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on November 30
lifesize mousetrap
Posted project update #11rewards update...and we made it back alive!
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on July 19, 2011
lifesize mousetrap
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Grow a New Eye by Tanya Marie Vlach
Grow a New Eye - 1. Engineering an eye-camera. After Tanya lost her eye in a car accident in 2005, she began imagining a bionic one.
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130% funded $19,631 pledged
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on July 18, 2011
lifesize mousetrap
Posted project update #10no really, thank YOU!
Post CommentOur visit to Pittsburgh is confirmed! We'll be setting up at the Carnegie Science Center, in partnership with the ToonSeum. Here's the link to the event info
http://www.carnegiesciencecenter.org/exhibits/life-size-mousetrap/
This show has been made possible with YOUR help! Without the funds raised here on Kickstarter, we wouldn't be able to do this show. YOU made this happen, we are excited to share the Mousetrap magic that so many of you are already familiar with!
please share this link with friends and family in the Pittsburgh area, it is our understanding that folks will be able to see the LifeSize Mousetrap in action for FREE! Your donation dollars at work to make big art, science & engineering, and live music & performance all rolled up in FUN, accessible to all.
We are very excited about this(as you can tell)...
we're getting ready to head in to Detroit for the Maker Faire. This weekend our talented crew shares what we do when we're not working on the trap. We invite you to share an evening of entertainment with us!
Vagabond Variety Show presents A Mousetrap Cabaret
featuring
Esmerelda Strange
Jesse Roadkill
JD Limelight
Rose Harden
Jodi Waseca
along with local folks
Detroit Flyhouse
Hayley Jane - burlesque and ukulele
The Lunatic Vagabonds - belllydance with a twist
The Clapsaddles - musical saw, banjo and bazouki
$10 cover
Show starts at 10pmTickets at:
The Park Bar2040 Park AveDetroit, MI
http://www.lunaticvagabonds.com/Variety.html
The Vagabond Variety show is the usual playground of the Lunatic Vagabonds and started as a way to showcase local bellydance, circus and nouveau vaudeville talent.
Tonight's show, A Mousetrap Cabaret, is a mash up of Detroit area awesomeness with our friends from The Lifesize Mousetrap based in San Francisco. -
on July 13, 2011
lifesize mousetrap
backed a project
THAT Damned Band's "Mutantstrosities" by Dylan M. Blackthorn
THAT Damned Band's forthcoming SteamPunk Goblin-Core album, "Mutantstrosities" on CD & vinyl will be funded by your pre-order and gift.
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on July 9, 2011
lifesize mousetrap
Posted project update #9On the road...
we did it, we are on the road... and we couldn't have done it with out YOU!!! we had a great time out at the Electric Forest Festival. lot's of great shows, 2 cars crushed, super set up and break down help from the union stage hands, and awesome feed back from the crowd! who could ask for more?
The bus is running great - we launched this campaign to help pay for THIS bus because it's got an installed veggie oil system but the system is not quite in functioning order yet. If you know anyone who knows grease, please put them in touch with us as we hope to have this system up and running soon... in the meantime we are putting as much bio-diesel in as possible! we are settling in and making it our little home on the road.
we have confirmed with the Carnigie Science Center, we're going to Pittsburgh! some of you may remember that we tried unsuccessfully to do this last year so we're excited that this goal is going to come to fruition.
The rewards -
some of you have recieved your surveys, these gifts will make their way to you soon! The fabulous Esmerelda Strange is working tirelessly on finishing up the mastering of the CD and figuring out the best way for you to access the downloads before they are available to the general public. The songs are great, you'll recognize them from the show and you are sure to be humming the catchy tunes for days.
we will send out the surveys as the rewards are ready to go in the mail - we are waiting for posters to go to print and for photos to be printed out...
we would like to thank you again for making an investment in a project with a big bright future
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on June 20, 2011
lifesize mousetrap
Posted project update #8WE DID IT!
Post CommentActually - YOU did it!
boy was that a nail biter, we watched those last minute pledges roll in and we thought we were at the horse races!
now what you ask? Well it's just non-stop around here... we finish loading up our gear and pull out of the NIMBY lot around 1:30 this afternoon!
Speaking of NIMBY- Super Dave & Snook have been just amazing, helping us with all things bus and kickstarter related - from hooking up the propane to posting to making sure we eat!
please check out how they support big art at NIMBY
http://www.nimbyspace.org/about/
A SUPER BIG THANK YOU to all of our friends who spent countless hours posting on facebook to help spread the word. we love you!
We will be getting to the thank you rewards over the next few weeks - the music downloads will be available soon and the donated items will make their way to you...
we are on the road as of this afternoon and we're straight in to set up for the Electric Forest Music Festival, our first down time is after the 4th of july - so we'll be working on getting stuff to you then, we hope you will be patient with us as being on the road can be challenging.
Our goal for this year is to create financial sustainability so that we never, ever, have to do another Kickstarter! Our show season this year is exciting and filled with lots of diverse venues and events and we hope to turn this in to something REALLY big... down the road you can look back and say "I MADE THAT POSSIBLE"
we truly believe in what we are doing and that there is a greater value for society in it, you have proved to us that you believe in bringing Science & Engineering, Live Performance, Bio-Fuels, and the Art of Play to people across this land of ours.
You can follow our adventures at facebook - lifesize mousetrap
or twitter by following lfsz_mousetrap
please check our website in the next few days for a full schedule update of where we'll be this summer/fall.
we can't say thank you enough, now we're off to finish packing up the house.
see you on the road!
cheese & bowling balls,
the mousetrap crew
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on June 20, 2011Funded!
The Lifesize Mousetrap's 2011 tour powered by VEGETABLE OIL! by lifesize mousetrap
We are creating a sustainable touring production and we need your help to bring the one of kind Life size Mousetrap to your community.
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102% funded $20,530 pledged
- 229 backers
- Funded Jun 20, 2011
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on June 19, 2011
lifesize mousetrap
Posted project update #9thanks and 2011...
Post Commentthis is a special note to those of you who supported us in our 2010 fundraising drive- we couldn't have made it with out you! really - our trailer would still be stuck in the mud in Queens...
We have launched another kickstarter to help us out with another season which promises to be bigger and better than ever before. We have JUST 18 HOURS to reach this years' goal.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/195166246/the-lifesize-mousetraps-2011-tour-powered-by-veget
We're going green with a veggie oil bus and we are fundraising with the goal of financial sustainability so we don't ever have to do another kickstarter again!
Some of you have already made GENEROUS pledges - THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!
So if you would like to help us bring our very special take on Science & Engineering to kids everywhere please head on over to this years' site, read a bit about our "triangle of sustainability", make a donation, and share the link.
do it for science, do it for the kids, do it for the air you breath, and do it for BIG FUN!
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on June 19, 2011
lifesize mousetrap
Posted project update #7more bus build & the LAST FULL DAY
Post Commenttoday we got the interior of our little home on wheels most of the way ready for everyone to "move in" tomorrow.
kitchen - DONE - except for the water heater that turned out to be defunct, but with a new one running about $275 we'll make do with cold water...
bunks - foamed - with some help from Fabric Outlet on mission st., thanks for the discount!
plywood - primed...
stereo - now working thanks to super dave at nimby, who really has earned his nickname! we brought the guys at NIMBY a little thank you gift from Dianda's Italian bakery today, they hjave been really helpful.
as of now the veggie oil conversion is not fully functional - we are hoping to get it up and running once we're on the road but won't be able to afford the needed parts with out this kickstarter money... which brings us to...
THE LAST FULL DAY of our drive here at kickstarter. we still have quite a ways to go but we won't give up just yet, if we were the kind of folks who just give up, we certainly wouldn't have made it this far.
please take this last day to spread the word far and wide - some of you already have, we can't say thank you enough! this is the only way we are going to reach our goal. thank you for believing in this "crazy man's dream"...
we've posted pics of our bus and the work we've put in to it as well as a pic of Mark's jacket that can be yours when you pledge $600(it's quite easy to increase your pledge by the way...) Its an incredible west point cadets' tails from 1922! own this piece of mousetrap history...
we are so excited to see you all at our shows this summer!
here's where we'll be...
Electric Forest festival, Rothbury MI - last weekend in June
Detroit Maker Faire - last weekend in july
Carnegie Science Center in partnership with The Toonseum, Pittsburgh - tentative -
August dates tbdMaker World's Faire, Queens New York - Sept 17-18
Big Jammalamma music & art festival, Lakeland FL - Oct. 15-16
AfterBurn, Lakeland FL - Nov 11-13
thank you again for your continued support of a project that inspires wonder and creativity in children and adults alike... we simply couldn't do it with out you.
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on June 17, 2011
lifesize mousetrap
Posted project update #6the final countdown! birthdays & bus building...
here we are,
3 days from the finish line! this is where it gets exciting... please pass on our link to your lists, networks, facebook pages, etc. it's gonna be a tight race for sure!
thanks to all of you who have made large donations, we are amazed by the generosity of your support.
TODAY is Mark Perez' Birthday, if you don't already know - he is the Man Behind the Machine. THE one who spent 13 years building this crazy contraption in his basement studio/backyard! help us celebrate this wonderful man by making this fundraising effort a success... donate the price of even just one drink!
He is spending the day hard at work to make sure our bus is up and running for our departure on Monday morning, which happens to coincide with the deadline for our kickstarter! and no, we didn't actually plan it that way... So send us off right!
we'd like to share some pictures with you,
here's the bus build that's happening as you are reading this, & long view of the bus
Wiley Braden - one of our biggest fans and a kid who knows how to get every last drop out of life,
the heavy equipment it takes to build the Mousetrap(yes that's Mrs. Mousetrap, Rose behind the wheel of that thing)
the generous donation from our friends at Ritual Coffee!
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The Life Size Mousetrap is the classic board game miniature turned into a life-size spectacle! "A colorful assemblage of kinetic sculptures fantastically handcrafted into a giant 25 TON Rube-Gold-berg machine!" This classic contraptio... view more
yaaaaayy!!! Cant wait to see you guys in NYC!!!!!!!!