Hello desperados!
Roombaaa..another weekend has arrived. How was your week? Mine was a bit too busy for my taste – but that’s why we have Fridays, right? To recharge and bitch about it while having drinks with friends.
For this edition of Artful Fridays I prepared a post that will hopefully give you some ideas to get your next creative project started..and funded! All with the magic of Kickstarter of course. For those of you who don’t know what that is, I’ll give you the lowdown: Kickstarter is a social juggernaut that helps creative people like you to fund their treasured projects, all with the love of friends, family and artful strangers.
Without further ado – I give you Dwight from Decoder – a magazine that will come to life (yes, it will!) through Kickstarter.
T.A.D. – How did the idea of Decoder Magazine come to be?
Decoder Magazine has been in development for months now, but it happened for a variety of reasons. I’d been writing for our co-editor Jheri Evans’ old site Get Off the Coast and my wife Liz had joined us in running our tape imprint Crash Symbols. “Get Off the Coast” was an old name that Jheri had been tempted to retire, so when the nature of the project changed so radically with our involvement and the addition of the imprint, we knew we had to create “a new identity” for what was by then an entirely collaborative group of projects.
T.A.D. – What do you do to keep track of all the things needed for this project?
Lots and lots of lists!
Christian Filardo
T.A.D. – What tools are you currently using to promote the launch of Decoder?
The internet is the primary outlet for promotion… we’ve had a great deal of support from friends, readers, and even professional contacts… bearing that in mind, facebook and twitter have been particularly useful. It’s surprising how much of the excitement we’ve been able to share through those mediums.
T.A.D. – What’s key when working with friends?
I guess I would have to say know your friends!
Claire Pestaille
T.A.D. – What excites you the most about your project?
The content. After spending so much time gathering material and now preparing it for layout, I think we’re most immediately excited about finally seeing it presented the way we’ve been imagining for months!
T.A.D. – What do you want to achieve with Decoder?
To document to some extent something of our cultural moment in a meaningful way… part of our “stated goal” is to draw out some of the connections between old and new media, the role of the analog in a digital world, etc. I like to think that better understanding our own reality can allow us to better understand the transitions that society makes across history and at the very least promote sensitivity during the change!
Hunter Mack
