- turnip kid
- May 24, 2010
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How to Lunchman still has 25 days to go, DON'T COUNT HIM OUT YET
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldyRi86kxTk
quote:Lunchman Quest - Watch your Weigh Fatty
This could be worth the money.
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- turnip kid
- May 24, 2010
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I didn't even realize there was a new Kickstarter thread, so I had to catch up last night. What is the deal with that lunchman guy? My feeling is that he doesn't actually have any real mental disability and is just incredibly stupid. Although I'm absolutely astounded by just how stupid. Here's another video of his I found. It only has five views so we're getting in on the ground floor here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InglJyt7xJ8
There's something going on here. They're even making these great videos when their projects aren't funded. I have to admire that.
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Mar 13, 2013 18:18
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- turnip kid
- May 24, 2010
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Remember Bart The General? It's back ,in POG Kickstarter form!
Looks pretty cool. Nothing awful about it.
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Mar 31, 2013 16:55
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- turnip kid
- May 24, 2010
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http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/in-ryo-s-footsteps-2--2
quote:Short Summary
Shenmue seems to be something that resonates with people and has created an impressive, impassioned fanbase. The story is one of self discovery, adolescence blossoming into youth and exploration. These are all things we relate to.
By exploring the locations used in the first Shenmue for our next project we will not only be bringing the story full circle but it will allow fans to further immerse themselves in the fiction they have grown to love so dearly.
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Jun 5, 2013 20:09
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- turnip kid
- May 24, 2010
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Has-beens Orgy riding that "flexible funding" wave:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/orgy-music
$7,500 of $100,000 raised. A little over two days to go. Kind of sad. They're now running damage control on their Facebook:
quote:The fact that a few haters are posting such childish remarks makes you wonder what created this kind of attitude. (it doesn't take much imagination to figure out who is wasting so much time trying to spread hateful messages.) Simple answer is jealousy and stupidity. The band is very grateful for any and all contributions made on Indiegogo. They didn't fail they asked for what would help them do a strong radio and marketing campaign. The record is coming along great and sounds awesome. Hey childish haters get ready because the new music will speak for itself no doubt.
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Oct 22, 2013 14:25
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- turnip kid
- May 24, 2010
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quote:PonoMusic is a revolutionary movement conceived and founded by Neil Young. Our mission is to bring the highest-quality digital music to discerning, passionate consumers, who wish to experience music the way the artists intended, with the emotion, detail, and power intact. "It's about the music, real music. We want to move digital music into the 21st century and PonoMusic does that. We couldn't be more excited about bringing PonoMusic to the market," said Neil Young, founder and chairman of PonoMusic.
PonoMusic encompasses both an online music store (PonoMusic.com) and a playback device (The PonoPlayer). The PonoPlayer is a digital-music experience unlike any other, offering the finest quality, highest-resolution digital music from both major labels and prominent independent labels, curated and archived for discriminating PonoMusic customers. The Pono desktop media management application allows customers to download, manage and sync their music to their PonoPlayer and other high- resolution digital music devices.
"Our goal was to offer the highest quality digital music available from all the major labels with the world’s greatest sounding, user-friendly portable music player. We’ve achieved our goal and we are excited to launch our Kickstarter campaign next week to invite music lovers everywhere to join the PonoMusic community and reserve a PonoPlayer for their own enjoyment," said John Hamm, CEO of PonoMusic.
The PonoPlayer is a purpose-built, portable, high-resolution digital-music player designed and engineered in a "no-compromise" fashion to allow consumers to experience studio master-quality digital music at the highest audio fidelity possible, bringing the true emotion and detail of the music, the way the artist recorded it, to life. It also features a convenient, easy-to-use LCD touch screen interface that is totally intuitive. The audio technology in the PonoPlayer was developed in conjunction with the engineering team at Ayre, in Boulder Colorado, a leader in world class audio technology.
PonoMusic and Ayre have collaborated their ideas to achieve their goal -- to make the power and majesty of music available to everybody. “We are absolutely thrilled to be a part of this project. We will always be grateful to Neil Young for changing the landscape of recorded music," said Charlie Hansen, CEO of Ayre Acoustics. (Ayre Acoustics)
The PonoPlayer has 128GB of memory and can store 1000 to 2000 high-resolution digital-music albums. Memory cards can be used to store and play different playlists and additional collections of music. The PonoPlayer will be sold at PonoMusic.com for $399 MSRP and is available for pre-order at a discount on Kickstarter.com as of March 15th. PonoMusic recommended earbud and headphone products will also be available for purchase on PonoMusic.com.
Woah, 128GB. Look at the tags on the PonoPlayer's screen. 
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Mar 9, 2014 15:12
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- turnip kid
- May 24, 2010
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1003614822/ponomusic-where-your-soul-rediscovers-music
Wowie, the Pono kickstarted kicked some major rear end.
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Mar 12, 2014 19:53
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- turnip kid
- May 24, 2010
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The Lenny Kravitz Special Edition isn't selling too well...
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Mar 12, 2014 21:21
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- turnip kid
- May 24, 2010
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Hard-hitting stuff:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2014/04/01/Crowdfund-it-and-they-will-come
quote:Crowdfunding is a great liberal idea--that might just be the saving of conservatives.
So crowdfunding, for those who don't know--and many conservatives don't--is a new way of funding a creative project if you want to record an album, publish a book, put on a play, make a podcast, produce a movie or documentary, or basically any artistic endeavor.
If you can't get funding from an established record company, studio, theater, or publisher, you go to one of the crowdfunding sites, put up your pitch, and ask the public to fund your artistry. The idea is that crowdfunding allows the artist to bypass the establishment gatekeepers – go straight to the public and give the public true art.
And so far it has worked well. Kickstarter, one of the first and most prominent crowdfunding sites, has so far raised over $1 billion for projects. This is money that goes straight into the hands of artists (minus the commission of around 5 percent taken by the sites) so that the artist can create.
Liberals were the early adapters to crowfunding--which is probably not surprising because they dominate the arts. Kickstarter and other sites are dominated by projects supporting the usual liberal causes. There are, of course, a lot of nonpolitical projects, but where there is politics it is almost exclusively left-wing. These projects encompass the usual topics: America is horrible, America is really really horrible, horrible America is full of really horrible people, etc., etc.
Crowdfunding is also losing its slightly grungy, left-wing feel to become a solid establishment left-wing playground. Spike Lee--despite owning a Manhattan home valued at $32 million and a house in the Hamptons--decided that he needed to go on Kickstarter to fund a movie. He raised $1.4 million, which came through in suspiciously large chunks that suggested it was more rich friends helping another rich friend than a grassroots revolution.
There is another reason that liberals have taken to Kickstarter and conservatives have been slow to adapt. Liberals are politically inclined towards collectivism. They like groups--they love protesting, doing things, and joining up, whereas Conservatives are politically more individualistic--they want to be left alone, they don't want to be part of a group (except maybe for their family), and they don't like crowds telling them to do anything.
However, crowdfunding represents an opportunity for conservatives. On the liberal side it's difficult to really point to any new ideas or artistic movements that have come out of crowdfunding. Rather than create original ideas, crowd funding has just opened a different method of funding for the same old ideas. According to Kickstarter, ten percent of the movies shown at Sundance this year were funded through the website. Now I didn’t see all the films that were premiered at Sundance (I don’t get paid enough--possibly no one gets paid enough for that), but I think its pretty safe to say that they were fairly standard liberal creations.
This is where conservatives should spot an opportunity. Their ideas are not permeating the artistic community; their films are not being made, and the gatekeepers are really busy ensuring that the gates are closed to such ideas.
So conservatives now have an opportunity to take the means of production and make a product, and as the means of distribution become more and more diverse, then there are more and more opportunities to tell the stories that are important.
Of course, it's never that easy. We successfully crowdfunded our last film, FrackNation--the truth about fracking--through Kickstarter.
So we thought it would be the ideal venue for our new film about Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell. He is currently serving several life sentences for murdering babies at his clinic. According to a grand jury report, he murdered hundreds of babies by inducing labour when women were seven or eight months pregnant and then stabbing the live, viable babies in the neck to kill them. He was at this for 40 years and probably killed thousands in his killing career. He is America’s most prolific serial killer.
So we submitted our pitch for GosnellMovie.com as usual, but Kickstarter kept delaying and delaying, and then Kickstarter tried to censor us. They said we could only put the project on the site if we agreed not to upset the sensitivities of their community.
“Script looks good, but phrases like '1000s of babies stabbed to death' and '1000s of babies murdered' will need to be removed or modified to comply with the spirit of our Community Guidelines,” they told us.
This might be OK if it weren't for the fact that Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler in a PBS interview with Charlie Rose said:
We viewed Kickstarter as a public trust, this is a place of opportunity for anyone to make their thing happen and it's our jobs to be the stewards of it and to honor it... a living, breathing cultural institution that's there to represent the interests of everybody.
Well, apparently he wasn’t quite telling Rose the truth!
So we put GosnellMovie.com on the alternative Indiegogo site. They don’t censor… yet.
In just a few days we have raised $200,000. The Gosnell movie will be made.
Crowdfund it and they will come.
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Apr 2, 2014 13:29
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- turnip kid
- May 24, 2010
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http://www.stereogum.com/1801049/vnyl-sliding-why-the-netflix-for-vinyl-service-is-such-a-mess/franchises/essay/
quote:In short, the service being pitched by VNYL would have violated copyright law. The old-school Netflix model worked well for DVDs because movies weren’t covered in the Record Rental Amendment — but applying that same model to vinyl records (or cassettes, or CDs) would have been illegal.
VNYL was supposed to start shipping records to subscribers in early February, but it didn’t actually do so till early April. When those records arrived, there were no instructions for how they might be returned — almost as if VNYL had simply forgotten to include such instructions. Initially, this was met with cheery confusion.
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NYL’s fatal mistake, of course, was in doing a lax job of hand-curation. Had no one wanted to return the records they’d been sent, there would have been no problem. VNYL’s promise was to select records for the individual subscriber based on “#vibe” — with #vibe defined by the subscriber’s existing tastes and interests — but numerous commenters didn’t feel their own #vibe had been reflected in the records mailed to them by VNYL. Here are some samples*:
Wrote Bill LaMonaca on April 22:
I am highly dissatisfied with what I was sent. All three were complete losers, and there was no real variety. And I’m not sure how you categorize the records — I would not call Steppenwolf a “Lazy Saturday” listen, nor would I classify Uriah Heep as “Dinner Music.”
Wrote Kaleena Burgess on May 8:
This was backed and bought as a birthday gift for my boyfriend who is open to all types of music. We waited and waited … no shipment. Finally we received an email stating that our one-month trial was expiring. EXPIRING? We hadn’t even received the first shipment yet. A few days later it arrived! And by “it” I mean three lovely rear end old records from the ’60s and ’70s. Things we could have picked up in the bargain bin at our local record store.
Wrote Matt Darst on May 11:
I received three poor-quality ’80s metal albums that were likely pulled from a 50-cent bin that in no way approximate my musical tastes.
Loving finding their hand-curated trash heap picks on Twitter.
turnip kid has a new favorite as of 14:36 on May 14, 2015
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May 14, 2015 14:33
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- turnip kid
- May 24, 2010
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It's basically the recording industry equivalent of there still be a law on the books requiring all horseless carriages to be led by pedestrian waving a red flag.
The best part is he conveniently opened a record store while the packages were supposed to go out.
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May 14, 2015 15:55
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- turnip kid
- May 24, 2010
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hot dance tunes coming thru
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May 15, 2015 00:29
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- turnip kid
- May 24, 2010
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCnouXJ2rl4
lololololololol
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- turnip kid
- May 24, 2010
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Shenmue owns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpu7ykJ1TIU
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