New projects are total madness, and we mean that as the highest form of compliment. Whether they're about crazy dancing, crazy detectives, or they're just plain crazy adorable, we are totally crazy about them. Read on to see why, and make sure to check out our Discover page for more good project insanity. Unstoppable!

Boy can these boys dance! Loving the black-and-white video, the choreography, the hairdos, the short shorts, the photos — all of it. MADboots dance co. co-director Jonathan Campbell hails from Juilliard and his co-conspirator Austin Diaz from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. They're lining up a whole series of performances for this season and entering into a slew of choreographic festivals, and if you're in New York there are already a few cool performances to check out (Move Me Dance NYC, the HATCH Series, and Green Space's Fertile Ground to name a few). I'll be keeping my eyes on this duo fo' sho'. —Daniella J.

"On August 10, 1893, Harry Glen Ludlam, a 16 year old boy living on a farm in Sangamon County, a few miles west of Springfield, Illinois began daily entries in his diary." And so began the tale of Sangamom Songs, a project by folk musician Tom Irwin, who discovered Harry's diary more than one hundred years after it was written, and wrote a series of folk songs based on the boys' experiences. Tom's songs are beautiful, touching on narratives both personal and historical, and I love thinking about them being written in the same home and on the same land that Harry once walked. Fittingly full circle. Also, his precise knowledge of the details and events in Harry's life is deserving of a graduate degree.  — Cassie M.

Pacific Northwest bard Karl Blau has been independently recording and releasing music for years, via the illustrious DIY imprint K Records, or, more recently, his vibrant subscription music series, KLAPS, aka Kelp Lunacy Advanced Plagiarism Society. It's hard to pinpoint where Blau is going to go, having touched on everything from a reggae rendition of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, to quasi-dance records like the appropriately titled Dance Positive. Now, Blau is back with his new batch full of surprises— another series of KLAPS, which, if they are anything like the show I saw Karl perform in Brooklyn a year or so ago, should be a relaxing, bewildering set of sounds that'll have you saying to yourself, "Well, gee, that was just swell." — Mike M.

Oma & Bella had me at their project image: two elderly Jewish women, decked out in bright colors, heavy jewelry, and big sunglasses, hanging out on a boat.  More information, please! It turns out Oma & Bella is a documentary that serves as an intimate portrait of two women — one is the director Alexa's grandmother — who live together in Berlin and spend most of their days making Eastern European jewish food. The film examines memory, identity, and heritage as the women tell us stories of their time in the camps, their childhoods before the war, or what the word "meshugge" means, in between giggles. — Meaghan O. 

I read a lot of Sherlock Holmes as a kid. I'm sure it's damaged my psyche in ways not yet emergent, but until that day comes, I'll continue to enjoy things like Frank Barnett: Private Detective. Boisterous, gruesome, crazy, and all that good stuff. The actual project involves things like "Golden Hoot Plushie," cool original poster artwork, and (duh) an awesome storyline. I'm into it. — Cassie M.