Posts Tagged ‘Kickstarter’

Ice cream and robots are two great tastes that, not unlike orange juice and mint julips, aren’t expected to go well together. Addo Games’ Burton and Becca Posey are reconfiguring our expections however, working hard on an iPad/iPad2 game that (at last!) combines sentient technology with dairy-based treats. Robots Love Ice Cream has all the [...]

Discover new technologies and concepts that will transform the way you do business today at our Semantic Web Media Summiton September 14 in New York City. Speakers include Michael Dunn (Hearst Interactive Media), Evan Sandhaus (The New York Times), Mike Petit (OpenAmplify), and Alan Meckler (WebMediaBrands). Register now.

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Madéleine Flores understands that the problem with Magellan, Drake, Raleigh, Polo and other famous explorers is that they failed to record their discoveries as comics. And so, to fix this issue, the intrepid cartoonist is setting out on her own to travel the globe and sketch out what she finds — through a Kickstarter campaign. [...]

Everyone is talking about the theatrical premiere of Kevin MacDonald and Ridley Scott’s YouTube documentary Life In A Day, but Life In A Day isn’t the only documentary made up of footage shot in a single day all around the globe. One Day On Earth is a similar project—a documentary time capsule sharing perspectives from people in every country in the world on 10/10/10.

Good folk music is able to convey centuries of history, tracing the path of a culture from its roots to its modern form. Whether it’s by sticking to the past with time-honored song structures or embracing the present by mixing unique regional instruments with new technology, folk is able to show the essence of a [...]

Let’s stop being so egotistical about Earth for a second. I mean, sure, we all enjoy living on the planet best capable of sustaining carbon-based life forms and, yeah, our ecosystem is varied and beautiful, providing us with aesthetic wonder and myriad, incredible species to admire but — do we ever stop to appreciate other [...]

In a spin on the immortal words of the Killers, enterprising metal scultor, Zac Shavrick, asks “Are we human, or are we monster?”. An important question, that — and one that, luckily, you can mull over for yourself by commissioning Shavrick to create your very own, personalized sculpture through the artist’s current Kickstarter campaign. Shavrick’s [...]

There isn’t much time left before we reach the point of total zombie saturation. Maybe, just maybe though, you’ll be able to find room in your heart for at least one more undead centered romp with this week’s featured Kickstarter project, Safe Zone. Blind Eye Games, the small New York City indie developer behind the [...]

When we think of cities we usually picture concrete and steel — not exactly the kind of environment where anyone expects nature to find a place. This duo behind this week’s featured Kickstarter project, Seeing Green: The Value of Urban Farms, want to change our expectations about what the typically barren landscape of a modern [...]

I still have CDs. I even go out and buy them — even though it’s becoming more and more difficult to find a decent selection at places other than second-hand record stores. That’s why the death of Tower Records is interesting to me. And, as this week’s featured Kickstart project shows, the end of an [...]