{"id":2661,"date":"2012-04-12T18:15:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T22:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=2661"},"modified":"2012-04-12T18:15:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T22:15:41","slug":"kickstarter-crowd-source-funding-having-an-impact-in-savannah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/04\/12\/kickstarter-crowd-source-funding-having-an-impact-in-savannah\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarter: crowd source funding having an impact in Savannah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>In my Man About Town column today in Do &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/savannahnow.com\/do\/2012-04-12\/man-about-town-kickstarter-amped-glittergold-opens-little-beasts#.T4dP6HO2Uo8\" target=\"_blank\">Man About Town: Kickstarter-amped Glitter+Gold opens at Little Beasts<\/a> &#8212; I make a preliminary attempt to get a handle on the ways in which the crowd source funding website Kickstarter is transforming the world of arts funding.<\/p>\n<p>I say &#8220;preliminary&#8221; because I think we&#8217;re inevitably going to see more Kickstarter projects, more projects funding through rival services like it, and other inventive ways for creative people to raise money for new ventures &#8212; whether those be art shows, independent films, student projects, new products, and so forth and so on. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/discover\/cities\/savannah-ga\/funding?ref=more#p1\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to see the 11 projects currently being funded here in Savannah (as of today). Scroll down to sort by other Georgia cities, including Tybee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/discover\/cities\/savannah-ga\/successful?ref=more#p4\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to see the 68 Savannah-based projects that have received full funding.<\/p>\n<p>I led off today&#8217;s column with Glitter+Gold, which opens on Friday, April 13th at Little Beasts at Bull and 32nd streets, but there have already been two other successfully funded projects in April. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to some that I mention in my column today, I&#8217;d also note the high-quality product of campaigns like Ain&#8217;t Bad Magazine and Dare Dukes&#8217;s new record <em>Thugs and China Dolls<\/em>, among many others. More info on those successful projects below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"380px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1018628728\/glitter-gold\/widget\/card.html\" width=\"220px\"><\/iframe><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"380px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/689766851\/aint-bad-magazine\/widget\/card.html\" width=\"220px\"><\/iframe><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"380px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/daredukes\/dare-dukes-new-record-thugs-and-china-dolls\/widget\/card.html\" width=\"220px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There were just three Savannah Kickstarter projects funded in 2010, 38 in 2011, and 27 so far in less than 4 months of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a remarkable trend and it&#8217;s certainly going to have a profound &#8212; and almost certainly positive &#8212; impact on the local cultural scene.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: none; margin:4px 0 4px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Another large rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0042810896\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were just three Savannah Kickstarter projects funded in 2010, 38 in 2011, and 27 so far in less than 4 months of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>One of those &#8212; Clinton Edminster&#8217;s Glitter+Gold &#8212; opens at Little Beasts on Friday, April 13th from 6 to 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/04\/12\/kickstarter-crowd-source-funding-having-an-impact-in-savannah\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[186,185,164,184],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Screen-shot-2012-04-12-at-6.20.41-PM.png?fit=218%2C201","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-GV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}