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on September 7
Gavin
backed a project
VENUS PATROL: charting a new course for videogame culture by Brandon Boyer
Venus Patrol is a new videogame website in search of beautiful things, from former Offworld.com editor and IGF Chairman Brandon Boyer.
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210% funded $105,398 pledged
- 1,785 backers
- Funded Oct 07, 2011
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on October 9, 2010
Gavin
backed a project
In The Orchard Of Osiris: Independent Music Compilation Ready To Be Heard! by Peter Richards
A 15-song independent music compilation designed to exist only in the physical world -- there are no future plans to make this available for download.
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108% funded $2,171 pledged
- 63 backers
- Funded Oct 17, 2010
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on March 12, 2010
Gavin
commented on a project updateSetting for #6: Alternate universe Chicago, Illinois in a world where Ancient Greek culture has remained influential. That is to say that beards and moderately long hair are the norm for men, and prominent women cultivate an androgynous (semi-masculine) outward appearance, not as drag, per se (since fairly unisex toga-inspired fashions are the norm, with compromises for climate--every wears pants, but tries to not make it obvious under more flowing outerwear), but since the norms are a bit closer to start with. Perhaps most strikingly, performance is a major part of the culture, in that religion and art still revolve around (versions of) the theatre, and the nightly news involves staged re-enactments stitched into live footage rather than anchors reading off teleprompters or a script. Also, heroes are hugely important, both in real-life, and fiction. Instead of comic books, children read picture stories of famous people. Norman Schwartzkopf and Madeleine Albright share the public imagination with Heracles, Jason, and Jimmy Doolittle, who piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb, with MacArthur the bombardier. (Generals, in this world, are usually in the thick of the action.) The building known as the Sears Tower has been recently renamed, to the chagrin of the men and women who work there. Here I thought I was really out-there, but this might actually fit in just fine.
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on March 12, 2010
Gavin
commented on a project updateSetting for #6: Alternate universe Chicago, Illinois in a world where Ancient Greek culture has remained influential. That is to say that beards and moderately long hair are the norm for men, and prominent women cultivate an androgynous (semi-masculine) outward appearance, not a drag, per se (since fairly unisex toga-inspired fashions are the norm, with compromises for climate--every wears pants, but tries to not make it obvious under more flowing outerwear), but since the norms are a bit closer to start with. Perhaps most strikingly, performance is a major part of the culture, in that religion and art still revolve around (versions of) the theatre, and the nightly news involves staged re-enactments stitched into live footage rather than anchors reading off teleprompters or a script. Also, heroes are hugely important, both in real-life, and fiction. Instead of comic books, children read picture stories of famous people. Norman Schwartzkopf and Madeleine Albright share the public imagination with Heracles, Jason, and Jimmy Doolittle, who piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb, with MacArthur the bombardier. (Generals, in this world, are usually in the tick of the action.) The building known as the Sears Tower has been recently renamed, to the chagrin of the men and women who work there.
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on March 12, 2010
Gavin
backed a project
Andrew vs. The Collective by Andrew Fitzgerald
I wrote a novel! And I wanted to try a fun way to distribute it. The book is called The Collective. This is Andrew vs. The Collective.
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291% funded $2,913 pledged
- 98 backers
- Funded Mar 12, 2010
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on September 24, 2009
Gavin
commented on a project updateI'll have you know that it took me a lot longer than 45 seconds to fill out your survey, and at least two trips to Wikipedia.
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on August 26, 2009
Gavin
backed a project
Robin writes a book (and you get a copy) by Robin Sloan
I'm writing a detective story set halfway between San Francisco and the internet. And the more people who reserve a copy, the better each one will be!
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398% funded $13,942 pledged
- 570 backers
- Funded Nov 01, 2009
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Gavin
Lansing, MI
Gavin joined Kickstarter on August 26, 2009
