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 John Gust November 1st, 2011
This short film shows the environment and historical archaeology of the Yalahau region of northern Quintana Roo, Mexico.
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This archaeological fieldwork seeks to discover what life was like in 19th century Mexico, specifically for the workers in extractive industries of the Yalahau region of the Yucatan peninsula, an area that was very much a “Wild West” of the time. The government was virtually absent, leaving rum distillers, plantation workers, Maya nobility and adventurers to fight over land, industries and trade.
This project will include survey, mapping, surface collection of artifacts and ethnographic interviews.
We may even add new twists to a murder mystery along the way. There is a lot of speculation about the 1875 murder of sugar plantation manager Robert Stephens and many of his workers. You can read an account of what might have happened in Paul Sullivan's book Xuxub Must Die. We’re hoping to put together a more complete history of this event using multiple lines of evidence.
This is the time to investigate this period, with more and more of the sites succumbing to the growing Yucatan tourist industry and more and more people who worked in these early industries passing away.
This fieldwork will help me to complete my Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California at Riverside. Your contribution will help me to pay for airfare to Mexico, housing, food and vehicle costs. $1000 will make this trip possible, but if we raise more than that, I’ll put the funds to good use, with extra trips to area archives.