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Jonathan Soma

Brooklyn, NY

Howdy! I live in Brooklyn and make all sorts of things. I've built web sites to help you get around NYC on the subway, made maps of where single people live, and figured out just how many people in Japan are baking cookies on Saturdays at 4:30 PM. Right now... view more

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    World Supper Adventure is Hitting the Road! by Adrian Katherine Theopulos

    Inviting myself to dinner, around the world, to create a book of secret recipes and tales of great hospitality.

    • 100% funded $4,010 pledged
    • 50 backers
    • Funded Nov 22, 2010
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    The Adventures of Celery Salt and The Wounded Trumpet by Adrian Katherine Theopulos

    The trumpet half of our trumpet/drum band is in a state of extreme distress and needs to get to the horn hospital ASAP.

    • 102% funded $360 pledged
    • 12 backers
    • Funded Oct 21, 2010
  3. World Supper Adventure by Adrian Katherine Theopulos

    Inviting myself to dinner, around the world, to bring together a book of home recipes and tales of great hospitality.

    Funding Unsuccessful (10/01/2010)
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    'Built + Branded' by Ground Up Designers by Lana Zellner

    Our project, Built + Branded, is a book, a digital map and a party! This interactive project showcases how awesome our area of Brooklyn is!

    • 104% funded $2,602 pledged
    • 35 backers
    • Funded Sep 10, 2010
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    Good Food Truck by Jessamine starr

    The Good Food Truck combines sweet, sour, salty, and savory tastes to create unusual and delicious street food for the greater Atlanta area.

    • 105% funded $4,410 pledged
    • 76 backers
    • Funded Aug 05, 2010
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    Frown Town - An Independent and Incredibly Awesome Puppet Show by Frown Town

    Help buy a camera and fund the first episode of Frown Town, an independent puppet show about children, but most definitely not for them.

    • 151% funded $5,687 pledged
    • 96 backers
    • Funded Jul 16, 2010
  7. NYC Local Kimchi Company by kimchi sisters

    Kimchi Sisters is a small, local (and organic as possible) kimchi company based in NYC. We hope our kimchi brings some sweet and spicy love to you!

    Funding Unsuccessful (07/19/2010)
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    pieLab : a game laboratory / food cart by @skinny by Crystal Beasley

    I'm building a game laboratory masquerading as a pie cart. Yep, a sidewalk food cart that serves slices of pie, ice cream and coffee in Portland, OR.

    • 110% funded $1,650 pledged
    • 56 backers
    • Funded Jul 05, 2010
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    The 'Pie in the Park' Cookbook - Stories and Recipes of Pie by Lauren Cucinotta

    An event, a movement and now a book that seeks to create social change through the simple act of baking, and sharing, pie.

    • 101% funded $7,644 pledged
    • 123 backers
    • Funded Jun 28, 2010
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    Greenaid-Seedbomb Vending for Greener Cities! by Commonstudio

    Greenaid converts vintage gumball machines into "seedbomb" dispensers to encourage community engagement with green space in urban environments.

    • 103% funded $10,398 pledged
    • 334 backers
    • Funded Jul 03, 2010
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    Korean Papermaking in Cleveland by Aimee Lee

    I'm going to Cleveland to build tools to teach Korean papermaking for the Morgan Conservatory.

    • 118% funded $2,256 pledged
    • 46 backers
    • Funded Jun 09, 2010
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    Homemade: brooklyn - June 25 - 27 by Jessica Goldfond

    Homemade: brooklyn is a roving pop up store that promotes the diverse creativity that is currently happening in the borough in a variety of fields

    Funding Unsuccessful (06/24/2010)
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    Cakestarter by Royally Iced Cakes

    We're a team of young, enthusiastic pastry chefs who have an exciting vision for artistic cakes. We want to bring our delicious creations to life.

    • 101% funded $7,609 pledged
    • 163 backers
    • Funded May 02, 2010
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    FIXIT Magazine for comics and art - Help Support our Launch! by fawn

    FIXIT Mag is a comic art and illustration magazine that will be published quarterly in 2011 and showcasing new artistic talent in the print medium.

    • 109% funded $11,514 pledged
    • 219 backers
    • Funded May 02, 2010
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    Raven's Occasional Spice Club by Francis Raven

    Are you suffering from food-related ennui? If so, you need to join Raven's Occasional Spice Club and receive mailings of rare or homemade spices!

    • 260% funded $1,302 pledged
    • 31 backers
    • Funded Jul 01, 2010
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    Brooklyn Grange Rooftop Farm by Brooklyn Grange

    Brooklyn Grange will be a 1 acre rooftop farm in New York City.

    • 116% funded $23,226 pledged
    • 391 backers
    • Funded May 28, 2010
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    A Community Apiary in Pittsburgh! by Burgh Bees

    We are turning an abandoned urban lot in Pittsburgh into a community apiary (for honeybee hives) and demonstration pollinator garden.

    • 105% funded $3,695 pledged
    • 66 backers
    • Funded May 31, 2010
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    Page 121 Productions: Two Festivals, Two Coasts by Page 121 Productions

    Page 121 Productions, New York's boldest emerging artist theatre company, will present two acclaimed original plays on two coasts this summer.

    • 105% funded $7,100 pledged
    • 83 backers
    • Funded Jun 02, 2010
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    Coyote Pursues by Matt Reeck, Deborah Simon, Dan Wonderly

    A multi-media performance of marionettes, video and music that will portray two coyotes living in an austere world newly bereft of people.

    • 110% funded $2,760 pledged
    • 52 backers
    • Funded Jun 15, 2010
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    Just Food by Suzanne Linder

    High school students in Urbana, IL are producing a cookbook of affordable, sustainable just recipes to distribute to their peers.

    • 178% funded $445 pledged
    • 27 backers
    • Funded May 01, 2010
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    Trade School by OurGoods.org

    At Trade School, students barter with teachers for instruction. Classes range from butter making to ghost hunting. Help us run Trade School again!

    • 101% funded $9,133 pledged
    • 239 backers
    • Funded Jun 26, 2010
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