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LEe Tusman

Bryn Mawr, PA

Lee Tusman is a curator and artist active in urban, socially-based art practices and events as well as a lo-fi street and documentary photographer. Projects include JANKY zine, mobile art space Vanagallery (a mobile art and action space) and Jewish Nois... view more

  1. MaKey MaKey: An Invention Kit for Everyone by Jay Silver

    Ever played Mario on Play-Doh or Piano on Bananas? Alligator clip the Internet to your world and start inventing the future.

    • 934% funded $233,700 pledged
    • 5,073 backers
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    A Guidebook of Alternative Nows by Amber Hickey

    A book featuring visionary thinkers and makers, illuminating more ecologically, economically, and socially just versions of "now."

    • 121% funded $6,065 pledged
    • 93 backers
    • Funded May 03, 2012
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    To What Strange Place: Ottoman-American Diaspora Music by Ian Nagoski

    Learning and telling the stories of Near Eastern musicians in the US in the early decades of the 20th century.

    • 258% funded $11,630 pledged
    • 278 backers
    • Funded Apr 20, 2012
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    A Las Barricadas - A Boardgame of Social Conflict by Justin Nichol

    A Las Barricadas is a boardgame about conflict between two social forces, namely the state and anti-authoritarian demonstrators.

    • 264% funded $9,243 pledged
    • 205 backers
    • Funded May 07, 2012
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    The Switched-On Garden 002 by Data Garden

    Data Garden seeks to produce an interactive exhibition exploring the relationship between plants, music and technology.

    • 110% funded $7,720 pledged
    • 240 backers
    • Funded Apr 24, 2012
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    Ad Hoc by Ad Hoc

    Bring music back to the community.

    • 112% funded $37,626 pledged
    • 973 backers
    • Funded Mar 05, 2012
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    Quilt Stories - FALL TOUR! by eliza fernand

    Quilt Stories travels the country, meeting you in a quilted tent to share your stories, documenting curiosities along the way....

    • 102% funded $1,020 pledged
    • 43 backers
    • Funded Aug 24, 2011
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    155 Freeman: Triple Canopy, Light Industry, Public School by Triple Canopy

    This fall, Triple Canopy, Light Industry, and The Public School will launch 155 Freeman, a new arts-and-culture center in Brooklyn.

    • 177% funded $35,465 pledged
    • 338 backers
    • Funded Jul 10, 2011
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    The Silk Road in Stereo by Kara Van Malssen

    What does a 10,000 km journey across the world's largest land mass sound like? Find out this summer!

    • 414% funded $10,359 pledged
    • 352 backers
    • Funded Aug 06, 2011
  10. WAVE MANUAL-- ONLY 1 MORE DAYS LEFT!!!! by Steven Rodriguez

    Spending months in MEXICO CITY/OAXACA working with FREE RADIO COLLECTIVES to create an illustrated cross-border manual for MICRO FM.

    Funding Unsuccessful (07/16/2011)
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    A RAY ARRAY by sarah rara

    A RAY ARRAY is a new video directed by artist Sarah Rara that examines visual and aural interference

    • 113% funded $3,417 pledged
    • 114 backers
    • Funded Apr 02, 2011
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    The Hip-Hop Word Count: A Searchable Rap Almanac by Tahir Hemphill

    The Hip-Hop Word Count is a searchable ethnographic database built from the lyrics of over 40,000 Hip-Hop songs from 1979 to present day.

    • 112% funded $8,441 pledged
    • 349 backers
    • Funded Feb 13, 2011
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    Gypsé Eyes Magazine: The Make Out Issue by Tyler Lafreniere

    Gypsé eyes is a publication which investigates the hilarity and loneliness of sex, love, and relationships. We need your help!

    • 116% funded $1,746 pledged
    • 57 backers
    • Funded Jan 28, 2011
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    Pogo Presents World Remix: Tibet by Nick Bertke

    In the same way I remix films using sounds, chords and vocals, I want to remix the cultures of the world with my camera and microphone!

    • 168% funded $25,299 pledged
    • 1,178 backers
    • Funded Mar 12, 2011
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    "E-Dogz" Mobile Culinary Community Center by Eric May

    E-Dogz is a mobile kitchen project that celebrates food as a catalyst for social interaction and investigates food relationships.

    • 111% funded $3,342 pledged
    • 86 backers
    • Funded Jan 28, 2011
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    CHEESE BIKE ---- loko queso west! by Pat McCarthy

    Having sold grilledcheese off of bikes in Leipzig Paris and most recently New York; the time is high to test on my western countrymen.

    Funding Unsuccessful (01/14/2011)
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    Resurrect Dead - A Sundance Documentary in Need of Your Help by Jon Foy

    I'm a house cleaner whose self-funded film was selected for Sundance Film Festival. I need your help to get to the finish line!

    • 136% funded $13,686 pledged
    • 162 backers
    • Funded Jan 29, 2011
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    Revolution as an Eternal Dream (Madame Binh Graphics Collective book by Mary Patten) by Temporary Services

    The political practice & visual propaganda of the Madame Binh Graphics Collective in book form - Help bring this obscure radical art history to light!

    • 230% funded $2,770 pledged
    • 72 backers
    • Funded Oct 30, 2010
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    The Sound of Art by Paddy Johnson

    A DJ Battle Record which pits the sounds of art works exhibited in Manhattan (Side A) against those in Brooklyn (Side B).

    • 111% funded $11,183 pledged
    • 174 backers
    • Funded Oct 07, 2010
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    Wolf Interval Double Cassette: Tom Hamill, Sleeps In Oysters & Made Of Oak by Erik Schoster

    Two handmade limited cassettes: Tom Hamill's Lost Songs 2005-2008 C60 and a special remix C20 from Sleeps In Oysters & Made Of Oak.

    • 112% funded $429 pledged
    • 23 backers
    • Funded Aug 07, 2010
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    Plainspeak - A Large Scale Classical/Folk Record by Aaron Roche and Tim Hinck by Aaron Roche

    Plainspeak is a new album of classical and folk music created by Aaron Roche and Tim Hinck.

    • 103% funded $3,115 pledged
    • 57 backers
    • Funded Jul 09, 2010
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    The Rafiq Bhatia Collective Debut Album feat. Vijay Iyer, Billy Hart, members of ICE by Rafiq Bhatia

    We have the opportunity to record our debut album with some of the leading lights in contemporary music; support us in making it a reality!

    • 104% funded $10,474 pledged
    • 127 backers
    • Funded Jun 25, 2010
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    Megawords Magazine by Megawords

    Megawords magazine is a non-commercial record of place & experience. Our mission is to truthfully document the world around us.

    Funding Unsuccessful (07/07/2010)
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    Building the School of the Future by Chris Kennedy

    School of the Future is a free education project that explores what school could be. We want to build architecture to give this project a home.

    • 119% funded $1,195 pledged
    • 53 backers
    • Funded Jun 01, 2010
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    James Kochalka + Pixeljam = Glorkian Warrior by Pixeljam

    James Kochalka and Pixeljam are making a video game called Glorkian Warrior.

    • 112% funded $11,200 pledged
    • 229 backers
    • Funded Mar 23, 2010