What is Kickstarter? We’re the world's largest funding platform for creative projects. Learn more!

Dsc_5894.large

Michael and Liz

Hyattsville, MD

Michael Horlick is a Central Asian linguist and published lexicographer. (If you don't know what that means, please, by all means, do look it up.) Liz Saint Rain is a papermaker, book artist, and designer who often goes by the moniker Fiberella. If you see her out picking iris or hunting milkweed, please remind her to come home once it's dark.

  1. Photo-full

    Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory: Artist Residency Japan by Tina Fish Lutz

    I have been awarded the opportunity to study Mokuhanga, a traditional Japanese woodblock printing technique, in Japan this summer.

    • 11% funded $385 pledged
    • 13 backers
    •  
       
  2. Flying Paper by Nitin Sawhney

    An uplifting story of Palestinian youth in Gaza on a quest to shatter the Guinness World Record for the most kites ever flown.

    • 54% funded $13,647 pledged
    • 148 backers
    •  
       
  3. Photo-full

    Phototionary - A Visual Dictionary Made With You! by Aaron

    What's the one word that best describes you? Well now, when someone looks up that word, you will be right there looking back!

    • 1% funded $315 pledged
    • 6 backers
    •  
       
  4. Photo-full

    Airborne Linguists - Losing our national treasures by Peter Ford

    The true account of 18 years of terrorist hunting with half-crazy geniuses and how the Air Force is losing the capability to do it.

    • 3% funded $656 pledged
    • 12 backers
    •  
       
  5. Funded!

    Wander Cyclist: Invisible China and Her Borderlands by Eleanor Moseman

    Eleanor Moseman, a photographer, is cycling through Asia documenting hidden communities, disappearing traditions and cultures.

    • 114% funded $4,575 pledged
    • 82 backers
    • Funded May 26, 2012
  6. Festival Searching the New Language by Oxana Bykanova

    First Russian Crowndfuned Festival proving that independent culture in Russia can exists not only on states, sponsors and funds money

    Funding Unsuccessful (05/13/2012)
  7. Bach's Goldberg Variations on Harpsichord and Piano by Sophia Gilmson

    To the best of my knowledge, I am the only artist in the world who has recorded Goldberg Variations on both instruments.

    Funding Unsuccessful (05/24/2012)
  8. Funded!
    Photo-full

    Lost Words - The Documentary by Brian McDermott

    The story of Native Americans fighting to save their endangered languages.

    • 104% funded $2,605 pledged
    • 22 backers
    • Funded May 21, 2012
  9. The Three Astronauts by Grethe Holby & Collaborators

    An internationally collaborative experience to be performed in four languages about exploring the unknown and encountering the alien.

    • 17% funded $878 pledged
    • 10 backers
    •  
       
  10. Making Glass Mobile with a Mobile Hot Shop by The Bay Area Glass Institute

    The Bay Area Glass Institute wants to bring glass blowing beyond four studio walls and out into the community with a Mobile Hot Shop.

    • 26% funded $5,306 pledged
    • 61 backers
    •  
       
  11. Funded!

    A Better Life by Chris Johnson

    Explore the meaning and joy of life with 100 fellow & famous atheists in this book of photos and commentary.

    • 108% funded $103,538 pledged
    • 795 backers
    • Funded Apr 08, 2012
  12. Funded!

    Execution: Conceptual Large Scale Ambrotypes by Linked Ring Photography

    Large scale conceptual Ambrotypes that feature young artists who have made tangible sacrifices in the pursuit of their craft.

    • 124% funded $7,441 pledged
    • 70 backers
    • Funded Apr 18, 2012
  13. Funded!

    UMD Faux Paz: Celebrating Our Passion by University of Maryland Faux Paz

    We've worked hard to advance to ICCA Semifinals in Nashville, TN and to start recording our new CD, now we just need you.

    • 104% funded $5,200 pledged
    • 75 backers
    • Funded Apr 09, 2012
  14. Funded!

    Learn Languages by Reading a Favorite Story by Jonathan Davidson

    Languages That Stick uses the greatest classics in an interlaced format to help people learn languages. Just read, enjoy, and learn.

    • 102% funded $5,114 pledged
    • 51 backers
    • Funded Apr 06, 2012
  15. Funded!

    Combat Paper Program by Dave Keefe

    Combat Paper is a community of veterans communicating our experiences by cutting up our uniforms and making paper out of them.

    • 126% funded $19,000 pledged
    • 321 backers
    • Funded Mar 20, 2012
  16. Rippin Red Dream by John Rizzotti

    Help a Small Hot Sauce Creator bring our second product to market. Help Small Business!!

    Funding Unsuccessful (04/25/2012)
  17. Funded!

    Duo Scorpio's First Recording by Duo Scorpio

    TWO HARPS. 94 Strings. One Recording. Duo Scorpio needs your help to fund our first album!

    • 119% funded $14,337 pledged
    • 203 backers
    • Funded Mar 26, 2012
  18. silent hands ceramics by Rachael Hubler

    Pottery created by a deaf ceramic artist in beautiful Colorado. Sign language and clay art; thus, 'Silent Hands Ceramics', fits nicely.

    Funding Unsuccessful (03/22/2012)
  19. Funded!

    Walk the Honey Road with Balyolu by Catherine Jaffee

    We are the first honey tasting walking journey of its kind, working with rural women & their villages in Northeastern Turkey.

    • 118% funded $41,593 pledged
    • 274 backers
    • Funded Feb 26, 2012
  20. Funded!

    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
  21. Vertical Wing Airshow Airplane by Matthew Tanner

    This aircraft will create an unprecedented aerial performance that has never been seen before. Innovative. Radical. Inspiring.

    Funding Unsuccessful (02/17/2012)
  22. Funded!

    What Makes a Baby by Cory Silverberg

    A modern picture book about where babies come that it fits for every kind of family and every kind of kid.

    • 689% funded $65,516 pledged
    • 1,954 backers
    • Funded Mar 16, 2012
  23. UGLY by RS

    A photographic journey through what it means to be ugly.

    Funding Unsuccessful (02/28/2012)
  24. Funded!

    PROJECT KYRGYZSTAN by Nayla Tawa and Jeslen Michelle Saenz

    A Kyrgyz man's vision to better his country's economy through ski tourism and his efforts to protect the world's largest walnut forest.

    • 105% funded $10,570 pledged
    • 98 backers
    • Funded Feb 23, 2012
  25. Photo-full

    The Kyrgyzstan Project by Matthew Segal

    The Kyrgyzstan Project is a short film that was shot in August of 2011 in the Ak Su Valley of Kyrgyzstan.

    Funding Unsuccessful (02/07/2012)
View 1 canceled project