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Projects by Michael Mandiberg (1)

Bright Bike DIY Kits: night visibility for safer riding

by Michael Mandiberg

Bright Bike DIY Kits make riding a bike at night safer. Scale this project up to make riding safer.

  125% funded

$2,506.75 pledged

86 backers

successful

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8-Bit Cities: real-world maps that look like 80s video games

by Brett Camper

Help me create interactive web maps of real cities, in the 8-bit style of 1980s video games. Try it out at 8bitnyc.com.

  122% funded

$3,649 pledged

60 backers

20 days to go

Escape From New York

by Olympia Lambert

Escape From New York is a tour de force exhibition taking place in Paterson, NJ, May 15 - June 19, 2010 that will showcase over 30 NYC artists

  59% funded

$2,056 pledged

37 backers

5 days to go

THE APOLOGY LINE

by William Bridges

We want to set up a freephone telephone line across the US allowing people to leave anonymous apologies on an answering machine.

  13% funded

$1,330 pledged

18 backers

74 days to go

Brooklyn Soda Works - artisanal, handmade sodas made with fresh ingredients

by Caroline M & Antonio R

Not your average soda - small batch, artisanal sodas and sparkling juice, made in Brooklyn, featuring unexpected flavor combinations

  124% funded

$1,867 pledged

56 backers

18 days to go

osloom: an open source jacquard loom (DIY electromechanical thread-controlled loom)

by Margarita Benitez

OSLOOM (short for OPEN SOURCE LOOM) is a project creating an open source electromechanical thread-controlled loom that will be computer controlled.

  8% funded

$827 pledged

21 backers

44 days to go

LOVELAND Season 2 Pre-Game: The Legend of The Ghost Inches

by Jerry Paffendorf

Warning! There have been reports of strange phenomenon in the Greater Detroit Metro Complex. Ghost inch threat level: rainbow. Catch these $1 inches!

  356% funded

$1,779 pledged

105 backers

successful

Craigslist Diaries

by Dennis Roberts

Imagine "Paris, je t'aime", but each scene is 15-45 seconds long and based on a Craigslist post.

  10% funded

$60 pledged

3 backers

44 days to go

I'm working hard on my new album: your pre-order & pledge will fund its production!

by Holcombe Waller

After posting free music all Winter long, I'm using Kickstarter to raise the final production budget. Pre-order, and get exclusive rewards!

  79% funded

$9,484.26 pledged

166 backers

17 days to go

Natalie John's music, Unveiled. Be a part of the final stages!

by Natalie John

I like to meld jazz with all sorts of things. My first record is a hop, skip and jump away from completion, and you can be a part of the final stages!

  101% funded

$3,045 pledged

71 backers

successful

Save the City Reliquary! Collecting and Protecting New York City Artifacts

by the City Reliquary

The City Reliquary, a non-profit community museum and civic organization needs your help to keep our doors open!

  47% funded

$467 pledged

19 backers

13 days to go

Building the Open Source Bussard Fusion Reactor

by Famulus

Building an open source Bussard fusion reactor, aka the Polywell.

  126% funded

$3,785 pledged

79 backers

successful

1024 bits of you and me

by pesi

you give me words, i give you art. repeat 1024 times. a book gets made. awesome!

  48% funded

$4,950.38 pledged

186 backers

30 days to go

Little City Gardens: An experiment in the economic viability of urban farming

by brooke budner and caitlyn galloway

Brooke and Caitlyn want to expand their urban farm business. They are carving a space in the market economy for urban food production.

  114% funded

$17,159.69 pledged

201 backers

47 days to go

WE'RE BUILDING A CABIN!!!

by Ananda Harvest

We're trying to build a second cabin (so you can have a place to stay) at our new farm, Ananda Harvest!

  101% funded

$10,140 pledged

103 backers

successful

Ghost Bikes Film Project

by meaghan wilbur

The Ghost Bikes Film Project is exploring the intersection of street art, activism, and mourning on the streets of NYC and around the world.

  6% funded

$921 pledged

27 backers

no time left

Crap Hound #4: Clowns, Devils & Bait!

by Chloe Eudaly

Beloved by artists, crafters and designers alike, Crap Hound is a great resource and a work of art in and of itself. Come on pledgers, let's publish!

  118% funded

$14,751.81 pledged

304 backers

successful

Comix Journalism: Send Ted Rall Back to Afghanistan to Get the Real Story

by Ted Rall

Cover travel costs for independent cartoonist/war correspondent to travel and live with Afghans. He report from Afghanistan and write a book.

  47% funded

$11,714.95 pledged

136 backers

17 days to go

Getting Your Sh*t Together: Business of Art Software for Artists

by Karen Atkinson

GYST Ink is an artist run company for artists. We are fundraising to rewrite our popular software for artists from the ground up.

  105% funded

$10,505 pledged

77 backers

successful

Turn our cities' windows into vertical veggie farms!

by The Windowfarms Project

Ordinary folks participate in a mass collaboration toward green innovation (R&D-I-Y) and turn their apartment windows into vertical veggie farms.

  113% funded

$28,205 pledged

221 backers

successful

Emoji Dick

by Fred Benenson

Translating Moby Dick into Japanese Emoji Icons using Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

  105% funded

$3,676.01 pledged

83 backers

successful

Recent Posts by Michael Mandiberg

1. 

   Michael Mandiberg
   commented on a project

   I LOVE IT I live here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/theredproject/4418825132/sizes/l/ In between Grand Army Plaza of Zelda, and Contra Heights. LOL awesome

   Project: 8-Bit Cities: real-world maps that look like 80s video games
2. 

   Michael Mandiberg
   Posted project update #5

   Bright Bike = EPIC WIN!

   The Bright Bike campaign just finished with a bang. EPIC WIN!

   Thank you all for contributing to the project.

   I believe that a magic door will open in the administrative interface for the campaign, and I will be able to query all the backers about what cut and color combination they want. It didn't happen when the countdown hit zero seconds... I am assuming it will happen at some point.

   I will ship out kits in the order that people backed the project.

   Thanks again to everyone who made this possible!
   Project: Bright Bike DIY Kits: night visibility for safer riding
3. 

   Michael Mandiberg
   Posted project update #4

   Success, with a week left

   Bright Bike is officially successful! The campaign crossed the $2000 mark this morning. I want to thank you all for backing this project! Without you it would not have happened.

   With this milestone reached, I have started fabrication. I put a big order of vinyl on my credit card and have hired a helper to help me start fabricating the kits.

   There are still seven days to go, so you can still pass the word on to friends. More support just means a bigger scale up!

   Thanks Again!

   Michael

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   Project: Bright Bike DIY Kits: night visibility for safer riding
4. 

   Michael Mandiberg
   commented on a project

   I was born in Detroit. I love the idea of buying a few square inches of the city, as it returns to wilderness. Maybe I will even be able to visit my 12 square inches this summer.

   Project: LOVELAND Season 2 Pre-Game: The Legend of The Ghost Inches
5. 

   Michael Mandiberg
   Posted project update #3

   Second Jig At Work

   We put the second jig to work today cutting Pinstripe kits. It works beautifully. It makes the hand production we were using look like... hand production. We are still using our hands, because hands are pretty damn precise, but we are moving much much faster now.

   Its kind of like riding a bicycle. You could be in a car, but you can get there without electricity. You just need some gears and two wheels.

   We got our wheels today!

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   Project: Bright Bike DIY Kits: night visibility for safer riding
6. 

   Michael Mandiberg
   Posted project update #2

   Video of the first jig in use!

   This post is exclusive to backers.

   Project: Bright Bike DIY Kits: night visibility for safer riding
7. 

   Michael Mandiberg
   Posted project update #1

   Crossed the 1/3 mark!

   The Bright Bike campaign has crossed the 1/3 mark. I'm feeling confident that this is going to happen!

   I'm going to start the process of making the jig over the next few days. I will post pictures as they become available.

   Also, check out Nathan Freitas' sweet pic of his Bright Bike'd "Blue Steel"

   http://www.flickr.com/photos/natty/4348243045/

   Spread the word and make biking safer: http://kck.st/bxOtp1

   Michael

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   Project: Bright Bike DIY Kits: night visibility for safer riding