CFC Recent Donations?

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What cyberfunded creativity projects have you donated to or participated in lately? What made them special enough to attract your support?

What do you want that you haven't been seeing, or would like to see more of?  Do you have ideas that you want to prompt, but aren't sure what creator would be a good match for them?

CFC Recent Donations?

[ysabetwordsmith]

What cyberfunded creativity projects have you donated to or participated in lately? What made them special enough to attract your support?

What do you want that you haven't been seeing, or would like to see more of? Do you have ideas that you want to prompt, but aren't sure what creator would be a good match for them?

Aether Dancer Interview

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   Here's an interview with Steven Lambert of Aether Dancer, discussing the show's open source nature.

Aether Dancer Interview

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Here's an interview with Steven Lambert of Aether Dancer, discussing the show's open source nature.

Kickstarter News

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Kickstarter is now one of the leading graphic novel publishers. This article looks at the business models and revenues from Kickstarter and several major comic publishers. Crowdfunding is having a huge impact on the comics field. This makes me happy, because the mainstream comic publishers aren't always supportive of diversity. Crowdfunding will support anything for which you can rustle up a bunch of people who want it.

Kickstarter News

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Kickstarter is now one of the leading graphic novel publishers. This article looks at the business models and revenues from Kickstarter and several major comic publishers. Crowdfunding is having a huge impact on the comics field. This makes me happy, because the mainstream comic publishers aren't always supportive of diversity. Crowdfunding will support anything for which you can rustle up a bunch of people who want it.

Selling Movies in the Lobby

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For a while now, people have been talking about how great it would be if you could walk out of a movie theater and buy a copy of that movie in the lobby on your way home.  A few producers have asked to do it and gotten shouted down.

So, I think an effective option would be to do an end run around the mainstream.  There are film festivals for indie producers, and indie film is increasingly active in crowdfunding.  Those people are putting out their own movies; they have control over what happens with the products.  So an indie producer should be free to do simultaneous screen and consumer release if they want to.  Once people got a taste of it, they'd scream at the mainstream movie companies until it became the norm.  Or until the dinosaurs became extinct.

If you are into indie movies, or know people who are, pass the idea around. 

Selling Movies in the Lobby

[ysabetwordsmith]

For a while now, people have been talking about how great it would be if you could walk out of a movie theater and buy a copy of that movie in the lobby on your way home. A few producers have asked to do it and gotten shouted down.

So, I think an effective option would be to do an end run around the mainstream. There are film festivals for indie producers, and indie film is increasingly active in crowdfunding. Those people are putting out their own movies; they have control over what happens with the products. So an indie producer should be free to do simultaneous screen and consumer release if they want to. Once people got a taste of it, they'd scream at the mainstream movie companies until it became the norm. Or until the dinosaurs became extinct.

If you are into indie movies, or know people who are, pass the idea around.