Project: The Peculiar Tales of the S.S. Bungalow
Creator: Laki Karavias (part of the large group of folks making the S.S. Bunglow)
Description: There are many folks using Kickstarter to raise funds for their first kids music album, but few such projects whose ideas seem as fully thought as that from the Portland-based collective of artists who want to make a very nautically-themed story and album.
Project: More Family Supa Jams!!
Creator: Mo Phillips
Description: Portland-based Mo Phillips had so much fun (and success) Kickstarting his last album, Monster Suit, a couple years ago that he's doing it again for his latest album. Less than a couple days to go, but it'll be fun...Project: HI BABYBOO! \\\ Video Series & App for Babies and Families
Creator: Scott Schultz (Hi Babyboo)
Description: When Scott Schultz, one of the creators of the very popular (and successful) Nick Jr. TV show (and tour and album-generator and product-generator) Yo Gabba Gabba!, believes crowdfunding is the best way to raise money for his next project, it's clear something has shifted in the media production landscape.Schultz is seeking to raise $150,000 for the show, with a goal of producing about 30 minutes of content. To a great extent, the series sounds like Yo Gabba Gabba! for a slightly younger set, though in his slick Kickstarter video, Schultz outlines how the show might differ from its older sibling. Fewer words! More pictures! Lots of drooling! (I'm just kidding on that last one.) There will be music from interesting bands (plus a soundtrack available to certain backers).
The most interesting thing to me about the project (besides its funding) is integration of an app as part of the project. I'm sure that a lot of shows are developed with apps in mind these days, but with Portland-based Night & Day Studios, who have been part of a lot of apps, including one with Cat Doorman, working on the project, I have high hopes for it.
Project Title: Brain Food: A Design for Good Product by AIGA Portland
Creator: AIGA Portland
Description: This project is the product of a collaboration between the Portland branch AIGA ("the professional association for design") and The Right Brain Initiative, which promotes "whole brain learning," i.e., integrating the arts into daily curriculum in Portland-area schools.
The group is attempting to get these 50-card decks with all sorts of ideas (build castles out of blankets) into 44 Portland-area schools. You, too, can get PDF or printed copies of the set plus some other cool schwag.
Project Title : Be Alive! An album for kids and their adults.
Creator : Johnny and Jason
Description : I liked the debut album Go, Go... Go, Go, Go from the Portland duo. In fact, I called it one of 2011's best debut kids music albums. As a result, I was happy to hear that the duo was working on a follow-up album called Be Alive! and using Kickstarter to master the tracks, duplicate it, and get it out into the world. There's just a little bit less than 2 days to go, and they've safely cleared their $3,700 project goal. So you can safely pledge in confidence knowing that the project will reach the finish line (and that you'll like it when it does).
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