Steven Brower

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New York, NY

I am an artist living in Brooklyn, New York. I have a degree in Painting from Pratt Institute. For the past 10 years or so, I've been making increasingly elaborate "space missions", based initially on NASA projects, which had always looked an... view more

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LINX: the drinking straw construction game. by Patrick Martinez

LINX: the drinking straw construction game.
- Product Design
- New York, NY
- 104% funded $31,435 pledged
- 454 backers
- Funded Mar 04, 2012
Daylight Will Not Be Noticed by Kenn Bass

A journey and media installation in search of remote signals; lost, misinterpreted, or overlooked.
- Art
- Brooklyn, NY
Funding Unsuccessful (11/05/2011)
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Untitled (as of yet): new ballet collaboration NYC/Asheville by NORTE MAAR

An evening of collaborative performance, poetry, music, dance: artists from Asheville and New York City. Chors: Julia Gleich, Ann Dunn.
- Dance
- Asheville, NC
- 118% funded $2,260 pledged
- 34 backers
- Funded Aug 06, 2011
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Orbit(Film) Astronaut Appreciation Society by Rooftop Films

Help launch a solar system of short films by an all-star cast of independent artists.
- Short Film
- Mars, PA
- 100% funded $5,014 pledged
- 57 backers
- Funded Jul 19, 2011
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Physical GIF by Greg Borenstein

Physical GIF turns animated GIFs into delightful coffee table toys. With a laser cutter and a strobe we give GIFs life off the screen.
- Product Design
- New York, NY
- 143% funded $5,731 pledged
- 107 backers
- Funded Aug 04, 2011
An original dramatic feature film about swords, tattoos, and love. by Amy Guggenheim

A feature film about desire: to live or to die. An American woman is drawn into the mysterious world of Japanese Sword Fighting.
- Film & Video
- New York, NY
Funding Unsuccessful (11/09/2010)
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Welcome to Pine Hill: A feature film by Keith Miller and Tin Light Cooperative! by Keith Miller

Welcome to Pine Hill follows a man in his last days as he makes peace with his life and the people he has known and loved.
- Narrative Film
- Brooklyn, NY
- 111% funded $4,453 pledged
- 62 backers
- Funded Aug 07, 2010
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Decentralize the web with Diaspora by Daniel G. Maxwell S. Raphael S. Ilya Z.

Fully Funded! Diaspora will be an open source personal web server to protect and share all of your stuff online.
- Open Software
- New York, NY
- 2,006% funded $200,641 pledged
- 6,479 backers
- Funded Jun 01, 2010
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Building the Open Source Bussard Fusion Reactor by Famulus

Building an open source Bussard fusion reactor, aka the Polywell.
- Open Hardware
- New York, NY
- 126% funded $3,785 pledged
- 79 backers
- Funded Mar 15, 2010
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Comix Journalism: Send Ted Rall Back to Afghanistan to Get the Real Story by Ted Rall

Cover travel costs for independent cartoonist/war correspondent to travel and live with Afghans. He report from Afghanistan and write a book.
- Journalism
- 103% funded $25,999 pledged
- 211 backers
- Funded Apr 05, 2010
Make a Rocket Fly! Fly to The Moon! Leave a Monument to Outlast Humanity! by Will Baird

Team Phoenicia is building a rocket. This prototype is for a Moon landing as part of the Google Lunar X Prize. We need funding for flight testing.
- Open Hardware
- Emeryville, CA
Funding Unsuccessful (01/26/2010)
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Sea Monster: a 3-D stereoscopic web series exploring new film grammar. by Gray Miller

Deadline tonight !! 8 hrs to go-- See us at SXSW 3DIY! A DIY stereoscopic 3-D, Moby Dick-inspired web series, that invents new 3-D film grammar.
- Webseries
- New York, NY
- 100% funded $5,009 pledged
- 47 backers
- Funded Mar 15, 2010

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LINX: the drinking straw construction game. by Patrick Martinez

Daylight Will Not Be Noticed by Kenn Bass

Untitled (as of yet): new ballet collaboration NYC/Asheville by NORTE MAAR

Orbit(Film) Astronaut Appreciation Society by Rooftop Films

Physical GIF by Greg Borenstein

An original dramatic feature film about swords, tattoos, and love. by Amy Guggenheim

Welcome to Pine Hill: A feature film by Keith Miller and Tin Light Cooperative! by Keith Miller

Decentralize the web with Diaspora by Daniel G. Maxwell S. Raphael S. Ilya Z.

Building the Open Source Bussard Fusion Reactor by Famulus

Comix Journalism: Send Ted Rall Back to Afghanistan to Get the Real Story by Ted Rall

Make a Rocket Fly! Fly to The Moon! Leave a Monument to Outlast Humanity! by Will Baird

Sea Monster: a 3-D stereoscopic web series exploring new film grammar. by Gray Miller

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