Grand Detour

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Portland, OR

Grand Detour is a Portland, Oregon-based emerging microcinema and experimental media center committed to supporting, enhancing, and connecting the community of new media artists in Portland and beyond. Currently hosting screenings and curating video ... view more

Live From The Grave...It's John Belushi (A Tribute) by JackZullo

Live multi-media show features live music, sketch improv, short docu-style vids.
- Theater
- Santa Monica, CA
Funding Unsuccessful (02/23/2012)
Funded!
Boys for Sale by Khamsin

A documentary about young male sex workers in the bars of Chiang Mai's red light district.
- Documentary
- Chiang Mai, Thailand
- 141% funded $2,124 pledged
- 28 backers
- Funded Dec 09, 2011
Funded!
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GLI.TC/H is a festival celebrating the glitch! Artists, thinkers, performers, makers && breakers gather to intentionally F▒C◀SH▓┐UP↕
- Digital Art
- Chicago, IL
- 173% funded $5,543 pledged
- 146 backers
- Funded Sep 27, 2011
Funded!
Screwed Rapids by The Screwed Arts Collective

We will create a 95’ long and 22’ 5” tall wall drawing in the Ramp Project Space of the UICA during the ArtPrize® festival.
- Public Art
- Grand Rapids, MI
- 100% funded $13,119 pledged
- 105 backers
- Funded Aug 24, 2011
Funded!
Sita-a short film about commercial surrogacy by Arpita Kumar by Arpita

Through three individual vignettes, Sita uncovers the different faces of commercial surrogacy in India.
- Film & Video
- New Delhi, India
- 101% funded $6,095 pledged
- 92 backers
- Funded Aug 09, 2011
Funded!
The Meadow by Alex Calhoun & Roxanne Smith!

The Meadow will be a place for emerging artists and curators to set down new roots and grow together.
- Art
- Chicago, IL
- 111% funded $2,000 pledged
- 24 backers
- Funded Jun 26, 2011
Funded!
The Noun Project - Building a Free Collection of Symbols by Edward Boatman

Help us build a fun, easy-to-use, brilliantly designed online symbol library.
- Graphic Design
- Los Angeles, CA
- 957% funded $14,366 pledged
- 386 backers
- Funded Dec 24, 2010
Funded!
Miyu Decay Jewelry Line by Stephanie Inagaki by Stephanie Inagaki

Miyu Decay Jewelry amalgamates macabre fineries with varying accoutrements of the Old World.
- Fashion
- Camarillo, CA
- 111% funded $2,790 pledged
- 35 backers
- Funded Dec 19, 2010
Funded!
Heavy Meta Tour -- Connecting International Artists & Organizations by Research Club

European tour of artist & community-run projects to share & research the way creative organizations operate, leading to a documentary, book, & website
- Art
- Portland, OR
- 111% funded $2,335 pledged
- 51 backers
- Funded Nov 04, 2010
Funded!
Cut and Run: Projecting Experimental Cinema throughout The States by Cut and Run

Film on tour!
- Short Film
- San Francisco, CA
- 100% funded $2,750 pledged
- 38 backers
- Funded Sep 19, 2010

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Boys for Sale by Khamsin

GLI.TC/H 20111!?▐▐▐▀▀▀▀▀▀▄▄▀▀▌▌▌▐▐▐DIT▀▀▀▀▀Do▄it▄2gather▀▀▀▀ by GLI.TC/H

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Sita-a short film about commercial surrogacy by Arpita Kumar by Arpita

The Meadow by Alex Calhoun & Roxanne Smith!

The Noun Project - Building a Free Collection of Symbols by Edward Boatman

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