Glenn Fleishman at 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.
Why the crowd gave Amanda Palmer $1.2m
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An artist painted a monster, an occult poet conjured it to life, and now it wants to kill your Mörk Borg character
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Gulliver's Travels reborn as gorgeous art book on Kickstarter
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If you're paying a la carte for AI models, this $60 lifetime pass gets you ChatGPT, Claude & more
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