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Outpost Journal by Outpost Journal
A biannual, non-profit print publication on art, design & community action from cities that have been traditionally underexposed.
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on February 3, 2010
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New Orleans Block Party: Bounce Music goes to SXSW 2010! by Alison Fensterstock
In March 2010, SXSW hosts its first showcase of old-school New Orleans bounce - straight up hip-hop party music. Help send us to Austin!
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102% funded $1,540 pledged
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on November 18, 2009
Delaney
Posted project update #8Goodbye KickStarter, Hello FolkArchTour.com
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on October 19, 2009
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commented on a project updateThanks Priscilla! Taj Mahal Apartments?! Yes, definitely adding to list.
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on October 17, 2009
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Posted project update #7Payment + Reward
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Folk Architecture Tour - Bellingham to Houston by Delaney
A 15 day adventure from WA to TX, documenting folk/novelty/googie/roadside architecture in order to formulate preservation standards for odd places.
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102% funded $5,133 pledged
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on October 15, 2009
Delaney
Posted project update #6Goal Reached! I. Am. Humbled.
Unbelievable. More to come... when I find the words.
Thank you.
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zeth dubois on October 15, 2009
I see on the schedule that your Los Angeles lodging is TBD. May I have the honor of your housing? (my place should be on your Architectural tour, anyway)
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on October 14, 2009
Delaney
Posted project update #5Almost there!
Post CommentThank you for all who have pledged thus far! The clock is ticking and my anticipation is mounting every minute! The pledge period ends Friday at 11:59 pm eastern. At that point, the fate of the Folk Architecture Tour will be known.
To help me (and you!) get through these next couple nerve-filled days, I have created a motivational YouTube video compilation. Please feel free to join me in song and dance to the style of inspiration. INSPIRATION!
Navigate to the playlist here: ~ Motivational ~ Inspirational ~ Appreciative ~
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on September 23, 2009
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WHERE THEY AT: A Multi Media Archive of New Orleans Bounce and Hip Hop by aubrey edwards
Help us travel to Atlanta, Baton Rouge and Houston to interview, photograph and archive the Katrina diaspora of Bounce musicians
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104% funded $890 pledged
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on September 21, 2009
Delaney
Posted project update #445% funded with 25 days to go! Amazing.
Post CommentLast Thursday I attended an event celebrating the success of the New York Makes a Book Kickstarter project. It was exciting observing each participant enter the room and receive their copy of the book they helped create. Each person’s page number was displayed on their name tag, and as people meandered through the bar, it was interesting to watch everyone flip open their books to view each others contributions. All of the present participants seemed very pleased... the necessary funding had been raised, an interesting book produced, and new obscure collaborative formed. I would declare the experiment a success!
I briefly spoke to Yancey Strickler (a Kickstarter’s founder and one of the New York Makes a Book project owners) about my project, the Folk Arch Tour’s progression. He asked how it felt to receive each new backer notification email and my immediate response was “amazing”. To elaborate, every time I see a new backer alert in my inbox, I am humbled by the generosity of others willing to support my goal to document, promote and protect a small slice of Americana. I believe it may be kin to winning the lottery.
Today, I am standing proud and steady with 45% of funding pledged and I wanted to once again thank each and every one of my backers. I also want to take a moment to remind everyone that not a single dime will be collected unless all $5,000 are pledged by October 16, 2009. With 25 more days to promote, I am reaching out for your support in passing my project idea on to others who may be interested in helping the underdogs of American vernacular architecture.
While doing my homework for the Folk Arch Tour, I found the very last paragraph in Dell Upton’s Architecture in the United States quite inspiring...
As it has been defined in American architecture, to be an artist is to impose a vision, to subject others to individual genius or inspiration. Art-architecture is the quintessential gesture of consumer culture, a commodity made for a passive customer. But the landscape is too important a stage for human symbolic action and lay people are too jealous of their own prerogatives to sacrifice them to such a narrow and self-serving agenda. This account of architecture in the Unites States opened with an eighteenth-century folk house and closes with a giant artichoke. They can serve as intimations of the variety and range of human landscape in the United States, reminders that it cannot be explained by a single theory, accounted for by a single history, or controlled by a single profession or a single vision. It is our common property and we are the better for that.photo source: flickr.com/photos/brenbot
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Delaney
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I'm an architect, historic preservationist, and community advocate with a passion for discovering, designing and documenting the built world. Aesthetically, I appreciate many styles, be they fresh and simple or aging and complex. I believe good archite... view more
As you go down Hwy 1, after Just as you are getting to Ventura you should go inland 8 miles for a short trip to Ojai and see the Taj Mahal apartment building - it has been there a long time- 50 ish years, and is in the middle of a small tract of regular homes.
Thanks Priscilla! Taj Mahal Apartments?! Yes, definitely adding to list.