http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 15:34:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://boingboing.net/2012/06/05/why-the-crowd-gave-amanda-palm.html http://boingboing.net/2012/06/05/why-the-crowd-gave-amanda-palm.html#comments Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:35:45 +0000 Rob Beschizza http://boingboing.net/?p=164839 The Economist: "Amanda Palmer learned everything she needed to know to raise nearly $1.2m for her latest album as a street performer. Ms Palmer says that six years of busking, often as a living statue called "The Eight-Foot Bride", led her to realise that people willing to toss money in a hat do so according to their means and interest rather than in response to a specific reward." Previously.]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/06/05/why-the-crowd-gave-amanda-palm.html/feed 36