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The Happy Film by The Happy Film
The Happy Film is a documentary in which designer Stefan Sagmeister conducts a series of self-experiments to test his happiness.
Successful!- 110% funded
- $55,336 pledged
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Oct 16, 2011
Not only is Stefan, the director of this film, determined to up his happiness factor, but he's also working on becoming more thankful. What's not to like?!
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HERB & DOROTHY 50X50 by Megumi Sasaki
Help us finish the follow-up to the award-winning documentary HERB & DOROTHY, and share in the couple’s generosity and passion for art!
Successful!- 158% funded
- $87,331 pledged
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Nov 06, 2011
Quirky, creative, totally genuine. Just how art should be.
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Makeshift Magazine by Steve Daniels
Makeshift is a quarterly magazine and multimedia website about grassroots creativity and invention around the world.
Successful!- 284% funded
- $42,718 pledged
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Oct 10, 2011
We heart makers.
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Boardcrafting by sjbrown
A premium board for playing Settlers of Catan, perhaps the most popular Eurogame. Laser-cut and etched in wood. Amazing detail.
Successful!- 559% funded
- $44,721 pledged
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Nov 15, 2011
We play boardgames a lot! Including this one.
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revolights. join the revolution. by Kent, Adam & Jim
Revolights bike lighting system. A Bay Area design project. Our light's different. We get that. We embrace it. Join the revolution.
Successful!- 495% funded
- $215,621 pledged
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Sep 27, 2011
In honor of bike shares coming to NYC, Skillshare's hometown.
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Teagueduino: Learn to Make by Teague
Teagueduino is an open source electronic board that allows you to realize creative ideas without soldering or knowing how to code.
Successful!- 348% funded
- $76,697 pledged
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Oct 06, 2011
Anyone can do anything. Period.
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New Work City: Community Coworking Center for Independents in NY. by Tony Bacigalupo
NWC is building the awesomest coworking space New York has ever seen. Help us make a home for NYC independents!
Successful!- 119% funded
- $17,911 pledged
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Aug 27, 2010
These guys are awesome! Check out their Skillshare classes - they love us, too :)
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Wear You Live by CityFabric
Wear You Live is a civic-minded design and apparel line focused on creating unique ways for anyone to talk about their city.
Successful!- 278% funded
- $36,176 pledged
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Aug 31, 2011
Our cities are our greatest sources of inspiration, information, and pride - let's celebrate 'em!
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Teleportraiture by Janet
Teleportraiture is a series of oil portraits of kickstarter backers, painted from remote videochat sittings.
Successful!- 147% funded
- $7,387 pledged
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Oct 12, 2011
So damn meta. And we love how the focus of this project is loving and thanking those who make project creators' ideas turn into real-life brilliance. Without our community supporters, we're nothing!
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Veggie Island Grows by veggie isand
Veggie Island, a market for locally grown organic produce is kickstarting for greenhouses, refrigeration, and kitchen equipment
Successful!- 100% funded
- $15,115 pledged
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May 13, 2011
Veggie Island makes people healthy by providing fresh food, sells eco-friendly products to improve local infrastructure, and provides outreach to the community involving gardening, cooking, youth internships, and overall environmental awareness. What's not to love?
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Crania Anatomica Filigre: Me to You by Joshua Harker
I'm Joshua Harker, I am an artist. I figured out how to make the unmakeable. I want to share it.
Successful!- 15,454% funded
- $77,271 pledged
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Oct 24, 2011
Making the unmakeable? That's what creativity is all about.
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Some Kind of Spark: A Documentary Film by Ben Niles
“Some Kind of Spark,” is a documentary on the profound impact music education has on a group of inner-city kids in NYC.
Successful!- 108% funded
- $21,676 pledged
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Jun 03, 2011
Part of the goal is to help those students most affected by cuts to music ed in NYC and whose communities are under represented in the classical music world. They get to go to Julliard for free, too. Now THAT's democratizing education.
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Parts and Crafts: Community Supported Education by Parts and Crafts
We run a workshop for kids who like to make stuff and their friends. Each month we'll box up and ship "shares" of our projects/ideas.
Successful!- 168% funded
- $8,406 pledged
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Mar 01, 2011
Parts & Crafts runs a hackerspace for kids - they make cool things & they do it together. Co-learning and entrepreneurship are magical, and it's fantastic that this project brings learning to life for kids!
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Headwind 2011 by Kevin Donley
Two cyclists travel across the country to find out how food goes from farm to table, and create a guide to sustainable eating.
Successful!- 129% funded
- $2,592 pledged
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Jul 30, 2011
Not only do these cyclists promise to deliver a food guide to sustainable nutrition, but they also plan to feature farms and farmers throughout various parts of the country. Headwind 2011 is about learning, teaching, and community. So Skillshare.
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Teadrop - the perfect cup of tea, every time by Michael DiStefano
Teadrop combines a timer and a filter to steep your tea for the perfect amount of time every time, automatically.
Successful!- 102% funded
- $12,300 pledged
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Jun 05, 2011
Tea is a Skillshare staple! So is efficiency, which is why a tea steeper that promises to make your tea in the perfect amount of time is just awesome.
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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
Who doesn't want a floating pool in the Hudson?!
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Documentary on Korean Education by Kelley Katzenmeyer
Thousands of high school seniors will take a 9 hour test that for many, will determine the course of the rest of their lives.
Successful!- 158% funded
- $8,711 pledged
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Funded
Jun 08, 2011
South Korean's spend a lot of their disposable income on education. Learn why...
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Butchery Instructional Web-Series from Farmstead Meatsmith by Andrew Plotsky
Farmstead Meatsmith is reviving the trade of small-scale animal processing. We'd like to share our knowledge with a series of webisodes
Successful!- 112% funded
- $11,299 pledged
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Aug 09, 2011
Yum! Check out these instructional webisodes on home butchery and cookery. We're having a total cow over here (too corn-y?)!
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Circle the Wagen by Ryan Steven Green
CIRCLE THE WAGEN is a buddy roadtrip documentary, and our loveletter to the vintage Volkswagen subculture in America.
Successful!- 110% funded
- $22,141 pledged
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Mar 01, 2012
We love passion projects, and this one's all about the quirky, loving VW community of devoted folks.
