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on April 26
Jeffrey Yoo Warren
backed a project
Flying Paper by Nitin Sawhney
An uplifting story of Palestinian youth in Gaza on a quest to shatter the Guinness World Record for the most kites ever flown.
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55% funded $13,947 pledged
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on April 3
Jeffrey Yoo Warren
backed a project
Ruwedel: Westward the Course of Empire by Elijah Barrett
A film about Mark Ruwedel, an artist who retraced the path of incomplete and abandoned 19th century railroads.
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101% funded $1,214 pledged
- 35 backers
- Funded Apr 04, 2012
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on February 3
Jeffrey Yoo Warren
backed a project
Help us print CSQ Issues 03/04 by Citizen Science
Help us convince the world that Everyone can and should do Science!
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on November 22, 2011
Jeffrey Yoo Warren
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
- Funded Jan 03, 2012
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on March 30, 2011
Jeffrey Yoo Warren
backed a project
Moviesandbox - an open-source 3D animation tool by Friedrich Kirschner
Moviesandbox is an Open-Source, Real-Time 3D Animation tool. It allows you to quickly sketch and animate 3D Characters and Props.
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130% funded $5,466 pledged
- 108 backers
- Funded May 09, 2011
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on August 18, 2010
Jeffrey Yoo Warren
Posted project update #5Prints going out ASAP
Hi, all - thanks for your patience - we're going to start sending prints out as promised as soon as you submit the correct information. Please check your inboxes - we've asked for mailing addresses, names, and your choice of photos.
By the way, the finalized maps (so far) can be found on this page:
http://www.flickr.com/search/groups/...
The link sent out with our questions was a larger set including lots of pictures of Louisiana Bucket Brigade folks on beaches, boats, etc. but if you simply want a map, check out the above link.
Thanks again and don't hesitate to get in touch with questions!
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on June 21, 2010Funded!
Grassroots mapping the Gulf oil spill with balloons and kites by Jeffrey Yoo Warren
We're hitting the beaches and hitching boat rides to make aerial images of the gulf oil spill's effects using cameras attached to balloons and kites.
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165% funded $8,285 pledged
- 145 backers
- Funded Jun 21, 2010
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on June 20, 2010
Jeffrey Yoo Warren
Posted project update #4Last 28 hours of fundraising: new Perdido Point map, disturbing flyover imagery
Post CommentHi, all -
This is our last day of Kickstarter fund-raising. Shannon from LABB put together a budget and we think that with ~$11,000 we could continue mapping all the way through January, even paying local fishermen to take us out on boats. So if you could forward this along to anyone you know who'd be able to chip in, we want to try to make up some of that $4k gap. Initially we were just trying to map through the summer, but this is going to be a long-term problem and we're looking a bit further to the future.
Updates:
Kris Ansin of LABB and Tulane went out on June 9 in a seaplane provided by the Blue Seals, and brought back some really disturbing images, many of which will make great maps. See below, especially the one with the giant columns of smoke (that one's not for a map, but it's still breathtaking).
Stewart Long of GonzoEarth.com also finished up a new map of Perdido Point:
The really stunning part of this map is that the images were submitted by someone we weren't working with - Don and Justin Blancher, who heard a talk about our efforts and simply went out and did it. We were surprised and a little confused when they emailed us asking where to upload the images, and when we actually saw them we were blown away. So many thanks to them for taking such initiative!Best,
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on June 18, 2010
Jeffrey Yoo Warren
Posted project update #3New, better organized Data page, new maps
Post CommentA new map is up as of a couple days ago which you might not have seen:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreywarren/4706991316/in/photostream/
This is before oil hits, but look at the notes on Flickr, there's a BP
station in the map, booms at the end of the pier (NOAA imagery isn't good
enough to show that) and of course a Waffle House:http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreywarren/4706490807/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreywarren/4707131468/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreywarren/4706490467/This and all our other maps are now online at a shiny new page:
http://grassrootsmapping.org/data/
There's also a new way to contribute to the project: it's called MapMill, and it's basically a Hot or Not for our oil spill imagery. We spend a lot of time sorting through imagery to find good, clear, straight-down images, and we're asking everyone to chip in a bit of their time to speed this process up:
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on June 12, 2010
Jeffrey Yoo Warren
Posted project update #2New map of Isle Grande Terre
Hi everyone - Thanks again for your support; we have 9 days left and I wanted to ask you all to help get the word out for a final push for funding, as well as update you all on our latest imagery and maps.
Stewart Long from GonzoEarth.com just finished up another stitched map which we'll publish shortly, but a smaller version is attached, and to see a near-full resolution version, try the following link:
(This is a huge image even though it's not full-resolution; I'd right-click and save, rather than opening it up in your browser. )
http://maps.grassrootsmapping.org/preview/grand-isle-terre.jpg
This shows almost a mile of coastline at Isle Grande Terre (view on Google Maps) with stains of oil, and was gathered by volunteers Tara Foster and Randy Caruso from the Louisiana Bucket Brigade. You can see them launching the balloon in the attached video, below.
(And some helicopters getting curious about the balloons here http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffreywarren/4692495867/)
Balloons are popping more often than we'd like, so I just ordered a more durable balloon from Souther Balloon Works:
southernballoonworks.com/balloons/giant-ball-balloons.html
They're a bit more expensive but have thicker skins and are intended for longer-term use. I got a 6-foot wide red one. But look - you can get ones printed as globes, at up to 22 ft. wide! Don't worry, we won't buy one.Thanks again and let's keep up the momentum!
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Jeffrey Yoo Warren
Cambridge, MA
Founder of Grassroots Mapping and co-founder of Public Laboratory, Jeffrey Warren makes maps and citizen science tools at p.irateship in Somerville, MA, and is a research affiliate of MIT's Center for Future Civic Media. He has founded or co-founded var... view more
I just realized that I never got a pic. Did you send them out?