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@globalFEST_NYC: 10th year of the groundbreaking festival by globalFEST
10th anniversary of the groundbreaking world music festival + non-profit organization. Now year-round.
Successful!- 156% funded
- $23,531 pledged
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Oct 16, 2012
We love globalFEST - and think that Bill does a great job with this project. We're happy to feature this excellent event on our page!
- The Galapagos team!
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Northside Town Hall Community and Cultural Center by Northside Town Hall
Two Brooklyn neighborhoods are working to convert a shuttered firehouse into a one-of-a-kind center for art and community service.
Successful!- 100% funded
- $20,053 pledged
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Sep 13, 2012
Williamsburg! Ah, the neighborhood we were born in, how we miss thee -
We can't say enough about the idea to create a BEAUTIFUL TOWN HALL in WB - and the folks behind it have a deep commitment to making it brilliant!
Three cheers for the WB Town Hall!
- The Galapagos Team
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CreativeMornings: Creating an Archive by swissmiss
CreativeMornings wants to build a growing, searchable archive of every talk from its 34 chapters around the world.
Successful!- 226% funded
- $79,374 pledged
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Sep 17, 2012
WE LOVE Creative Mornings and are SO happy they've started a Kickstarter project!
CM is one of the smartest, most thoughtful and important projects happening, and delivers the "right now" going on in the heads of the best thinkers in the world.
- The Galapagos Team
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Charlie Victor Romeo Film by Bob Berger & Patrick Daniels
Theatrical documentary CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO brought to the screen with cutting-edge stereoscopic 3D technology.
Successful!- 102% funded
- $25,699 pledged
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Aug 20, 2012
Charlie, Victor, Romeo is a haunting and visionary piece or work created by fantastic people we've known for a long time.
Be a part of something beautiful - CVR is it.
- Robert Elmes for Galapagos Art Space
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So Percussion's Where (we) Live - recording and performances by So Percussion
Where (we) Live is a new collaborative performance project from So Percussion and also a record out 9/25 on Cantaloupe Music!
Successful!- 173% funded
- $13,005 pledged
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Aug 04, 2012
We LOVE So Percussion! This is a great example of solid music and a solid vision. Go So Percussion!
- The Galapagos Team
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MaKey MaKey: An Invention Kit for Everyone by Jay Silver
Ever played Mario on Play-Doh or Piano on Bananas? Alligator clip the Internet to your world and start inventing the future.
Successful!- 2,272% funded
- $568,106 pledged
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Jun 12, 2012
I had a Radio Shack invention kit when I was a kid, and I loved it. Every kid should have one of these - learning rocks ;)
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The Kite Machine by Whitney Richardson
A re-purposed snack machine distributing easy-to-assemble, handmade kites around New York City.
Successful!- 121% funded
- $3,032 pledged
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Jun 02, 2012
We love kites! Our DUMBO Kite Flying Society (for kids, on the first Saturday of each month in Brooklyn Bridge Park) positively gushed when we showed them this wonderful project!
- The Galapagos Team
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MANDORLA by Jenny Rocha
Rocha Dance Theater will perform MANDORLA at HERE, April 11th-15th! A performance of dance theater, video and visual design!
Successful!- 110% funded
- $1,770 pledged
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Mar 25, 2012
We LOVE Jenny's work - she's the smartest, brightest, coolest choreographer working in NYC today.
This is work you should know about and few artists have the courage to create such clear, open narrative. That takes guts and Jenny has our respect and admiration.
- Galapagos
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WAX MAGAZINE by Zak
WAX is a new print publication about the connection point between artistic practice and the culture of surfing.
Successful!- 108% funded
- $16,246 pledged
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Mar 23, 2012
A magazine about surfers who are also artists, designers, and authors - while sporting the latest materials of surfing and how they affect our experiences in nature?
We're in.
- The Galapagos Team
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What Makes a Baby by Cory Silverberg
A modern picture book about where babies come that it fits for every kind of family and every kind of kid.
Successful!- 689% funded
- $65,516 pledged
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Mar 16, 2012
What a great idea - all modern and normal and truthful - it does take a village. We love this project!
- The Galapagos Team
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Circus Amok Tour 2012 by Circus Amok
Circus Amok will return in 2012!! Help us bring our one-ring, queer, celebratory spectacle to your very own New York City park!
Successful!- 109% funded
- $19,100 pledged
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Feb 14, 2012
Galapagos LOVES Circus Amok!
We've worked with them many, many times and strongly believe in this company of artists.
These are lifers, folks. Circus Amok is the real deal and they'll be the real deal for the rest of their lives.
Go Circus Amok!
- The Galapagos Team
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Some Stories Are True That Never Happened by Erika Lutzner
"Some stories are true that never happened" (Elie Wiesel) Where do fact and fiction meet? I aim to explore this question.
Successful!- 104% funded
- $2,602 pledged
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Feb 09, 2012
A project that seeks out and works to document the space between truth and experience - we don't see enough of that courage as often as we should.
- The Galapagos Team
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Explore The Underwater Realm by Realm Pictures
A series of five films set entirely underwater exploring our oceans like never before!!
Successful!- 169% funded
- $101,610 pledged
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Jan 01, 2012
One of the best Kickstarter video pitches ever - watch and support this project. We love it.
- The Galapagos team
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Freight Farms: Grow Fresh Food in Any Environment by Jon Friedman and Brad McNamara
Modular and expandable crop production units. It's sustainable design allows high yield agriculture to empower community growth.
Successful!- 118% funded
- $30,974 pledged
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Dec 31, 2011
Fantastic idea. Contribution - what a beautiful value it is.
- The Galapagos team!
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Mink proves ultra-luxe vegan shoes are possible,you can too! by Rebecca Mink
Help us protect the innocent and look good doing it! You do not need animal products or harmful materials to make a fabulous shoe!
Successful!- 100% funded
- $11,000 pledged
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Sep 19, 2011
Yes! We love this!
- The Galapagos Team!
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Baltimore: A History, Block by Block by James Singewald
There are ten main streets in Baltimore that I will photograph. I seek solutions on how to bring these historic places back to life.
Successful!- 118% funded
- $5,107 pledged
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Sep 13, 2011
Go Baltimore!
- Galapagos
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From My Mothers Womb - 2.0 by Graham John Bell
FROM MY MOTHER’S WOMB 2.0 a developing photography and film exposé of people living on the streets of Skid Row, Los Angeles in 2011.
Successful!- 121% funded
- $6,549 pledged
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Oct 21, 2011
We knew this area back in the early 80's and we saw the little micro economy that fed this area. Beneath the dirt, the illness, the squalor, there was a real sense of pride and cooperation. This is a story that needs to be told.
- Galapagos
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Follies in Concert by Short North Stage by Short North Stage
FOLLIES--Short North Stage's premiere production. For lovers of great musicals.Featuring an unforgettable score by Stephen Sondheim.
Successful!- 122% funded
- $6,110 pledged
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Sep 23, 2011
Go Short North Stage!
Go, go, go!
- Galapagos
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URBAN THEATRE MOVEMENT Presents SHORT EYES by Miguel Piñero by Urban Theatre Movement
Urban Theatre Movement presents SHORT EYES by Miguel Piñero at the Los Angeles Theatre Center opening November 18, 2011.
Successful!- 101% funded
- $8,118 pledged
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Oct 17, 2011
A strong project worthy of donation - this is a real vision.
- The Galapagos Team
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An Extraordinary Echo: A Ballet to the Music of Ian Axel by In-Sight Dance Company
Come explore the echo generation as they inspire change, celebrate life, and push the human race forward in this full length ballet.
Successful!- 106% funded
- $1,590 pledged
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Oct 03, 2011
Once in a while we see a project so beautiful we ask ourselves 'why don't they double their ask?' - this is one of those projects.
- The Galapagos Team
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MADboots dance co. by MADboots dance
Launching MADboots dance co. into the NYC dance scene! Help us aquire space to create & the platform to share our choreographic voice!
Successful!- 148% funded
- $1,629 pledged
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Oct 16, 2011
A worthy cause, a beautiful dance,
- The Galapagos Team
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Numbered by Dana Doron and Uriel Sinai
Numbered examines our relationship with what has become one of The Holocaust's most notorious "trademarks" - the numbered tattoo.
Successful!- 122% funded
- $6,140 pledged
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Jul 22, 2011
Yes.
- The Galapagos Team
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The Moustache Tie Clip Project by Eddie Tsai
Our goal is to stylishly save everyone from tie related disasters by transforming traditionally formal tie clips into epic moustaches.
Successful!- 114% funded
- $3,439 pledged
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Aug 01, 2011
Holy cow! The men in our office all jumped with delight at the prospect of wearing one of these on Tuesdays. We don't know why they chose Tuesdays, but we can work with that.
- The Galapagos Team
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EPIC WIN Burlesque Takes On the NYC Fringe Festival by Nelson Lugo
EPIC WIN Burlesque presents "The Star Debate: Trek vs. Wars." This sexy symposium will settle the great nerd argument once and for all.
Successful!- 108% funded
- $2,161 pledged
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Aug 05, 2011
How can one choose between Star Trek and Star Wards? Let EPIC WIN help you decide in this years NY Fringe Festival!
- The Galapagos Team
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Swear and Shake - The Maple Ridge LP by Swear and Shake
SWEAR AND SHAKE is a musical adventuring quartet from NYC. Help Adam, Kari, Shaun and Tom bring their artistic dreams to fruition.
Successful!- 116% funded
- $5,246 pledged
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Aug 22, 2011
We love this band! You will too!
- The Galapagos Team
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I Am Secretly An Important Man - theatrical distribution by Pete Sillen
I Am Secretly An Important Man is a documentary film about Seattle writer, Jesse Bernstein.
Successful!- 116% funded
- $7,545 pledged
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Aug 10, 2011
A smart plan, a great project. Need we say more?
Check this project out.
- The Galapagos Team
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From Russia with Love... "Oh Cosmonaut!" on Film by Heidi Duckler
We have raw footage documenting our amazing experience at a dance festival in Russia... help us turn it into a high-quality dance film!
Successful!- 103% funded
- $3,104 pledged
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Aug 19, 2011
How beautiful. This project deserves your support - it has ours!
- The Galapagos Team
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c/dock - For the Apple iPhone by James Aloysius
Your Apple iPhone's new best friend: A docking station, a retro clock, a flat screen TV, a stand, home decor, and a statement. c/dock
Successful!- 109% funded
- $21,969 pledged
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Aug 19, 2011
We love simple, smart thinking that adds elegance and beauty - married to functionality - into our lives.
Back this project and for $55 you get your own clock ;)
- The Galapagos Team
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PenMoto - WE LOVE OUR BACKERS!!! by Kelvin Geis
PenMoto gets your pen or stylus. It frees your hand to better hold your iPad, and improves the use of nearly any pen or stylus.
Successful!- 160% funded
- $35,341 pledged
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Aug 19, 2011
Beautiful. A simple, elegant solution. I want one!
- Robeet Elmes
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Physical GIF by Greg Borenstein
Physical GIF turns animated GIFs into delightful coffee table toys. With a laser cutter and a strobe we give GIFs life off the screen.
Successful!- 143% funded
- $5,731 pledged
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Aug 04, 2011
Watch this video. You'll watch it twice. Seriously.
- The Galapagos Team
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Rabbit Island Artist Residency by Andrew Ranville
We're building an amazing artist residency on a remote, forested island in the largest freshwater lake in the world. Come along!
Successful!- 119% funded
- $14,970 pledged
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Jul 15, 2011
Wow. We're in. With both feet.
An incredible vision.- The Galapagos Team
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Womanthology; Massive All Female Comic Anthology! by Renae De Liz
Huge Comic Anthology created entirely by over 140 women, made to showcase everything we have accomplished and what we are capable of!
Successful!- 437% funded
- $109,301 pledged
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Aug 07, 2011
How much more can this project raise by August 4th? Enough for a parade? This project deserves a parade.
- The Galapagos Team
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Longshot Issue #2 by mat honan
Longshot Magazine is a raucous experiment in harnessing new tools to erase media’s old limits. We create a print magazine in 48 hours.
Successful!- 226% funded
- $17,007 pledged
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Jul 24, 2011
In Williamsburg in the early 90's we had Waterfront Week, a weekly one-sheet that lived in a suitcase. When you tired of 'publishing' Waterfront Week you dropped it off at the L Cafe and someone else collected the case and dropped-off articles and took over.
The Galapagos Team
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Octodad 2 by Octodad
A computer game about the life of an octopus trying to pass himself off as a [human] suburban father.
Successful!- 121% funded
- $24,320 pledged
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Aug 10, 2011
An octopus trying to pass himself off as a suburban father?
Well, you first have to be it to own it.We cheer for Octodad!
The Galapagos team
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+Pool: A Floating Pool in the River For Everyone by Family and PlayLab
An initiative to build a floating pool that filters river water off the shores of New York City.
Successful!- 166% funded
- $41,647 pledged
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Jul 15, 2011
Absolutely! We want to swim on our lunch breaks!
Galapagos would LOVE a pool as our neighbor ;)
- The Galapagos Team
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American Commons: Photographing Libraries Across the Nation by Robert Dawson
I've spent 17 years photographing public libraries throughout the US. I will finish the work this summer photographing in 22 states.
Successful!- 111% funded
- $8,940 pledged
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Aug 19, 2011
The simple elegance of this project reminds us of the depression-era WPA projects that insulated the arts and created millions of jobs in the depression. Maybe we can all support enough projects like this one and create our own WPA.
- Robert Elmes
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Dr. Rhee's Kimtschi Shop in Berlin - move over Sauerkraut! by kate hers and hanjo rhee
Dr. Rhee’s Kimtschi Shop is an interactive art project, posing as an mercantile venture, open for a week in das Gift, a bar in Berlin.
Successful!- 123% funded
- $1,763 pledged
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Aug 12, 2011
The Germans so need Kimtschi. As New York does, Berlin is now taking in more and more of the world and it's changing Germany from the inside out, one bite of Kimtschi at a time.
Realpolitik now includes Kimtschi-table diplomacy.
Go Kimtschi.
- The Galapagos team!
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Imaginary Beings- Transforming Jorge Louis Borges in Masks by kest
120 chapters, 161 creatures, 197 masks. Re-imagined beasts based entirely on Borges' 1967 text, “The Book of Imaginary Beings”.
Successful!- 184% funded
- $2,950 pledged
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Jul 07, 2011
This is a beautiful project - we love it.
The masks are gorgeous, the goal is humble, the vision is sublime.
- The Galapagos Team!
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Rural Route Film Festival Returns by Rural Route Films
Rural Route returns to screen films from the fields, mountains, deserts & beyond! After a temporary hiatus we are back & ready to go!
Successful!- 101% funded
- $5,090 pledged
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Jul 14, 2011
Go Rural Route Film Festival!
We've worked with RRFF many times in the past - and we love their work!
Green farming films from Uganda, Tibet and Pakistan? These guys are helping the world spin a little a little more close to home, we encourage you to support them!
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Phantom Limb's "69˚S." - The Final Stage by ArKtype/Thomas O. Kriegsmann
A new vision of theatre combining marionettes, dance, ice, and The Kronos Quartet in the heart of Antarctica with Ernest Shackleton.
Successful!- 102% funded
- $46,022 pledged
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Jun 18, 2011
Brilliant. This is the definition of 'idea' - and courage. We love this project - scratch project, let's call it vision.
- The Galapagos Team!
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The Fountain of Light: a luminous juggling machine by Brooklyn Public Arts
The Fountain of Light is a large scale perpetual motion sculpture and music/arts venue.
Successful!- 103% funded
- $8,295 pledged
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May 19, 2011
"A large scale perpetual-motion sculpture able to juggle glowing spheres into the night sky?
We're in."
- Robert Elmes
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Uniting Contemporary Polish Cinema with an American Audience by NYPFF
The New York Polish Film Festival wants to reach you
Successful!- 124% funded
- $1,990 pledged
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May 04, 2011
"Pro Polska!"
- The Galapagos Team!
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The Case of the American Food System—A graphic design thesis by Sonia
A cabinet that reveals truths behind the American food system, as my graphic design senior thesis at Parsons School of Design.
Successful!- 175% funded
- $703 pledged
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May 06, 2011
We'd love to see this happen. The more we know the more we like it.
- The Galapagos Team
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*as of yet, untitled. by William Etundi
A Brooklyn creative space that hosts projects, shows and performances that can't happen anywhere else. From the creators of TheDanger.
Successful!- 250% funded
- $22,563 pledged
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May 05, 2011
"A new space in DUMBO! How could we not want to help?
Go "As Yet Untitled"! Reach that goal - you're almost there!"
**** Update - they made it. Congratulations team Untitled! ********
- Robert Elmes
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The Itching by Dianne Bellino & Adam Davies
The Itching is a short claymation about a wolf's attempt to confront her neurotic obsessions. A joyful and creepy adult fairy-tale.
Successful!- 115% funded
- $4,315 pledged
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May 21, 2011
"Wow, they should double their raise! And what a fantastic video introduction.
We, and our office cats Fluffy, Darwin and Adventure loved it!"
- Robert Elmes
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FALLING THEATER by Matteah Baim
A film event, the makings of a live album, a rediscovered theater... This is where you'll find the story of Falling Theater.
Successful!- 101% funded
- $4,050 pledged
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May 14, 2011
Beauty and love mixed into one project - a dynamic project laden with vision and meaning.
- Robert Elmes
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VIA Records: Anna Clyne, Paola Prestini, Jeffrey Zeigler by Paola Prestini
The VIA label launch will include albums and new works by Paola Prestini, Anna Clyne and cellist Jeffrey Zeigler among others.
Successful!- 105% funded
- $34,425 pledged
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Mar 21, 2013
A progressive project about artistic identity, exchange and transcendence. Paola is a visionary!
- The Galapagos Team
