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Fred Benenson
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Double Fine Adventure by Double Fine and 2 Player Productions
An adventure game from Tim Schafer, Double Fine, and YOU!
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279% funded $1,116,940 pledged
- 29,573 backers
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32days left
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Fred Benenson
Posted project update #7The shirts are here!
Good news everyone! I picked up the shirts from the printer today.
They look and feel great. Especially the white ones -- the ink on the burnout material really has that photocopied / censored text feeling.
Here's a photo from the printers, Kayrock in Greenpoint:I'm hoping to start delivering the shirts soon. There are a couple loose ends to tie up: ordering envelopes from USPS, picking a timeframe to have people come by Kickstarter HQ to pick them up, I'll be posting an update soon, but just wanted to share with you the news.
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on January 23
Fred Benenson
Posted project update #6We won! For now.
If you backed this project, I probably don't need to tell you the good news: SOPA & PIPA have died the slow death of delayed congressional legislation. If you haven't heard: Good news! Its very unlikely that SOPA & PIPA will pass in any recognizable form. Your t-shirt is now a part of history.
And while its unclear what the MPAA's next move is (besides admitting to bribing politicians), my next move is getting our shirts printed.
Over the weekend, I placed the wholesale order for the blank shirts. They are currently on their way to the screen printers in Brooklyn. Once they arrive, I'll finalize the art, get two shirts proofed, and then start the printing.
More soon!
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on January 18
Fred Benenson
backed a project
Hidden Radio & BlueTooth Speaker by John VDN + Vitor Santa Maria
The simplest, most powerful radio and wireless speaker for iPhone + iPad ever in a compact form. Lift the cap, the louder it gets!
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751% funded $938,771 pledged
- 5,358 backers
- Funded Jan 18, 2012
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on January 16
Fred Benenson
Posted project update #5SOPA is on the Ropes, Surveys are sent out and I'm ready to bulk order some blank T-shirts. Oh and a graph.
A lot has been happening this week in PIPA/SOPA news.
On Saturday, the White House issued a statement on PIPA/SOPA which the New York Times considered all but killed them and which also ruffled Rupert Murdoch's feathers.
On Sunday morning, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian was on MSNBC's Up debating NBC's General Counsel Rick Cotton on the bill. The segment is worth watching just for Chris Hayes' excellent intro on the issues at hand. Good for sending to parents and other people who have been living under Internet rocks (side note: Google Image search has no idea what an Internet rock is). There are also good discussions about the MSNBC debate happening on Hacker News and Google+.
Also from the hey-mainstream-media-is-finally-paying-attention-dept: The New York Times has posted 2 pieces on SOPA in the last 24 hours, here, and here. Great job guys!
On Wednesday at 12:30pm in NYC, there will be a IRL protest organized by the New York Tech Meetup at Chuck Schumer's office in midtown. RSVP here to join the 900 other people already planning on attending. Reddit, BoingBoing, and others are planning sitewide blackouts on Wednesday as well.
So I'm cautiously optimistic -- SOPA and PIPA have turned politically toxic and next week we'll get to see more fallout. Keep the pressure up.
I'm also really excited so many of you filled out the survey for this project. I'm still waiting to hear on 9 backers, so I'm going to give them a couple more days.
62 of you (!!!) indicated you'd like to come by Kickstarter HQ to pick up the shirts when they're ready. That's awesome. So awesome that I'll probably throw a party and invite you. We can all laugh and/or cry together about PIPA/SOPA since hopefully, by then, the bills will be history.
I drew up a graph of the distribution of shirt sizes and colors in R using the ggplot2 library (R code here, you'll have to substitute with your own data.frame).
You'll notice that the white shirts skew towards smaller sizes. I have a hypothesis of why this might be the case: women seemed to prefer the white shirt, and women in general tend to pick smaller sizes on unisex garments. But thats really just a guess based on anecdotal evidence and some random conversations.
Thanks again for reading!
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Daniella Jaeger on January 18
Very interesting msnbc segment! Thanks for sharing. And I would be curious to see the true breakdown of white-grey/male-female. ;)
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on January 7
Fred Benenson
commented on a project update@Randy: The Grey shirt will be a CANVAS Tri-blend Heather Grey: https://www.shirtsinbulk.com/product/Canvas-Mens-Howard-Tri-Blend-T-Shirt_35_986_Grey-Heather And the White shirt will likely be a Tultex White 0202: http://www.tultex.net/0202/
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on January 6
Fred Benenson
Posted project update #4Thanks! Surveys sent.
Hi everyone,
You should have just received a survey asking for information so I can send you your shirt. I'm hoping to get them printed by the end of January and shipped by early February.
If you'll be in NYC, let me know if you can stop by the Kickstarter offices to pick up the shirt.
Thanks again for your support. I'll be updating this project with news as SOPA and PIPA wind their way through (and hopefully die in) Congress.
Fred
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Randy McClure on January 6
I'm in between a medium and a small for most shirts. What kind of shirt will the design be printed on?
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Fred Benenson on January 7
@Randy:
The Grey shirt will be a CANVAS Tri-blend Heather Grey:
https://www.shirtsinbulk.com/product/Canvas-Mens-Howard-Tri-Blend-T-Shirt_35_986_Grey-Heather
And the White shirt will likely be a Tultex White 0202:
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on January 6
Fred Benenson
backed a project
Distance: long essays about design, published quarterly. by Nick Disabato
Three essays, five thousand words each, every three months. We want to build a better conversation with you.
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132% funded $17,911 pledged
- 434 backers
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on January 2
Fred Benenson
backed a project
Twine : Listen to your world, talk to the Internet by Supermechanical
A wireless square with sensors and a simple web app to set rules, Twine tells you what your things are doing by email, text or Twitter.
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1,590% funded $556,541 pledged
- 3,966 backers
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on December 30Funded!
I FOUGHT SOPA AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS STUPID T-SHIRT by Fred Benenson
This shirt is for everyone who is fighting against uninformed and dangerous regulation of the Internet
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395% funded $3,952 pledged
- 251 backers
- Funded Dec 30, 2011
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Fred Benenson
New York, NY
I work for Kickstarter as a data engineer. I have interests in Free Culture, digital art, and computer science. My first project on Kickstarter was Emoji Dick and second was Hackers Party.
Excellent! Also pleased that you're using Kayrock -- they do wonderful work, I've got a number of their posters.
How are the grey ones looking, Fred? I'm pretty such I signed myself up for one.
*pretty sure