Matter Anti-Matter
Welcome to Matter Anti-Matter, a site about nerd stuff. By day, I work at Kickstarter.
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Impressed by this new trailer for The Silent City, a web series set in post-apocalyptic New York. Amazing what you can do with a low budget and a lot of talent.
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Video reblogged from The Atlantic
8 Bits of Wisdom From Neil Gaiman on Being a Creator
This is a fantastic speech by Neil Gaiman, addressing the 2012 graduating class of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Gaiman himself never graduated from college—in fact, he never even enrolled in college—yet he earned his place in literary culture as one of the most celebrated and prolific writers working today. Here, he imparts several pieces of life wisdom on young people beginning a career in the arts.
- Say “no” to projects that take you further from rather than closer to your own creative goals, however flattering or lucrative.
- Approach your creative labor with joy, or else it becomes work.
- Embrace your fear of failure. Make peace with the impostor syndrome that comes with success. Don’t be afraid of being wrong.
- When things get tough, make good art.
Read the rest. [via Brain Pickings]
Also highly relevant for anyone interested in making a Kickstarter project.
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Also, the impetus for a Kickstarter project involving John De Lancie.
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You can now pre-order the Wisconsin skillet from Alisa Toninato’s iron skillet-based art installation, Made in America!
Make pancakes, ON WISCONSIN.
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I love Kickstarter. I spent fifteen minutes this morning looking at projects people sent me, and backing the ones that caught my interest, and trying to work out why the ones that didn’t, didn’t.Neil Gaiman loves Kickstarter. No big deal.
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the idea is one thing, and kickstarter is another. kickstarter is the manifestation of the idea in one way, by one set of people. but the idea will outlive kickstarter. people will be funding and building community around their projects, on the web, in this general way, for a long long time. (and we plan for kickstarter to be around for generations).
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An early design of Kickstarter from waaaaaaay back in the day. See the whole visual history here.
