Zach Braff has raised more than $2.1 million for his continued adolescence Garden State sequel, Wish I Was Here.
Guy Raises $7,000 on Kickstarter to Fund Insufferable Bonding Trip With Each of His Facebook Friends
An 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…
$1 Million in Less Than Five Hours: Fans Propel Veronica Mars Movie to Record-Setting Fundraising Highs
Fans of the mid-2000s series Veronica Mars are putting their money on the table to get their much beloved TV-show made into a movie. Donators broke records, raising a million dollars in four hours and 24 minutes. Total funds raised are $1,332,984, as of these words.
Bar Refaeli Needs Your Help Raising Funds for Her Sex Tape
Israel-born cover model Bar Refaeli, named the hottest woman of 2012 by Maxim magazine, really wants to quit the runway race so she can finally focus on her true life's ambition: Making a sex tape.
Animal Collective's Deakin Apologizes for Screwing Fans on Kickstarter
In 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…
Amanda Palmer's Million-Dollar Music Project and Kickstarter's Accountability Problem
Back 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.…
End Online Panhandling Forever!
Hey, 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 …
Filmmaker Documenting History of LA's Toilet-Paper Brotherhood
Back 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.
