Can Kickstarter Fund Art Better than the NEA?
Last week 14,952 strangers raised more than $1 million for a cause they believed in: not disaster relief or a cure for cancer, but a web-only comic book. Just another day at the office for Kickstarter,...
View ArticleCovering Crowdfunded Video Games
This year has seen a wave of independent video game developers competing for attention and money on crowdfunding websites like Kickstarter. John Walker, one of the editors of the gaming criticism...
View ArticleHow to Make 3.3 Million Dollars in 30 Days
Kickstarter is a crowd-funding website where people ask others to contribute money to their creative projects. Recently, game developer Tim Schafer took in $3.3 million from fans for an untitled,...
View ArticleHow Crowdfunding is Connecting Classical Musicians with Cash
It used to be that if musicians wanted to record an album or put on a concert, they had to go see people with money — foundations or angel investors.Increasingly they just go online. With crowdfunding...
View ArticleA New Version of Hamlet: You Pick the Ending
This morning, a new record was broken on the online funding platform Kickstarter for the site’s most successful publishing project.A quirky first-person choose-your-own-adventure book has managed to...
View ArticleAmanda Palmer: Kickstarting Controversy
Amanda Palmer knows how to use the internet. She named her website “Amanda Fucking Palmer.” And she took to the crowd-funding site Kickstarter like she owned it. She was the first musician to raise...
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Who Backs The Backers on Kickstarter?
If you haven’t already been Kickstarted, you will soon. Kickstarter is a crowd-funding site where creative people ask for money to complete projects. (Three films that received funding through the site...
View ArticleThe Culture Gabfest: I Guess We Should Ask You for Money Edition
Slate writers Dana Stevens, David Haglund and Forrest Wickman are joined by Mark Harris to discuss his piece for GQ on the leading man, Amanda Palmer's TED talk on crowdfunding and the PBS documentary...
View ArticleOne Way To Make Money: Ask People For It
This month saw two big crowd-funding successes, as films by Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas and actor Zach Braff were put into production based on pledges from fans. Brooke talks crowdfunding past and...
View ArticleKickstarter vs. The NEA: Which Provides More Arts Funding?
A talk last week at the Aspen Institute reignited a debate that has been circulating in the arts world over the past year: does the website Kickstarter raise more money for the arts than the federal...
View ArticleOne Way To Make Money: Ask People For It
This year has seen big crowd-funding successes, as films by Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas and actor Zach Braff were put into production based on pledges from fans. Brooke talks crowdfunding past and...
View ArticleNew York City Opera Fights for Survival Using Kickstarter
When New York City Opera turned to Kickstarter as part of an emergency effort to raise $1 million by September 30, it did so against some immense odds: the fundraising website has seldom hosted a...
View ArticleNew York City Opera Board Plans for Bankruptcy
Like the heroine of its season-opening production of Anna Nicole, New York City Opera is desperately in need of a rich sugar daddy – or several – to survive. But that prospect looks increasingly...
View ArticleLet My Chopin Go!
If you have a brilliant idea for a new project, but you don’t have a lot of money, you might turn to a site like Kickstarter. Lots of folks, including musicians, are crowdfunding new projects --...
View ArticleA New Kind of Kickstarter Scam (From A Backer!) (UPDATED)
Kickstarter's based on trust. You give someone money, and you hope that they'll build the thing they said they would, and not just steal your money. Stories about scams are rarer than you'd think.(see...
View ArticleTurning Fruit Into Musical Instruments
There is a strong tradition in contemporary composition of making music from non-musical objects. Musique Concrète, playing the jug, Eugene Chadbourne playing an electric rake. But for some reason,...
View ArticleInternet Wall of Gratitude
Dear friends,We just wanted to thank you again for your amazing support of Meet the Composer. Because of you, we have really been able to sink our teeth into the project and produce something we are...
View ArticleWhat's Next for Crowdfunding?
The crowdfunding story has been dominant since the dawn of public internet finance—but will it continue to grow and stay in its current form? If not, what should we be looking out for? What are the...
View ArticleAnnouncing Season Two
Hi, I'm Nadia Sirota, host of Q2 Music's Meet the Composer (MTC). We set out to create something really different with MTC – a look into the minds and creative processes of composers making some of the...
View ArticleSideshow Podcast: Kickstarting the Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan 1994 Museum
If your creative concept is original, quirky, and crazy enough, it will kill on Kickstarter. There was the Robocop statue, the potato salad, and now the Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan 1994 Museum....
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Sideshow Podcast: How 'Kung Fury' Went from Karate Joke to Kickstarter to...
Kung Fury is every 80s action film you've ever watched and dreamed of, packed into a ridiculous, rollicking, fully retro 30 minutes. It’s about a renegade cop in 1985 Miami who gets hacked back in time...
View ArticleA special message from our sound designer and engineer
Lead sound designer and engineer Jim Briggs makes Reveal sound as good as it does. He steps out from behind the editing equipment to tell you why you should support our Kickstarter by December 10...
View ArticleKickstart Season Three
Hi, I’m Nadia Sirota, host of Meet the Composer (MTC). MTC is a podcast that confronts the artists and art that move us, using radio storytelling to tease out what makes these pieces and people tick....
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How often Americans really use Uber, Lyft, Craigslist and Airbnb
Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults have used at least one shared or on-demand service, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. Photo by Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images.Over...
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Crowdfunding raises $300,000 in a week for ruby slippers restoration
A 16-year-old Judy Garland wore the well known sequined shoes in the 1939 milestone Technicolor film The Wizard of Oz. Photo by Richard Strauss, SmithsonianDorothy’s iconic ruby slippers will shine in...
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Who’s footing the bill to restore the ruby slippers
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioIn our NewsHour Shares series, we show you things that caught our eye recently on the web. What about you? Leave your suggestions in the comments below, or tweet to...
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The nightmare zombie movie that started with a dream
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now a special treat on this Halloween, a story about the magic of movies and zombies.The “NewsHour”‘s Mike Melia has our update.MIKE MELIA: You don’t...
View ArticleKickstart Season Two of Meet the Composer with Nadia Sirota
Hi, I'm Nadia Sirota, host of Q2 Music's Meet the Composer (MTC). We set out to create something really different with MTC – a look into the minds and creative processes of composers making some of the...
View ArticleVideo Podcast: Help Kickstart Our New Season
Check out our Kickstarter video. (Ira Glass has a cameo!) If we reach our goal, we'll put out the Radio Diaries Podcast twice as often. Biweekly! bit.ly/RDKickstarter Check out our Kickstarter video....
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