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Kio Stark

Brooklyn, NY

I’m a grad school dropout from Yale, author of the novel Follow Me Down (Red Lemonade, 2011), an advertising copywriter, and I teach at NYU’s graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program. Some of the things I’ve taught myself include how to develop... view more

  1. Nomadic Sojourns Journal by Nomadic Sojourns

    Help fund the launch of Nomadic Sojourns Journal: Volume 1, a journal dedicated to the exploration of movement in a myriad of fields.

    • 4% funded $460 pledged
    • 11 backers
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    Shell Game: An Art Show About the Financial Meltdown by Molly Crabapple

    For Shell Game, I'll create 9 giant paintings about the world financial meltdown, then have a gallery show in a faux gambling parlor

    • 215% funded $64,799 pledged
    • 701 backers
    • Funded Mar 27, 2012
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    PopView 3D Moon Map by Jeffrey R. Ambroziak

    Now is your chance to get a piece of the world’s first true 3D map of the Moon.

    • 385% funded $19,258 pledged
    • 594 backers
    • Funded Mar 07, 2012
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    Balloon Mapping Kits by mathew lippincott

    Make your own aerial photos and maps with our flight kit and MapKnitter browser app. Add a camera to our reusable 5.5' balloon & kit.

    • 558% funded $34,646 pledged
    • 463 backers
    • Funded Jan 31, 2012
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    Team 696: High School Geeks Building Robots to Dominate by Chris Spurgeon

    We are high school students in La Crescenta, CA who sacrifice our free time in the name of building awesome robots.

    • 128% funded $3,215 pledged
    • 71 backers
    • Funded Jan 09, 2012
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    Take This Book: The People's Library at Occupy Wall Street by Melissa Gira Grant

    This is one story of the People's Library, as told to me by the librarians and patrons who built it.

    • 108% funded $10,838 pledged
    • 283 backers
    • Funded Dec 31, 2011
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    NO↔SPACE by NotAnAlternative

    This Fall, Not An Alternative will open a new venue for art, activism, technology, and theory called No-Space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

    • 131% funded $13,177 pledged
    • 218 backers
    • Funded Dec 03, 2011
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    Harvey Pekar Library Statue: Comics as Art & Literature Desk by Harvey Pekar Estate

    Harvey steps off an AMERICAN SPLENDOR page & onto a public library desk to celebrate making words and pictures... COMICS!

    • 127% funded $38,356 pledged
    • 805 backers
    • Funded Dec 05, 2011
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    Meanwhile by Hal Hartley

    Joe Fulton can fix anything. But success eludes him.

    • 141% funded $56,433 pledged
    • 590 backers
    • Funded Dec 01, 2011
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    Willard Asylum Suitcase Documentation by Jon Crispin

    I am photographing a collection of suitcases left behind by residents of the Willard Psychiatric Center in Willard, NY

    • 226% funded $18,114 pledged
    • 674 backers
    • Funded Nov 17, 2011
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    An Evening With Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer by Amanda Palmer

    Be a part of "An Evening with Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer…" whether you want to attend the shows, or live a million miles away…

    • 666% funded $133,341 pledged
    • 3,873 backers
    • Funded Oct 03, 2011
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    Molly Crabapple's Week in Hell by Molly Crabapple

    For Molly Crabapple's Week in Hell, I'm locking myself in a room for five days and covering the walls in art

    • 573% funded $25,805 pledged
    • 745 backers
    • Funded Jun 20, 2011
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    City of Epic: An Exercise RPG by Kelly Maguire

    We’re helping people stick to their workout routines by creating an online RPG based around real-world physical activity.

    • 113% funded $5,670 pledged
    • 143 backers
    • Funded Jun 15, 2011
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    LINDA: a serialized, singing, illustrated novella by Karinne Keithley Syers

    book as tent for a night / / hovering, quietist, and strange / / above and below a hollow earth

    • 123% funded $5,568 pledged
    • 107 backers
    • Funded May 31, 2011
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    Neighbors Helping NeighborGoods by Micki Krimmel

    Save money, live more sustainably and strengthen your local community by sharing goods and skills with your neighbors.

    • 113% funded $11,391 pledged
    • 236 backers
    • Funded Mar 23, 2011
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    Beyond Digital: Morocco - what if the DJ were the NGO? by Beyond Digital

    4 artists explore musical innovation in Morocco via collaboration, teaching, documentation, and digital storytelling.

    • 165% funded $8,270 pledged
    • 182 backers
    • Funded Mar 09, 2011
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    Especially Mysterious Letters by Lenka & Michael

    We are writing a personal, hand-written letter to every household in the world. (One village at a time).

    • 197% funded $3,956 pledged
    • 122 backers
    • Funded Jan 31, 2011
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    The Failure Support Group at 2011 The Transmodern Festival by Jaimes Mayhew

    We are producing a Failure Support Group with The Institute For Infinitely Small Things for the 2011 Transmodern Fest in Baltimore.

    • 107% funded $592 pledged
    • 24 backers
    • Funded Mar 01, 2011
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    1000 Haiku, 1000 Strangers by Christine Forster

    An international initiative to spread one-of-a-kind seventeen-syllabled slivers of beauty to the masses.

    • 351% funded $5,276 pledged
    • 228 backers
    • Funded Dec 25, 2010
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    Moveable Type: cross-country adventures in printing by Kyle Durrie

    Help build a mobile letterpress print shop in a truck! I'll tour the country, share the love, and make printing accessible to all!

    • 212% funded $17,010 pledged
    • 350 backers
    • Funded Jan 03, 2011
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    ReMade: The Rebirth of the Maker Movement by Electromagnate

    We are currently filming a documentary called ReMade that explores the state and direction of the DIY and Hackerspace movement in America.

    • 178% funded $17,895 pledged
    • 244 backers
    • Funded Nov 17, 2010
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    Punk Mathematics by Tom Henderson

    Part math book, part online event, Punk Mathematics is an introduction to mathematical thinking for people who question everything.

    • 1,195% funded $28,701 pledged
    • 1,022 backers
    • Funded Sep 01, 2010
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    Lasersaur: Open Source Laser Cutter by nortd

    Design a laser cutter and make the building process repeatable for others. The result is an affordable and easy to maintain system for everybody.

    • 200% funded $20,019 pledged
    • 260 backers
    • Funded Jul 08, 2010