Conflict Zone by Luker. CONFLICT ZONE was inspired after NY Times Photographer, Joao Silva stepped on a landmine in Khandahar, Afghanistan and lost both legs in October of 2010. Joao spent the next fourteen months recovering at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C., and was present at the Conflict Zone unveiling at the National Press Club in August, 2011. Conflict Zone, in it's current manifestation, contains the photographic works of nineteen of the worlds leading conflict photographers.
Main contributor and original champion of the project, Chris Hondros, was tragically killed while covering the Libyan uprising in the spring of 2011. The exhibit, although we accept new contributions, is complete and has already been shown in Chicago, Washington DC, Tampa St. Pete, and will have showings in Dallas/Ft. Worth on January 6, 2012, and NYC on February 10, 2012. Your support is deeply appreciated. KRISTY LIN surrealist fine jewelry: The next installment by Kristy Lin. NYC-based, the KRISTY LIN fine jewelry line is inspired by conceptual art, escapism and the human preoccupation with beauty. kristylin.com About my line, you ask?
It started with pony beads and daisy chains and evolved to fashioning necklaces out of matchsticks and lemon slices. The junk pile was my haven and I've been making jewelry ever since I could remember. As we fast forward to the present, I introduce my self titled fine jewelry line, KRISTY LIN. which is inspired by films, conceptual art, and the human preoccupation with beauty. I launched my first collection early this year, and hope with the help of Kickstarter that this is the first of many more. I find jewelry like any other medium of art, a form of expression and creation. Why I need you! The aesthetic of the pieces will range from classic to avant garde, and everything in between. Incentives. If you look at the rewards, you'll see just a sampling of what's in store. Lemon pendant prototype budai ring prototype. Hospital City by Miranda Huba by Miranda Huba. Freeplay2012 by Anne Troup. Tues FEB 28th to Sun MAR 4th and remember, Freeplay2012 does not charge admission!
It is free for you to watch but not free for us to create. Donate now and make all these projects possible... OPENING NIGHT PARTY Join us Tuesday February 28th at 10 30 pm for wine, beer, and all the latest 2012 news. Get more info about the festival and the fabulous class of 2012! Bardo by Ruibo Qian and Ross Cowan (featuring Calvin Dutton, Julian Cihi, Anne Troup, Ross Cowan and Ruibo Qian, with design by Yuki Nakase and Ika Avaliani) Unidentified female spirit loose in the bardo.
Send help. The Devine One-Sassy Swings Tokyo by Laurence Maslon (featuring Marinda Anderson and David Lam, with design by Kristen Kopp, Rebecca Philips, and Anshu Bhatia) There are jazz singers and there are jazz divas--and then there's Sarah Vaughan. Dwellers in the Marshes is a coming of age story between two teammates Chino and Fame, who play Texas high school football.
"If you see something, say something. " Hello, Red! Sgt. The Ground Floor Gallery by The Ground Floor Gallery. In a city that’s famous for its insanely high population density and overflow of real estate, we often forget that it is also an area that holds enough vacant space to house all of its homeless. Now, a lot of those spaces are for sale for more than my life is worth and covered in red tape, rats, or something much more disgusting. But what about the properties that just need a fresh coat of paint and some good old tender lovin’ care? That’s where we come in. We’re going to find a space, renovate it, get artists together, and open a temporary show in June, opening June 7th. With a month-long show, we’ll also host local musicians, film screenings, and other creative projects for events at night in our new home. Kickstarter is a new way to fund creative projects. YOUR DONATION100% of the Kickstarter net contributions will be put towards the creation and maintenance of the Ground Floor Gallery.
CAN WE EXCEED OUR GOALYes! Help me get "When I Walk"finished- funding goal is $13,000 by jdasilvax. "...my doctors were telling me that in five years I would be in a wheelchair, possibly without eyesight... " Please help me get this film finished! I put my story to the screen with my first feature documentary. Help support the finish of When I Walk - all donations are tax-deductible through the non-profit 501c3 When I Walk Inc., raising MS and other disability awareness and advocacy.
About the film: When I Walk is a feature-length, point-of-view narrative film documenting my rapid loss of mobility over a five-year period, my emotional journey, and my pursuit of a new identity. Having now made this journey and crossed the threshold from able-bodied to disabled, I see this film as an important work exploring concepts of aging and disability that holds great meaning for a wide audience. When I Walk, the film, provides an emotional narrative of the experience of becoming disabled, and reframes the disability identity. How Will I Use Your Donation? Funds raised will be used for: Left Behind: Life and Death Along the Arizona Border by Jonathan Hollingsworth.
2010 was a year of record deaths for illegal migrants entering theU.S. via Arizona’s Sonoran Desert — 230 in all. It’s impossible to know how many migrants survive the days-longjourney, led by high-priced guides, with temperatures soaring up to 130 degrees in the summer months. But every year since 2001 no less than 150 mummified and decomposed bodies have been discovered in remote areas of the desert, eventually taken to the Pima County Forensic Science Center in Tucson, AZ which faces the herculean task of analyzing and storing their remains, archiving their possessions — and hopefully — determining their identities.
In the fall of 2011, I traveled to Pima County, where I spent a week photographing the day-to-day operations of the facility, documenting the receiving area, autopsy room, and archive of border crossers’ personal effects. Working in the Medical Examiner's Office Gurneys in Receiving Room The U.S. Border Patrol monitoring the wall in Nogales, Arizona Why This Book is Important. Freelance International by Zach Carvalho. Freelance International is a branch of Freelance Publishers dedicated to providing international news from the best possible source; the people who have lived and worked in those foreign territories their entire lives. At Freelance International we are focused on providing a global perspective in the truest form possible. We work directly with writers in foreign territories to acquire information about the most recent happenings in those areas.
Many domestic publications who report on international news often miss a large part of the story and misinterpret what is actually going on. Why is this? Simply put, most of these domestic publications will send staff writers who have been raised and taught in America to foreign territories to report on international happenings. We are working to provide the most straight-forward, honest, legitimate, international news reporting possible. Disembodied Freedom by Roxie Nightengale. I have been creating images through digital photograph for nearly 8 years now and as I move into the next creative phase there are a lot of funding issues including: equipment, printing and framing costs, and travel for my next project!
This is where kickstarter comes in. Beauty has become an American obsession. Crash diets. Plastic surgery. Lap bands. Americans are so eager to mutilate their bodies in order to be "deserving" of being called beautiful. But there is an ever growing movement of people who challenge the beauty standards in america in a number of ways big and small; from not wearing make up, to designing risque plus size fashions, and even by joining naturist/nudist communities. This is a project that has been on my heart for a very long time and I am finally at a point in my life where I can fully pursue it...with the proper funding. Make this artists dream come true! Return of the River by Jessica Plumb. Cement Suitcase by Lead Balloon Pictures. To see the trailer, click here! Cement Suitcase is what we're calling an "anti-romantic comedy. " It's the first feature-length film from writer/director Rick Castañeda and it's set in his quirky hometown, deep in Washington state's beautiful wine country.
The film is about a guy named Franklin who's pretty bored with his life: his dead-end wine-tasting job, his small-town lifestyle, and his cheating girlfriend. The question is: can Franklin get himself to do anything about it? We shot Cement Suitcase last summer, with the help of a small army of awesome volunteers who stepped up in ways we never could have imagined. People took leaves from their jobs to work on our set 12+ hours a day, 6 days a week. So that's half the battle. So glad you asked!
For example, to submit a film to a festival, we'll need to pay an entry fee. Small independent films like ours struggle to get made, let alone be known. To see more, go to www.cementsuitcase.com How can I donate? How can I contact you? Solar Dreams by Joel. It's hard to get people to change their habits, especially Americans who arguably have the very best living conditions. The point of this isn't to change how people live, but if we can change the underlying force that drives our economy the impact will be felt tenfold down the line. Goals Stable policy awareness Dispel myths about Solar / Renewable sources and capabilities You can make a difference on the local level, it isn't out of our hands Solar Dreams explores the political, economic, and social barriers to the proliferation of solar energy production through the eyes of two young men who believe that the world could be a better place.
Neither very automotive savvy, they convert an old VW bus into a solar electric vehicle. The World's energy supply is at an interesting crossroads in time. Is it possible to power the Earth with our solar system's most abundant form of energy? Preliminary Sunglasses design Get DOGIFIED STONERDORMROOM Collective Art/sketchbook about the film. A Distribution Revolution by CitySprout. CitySprout: A Distribution Revolution Bringing farm fresh food from the country into neighborhoods in the city. If Community Supported Agriculture collaboratives and farmers markets had a baby, CitySprout would be it! We want to change how U.S. cities get their food by putting city-dwellers in direct contact with farmers from surrounding areas. With CitySprout, we can bypass the complex distribution networks and wholesalers, and create a more convenient, affordable, healthy, and environmentally friendly market for urban communities to get their produce, dairy and meat.
One of the realities we face is that where there are farms there are few people, and where there are many people, there are seldom any farms. CitySprout’s solutions: We will provide a marketplace to expand the reach of rural farms and close the distance between urban customers and food producers. How CitySprout Works Step 1: Head to CitySprout’s website and select your region. CitySprout Benefits For the consumer: For everyone: The Silly Goose Co-op by Roderick Bailey. This is a different kind of Kickstarter project in that the rewards are the project. Donations to this project will fund co-op member rewards for the next year, all of which carry significant costs and time. We need your help to make it possible. Any funds available after fulfilling rewards will be reinvested into The Silly Goose for: new catering equipment (i.e. a travelling grill, saute burners, etc.)retiring debt from partner buyoutwine license, inventory, and storagemore seating and tables to reconfigure the dining roomnew equipment for smoking and curing our own meatsfeatured local artworkretail equipment (i.e. a new refrigerator, packaging, etc.)three or four more staff positions (for expanded retail, catering, and social media)an 80 gallon composter for ourselves, surrounding restaurants, and eventually for the community to provide compost for our farmersa plot for farming We have already expanded our physical space and now we want to expand our offerings.
More About Our Rewards. The Pay Phone Revival Project by Bridget Quinn. The mission of the Pay Phone Revival project is to restore function and communicative potential to abandoned payphone booths while also creating meaningful interactions between pedestrians and their everyday surroundings in Austin, Tx. This will be achieved by commissioning innovative artists to transform them, by using them as the epicenter for art/design interventions in the urban landscape. Through an inclusive RFP process ten artist/teams were selected for round two of the Pay Phone Revival Project.
The resulting art/design interventions will transform abandoned pay phone booths into dynamic objects that inspire play, create a new function, or tell a story. Help us make it real! Your donation will help us pay the artists, and pay for insurance and publicity costs. For your contribution you can receive a variety of thank you gifts, including limited edition prints, tee shirts, and a private tour of the art installations.
LaRuche (AKA Clay Odom, Sean O’Neill, and Adam Owens) Richard Nix. Restless Eye by David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group. Restless Eye is the newest work by David Neumann/Advanced Beginner Group, a multi-disciplinary company committed to the creation of original, thought-provoking dance works that push the form. Restless Eye will premiere at New York Live Arts in New York City. Performance Dates: Saturday March 24, Tuesday March 27--Saturday 31 at 7:30pm, Sun Mar 25 and Sun Apr 1 at 5pm. Advanced Beginner Group's work is often described as 'multi-disciplinary'. For Neumann, using a multi-disciplinary approach is not a stylistic trope, but a fully functional way to articulate a complex world-view, while using the context of a performance to unpack the mind.
Restless Eye is an irrational response to our perceived place in the cosmos while attempting to articulate the universe inside our minds. The amazing collaborative team includes: Sibyl Kempson, text Tei Blow, video and sound Christine Shallenberg, lighting Gordon Landenberger, set Kaye Voyce, costumes What people have been saying: Motion From the Music Picture by Goh Nakamura. *Update- Funded! Thank You So Much!!! CD's are being sent out, and very shortly you will have them in your hands. There's still a few days left to pledge, and I'm shooting for a new goal of $8K!
This will go towards the next EP. It's long been a dream of mine to score a film. Well, here I am two years later, and we have two films finished that will both have premiered at the SXSW film festival (2011 and 2012) Surrogate Valentine: and Daylight Savings I had the time of my life working on them, both as an actor and composer. Writing music for these films allowed me to wear different musical costumes, and really stretch my imagination. I came up with some rewards, all of which include a download of the music, some of which create opportunities for me to create new work too.
I'd like to thank you for your support, and I hope you can see the films and experience the music. Goh By the way, the "Electronic Experimental Music" in the video clip above was created by Kurt "Peff" Kurasaki. The Muscovite! a Film by Patrick Clark by Patrick Clark. THE FIRST HOPE by Jeremy David White. LowLine: An Underground Park on NYC's Lower East Side by Dan Barasch. Dr. Lonnie Smith embarks on first self-produced recordings. by Dr. Lonnie Smith. This is Not a Conspiracy Theory by Kirby Ferguson.