Fast Company Profiles Amanda Palmer
Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 8:20AM
As well as discussing her tremendously successful crowd-funding formula and DIY approach, there's also much talk of her nakedness. From the article:
Her new album, "Theatre Is Evil," is the most successful music-based Kickstarter project to date. But is Amanda Palmer’s tweet-happy, DIY, often NSFW approach a model for independent artist.
It’s almost midnight, and Amanda Palmer is naked.
We’re down to the final minutes of the singer-songwriter-provocateur’s month-long Kickstarter campaign, a crowdfunding effort that shocked the entertainment world by becoming the site’s most successful music-based project to date. The pledges--which had an official target of $100,000, and which had privately been budgeted to hit $500,000--have already topped a million dollars.
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