With lots to do in Boston during the summer (or anytime, really), keeping track of all the awesome projects our neighbors are working on can be tough. Let us take care of that for you. Here are 5 awesome Kickstarters starting or ending this week in Boston that could use a helping hand and 5 great projects or products that could make Boston even better.
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1. Herepic. 26 days to go. $30,000 goal.
Herepic is a new social media network app that aims to let you check in and get updates on not people, but places. With Instagram-like photosharing, Herepic users would be able to follow the happenings of a certain location, or watch an event unfold from various users’ photo logs. Like live tweeting, but with pictures. #canweplzplaywiththis?
2. Luxxie. 11 days to go. $10,000 goal.
Luxxie first hit our radar in June, when the Kickstarter first launched. Since then, Stefanie Mnayarji’s campaign for modern-day undergarments designed to “reinvent the slip” and help keep women seize the day rather than readjust their skirts from 9 to 5 has received over $15,000 — $5,000 over the company’s goal. If the campaign reaches $20,000 Mnayarji pledges to add additional colors to the slip and camisole lines.
3. Better Potato Salad. 30 days to go. $50.00 goal.
Zack “Danger” Brown of Columbus, Ohio, made headlines earlier this month when his potato salad Kickstarter first raised over$1,000. Brown’s campaign, which is still live, now has over $50,000 in pledged funds. There is, naturally, now a Better Potato Salad Kickstarter, started by Joe Lees here in Boston. Potato salad face-off, anyone?
4. Mappuccino. 53 days to go. $3,500 goal.
We gave Mappuccino some press back in 2012 when local artist and web designer Rajiv Ramaiah first started gaining traction with his MBTA-like map designs. For each Mappuccino, Ramaiah takes a handful of places submitted by a client and connects them, chronologically or in some order that makes the collection of spaces meaningful, and makes a personalized map.
The Mappuccino Kickstarter campaign is an effort to make a collective Mappuccino. Each backer can submit their “favorite place in the world” and have it featured in a collaborative Mappuccino-style map. This could get real.
5. ingredients: A Three-Part Video Installation. 22 days to go. $3,500 goal.
Nicholas Corsano, local photographer and graduate student in Emerson’s MFA Media Art program is taking a cinematic look at how climate change may impact food production. Using forced perspective cinematography and special effects, Corsano will create seemingly life-size landscapes out of a 3-course meal and inflict the possible effects of climate change (flood, heavy rain, increased tornado activity) upon them. Promo footage looks a bit like scenes from The Neverending Story, but who ever said that was a bad thing?
Image courtesy of Luxxie Kickstarter
