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.
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Started by Kaspars Brakis June 21st, 2011
"eO" is a documentary coming in 2012 about first in the world electric car participating in "Dakar Rally Raid 2012" & claiming for victory in alternative engine category.
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This documentary is about a family building the first electric off-road car OSCar eO to participate in the Dakar rally raid 2012 and win it.
This rally is the ultimate endurance challenge both for drivers and cars, its route covers over 9000 km of particularly challenging terrain in Argentina, Chile and Peru, and until today no one has dared to say that an electric car can withstand those conditions. The man who dared is Andris Dambis, a well known engineer in the car racing community with 30 years of experience in rally driving and building sports cars, 15 models of original OSCars among them. His two sons, rally masters in their own right, are part of the team as well and equally enthusiastic about this huge technical challenge - building something truly original and untested, a rally car propelled solely by electricity.
There are lot of skeptics around questioning the Dambis' project: What about the dust of the desert? How will the car cope with high temperatures? Isn't the car too heavy? What are the limits of battery capacity? What about safety? But Andris Dambis is ready to be the first to prove it is possible and together with Māris Saukāns intends to win the category for alternative energy vehicles at Dakar.
But the team are also facing another challenge: the vehicle has to be finished by January 2012 when the rally starts. They have six months of building, rebuilding, testing and trying to find the best solutions for everything. Will they manage? And will we manage to capture all that on film? That's up to you.
The good news is that we have already shot some unique footage and we have open access to the building process and permission from OSCar eO manufacturer to show details of the building process when the rally raid is over. We have the resources to shoot the building process once a month, but we firmly believe that the film will be way more gripping if we can film more often - at least each week. The EUR 30 000 we intend to raise by crowd-funding will cover the shooting expenses from June to November 2011.
Depending on how much funds we can raise, there are two main possible routes for our project. If everything goes well, the shooting team will follow the racing team through the Dakar rally raid to the very finish in Lima. Cars, beautiful landscapes, unpredictable challenges for drivers and the OSCar eO. If not, we will collect Dakar 2012 rally material from organizers and media and have some delivered by the rally team. Any way it goes, the film will consist of two parts: building the sports car - from welding the first pieces of metal together to a vehicle ready for rally - and participation in the Dakar rally raid.
www.eothemovie.com
http://www.facebook.com/eOTheMovie
http://twitter.com/#!/eOtheMOVIE
Live webcam of "OSCar eO" at http://oscareo.lv/#live
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