James Portnow, Seattle-based game designer and co-creator of Extra Credits, a web series on pro-social game design.
Raised over $125,000 from over 4,000 people.
James and Extra Credits were featured at SXSW, Gamasutra, and the homepage of Reddit.
Meghan Sebold, Brooklyn-based social entrepreneur and designer.
Raised $5,000 for a sustainable clothing line that uses the textiles and talent of Ghana, West Africa.
Her fashion line, AFIA was featured in EcoSalon, TreeHugger, Refinery29, and is now available in boutiques across NYC.
Aram Bajakian, NYC-based avant-garde guitar player.
Raised $4,000 from fans and strangers to fund his album.
Lou Reed heard Aram and chose him as his new guitarist while Aram's album is now released by John Zorn's Tzadik record label.
Darko Lungulov, Serbia-based award winning international filmmaker.
Raised $9,000 from movie buffs for feature film project Here and There.
Film won "Best New York Narrative" at Tribeca Film Festival, featured in Variety, L.A. Times, New York Times, and was a top-10 indie box office theatrical release.
When Last We Flew, NYC-based Off-Broadway theatrical production team.
Raised $7,000 from theatre fans for the premiere Off-Broadway run.
Show sold-out at NYC Fringe Festival, won a GLAAD Media Award, and was featured in New York Times, Bloomberg, and American Theatre Magazine.
Regan Wann, Kentucky-based small business owner.
Raised $5,000 to expand her tea shop business.
RocketHub campaign featured in the Wall Street Journal exposing her business to millions.
Laura Boyd, NYC-based portrait and landscape photographer.
Raised $6,000 architectural photography project on location in Paris.
Photos featured in Artsicle Photography Show in the heart of Chelsea, NYC via LaunchPad.
Joshua Reuben Lewis, NYC-based singer-songwriter.
Raised $7,500 to record his first album.
Showcased at The Gibson Showroom and made A&R connections at Sony, Warner Music Group, and EMI via LaunchPad.
Paul Davis, Berlin-based fashion designer.
Raised $8,000 from fans and strangers for a new fashion line.
Clothing line featured at Berlin Fashion Week.
Caira Conner, Tennessee based NYU Master of Science.
Raised $2,000 to study Brazilian land and infrastructure development.
Featured in Americas Quarterly, completed innovative research, and submitted successful academic thesis.
About
me
Scott Cumming: Born in Chicago, September 2,1943
My father, Robert Bailey Cumming, was a successful corporate attorney.
My mother, Vivien Ruth Larsen, was a photographer's model and an artist. She attended the Art
Institute of Chicago for four years.
I grew up with my older brother, Robert Cumming, in Jamaica, in the West Indies
where my father was President of Kingswood Films Ltd.
I have been drawing and painting all my life. When I was 13, I left home and
school to hitchhike around the country with a change of clothes and a box of
oil paints.
At 15, I painted steadily in Winter Park, Florida, where I enjoyed 'fame' for a
short time. After a one man show in
Palm Beach, on Worth Ave., I went to Greenwich Village in New York and attended the Art Students League on 57th St. .
From 16 to 19 I was apprenticed to Robert L. Anderson, a graduate of the Ringling School of Fine Arts in Sarasota. In return for helping with his seven children, I was schooled in Renaissancetechniques of oil painting. I followed
him to Woodstock, Vermont where I had my own studio above the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. When I was twenty one, Imoved with my wife and two baby boys, Demian and Jonathan to Prince Streetwhere I had a loft on the top floor of the Soho Post Office.
Igot a job in the Systems dept at Continental Can Co. and attended Washington Irving High School at night for three years.
I received a scholarship and some grants to go to Columbia University as
a day student. I stayed for three years in 'academia' concentrating on studio courses, graduate writing and philosophy.
I also attended the School of Visual Arts and the Art Students League in
Manhattan. Except for illustrating three books for Doubleday & Co. and some advertising with Prentice Hall and Artley Advertising on Madison Ave.,
I have concentrated on fine Art, both oilpainting and watercolors. Also, some
sculpture, etching,silk screen printing, pottery and photography.
I am currently working on 20 egg tempera illustrations for a collection of
stories retold by me from the Jataka Tales, or Garland of Birth stories of the
Buddha. Eight of the illustrations are finished. I am looking for a publisher
for this project.
At
this moment I am living in North Hollywood, Los Angeles Ca.