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Ken Baumann

Los Angeles, CA

Actor, writer, book publisher, angel investor. Carbohydrates are my drug.

  1. 2 days ago
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    Scanbox - Turn your iPhone into a portable scanner by Phil Bosua

    Easy to use, affordable & super portable. Scanbox allows you to use your phone's camera to take amazing high quality scans

    • 493% funded $61,679 pledged
    • 2,035 backers
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    Phil Tippett's "MAD GOD" by Mad God Productions

    MAD GOD is Animation Legend Phil Tippett's apocalyptic stop-motion descent into the bowels of the unconscious.

    • 194% funded $77,728 pledged
    • 1,455 backers
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  3. on March 4
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    MATTER by Matter

    The world is full of big stories. We don't want them to go missing.

    • 280% funded $140,201 pledged
    • 2,566 backers
    • Funded Mar 24, 2012
  4. on February 11
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    Ken Baumann
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    American Ecstasy Photo Book by Barbara Nitke

    A memoir in pictures and words of the twelve years I spent working as a still photographer on porn movie sets in New York in the 1980's

    • 129% funded $32,268 pledged
    • 407 backers
    • Funded Feb 24, 2012
  5. on January 15
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    Ken Baumann
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    Mark Baumer is Going to Write Fifty Books in a Year by Mark Baumer

    Mark Baumer has never published a book. He wants to write and publish fifty books in one year.

    Funding Unsuccessful (02/12/2012)
  6. on January 8
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    Ken Baumann
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    A Thought in Three Parts by Frank Theater Company

    FRANK, a newborn company, presents Wallace Shawn's famously unproduced,"A Thought in Three Parts." Be FRANK with us!

    • 100% funded $7,062 pledged
    • 151 backers
    • Funded Jan 31, 2012
  7. on November 25, 2011
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    Ken Baumann
    backed a project

    C 299,792 km/s by Derek Van Gorder and Otto Stockmeier

    A visually stunning, compelling sci-fi short film about interstellar colonization, meticulously shot with retro filmmaking techniques.

    • 200% funded $37,317 pledged
    • 1,198 backers
    • Funded Dec 26, 2011
  8. on November 9, 2011
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    Ken Baumann
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    Don't Go Back to School: A handbook for learning anything by Kio Stark

    A how-to guide for independent learning, with concrete strategies plus stories of people who learn on their own and how they do it.

    • 268% funded $38,928 pledged
    • 1,588 backers
    • Funded Dec 15, 2011
  9. on October 22, 2011
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    Ken Baumann
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    Tomorrow We Disappear by Jim Goldblum, Adam Weber, + Josh Cogan

    A feature documentary about Kathputli, India's last magician's colony. Help preserve this mystical place before it is destroyed.

    • 154% funded $61,931 pledged
    • 540 backers
    • Funded Nov 13, 2011
  10. on October 19, 2011
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    Ken Baumann
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    The Future of Future Tense Books by Kevin Sampsell

    Future Tense Books is an independent publisher of innovative writing that is readying itself for publishing in a new era.

    • 166% funded $5,812 pledged
    • 109 backers
    • Funded Nov 17, 2011