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2010 September 27

12 hours and counting to order your Borderland comic on human trafficking…

One final chance to help us reach our Kickstarter funding goal – click here to pre-order your comic through Kickstarter and help us cover our print and distribution costs.

For more info, visit the official Borderland Comics website or here for a preview of some of the stories that are in the comic.

Any help in chipping in, retweeting, forwarding or shouting the news of the Kickstarter deadline is appreciated – deadline is 1045 EST tomorrow morning!

Thanks in advance and to those who have already helped us to get where we are (now at 90%!!!),

Dan and Olga

 

Support Borderland on Kickstarter today – Our deadline is 10:45am EST tomorrow!

and help us support the IOM in the fight against modern day slavery. Last day today!!!! We need to raise $8000 or all of the money raised will be returned! Check out the preview below. More Archcomix news below the fold.

24 hours to order your Borderland human trafficking comic on Kickstarter

Thanks to all of those who came to see Olga and I speak at Stanford’s d.school on Thursday evening. About 40 people showed up to hear about how the project came together and discuss the challenges and obstacles creatives face in using their work to instigate social change. Journalist Cynthia Haven did a great piece about the event for Stanford, which you can read here. You’ll also notice that our fundraising tally is up – we’re at 76%, with less than 24 hours to go! Please RT and share the link to our Kickstarter page on digg, facebook, wherever – if you didn’t already know, Kickstarter will return all funds collected so far if we don’t make it to our $8000 goal by this time tomorrow.
Last week was also my first full week of classes at Stanford, which was simultaneously challenging, exhausting, exhilarating and fascinating. Running around to find my classrooms/lecture halls on the first day was surreal, but a week later I consider myself a veteran, though I’m still wrestling with some of the e-classroom/syllabi that we’re expected to attend or sign up for online. I consider it slightly ironic that my data visualization assignment took me almost as long to post to the course wiki as it did to complete. Teething troubles aside, I’ve really enjoyed throwing myself into new projects and classes that are clearly outside of my comfort zone: Human-Computer Interaction; Data Visualization; Beginner’s German; and Multimedia Production are my main courses this semester. Needless to say, good ol’ introduction to cognitive neuroscience didn’t even get a look in past week one – too many lectures to get to as it is! The project’s also coming along well, especially with the news that the Knight News Challenge is definitely on this year, so expect more about that in the next few weeks as I put my application together.