All you need to know is:
- Charlie Kaufman wrote the script
- Dan Harmon and Dino Stamatopoulos are among the executive producers
- Kickstarter
- Oh, and it’s stop motion
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Kickstarter: Wollstonecraft
Jordan Stratford is writing a children’s book about the fictional adventures of young Ada Lovelace and young Mary Shelley.
This is the made up story about two very real girls – Ada, the world’s first computer programmer, and Mary, the world’s first science fiction author – caught up in a steampunk world of hot-air balloons and steam engines, jewel thieves and mechanical contraptions. For readers 8-12.
This is a pro-math, pro-science, pro-history and pro-literature adventure novel for and about girls, who use their education to solve problems and catch a jewel thief. Ada and Mary encounter real historical characters, such as Percy Shelley, Charles Babbage, Michael Faraday, and Charles Dickens – people whom the girls actually knew. If Jane Austen wrote about zeppelins and brass goggles, this would be the book.
FUND IT
Wait, this is on Kickstarter. IT CAN BE FUNDED
Skallops are the best way to build big!
They’re a construction toy that uses clever laser cut clips—Skallops—and regular playing cards to let you make anything that you can imagine. We’ve perfected the design so that it’s easy to connect playing cards in countless ways. The Skallops themselves are cut out of the highest-quality, sanded and finished birch plywood.
Yes.
They’ve already finished their Kickstarter run, but they should hopefully get general orders going soon.
X FILES: THE MUSICAL
“X Files: The Musical” is the seventh production and third backyard musical by The Colonel Mustard Amateur Attic Theatre Company in Lincoln, Nebraska. Millions of people worldwide love The X-Files, and our audacious vision is to transform the show into a full-length theatrical spectacle.
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After cramming over 100 people into the attic for a play, we knew it was time to move to a new, larger venue: the backyard. That’s where we performed “Jurassic Park The Musical!” in 2009 before a capacity crowd of 250. An even bigger spectacle, “Dr. Quinn: The Musical,” required a larger backyard, one that barely squeezed the 450 people who showed up to see it in 2010.
We’ve added exciting elements to each new production, and “X Files: The Musical” will be the biggest thing we’ve ever created. We have 40+ people in the cast and crew, a 30-piece orchestra, plans for elaborate sets and backdrops, and we’re expecting 1000 people to come see the show during its two-night run (August 19-20, 2011). It’s going to be almost unbelievably awesome.
How do people get these ideas?
They’ve already reached their Kickstarter funding goal, but you can still fling money at them if you want.
William Shakespeare Presents Terminator the Second
William Shakespeare Presents Terminator the Second
Terminator the Second is a project to recreate Terminator 2: Judgment Day as a play, with all dialog taken from Shakespeare works.
Did a spit take? Good, so did I.
Is this what it sounds like?
If it sounds like the story of a boy and his cyborg protector on the run from a soulless, shape-shifting assassin made of liquid metal, adapted for stage and told exclusively in the words of William Shakespeare, then yes.
How can you claim that this production is “presented” by William Shakespeare?
We adhered to strict guidelines regarding the usage of Shakespeare’s works. Each line and phrase is taken directly from folios printed by or before 1685, and many extended sections of dialogue are composed of individual lines from separate works. Only proper nouns and pronouns were subject to change, as dictated by the plot. In these instances, all proper nouns are supplanted only by pronouns or other proper nouns, and all pronouns by other pronouns. In some cases, corresponding verb tenses are modified. These practices enabled us to accurately retell the story of Terminator 2: Judgment Day while remaining true to the words of Shakespeare in form (if less so in intent).
Do they have script samples? Oh yes. Two of them.
In 1989, photographer Michael Galinsky went on a road trip with a friend, taking shots at various shopping malls along the way. He’s currently running a fundraiser on Kickstarter to publish his Malls Across America project in an 80~ page book. TODAY.com posted a slideshow of twenty-five of the photos, and they’re as fabulous a window into the ’80s as you can possibly imagine.
- ‘Ili:
- The fashion
- ‘Ili:
- The hair
- ‘Ili:
- The logo
- ‘Ili:
- The cassette tapes
- Colin:
- The shorts.
- Colin:
- THE SHORTS
Record Monsters:
We make 3d models out of old vinyl records. We have 20 designs, from Ants to Velociraptor to Pteranodon. We ship out a vinyl record, you get to pop out the pieces and assemble the model.
This is a rad idea, and the final result looks fantastic. Click the photo to head to their Kickstarter page and fund the hell out of this.