Backers

Backers

By Brian Dupuis and Chris RumpfComedySociety & CultureTechnology
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Backers episodes

  • S1E01 – Let’s back some Art!
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    We’re back, and this time we actually backed things! This is a discussion about the Backers’ first assignment, to back a project from the Art category on Kickstarter. Brian and Chris grapple with the expectations they had before examining approximately 300 art campaigns and how that tracked with what they found once they dived in. We are introduced to the vibrant economy of enamel pins, naked money grabs, lost Michael Jackson heads, and an ode to Marcel Duchamp.

    Episode Links
    • Narwhals
    • Catwoman licking Batman pin campaign
    • Headstand cat anus pin campaign
    • Teaching Millenials [sic] how to drive Manual cars! campaign
    • Lost Heads of Michael Jackson campaign
    • Vintage Skate-Vase campaign
    • Fountain
    • Why Pluto is no longer a planet
    • Riding Light, this video makes me feel impossibly tiny

      • If you don’t wish to be spoiled as to which campaigns we backed, read no further! Otherwise, blaze on.

      Chris’s picks

      Second runner-up (and Brian’s first runner-up): Dinosaurs of the Wild West by Shaun Keenan.

      First runner-up: RAW MATERIAL v.1 by Eliza Ivanova by Steven Morger.

      Backed project: White Wanderer: A Climate Change Soundtrack by Luftwerk & NRDC.

      Brian’s picks

      First runner-up: Dinosaurs of the Wild West by Shaun Keenan.

      Backed project: Solar System at a Date by Custom Generative Art.

       

      Backers is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://backerspodcast.wordpress.com/

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    • S1E00 – Pilot! What are we doing here?
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      Welcome to the pilot episode of Backers, a periodic podcast where we explore the most compelling campaigns in a random category on Kickstarter and each pick a campaign to back. I’m Brian Dupuis (@coldforged) and together with my cohost, Chris Rumpf (@rumpfy), we aim to inform and entertain… and hopefully back some cool things.

      In this episode, we talk a bit about our intentions, define expectations and limits, and figure out what the heck we’re doing. Spoiler alert: we don’t actually back anything in this episode.

      Please forgive the audio quality in this episode. We were still figuring out our tech and workflow and I had some serious crackle that made it into my recording. I tried hard to remove as much as possible, but much of it remains and is as annoying to me as I’m sure it is to you. Fear not, we worked it out for the second episode.

      Episode Links

      We talked about a whole lot in the episode. Here are some links you may find useful.

      • The Kickstarter “About” page.
      • Flint and Tinder premium men’s underwear campaign.
      • Penny Arcade Sells Out campaign.
      • Penny Arcade’s Mike Krahulik shouting Chris’s name at ducks, as promised.
      • The Aeropress, our proud sponsor (not really… but we’d totally love it).
      • The S-Filter reusable filter for Aeropress campaign.
      • Project Giana campaign.
      • Zeppelin Attack! campaign.
      • Don’t Turn Your Back campaign.
      • Reaper miniatures campaign.
      • Massive Darkness campaign.
      • Gloomhaven campaign.
      • Two definitions of “biweekly”.

        • Our theme song, Podunk Stomp, was written and performed by Ian Dorsch (yes, the same Ian Dorsch who wrote the Zero Punctuation theme!) who comes up with the greatest riffs.

        Backers is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://backerspodcast.wordpress.com/

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      About Backers

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      A fortnightly podcast where we explore the most compelling campaigns in a random category on Kickstarter and each pick a campaign to back.