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Guy Raises $7,000 on Kickstarter to Fund Insufferable Bonding Trip With Each of His Facebook Friends
Maggie Lange · 03/15/13 01:01PMAn online friendship doesn't mean you share mutual affection, trust, history, or any of the other standard qualifiers for a relationship and this is mostly chill because it's Facebook and that's how Facebook has worked for years. Well Connecticut-based photographer and astute cultural observer, Ty Morin has discerned this as well and he plans to do something about it.
$1 Million in Less Than Five Hours: Fans Propel Veronica Mars Movie to Record-Setting Fundraising Highs
Maggie Lange · 03/13/13 04:04PMBar Refaeli Needs Your Help Raising Funds for Her Sex Tape
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/02/12 11:15AMAnimal Collective's Deakin Apologizes for Screwing Fans on Kickstarter
Cord Jefferson · 09/28/12 03:10PMIn our piece last week about Amanda Palmer and the nearly non-existent accountability practices of Kickstarter, we briefly touched on the infamous Kickstarter project of one Josh Dibb. Dibb, a member of ballyhooed Baltimore band Animal Collective, infamously collected more than $25,000 three years ago to do a music project in Africa. Almost three years later, none of the donors to Dibb's project have received any of the rewards they were promised.
Amanda Palmer's Million-Dollar Music Project and Kickstarter's Accountability Problem
Cord Jefferson · 09/19/12 12:15PMBack in June, when Amanda Palmer got $1.2 million via Kickstarter to support her new album and tour, the Dresden Dolls singer set a new record for music projects on the fundraising site. The average successful music Kickstarter asks for and receives about $5,000. Palmer asked for $100,000 and then got 12 times that. Naturally, she was thrilled, but now she's being asked to better explain what she's doing with all that money, and she's become a poster child for Kickstarter's accountability problems in the process.
End Online Panhandling Forever!
Ryan Tate · 11/10/11 03:41PMHey, can you spare a hundred bucks for my animé about the forces of Satan? Oh wait, no, actually how about $75 for my low-noise waterproof USB vibrator? Or maybe like $10 for my buddy's interactive ebook and film on psychedelic medicine? How about a $1 pocket grill investment? These annoying pitches all represent actual things—actual projects on Kickstarter, favored venue of filthy broke ass hippies the world over. There is just way, way too much of this shit.
Filmmaker Documenting History of LA's Toilet-Paper Brotherhood
Lauri Apple · 08/07/11 12:41PMBack in 1979, long before all teenage pranks became felonies, a red-haired Los Angeles high schooler and three of his friends formed a dedicated group of surreptitious home toilet-paperers. Thirty-two years later, this group still exists! And now an ex-member's trying to make a documentary about it.