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For our fourth Kickstarters We Like Enough to Put Our Money Where Our Blog Is we are pleased to back The 78 Project:
A journey across America to record today’s musicians on 1930s technology in a quest to connect with the haunting recordings of the past.
The 78 Project is an already-up and running web series featuring musicians such as Loudon Wainwright III, Justin Townes Earle, and The Mynabirds covering important historical American songs recorded in one-take, with one microphone, directly onto 78rpm laquer discs thanks to a 1930s Presto recorder. To some this project is like time travel: recording old music by current musicians with old technology and then distributed on the internet by way of high definition video and MP3 streams.
The 78 Project collaborators Alex Steyermark and Lavinia Jones Wright want to take their series to the next level with a documentary including musicians recording songs, explorations of museums and collections across the country (historical crate-digging!).
Here at The License Lab we think it’s important not only to press forward, try new things, and progress as a company along with the times, but to also take a step back and remember history and what things came before us.
The 78 Project has some pretty killer incentives for those who dig history, vintage art, and quirky items. Be it a one-of-a-kind behind-the-scenes photo taken with a 1970s Polaroid camera, a limited-edition screenprinted Stroboscopic Disc, or even to be recorded by the 78 Project and their Presto!
This Kickstarter has just over one week to reach their $60,000 goal, currently having pledges of just over a 1/3 of that. So if you want to see this documentary, kick in some dollars along with us or spread the word so others can!
We’re back with our third installment of Kickstarters We Like Enough to Put Our Money Where Our Blog Is! [previously: Porchlight Sessions, AIRbudz]
A Drink With Dave is a web talk show hosted by Dave Holmes. Favors from friends mixed with hard work and passion allowed Holmes and producers Brandon Walowitz and Will Hutson to produce a 50-episode initial season without a real working budget. For Season Two, they plan to up their game by producing even more episodes… 17 weeks worth.
Season One featured comedians like Jimmy Pardo and Rob Delaney, creative-types like Rana Sobhany (iPad DJ and author), film and TV director Peter Atencio (“Key & Peele”), screenwriter Kyle Killen (“Awake” & The Beaver) and musicians including Kelli Debbs and Jim Hanft & Samantha Yonack.
Dave Holmes & Company need your help to ensure their sophomore effort can produce more content with higher quality and be able to pay their crew and rent gear! With just over a week left on their campaign, A Drink With Dave has raised 23% of their $30,000 goal. An assortment of donation incentives are available ranging from beer koozies and t-shirts to exclusive show content. Artistic friends of the show Heather Peterson, Lou Noble, Liezl Estipona, and Jennifer Ruiz have also teamed up with the show offering premium rewards such as silk screen prints and full color books.
We think think this show is a lot of fun and the need for fundraising is noble. Internet-based TV is the future and A Drink With Dave is poised to make its mark.
A Drink With Dave » website | @adrinkwithdave | facebook | tumblr
*Full Disclosure: License Lab team member Andrew Richards was a part of A Drink With Dave Season One.
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Sticking with the web series theme, we found a few other shows you might be interested in contributing to:
- Trailers From Hell! :: film director Joe Dante (Gremlins, Innerspace) and friends present classic, cult, and B-movie trailers from the past with commentary ranging from hilariousness to sage advice in the craft of filmmaking. Having launched in 2007, they’re looking for funds to carry on and produce over 1000 more episodes for your enjoyment.
With 2 weeks to go, Trailers From Hell! is 70% of the way to their $30,000 goal.
- OurVinyl.TV :: this Nashville, TN-based music site records exclusive performances from up-and-coming, independent musicians, posting videos weekly. They are raising the funds to stay alive as creating these performance videos comes with costs.
They are only seeking $6,000, are 6% of the way there, but still have 55 days to go.
Last month we launched our Kickstarters We Like Enough to Put Our Money Where Our Blog Is feature and we’re back with number two.
Having backed a music documentary and exposed a musical the first time around, this time we’ve got two tech/design Kickstarters we dig.
Being a music company, we’d prefer you listen to our (or any) music with the best, loudest, most noise-cancelingest headphones you can get; however, we also value your safety and sometimes being able to hear ambient noise can save lives. Some need music to really get into a good run (or walk, or a ride) but with normal in-ear earbud-style headphones, you might miss that siren or horn or fellow runner hollering at you. That’s why Tammy Erdel came up with a solution: AIRbudz.
Erdel designed adapters for most earbuds that snap on and turn them from noise-canceling earplugs you wear in your office when ignoring a co-worker to headphones that allow you to enjoy music but also hear ambient sound when you’re trainers are pounding the asphalt and the sweat is in your eyes.
If you are into the idea, kick em a few bucks to help them “to finalize the exact design, complete the tooling, finalize the packaging and get AIRbudz manufactured to bring this product to market” For $10 you’ll receive a package with 9 AIRbudz (3 sets of 3 sizes) with color options. If you’d like to distribute AIRbudz, check the site for those levels.
Currently the AIRbudz Kickstarter campaign has 44% of their $22,000 goal with 10 days left. Help them out and tell your friends, yeah?
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If you’re not into hearing ambient sounds — and in fact are looking to hear your media louder — we point your ears in the direction of SoundJaw Unlimited. If you’re a tablet owner you know headphones or external speakers are the best way to hear that TV episode, YouTube video, or podcast as the built-in speaker leaves something to be heard desired. Inexplicably, iPad speakers face down and away from the listener-viewer. This leads some to cup their hand or fashion some sort of audio redirection tool.
Matthew McLachlan did just that almost a year ago with his first-gen SoundJaw, which was funded through Kickstarter. His initial design was specifically for the iPad 2 but he’s tweaked it to fit other tablets like the Kindle, Kindle Fire, Nook, and more. With 20 days left, this Kickstarter is already fully funded but if you back it for $10 you’ll receive 1 SoundJaw Unlimited — a $5 savings from market price. Even better: donate $30, get 3, and give 2 away.
And that’s your lot for this edition of TKTWLETPOMWOBI!
To kickoff (ha!) our new feature Kickstarters We Like Enough to Put Our Money Where Our Blog Is, we’re donating to The Porchlight Sessions and want to tell everyone a bit about the project…
This almost-completed documentary traces bluegrass, “a unique American sound; authentic and acoustic,” from its roots as it evolved and spread internationally and on into modernity. Raised in Nashville, filmmaker Anna Schwaber was surrounded by the genre and culture; however, it was not until many years later (while in Australia!) that her interest was reignited, pushing her to create this project.
Your support will help Anna and editor Chris Cloyd finalize post-production where they aim “to make this film the most beautiful and best sounding representation of bluegrass culture to-date” with a color-timing session, an audio mix as well as to “license the timeless archival film footage, historic recordings and still photos necessary to bring the story of Bluegrass to life.”
At posting, The Prochlight Sessions Kickstarter campaign is 39% funded having raised $23,666 of their $60,000 goal with 27 days left. If you’d like to join The License Lab in supporting this film, click on over and pledge $5 or $500… or $5000! Donation incentives span a wide range including karma, posters and stickers, a copy of the finished film, your name in the credits, and even a to a trip to the International Bluegrass Music Association Fan Fest and Awards Show.
To pique your intrest further, the film includes interviews and performances from Dr. Ralph Stanley, Bobby Osborne, Del McCoury, Doc Watson, Sam Bush, Béla Fleck, Pete Wernick, Abigail Washburn, The Infamous Stringdusters, Trampled By Turtles, Sara and Sean Watkins, Mumford & Sons and many others.
The Porchlight Sessions » website | Kickstarter | Facebook | @UnderPorchlight
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Exposure can be as important as financial support, so we’d like to highlight another Kickstarter campaign that we think deserves your attention:
- Everything Went Down is a realist musical set in the Pacific Northwest from Emmy-winning filmmaker Dustin Morrow, theater artist Noah Drew, and musician Kate Tucker. Described as a “realist musical in the style of Once” the film is about the healing powers of music. With any profits made from the film being donated to children’s music therapy programs, the filmmakers need your help to master the film, make DVD copies for festivals, create and distribute press packets and other media promotions. They are more than 1/2 way to their $5000 goal with 21 days left to achieve it.
