those people are MAKING ART!

[mizkit]

Yesterday morning as I was working in Starbucks, I noticed a woman introducing herself to a man who’d just arrived, primarily because she used the immortal and ear-catching words, “I’m the writer.” I spent the next hour or so alternating between writing and evesdropping as three more men showed up and were introduced.

Someone took out a laptop and

Comments

[bellinghman]

I now recollect that 'chuffed' is a British slang word and may not apply even as close to our shores as Dublin.

(There may well be an Irish term that is not only a good equivalent, but that we Brits could profitably adopt.)

[irishkate]

no we use chuffed too..

[bellinghman]

Aha.

I'm always a little wary about making assumptions like that - the UK and Ireland are so close in so many ways, particularly when it comes to common culture and the like, but you are a different country and you do have a different native language, even if you were part of the same kingdom for a while.

[irishkate]

Wonder if these people would be of use to your sister?

You run into the most interesting people...

Wonder why they are using fundit.ie rather than kickstarter? (smaller crowd for sourcing in Ireland)

[mizkit]

Because as far as we can tell at the moment you still can't run a Kickstarter from Dublin. You need a UK or US bank account, and at least in theory you need to live in one or the other of those places.

If you, as an Amazon employee, happen to know more or better about this, we would be VERY HAPPY to hear it.

[mizkit]

Sadly, no, technically it's not. They launched the kickstarter.co.uk thing in November, I believe.

[blythe025]

That is so awesome! I would be thrilled if someone came up to me with the same enthusiasm. :)

Making Art

[amberley]

Like Kickstarter, it appears fundit.ie does All or Nothing funding - the project gets nothing unless it reaches its goal. I like that model MUCH more than Indiegogo, which passes along the money even if the project doesn't reach the goal, which can leave the project in the awkward position of having promised rewards it doesn't have the money to provide. Ugh. (Indiegogo does have an option to do all or nothing, although I rarely see that selected.)

Is there a stretch goal for you to have a cameo?

Is there a stretch goal to have Peter Wingfield have a cameo? Because, you know, that would be pretty nifty.

Re: Making Art

[mizkit]

Yeah, that's my problem with Indiegogo too.

*laughs* Peter's in med school right now, so I don't know that he could do cameos anyway. :)

[flit]

Squee!

I went to a little course in Hacktivism this week, which was supposed to be about beginner programming but it was just me and Carl and we both already knew that, so instead we talked about cloud computing and Kickstarter and ended with the question: "How does an artist find the people who want to be their audience but don't know it yet?" Which is such an interesting question! I am still kicking it around when I get braincells on and off.

But my own personal answer to that has been basically included what you describe above! Beautiful serendipity.