Kickstarter is Kickin'!

I've written about Kickstarter before, when a friend used this crowd-finance site to fund his short film Perfectly Normal.

Yesterday Kickstarter made big news - and big numbers of fans very very happy - when the campaign to film a Veronica Mars movie reached its two (2) million (2,000,000!) dollar goal in eleven (11) hours.  (I myself kicked in enough to get a film T-shirt.)

In case you missed it on TV or DVD, Veronica Mars is a witty, noire, teen-detective show that was canceled about five (5) years ago... but remains loved.  Now revived from the dead by pure fan-love.

Crowd-funding.  What a great idea!

HERE's the Veronica Mars campaign - with a fun video plea.  And HERE is the page for my buddy's much smaller budget short film - also worth investing in.

ADDENDUM:  And HERE's an interesting LA Times article about the Veronica Mars film funding "...the economics of love."

Update on That Film...

Some of you may remember that way back in April I linked to a friend's Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for his short film, Perfectly Normal.  Well, I just got an email update from him: principal photography is finished!  Sounds like it was an intense burst of a lotta-hard-work by the whole talented film team.

Now the film goes into post-production for editing, sound and music tracks, etc. etc.  Wish 'em luck.

HERE's my earlier post and HERE is the film's Kickstarter page.

"Kickstarter" - what a funny name and what a good idea for funding!

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Kickstarter

Most of us have now at least heard about Kickstarter, an innovative way to crowd-fund arts projects: ask publicly for pledges (kinda like NPR does) and, if enough people are interested in your project and they pledge enough money to meet the stated goal before the deadline - Viola! - cash for creation!  The tricky part is that a goal has to be fully funded if the project is to get any money.  So The Word has got to Get Out.

A knuckle-biter.

Well, that friend I told y'all about raising funds for a short film Perfectly Normal... made his $ 20,000 goal!  (More HERE.)

So... Kickstarter works.  At least some of the time.  Good to know.

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I Promise...

This won't be a regular thing, but my friend Jim McMahon is soooo close to reaching his fund-raising goal for his film Perfectly Normal on Kickstarter - and it's an all-or-nothing deal  with only three days to go - so I'm putting out one last call for help. Any amount you feel you can afford maybe the dollar to push this over the top:

Please join me now in supporting this worthwhile project by a couple of outstanding filmmakers! If everyone seeing this pledged $10 today, they'd hit their goal. It all adds up! Please give them a hand. Thanks! http://tinyurl.com/PerfectlyNormal

Indie Art - the only way to go!