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Bill Barol

Santa Monica, CA

I'm a career journalist (Newsweek, Time, The New Yorker, Slate, Fast Company, PBS, among other places) who's excited about the possibilities of new media. Currently blogging and podcasting at trueslant.com/billbarol.

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    BOWDEN + SHEFFIELD Minimalist iPad Cases by Levi & Eric - FINEGRAIN

    Fine Grain introduces two new iPad cases designed to fully protect your iPad without sacrificing its look and feel.

    • 101% funded $20,241 pledged
    • 180 backers
    • Funded May 23, 2012
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    Marshall Crenshaw EP Subscription Series! by Marshall Crenshaw

    Help bring Marshall Crenshaw's vision for a two-year, 6 EP subscription series to life!

    • 105% funded $33,804 pledged
    • 378 backers
    • Funded Apr 28, 2012
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    Elevation Dock: The Best Dock For iPhone by Casey Hopkins

    Undocking's a breeze and it works with cases. Built at a whole new level of quality with a beautifully minimal design.

    • 1,952% funded $1,464,706 pledged
    • 12,521 backers
    • Funded Feb 11, 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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    Last Summer at Coney Island (documentary) 2 by JL Aronson

    Help support a film about changing times in the birthplace of American popular culture. The project is approaching its final hurdles!

    • 100% funded $12,026 pledged
    • 95 backers
    • Funded Jun 06, 2010
  6. Last Summer at Coney Island (documentary) by JL Aronson

    Help support a film about changing times in the birthplace of American popular culture. The project is approaching its final hurdles!

    Funding Unsuccessful (03/10/2010)
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    LOST ROCKERS: The new documentary film from the makers of "American Hardcore" by Paul Rachman and Steven Blush

    LOST ROCKERS peeks under the dusty rug of music history and tells the stories of great forgotten musicians.

    • 107% funded $16,102 pledged
    • 85 backers
    • Funded May 19, 2010
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    Lumi Co. – A NEW TEXTILE PRINTING TECHNOLOGY by Lumi

    Lumi Co. creates prints that were previously impossible. Using their new technology, two young designers want to turn the fashion world upside down!

    • 113% funded $13,597 pledged
    • 188 backers
    • Funded Feb 22, 2010
  9. TINYBROKENFILMS PRESENTS : SCENARIO 51 by Chris Artiga-Oliver

    We are producing a 12 part, serialized Sci-Fi Film, SCENARIO 51 ! Join our tinybrokennation and spread the word!

    Funding Unsuccessful (12/18/2009)
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    Put This On: Season One by Jesse Thorn

    Put This On is a web series for men about dressing like a grownup. Now that our pilot is complete, you can help fund our first six-episode season.

    • 106% funded $15,987 pledged
    • 369 backers
    • Funded Dec 15, 2009
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    50 Characters in 50 Weeks by Brent Rose

    An attempt to write, shoot, edit, and release one short-film every week, for fifty weeks, each featuring a new, original character.

    • 107% funded $10,702 pledged
    • 156 backers
    • Funded Nov 06, 2009
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    A PORTRAIT OF AMERICA LEFT BEHIND by Brandon Schulman

    A photographic documentation of American Spaces. Setting out once again with my trusty pickup truck and my large format camera to frame what I see.

    • 127% funded $3,836 pledged
    • 58 backers
    • Funded Dec 01, 2009