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Bill Barol
backed a project
Elevation Dock: The Best Dock For iPhone by Casey Hopkins
Undocking's a breeze and it works with cases. Built at a whole new level of quality with a beautifully minimal design.
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1,466% funded $1,099,889 pledged
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on September 5
Bill Barol
backed a project
Put This On: Season Two by Jesse Thorn
Put This On is a web series about dressing like a grownup. Season two will take us to the world's great style cities... if you fund it.
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103% funded $70,328 pledged
- 1,679 backers
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on October 11, 2010
Bill Barol
Posted project update #26Update: Still alive!
Post CommentHiya, backers. Some of you are probably wondering what ever happened to Big Questions. This is, while not a Big Question, certainly a fair one. The short answer is: Life. Life happened. Things intruded, time went by, and well, here we are. Let me assure you, however, that your dough remains well spent, and that Big Questions will, as planned, premiere here on the Web in the near future. It'll be worth the wait, I think, and I hope you'll agree. In the meantime, thanks for your patience, and, as always, for your support.
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on July 9, 2010
Bill Barol
Posted project update #25Update: ...still gettin' there.
Post CommentWhere's Big Questions been? Excellent question! It's been being born, is the answer, although at this point I'm very glad I wasn't much more specific on a target date than "2010." Other projects, all more pressing, have intervened, and so has Life, in its way. But: The BQ train is still on the tracks and moving. Thanks for your patience, and see you later this year.
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on May 5, 2010
Bill Barol
Posted project update #24Update: We're gettin' there
Post CommentYes we are. Here's a short promo video I shot for some friends as an exercise, and I'm more or less pleased with it as a test of the video and audio gear. That said, I see some things that can be done better. Basic camera technique, mostly. I'll be doing some original music for the pilot, or at least some original bumpers and cues, so don't be too alarmed about the obviously canned stuff you hear here. I'm also hoping to include some animation, but Final Cut may have the final word on that.
Next up: A two-track kind of deal, as I do lighting and sound tests and start editorial work on the pilot, starting with basic research and storyboarding. Oh, also: I've settled on a question, and it's maybe the biggest Big Question there is. Why think small?
Thanks for all your input, and stay tuned: Big Questions is coming!
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on April 21, 2010
Bill Barol
backed a project
Last Summer at Coney Island (documentary) 2 by JL Aronson
Help support a film about changing times in the birthplace of American popular culture. The project is approaching its final hurdles!
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100% funded $12,026 pledged
- 95 backers
- Funded Jun 06, 2010
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on March 29, 2010
Bill Barol
Posted project update #23Update: Progress report
Post CommentHello backers! It's spring and Big Questions is moving along in a post-hibernation mode. I'd always figured that the pilot would be heavily front-loaded with the kind of basic, learning-the-tools sort of work that would pay off in subsequent episodes... and indeed it is. I'm learning the tools, and also spending a good deal of time getting a separate large project off the ground. Once that's accomplished, work on the pilot episode of Big Questions will begin in earnest, and you'll all see the result later this year.
One other bit of business: Two of you have been waiting patiently for delivery of your custom Big Questions Pez dispensers, and I'm pleased to tell you they've just arrived from artist Steve White. So I'll be turning those around and getting them out to you this week.
Happy spring, everybody, and I'll continue to update you as the project moves along.
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on February 24, 2010
Bill Barol
backed a project
Last Summer at Coney Island (documentary) by JL Aronson
Help support a film about changing times in the birthplace of American popular culture. The project is approaching its final hurdles!
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on February 22, 2010
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on February 22, 2010
Bill Barol
Posted project update #21Update: Pre-production...
Post Comment...continues apace, whatever that means, although to be honest (because I'm always honest with you, backers) at the moment pre-production mostly consists of clearing the decks. I'm getting another big project, this one in the old-fashioned dead medium of print, out the office door first, and then turning the full blinding power of my attention to a crash course in video/audio/Final Cut. Which should be fun*. My guess, or maybe it's my hope, is that the wheels of Big Questions will be really turning by spring. As always, of course, I'll keep you all posted.
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Bill Barol
Santa Monica, CA
I'm a career journalist (Newsweek, Time, The New Yorker, Slate, Fast Company, PBS, among other places) who's excited about the possibilities of new media. Currently blogging and podcasting at trueslant.com/billbarol.
