Because it builds community. Because it's fun. Because your name in lights! Because the following people are now forever part of something a little larger than themselves (and this is why I have loved participating in other Kickstarter projects!):
Leigh Ann Roripaugh
Kevin Eagan
Kevin McKelvey
Shelley Wade
Nicole and Steve Klein (postcard participants!)
Martha W. Johnson
Michelle Sanford
Tim Parrish
John Pendergast and Pam Garvey (boosted the Project to 100%!)
Denise Clamors (future postcard participant!)
Beth Lehnerer Davis (postcard participant!)
Ashley Luster (postcard participant!)
Cyber Monday cyberpocalypse collaborative story particpants:
Robert Rohe (boosted to 75%)
Linda Markowitz and Mark Hedley
"Jeff" (no last name recorded)
Rachel Pease
Joel Hardman
Valerie Vogrin (boosted to 70%)
Kristine Hildebrandt
Bradley D. Hazelrigg
Gloria Jenkins
Black Friday Immortal Thanks participants:
Adam Smith (boosted past 60%)
Lessie G. Starr ( 1st postcard participant!)
Jason Braun
Abby Souza
Tom Spalding (boosted past 50%)
Bob and Georgia Zaiser
Sheila Squillante
James Goltz
Shane Holmes
Colleen Tully
Jason Davis
Sharon James McGee
Kathleen Finneran (will have a character named after her in the first narrative!)
Action Box Productions
June and Paul Schmidt (will have characters named after them in first narrative!)
Lainee Frizzo
Lisa Hartleib Spicer
Sequoia Nagamatsu (first!)
Because your name could be added to the top of that list. Because it's fun. Because you're part of something now, baby. Because communities flare up in odd places in odd ways and who knows how they will sustain you, but they will. Because when we reach out to something unusual, we become a little bit more human. You're part of something now.
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Saturday, November 24, 2012
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Why Kickstart It?
Geonarrative Kickstarter Campaign
1. One lovely thing about geocaching and by extension Geonarrative is the sense of community that's engendered. When one finds a cache, one signs a log, takes a little treasure, leaves a little treasure for the next seeker.
2. When I was younger, I used to leave little notes --story scraps, messages to the future -- tucked into the pages of library books for the next reader to find. Hello, unknown reader, I would scribble on an index card. Don't you love page 47?
3. With a geonarrative, you have the chance to add to the reading experience, interact with other readers. You can leave them a token, leave them a note. This text has wide margins in which you can write, and you will know that many others will read your marginalia.
4. Built into the Kickstarter campaign is the notion the impulse to build community -- to thread communities with stories, to lace together readers and writers and region.
5. Also built into the Kickstarter campaign is the possibility for real author-reader interaction -- the names of participants built into narratives, sometimes narratives tailored to the participant, the line between character and reader smudged.
6. Geonarratives work to interrogate the gap between the space we inhabit and the story-space we explore. This Kickstarter campaign allows for this to happen in perhaps a very direct manner.
7. Because everything we write and read should be all or nothing, shouldn't it? Let's go all in for each other just this once, okay?
1. One lovely thing about geocaching and by extension Geonarrative is the sense of community that's engendered. When one finds a cache, one signs a log, takes a little treasure, leaves a little treasure for the next seeker.
2. When I was younger, I used to leave little notes --story scraps, messages to the future -- tucked into the pages of library books for the next reader to find. Hello, unknown reader, I would scribble on an index card. Don't you love page 47?
3. With a geonarrative, you have the chance to add to the reading experience, interact with other readers. You can leave them a token, leave them a note. This text has wide margins in which you can write, and you will know that many others will read your marginalia.
4. Built into the Kickstarter campaign is the notion the impulse to build community -- to thread communities with stories, to lace together readers and writers and region.
5. Also built into the Kickstarter campaign is the possibility for real author-reader interaction -- the names of participants built into narratives, sometimes narratives tailored to the participant, the line between character and reader smudged.
6. Geonarratives work to interrogate the gap between the space we inhabit and the story-space we explore. This Kickstarter campaign allows for this to happen in perhaps a very direct manner.
7. Because everything we write and read should be all or nothing, shouldn't it? Let's go all in for each other just this once, okay?
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