A game currently under development uses your own anxiety to make its play increasingly horrifying as you get more scared, and it also aims to help people confront their fear.
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Kickstarter Hacked, User Data Stolen
Tonight, Kickstarter announced they had a security breach early this week, and they didn’t know until law enforcement officials told them on Wednesday night.
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Lincoln’s Loveseat: Help Restore the ‘Courting Couch’ Where Abe Wooed His Babe
There are plenty of artifacts of Abraham Lincoln, from his fine pocket watch acquired while he was a successful Illinois lawyer to the presidential top hat he’s believed to have worn for that infamous 1865 evening at Ford’s Theater.
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Spike Lee Doesn’t Do the Right Thing [UPDATED]
When famed film director Spike Lee launched a Kickstarter project for “The Newest Hottest Spike Lee Joint” this past summer, we rolled our eyes. But when Spike Lee hires unpaid interns and steals a designer’s work — well, then we feel compelled to say something.
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New Small Press Seeks Big Old Letterpress
CHICAGO — Reports of print’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Outpost Magazine is one testament to this; another is Meekling Press, a very small Chicago-based book press that is committed to creating small editions of hand-bound books, as well as paperback editions.
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Turning an Experiment in Musical Architecture into a Village
A New Orleans project that started in 2011 as an experiment with musical architecture is planning a return, although this time with roving ramshackle structures that can eventually become a permanent soundscape in the city.
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Nevermore? Poe Museum Turns to Kickstarter to Preserve Raven Illustrations
Many artists have been drawn to the macabre, dolorous work of Edgar Allen Poe — Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Édouard Manet, Gustave Doré.
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Gimme Shelter: A French Artist Retreat Crowdsources
It seems idyllic: a cluster of artist-designed shelters lining a river by an old flour mill in pastoral Brittany, France. This vision of a creative retreat is one that is close to being realized, although they’re angling for an extra push to get them there.
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M.I.A.’s Kickstarter Radicalism
According to a recent and widely publicized tiff involving a trailer leak, filmmaker Steve Loveridge’s blog, and Roc Nation, terror-chic rocker M.I.A. might be taking her flailing autobiographical documentary project to the masses via Kickstarter. She announced the possibility in a tweet over the weekend, stating that her project has been “black listed” …
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Artist Designing the Perfect Bank Heist
There may be no such thing as a perfect heist, but that doesn’t mean there can’t be a beautifully designed one. That’s the idea behind London-based designer Ilona Gaynor’s “Under Black Carpets” project, which looks at the architecture of a city landscape as both an aid and a detriment in her evolving story of a meticulously planned robbery.
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Will You Survive the White Whale’s Wrath in this Melvillean Game?
“Wilt thou not chase the white whale! Art not game for Moby Dick?” And as Captain Ahab demanded this of chief mate Starbuck in Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, so you are asked to go on your own treacherous whaling adventure in Moby Dick, or, The Card Game.
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Photographer Races Against Time to Document the Homes of Mid-Century Designers
The private homes of mid-century creators are vanishing. As most architects, designers, and artists who worked in the modern design movements of the 1950s and ’60s are reaching their twilight years or have already passed on, the houses in which they explored their personal visions are often broken up and disappear.
