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Samuel Hansen

Las Vegas, NV

Samuel Hansen received a masters degree in mathematics from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the mind behind ACMEScience and its mathematical podcasts Combinations and Permutations and Strongly Connected Components, and he also co-hosts the M... view more

  1. The Canyons by Braxton Pope

    The Canyons is a contemporary thriller written by Bret Easton Ellis, produced by Braxton Pope and directed by Paul Schrader.

    • 140% funded $140,261 pledged
    • 791 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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    Techpocalypse by Anomaly Labs

    What would you do if machines destroyed Earth's civilization? Find out in the survival strategy MMO that takes place in the real world.

    Funding Unsuccessful (03/29/2012)
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    Diesel Sweeties eBook-Stravaganza 3000 by Richard Stevens

    Help me collect twelve years of webcomics into a complete ebook form while still keeping the files free to all.

    • 2,006% funded $60,209 pledged
    • 1,520 backers
    • Funded Mar 09, 2012
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    A Show with Ze Frank by Ze Frank

    In 2006 I created a show called "The Show with Ze Frank." With your help I'd like to start a new show. Same, same... but different.

    • 293% funded $146,752 pledged
    • 3,900 backers
    • Funded Mar 09, 2012
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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
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    The New Kind by Peter Hyoguchi

    "The New Kind" is an anime-flavored, sci-fi web series. A teenage love story in the crosshairs of a post-economic apocalypse future.

    • 101% funded $101,596 pledged
    • 413 backers
    • Funded Mar 17, 2012
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    This is Not a Conspiracy Theory by Kirby Ferguson

    A True Story About Why We Are. From the creator of Everything is a Remix.

    • 113% funded $54,610 pledged
    • 2,231 backers
    • Funded Mar 16, 2012
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    Double Fine Adventure by Double Fine and 2 Player Productions

    An adventure game from Tim Schafer, Double Fine, and YOU!

    • 834% funded $3,336,371 pledged
    • 87,142 backers
    • Funded Mar 13, 2012
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    Notebook on Cities and Culture season one by Colin Marshall

    Colin Marshall's in-depth talks with cultural creators, internationalists, and observers of the urban scene in Los Angeles and beyond.

    • 300% funded $3,000 pledged
    • 46 backers
    • Funded Feb 02, 2012
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    Put This On: Season Two by Jesse Thorn

    Put This On is a web series about dressing like a grownup. Season two will take us to the world's great style cities... if you fund it.

    • 103% funded $70,328 pledged
    • 1,679 backers
    • Funded Sep 16, 2011
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    Hella Bitter Seltzer Cart by Benjamin Ahr Harrison

    A pushcart serving handmade bitters and homemade seltzer to Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

    • 106% funded $4,770 pledged
    • 103 backers
    • Funded Aug 04, 2011
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    Longshot Issue #2 by mat honan

    Longshot Magazine is a raucous experiment in harnessing new tools to erase media’s old limits. We create a print magazine in 48 hours.

    • 226% funded $17,007 pledged
    • 473 backers
    • Funded Jul 24, 2011
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    Taposé: Bringing the Courier to the iPad by Benjamin Monnig

    Taposé brings the once hyped Courier to the iPad. The ingenious split interface allows interaction with multiple apps simultaneously

    • 265% funded $26,561 pledged
    • 1,274 backers
    • Funded May 22, 2011
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    Art of the Problem: Gambling with Secrets by Brit Cruise

    What does cheating at dice have to do with the fall of Nazi Germany? This cinematic series was inspired by James Burke's Connections

    • 100% funded $4,001 pledged
    • 88 backers
    • Funded May 06, 2011
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    Urbio Vertical Garden by Urbio

    Urbio, the magically magnetic urban vertical garden.

    • 516% funded $77,434 pledged
    • 818 backers
    • Funded May 10, 2011
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    Coffee Joulies – your coffee, just right by Dave & Dave

    Cool your coffee faster and keep enjoying it longer with Joulies, stainless steel beans filled with a magic heat-absorbing material.

    • 3,230% funded $306,944 pledged
    • 4,818 backers
    • Funded May 02, 2011
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    Protei, Open Hardware Oil Spill Cleaning Sailing Robot by Cesar Harada

    Oil spilled moves downwind : we are sailing upwind to capture it. Protei is an ocean cleaning and research open hardware drone.

    • 122% funded $33,795 pledged
    • 331 backers
    • Funded Apr 12, 2011
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    The Cosmonaut: A Wide-Grip Stylus for Touch Screens by Dan Provost & Tom Gerhardt

    The Cosmonaut is a minimal, wide-grip capacitive stylus for touch screens. Perfect for sketching and doodling on any tablet.

    • 268% funded $134,236 pledged
    • 6,192 backers
    • Funded Apr 20, 2011
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    Hella Bitter Citrus Cocktail Bitters by Benjamin Ahr Harrison

    I'm going to make a batch of about 50 bottles of citrus cocktail bitters.

    • 255% funded $2,456 pledged
    • 107 backers
    • Funded Apr 20, 2011
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    Urbanized: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit

    Help finish the new design documentary from the director of "Helvetica" and "Objectified".

    • 139% funded $118,505 pledged
    • 1,814 backers
    • Funded Mar 23, 2011
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    LetterMpress: A Virtual Letterpress on Your iPad by John Bonadies

    Experience the Art and Craft of Letterpress Printing on your iPad

    • 263% funded $39,495 pledged
    • 1,601 backers
    • Funded Apr 21, 2011
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    The Nature of Code Book Project by Daniel Shiffman

    A book about applying topics from mathematics, physics, and generative algorithms to computational systems. With Processing!

    • 631% funded $31,575 pledged
    • 1,189 backers
    • Funded Apr 03, 2011
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    The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero

    The Shape of Design is a short, accessible book about the creative process & the intersection of storytelling, craft & improvisation.

    • 415% funded $112,159 pledged
    • 2,109 backers
    • Funded Mar 02, 2011
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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