Yes, Kickstarter can be stupid, but here's something else...

[senorcorazon]

The guys from Cannonball Press are trying to fund a 3-D music video and are asking for donations, which in this case means that they send you prints/other good stuff. Here's the info:

http://www.artcomesfromartists.org/project/woodcut_thrillride_animation

Martin and Michael are both awesome guys and do other fun projects like the Artisanal Pencil Sharpening poster for David Rees that Mike made (http://www.artisanalpencilsharpening.com/), as well as a caption contest on Mike's Facebook page where he gives away drawings.

This ain't no Burning Man bullshit, so if you have money and can spare some of it, DO IT. 

[yesno]

Musopen, which mostly deals with public domain sheet music, is trying to raise $11,000.  If it does, it will hire a symphony to record several famous classical pieces and release them into the public domain.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Musopen/record-and-release-free-music-without-copyrights

While classical pieces written before the 1920s or so are usually in the public domain, recordings themselves are copyrighted and thus the works cannot be used without permission.

[yesno]

These are so great.

http://fredbenenson.com/blog/2010/08/30/markov-chaining-kickstarter-blurbs/

Rewards include CDs mixed by a visit from a song left on your voicemail to a unique fabric whose color + pattern is determined by keywords pulled from Twitter’s database in real time.

This August, thousands of individual leaf, flower, and bird forms from reclaimed wood and connecting them into an animated feature film starring comedic legend Leslie Nielsen.

[Christina]

Henry Owings is getting Chonklet's 3rd book funded through Kickstarter, looks like.

[CaptKarl]

Henry Owings is getting Chonklet's 3rd book funded through Kickstarter, looks like.

Yes indeed, and it will come with special ed 7" from F'd Up too!