Kickstarter

PROJECT OF THE DAY

Location, location, location. Continuing with the week's mapping theme, Stephen Williams wants to turn your city's aerial grid into an earrings design. For $50, the custom earrings are yours — plus a friendly phone call from the designers.

Streets Earrings

by Stephen Williams

Help Hannes, John and I make a batch of Streets Earrings and turn the streets of your home town or favorite city into some gold plated earrings.

$1,122 pledged

75% funded

25 days to go

FILM

This project would send Yeasayer, the Polyphonic Spree, and a third, unnamed act to perform in Uganda in support of Invisible Children, an org that helps victims of the Ugandan conflict. The entire trip will be lovingly documented and shared with backers — if they can hit their goal as the clock ticks down!

Take Away Shows in Uganda, with Polyphonic Spree & Yeasayer

by Invisible Children / Blogotheque

To help end Africa's longest running war, Invisible Children and La Blogothèque will team up to film Take Away Shows in Uganda with three bands.

$20,270.55 pledged

101% funded

7 hours to go

TECHNOLOGY

Brett Camper built the popular Trees Near You iPhone app, and now he's making 8-Bit NYC, a map of the city rendered to look like something out of Zelda. He's offering postcards and posters of his chip-mapped creation to fund the mapping of more cities.

8-Bit Cities: real-world maps that look like 80s video games

by Brett Camper

Help me create interactive web maps of real cities, in the 8-bit style of 1980s video games. Try it out at 8bitnyc.com.

$3,424 pledged

114% funded

28 days to go

TECHNOLOGY

Famulus is a self-described open source hardware hacker who's decided to construct an open source version of the Bussard Fusion Reactor. Best of all, the rewards reflect the project beautifully: laser-engraved gaskets, clever stencils, and hacked jewelry.

Building the Open Source Bussard Fusion Reactor

by Famulus

Building an open source Bussard fusion reactor, aka the Polywell.

$2,734 pledged

91% funded

5 days to go

FILM

We've fallen in love with Joel Schroeder's "cinematic exploration of Calvin & Hobbes." Not only will Bill Watterson's creations finally get their on-screen due, the story is being told from a fan's perspective, as Schroeder examines the impact Calvin & Hobbes have had on, well, everything. It's been a great project, and this week is your last chance to join in.

Dear Mr. Watterson - a cinematic exploration of Calvin & Hobbes

by Joel Schroeder

Dear Mr. Watterson is a documentary film that will celebrate and explore the art and impact of Calvin & Hobbes, created by Bill Watterson.

$21,184 pledged

177% funded

4 days to go

VIDEO

"Dragons" is a ridiculous TV show about two skaters and their quest for enlightenment. Or maybe it's just to party, skate, and have a good time. Either way, the clips in the project video are amazing, and the rewards look great. Hilarious stuff.

DRAGONS

by David Lukasik

Dragons is a t.v. show about two busted up skateboard buddies on a mission to gain true freedom through goofy and unorthodox ways.

$2,970 pledged

37% funded

39 days to go

FILM

Geoff Edgars' documentary on the Kinks, "Do It Again," was one of Kickstarter's very first success stories. But the movie still needs help. To complete the film and prepare its release, he's launched a second project to share his quest to reunite the Kinks.

Do It Again... Promoting the Film About My Irrational Quest to Reunite the Kinks

by Geoff Edgers

We made 'Do It Again,' a film about my quest to reunite the '60s rock band, The Kinks. Now we need help to show the film off at festivals.

$1,573 pledged

52% funded

48 days to go

JOURNALISM

Ted Rall is a journalist, cartoonist, and writer who won awards for his coverage of the Afghanistan war in 2001 for the Nation and Washington Post. This project will send Rall to cover the new phase of the war, and he's bringing his readers with him via updates from the field.

Comix Journalism: Send Ted Rall Back to Afghanistan to Get the Real Story

by Ted Rall

Cover travel costs for independent cartoonist/war correspondent to travel and live with Afghans. He report from Afghanistan and write a book.

$9,325 pledged

37% funded

25 days to go

VIDEO

"Superhero" is a web series about Superman by three NYU film students. Their goal is to create a live-action comic, and you can see the results of their clever approach in their project video. The entire series on DVD runs just $15.

Superhero Web Series: A Live Action Comic Book!

by Steve LaMorte

A 12 part Unofficial Superhero Web Series combining live action characters with an animated world to create a "living comic book"!

$1,901 pledged

106% funded

52 days to go

ART

The Apology Line is a free phone-line allowing callers to leave anonymous apologies on an answering machine. Their project video -- a sampling of the project's apologies -- is a must-hear.

THE APOLOGY LINE

by William Bridges

We want to set up a freephone telephone line across the US allowing people to leave anonymous apologies on an answering machine.

$1,315 pledged

13% funded

81 days to go

BOOK

We were quickly charmed by the video for "The Elbows," a new novel from William Burck, which involves a menagerie of people claiming authorship. That participatory flavor flows through the project: chapters have been posted as project updates and the rewards are excellent.

THE ELBOWS: A Window Into the Novel

by William Burck

THE ELBOWS is my first novel. This project will enable me to commission a cover artist and print copies of the book for backers.

$2,272.37 pledged

76% funded

24 days to go

PHOTOGRAPHY

Thomas Haden is a former producer for Google Street View with a cool plan: to essentially street-map the Grand Canyon. To do it, Haden will take a white-water raft through the Canyon using a GigaPan camera, which produces stunning images.

Grand Canyon GigaView

by Thomas Hayden

18 days, 286 river miles, 1 camera, Gigs & Gigs of Images...A Virtual Tour worthy of America's premier natural attraction.

$524 pledged

21% funded

15 days to go

GAME

Comic artist James Kochalka and neo-retro gamers Pixeljam are teaming up for a new game called "Glorkian Warrior," and they're funding the development through Kickstarter. They have great rewards (the game itself is just $10), and their video is one of the best we've seen yet. Great stuff!

James Kochalka + Pixeljam = Glorkian Warrior

by Pixeljam

James Kochalka and Pixeljam are making a video game called Glorkian Warrior.

$10,230.51 pledged

102% funded

12 days to go

ART

The basics for "1024 bits of you and me" couldn't be simpler: pledge $10, submit a word or phrase, and receive a painting by Pesi of the word. He's been posting tons of project updates with examples, and all have been terrific.

1024 bits of you and me

by pesi

you give me words, i give you art. repeat 1024 times. a book gets made. awesome!

$3,960.38 pledged

39% funded

38 days to go

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