Comments on: Kickstopped http://boingboing.net/2012/05/01/kickstopped.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 26 May 2013 09:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: p_twiddy http://boingboing.net/2012/05/01/kickstopped.html#comment-1410972 p_twiddy Wed, 02 May 2012 00:31:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157690#comment-1410972 Stephen Fich,  gentle poet.  He finally made that Kickstarter page.  He checked it a hundred times a day, for a month.  Shrunk the browser window so only the number zero showed.  He hid it behind the tech support software on his PC's desktop at work.  There was a zero behind everything he did for a while.  There may be a poem about it.  I'm going to imagine  Mr. Fich happy.  Maybe he's *not* alone, taking pictures of himself.  Somewhere in his field of flowers. Stephen Fich,  gentle poet.  He finally made that Kickstarter page.  He checked it a hundred times a day, for a month.  Shrunk the browser window so only the number zero showed.  He hid it behind the tech support software on his PC’s desktop at work.  There was a zero behind everything he did for a while.  There may be a poem about it.

 I’m going to imagine  Mr. Fich happy.  Maybe he’s *not* alone, taking pictures of himself.  Somewhere in his field of flowers.

]]> By: Ipo http://boingboing.net/2012/05/01/kickstopped.html#comment-1410859 Ipo Tue, 01 May 2012 22:14:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157690#comment-1410859  <i>"Jacob is a <b>22 years</b> old <b>teen</b> from California."</i>  LOL  “Jacob is a 22 years old teen from California.” 
LOL

]]> By: joeposts http://boingboing.net/2012/05/01/kickstopped.html#comment-1410853 joeposts Tue, 01 May 2012 22:09:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157690#comment-1410853 #34 is my kind of project. "Give me money so I can pay hookers to dance around with the collection of guitars I bought with the money you gave me." Edit: then I read #35, that one made #34 look discreet and tasteful. #34 is my kind of project. “Give me money so I can pay hookers to dance around with the collection of guitars I bought with the money you gave me.”

Edit: then I read #35, that one made #34 look discreet and tasteful.

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2012/05/01/kickstopped.html#comment-1410695 Antinous / Moderator Tue, 01 May 2012 19:50:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157690#comment-1410695 <blockquote>I got to around 20 or so and just had to stop.</blockquote>Because you got so "involved" in the video for <i>Houseboy</i>?

I got to around 20 or so and just had to stop.

Because you got so “involved” in the video for Houseboy?

]]> By: Rob Beschizza http://boingboing.net/2012/05/01/kickstopped.html#comment-1410576 Rob Beschizza Tue, 01 May 2012 18:15:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157690#comment-1410576 I think (and hope) that these ones that look that way because of the ego involved -- enough ego to look like 'heart and soul' went into it, but more than enough to think that experience, research, marketing and the proverbial 10,000 hours of work aren't needed. I think (and hope) that these ones that look that way because of the ego involved — enough ego to look like ‘heart and soul’ went into it, but more than enough to think that experience, research, marketing and the proverbial 10,000 hours of work aren’t needed.

]]> By: Jer_00 http://boingboing.net/2012/05/01/kickstopped.html#comment-1410496 Jer_00 Tue, 01 May 2012 17:13:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157690#comment-1410496  I couldn't - I got to around 20 or so and just had to stop. I wonder how many of them are projects that people have their hearts and souls invested in and had their egos kicked in, and how many of them are projects that are just failed get-rich-quick schemes.  The guys who are trying to self-fund poetry publications are the really depressing ones, while most of the rest of them just feel like folks who had an idea for a way to make some money at 3am and decided to stick it out there and see if they could get any nibbles.  (And then there's the sheet-metal memorial to 9/11 in St. Louis?  WTF is that about?)  I couldn’t – I got to around 20 or so and just had to stop.

I wonder how many of them are projects that people have their hearts and souls invested in and had their egos kicked in, and how many of them are projects that are just failed get-rich-quick schemes.  The guys who are trying to self-fund poetry publications are the really depressing ones, while most of the rest of them just feel like folks who had an idea for a way to make some money at 3am and decided to stick it out there and see if they could get any nibbles.  (And then there’s the sheet-metal memorial to 9/11 in St. Louis?  WTF is that about?)

]]> By: EH http://boingboing.net/2012/05/01/kickstopped.html#comment-1410403 EH Tue, 01 May 2012 16:15:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157690#comment-1410403 If you can make it to the end, I salute your sadomasochism. If you can make it to the end, I salute your sadomasochism.

]]> By: mat catastrophe http://boingboing.net/2012/05/01/kickstopped.html#comment-1410350 mat catastrophe Tue, 01 May 2012 15:36:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157690#comment-1410350 I guess I don't feel so bad about my failed project, then. I guess I don’t feel so bad about my failed project, then.

]]> By: fatguy1966 http://boingboing.net/2012/05/01/kickstopped.html#comment-1410305 fatguy1966 Tue, 01 May 2012 15:02:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157690#comment-1410305 It should be called curbstomped... It should be called curbstomped…

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