. Real Characters. Complex Relationships. Right on your stoop. Coming Summer 2012.

  • 18% funded
  • $827 pledged
  • 19
    days left
Documentary

A Sundance World Documentary feature, Big Boys Gone Bananas tells the story of Swedish filmmakers Fredrik Gertten and Margarete Jangård whose doc about a lawsuit against the Dole Food Company led to their own epic battle to save their film, reputations and first amendment rights.

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BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!* on free speech in documentary film by Fredrik Gertten

First, a film about banana workers saying Dole had made them infertile. Then Dole's attack on the filmmakers. Time for another film!

  • 90% funded
  • $13,515 pledged
  • 17
    days left

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