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I make websites and magazines. I'm a senior reporter for Gizmodo, a former contributing editor to Wired magazine, and all-around media innovator. I co-founded Longshot magazine, created the website Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle, and did other things too.

XOXO Festival by Andy Baio

A festival this September in Portland, Oregon bringing together artists and toolmakers to celebrate disruptive creativity.
- Technology
- Portland, OR
- 135% funded $169,083 pledged
- 627 backers
Funded!
Dear Friends: Meet "Pleiades" by Correatown by Correatown

Please help us release our new record! With your love, we will finish our record, press cds/vinyl, & tour our pants off!
- Indie Rock
- Los Angeles, CA
- 151% funded $15,110 pledged
- 196 backers
- Funded Jun 10, 2011
Funded!
My First Earthquake Destroys a Recording Studio by My First Earthquake

Help My First Earthquake, the nerd-rock foursome from San Francisco, make their dreams of album-recording & seismic-sonic destruction come true.
- Music
- San Francisco, CA
- 152% funded $7,624 pledged
- 181 backers
- Funded Oct 23, 2010
Funded!
Vuvuzelas for BP by Adam Quirk

Park a horde of vuvuzela players outside of BP corporate headquarters for a full day.
- Documentary
- London, United Kingdom
- 342% funded $6,846 pledged
- 426 backers
- Funded Jul 07, 2010
Funded!
Take Away Shows in Uganda, with Polyphonic Spree & Yeasayer by Invisible Children / Blogotheque

To help end Africa's longest running war, Invisible Children and La Blogothèque will team up to film Take Away Shows in Uganda with three bands.
- Music
- Gulu, Uganda
- 108% funded $21,626 pledged
- 355 backers
- Funded Mar 10, 2010
Funded!
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
Funded!
Designing Obama by Scott Thomas

The Design Director of the Obama campaign has collaborated with artists and designers to create a book of art & design from the historic campaign.
- Art
- Chicago, IL
- 130% funded $84,613 pledged
- 1,312 backers
- Funded Nov 05, 2009
Funded!
The Georgia Theatre record: Venice is Sinking's third album on vinyl! by Venice is Sinking

In May of 2008, we recorded an album at the Georgia Theatre. The Georgia Theatre was destroyed in a fire. Let's make the record and save the Theatre!
- Indie Rock
- Athens Clarke County, GA
- 110% funded $3,300 pledged
- 80 backers
- Funded Sep 13, 2009
Funded!
Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis by Andy Baio

What would the pioneers of jazz sound like on a Nintendo Entertainment System? Coltrane on a C-64? Mingus on Amiga? For years...
- Jazz
- Portland, OR
- 432% funded $8,647 pledged
- 419 backers
- Funded Aug 01, 2009

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XOXO Festival by Andy Baio

Dear Friends: Meet "Pleiades" by Correatown by Correatown

My First Earthquake Destroys a Recording Studio by My First Earthquake

Vuvuzelas for BP by Adam Quirk

Take Away Shows in Uganda, with Polyphonic Spree & Yeasayer by Invisible Children / Blogotheque

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

Designing Obama by Scott Thomas

The Georgia Theatre record: Venice is Sinking's third album on vinyl! by Venice is Sinking

Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis by Andy Baio

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