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on December 4
Jessie Friedman
backed a project
"A New Life" and "without" - Film Festival Run by Chad McClarnon
The first two short films from Best Part Productions, "A New Life" and "without", seeking funding for film festival submissions.
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108% funded $6,535 pledged
- 131 backers
- Funded Dec 07, 2011
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on November 11, 2011
Jessie Friedman
Posted project update #9update
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on October 13, 2011
Jessie Friedman
Posted project update #8DIGITAL DOWNLOAD IS READY!
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on October 6, 2011
Jessie Friedman
Posted project update #7Album update
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on September 17, 2011
Jessie Friedman
Posted project update #6YES!
Post CommentWE HAVE LIFT-OFF!
Thanks again to everyone who contributed! I can't wait to get you all your goodies!
Jessie
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on September 17, 2011Funded!
Blue Heart Hour Makes an EP! by Jessie Friedman
Hard hitting drums meets soft synths in this electro-pop project reminiscent of NiN and La Roux.
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101% funded $3,535 pledged
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- Funded Sep 17, 2011
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on September 17, 2011
Jessie Friedman
Posted project update #5Oh my!
Post Commenttwo hours left... very exciting!
next step: prepare for web-show, design shirts, finish album art, tweak the final songs....
by the way, thank you for everyone that has donated, it really means the world to be able to make this dream a reality!
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on September 14, 2011
Jessie Friedman
Posted project update #43 days left!
Post CommentHey Everyone,
We are 3 days left from the goal! Very exciting!
We still have $1000 to raise in order to make it. The way Kickstarter works, if we don't reach the goal, we don't get ANY of the money.
It's not too late to change your pledge! For a couple more bucks you can always upgrade to a better prize!
Deep gratitude to all that have supported this project so far :)
Jessie
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on September 14, 2011
Jessie Friedman
commented on a project updatethe "I" in that quote is the writer of the story... I guess that wasn't explained very well!
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on September 13, 2011
Jessie Friedman
Posted project update #3I'm in the press!
http://www.noomizo.com/index.php/11940/
Once upon a time, there was a young American woman possessed with fear … so she flew as far away as her imagination and trust fund would take her. On a lonely Greek island, she met a man who caught her fancy, so they decided to rendezvous in Paris, where he captured her heart. When she realized that she would bear the fruit of their romance in the city of love, she stole away to an obscure town in the heart of France to nurture and protect her princess from all the evil lurking outside her domestic fortress.
As the damsel grew, the walls that kept evil outside, suppressed emotions inside, and young Jessie Friedman escaped to her books, pouring out her heart onto page after page, day after day. During the first ten years of her life, this daughter of an eccentric painter moved to Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Los Angeles, Miami, and back to France. Each entry into another school placed her at the mercy of grade school tyrants, and she disappeared deeper and deeper into her poetry and writing. All those years, her father was somewhere out there in the world and didn’t even know she existed.
The French artist, Odilon Redon once stated, “While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality… true art lies in a reality that is felt.” For Jessie, her feelings were processed through her art and her art was shaped by her journey.
Her teenage years took her to New York, where she lived mostly in hotels, among them the infamous Chelsea Hotel, and at the age of 15, her artistic expression expanded to music. She first fell in love with Mozart, then was infatuated with Nirvana, and picked up the guitar at age 16. The social smothering of Mademoiselle Friedman by her anxious mother increased her loneliness, and now the words in her life were joined by notes and filled her life with beauty and ecstasy that she had never known before.
The French artist, Henri Matisse believed, “In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed.” The more Jessie’s mom controlled and suppressed her, the deeper music was burned into her soul, and the higher her spirit soared in the air of art, until one day she packed up her belongings and left for Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
After her mother died, Jessie searched for her long lost father, and sent him a letter to let him know that he had another daughter in the world … then waited the longest two months of her life. Finally, a skeptical brother called, and after DNA testing and some time, her father walked off a plane in Nashville and into his daughter’s arms.
During the past two years, Jessie has increased her live performances, calling herself, “Blue Heart Hour”, and began recording her first solo EP. She describes herself as, “An American-French electro-pop artist, with music that’s at times dark and raucous, at times angelic and vulnerable, and always teetering on a ragged edge between Nine Inch Nails and La Roux.” When describing her music, she explains, “A lot of my songs are about releasing oneself from the shackles of the past, especially ‘Let me Out’ ”. “I’m all about great lyrics and a great story. I’m taking something that can stand on its own with a guitar, and arranging it in new ways with all different kinds of sounds, weaving it into a sonic landscape. In the end, it’s still rock music, but with a twist.” She also loves to sing vintage French songs, like those of Edith Piaf, and plans to incorporate these in her future repertoire.Another amazing French artist, Pierre Auguste Renoir, learned a valuable life lesson that Jessie believes is true and daily chooses to live:
“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”
This is the picture of Jessie’s life and the story of her songs. An hour after listening and learning the scarytail of this multitalented artist, I received this text from her that summed up everything that’s important to know about Blue Heart Hour:
“Art helps us see the larger story of who we are and what we are doing. It’s a window into the human heart. And for that reason, it’s not a luxury, but a necessity. Without a heart, there’s no will and no reason to live. Art and music saved my life. It showed me the way to my heart when all other roads were burned. I couldn’t connect with people, but I could hear a song, I could read a book, I could see a picture that reminded me of who I was and why I was here. All I want to do is follow that road and forever dwell in that place.”
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Jessie Friedman
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Blue Heart Hour is a musical project led by me, Jessie Friedman. I've had a pretty crazy life growing up as a single child with an eccentric-painter mom, traveling all over the world. I grew up in Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Switzerla... view more
Cool! Good on ya. Nice to know more of your story.
Smiling in your direction...
Who is the I in the sentence after the Renoir quote? What does scarytail mean?
Good story. Wanted to see Ernest in there. Nice work.
the "I" in that quote is the writer of the story... I guess that wasn't explained very well!