December 2011
23 posts
Heading south to Virginia today. No song evokes...
“Art lets people imagine other ways of seeing the world, and other ways of being....”
– “Why are Britain’s great art houses in bed with Big Oil?” (Guardian)
“The core of Kickstarter is the difference between someone saying “I want to make...”
– whitneymcn in response to the Kickstarted Verge post
“The success brought about by the Kickstarter-funded Popa shutter button has very...”
– “Kickstarted: How one company is revolutionizing product development” (The Verge)
I’ve been listening to a lot of Blue Orchids...
“I never fail to be astonished at how much I am at the mercy of television...”
– Vaclav Havel
“A conscience slumbers in every human being, something divine. And that is what...”
– Vaclav Havel, 1995
WatchLast week I was on the Brian Lehrer Show along with folks from Donor’s Choose and the Awesome Foundation.
WatchNever a big fan of Devo’s cover of “(Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” but this SNL performance from 1978 is insane.
“In experiments where a minority of fish was trained to swim toward a yellow...”
– “Why a Democracy Needs Uninformed People” (Miller-McCune)
“He fell in with a literary clique that included Martin Amis, Julian Barnes,...”
– “Christopher Hitchens is Dead at 62” (New York Times)
“When we designed the Internet the first time, our priorities were reliability,...”
– An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress
Let the first eight words of this paragraph wash over your brain for a little bit…
(via brycedotvc)
“[I]f the appropriations bills pass, and the government is funded through...”
– — “House GOP Pushes Envelope in Showdown” (Talking Points Memo)
This is insane.
“I learned that money can be a lot of things. It can be something that is...”
– Louis C.K. sold over 100k copies of his special, making more than $500k. (via meaghano)
Defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act
Right now I, along with many of my peers in the tech community, am a single-issue voter: the defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act. There is no legislative action more important to the future of the web and our society than its defeat.
SOPA will cut off at the knees the innovations in technology, commerce, communication, and free expression that we have seen via the web. It will throttle the most...
“Q: Did you ever think you weren’t going to make it?
Joel Cohen: Oh...”
– Joel Coen on how the Coen Brothers funded Blood Simple (taken from My First Movie: 20 Directors Talk About Their First Film)
The Girl Walk Premiere
On Thursday night Kickstarter had the honor of hosting the world premiere of the film Girl Walk // All Day. The premiere wasn’t held in a seated theater for a polite audience. It was held in front of 1,200 dancing and cheering people at a music venue, the Brooklyn Masonic Temple. Many in the audience were backers of the project.
Kickstarter has been intertwined with Girl Walk from its...