Crowd Funding Craze

Crowd-Funding Reveals Who We Are.........

 Look at this development….come up with an idea, a working concept, go on line and ask for funding, people line up to back you—and as one person said, “your computer becomes an ATM machine!”  It’s the craze called “crowd-funding” by such companies as Kickstarter.  Of course, there’s more details about the time limit you have to raise the funds or you get nothing.  But it is very true that there is absolutely no accountability—you can do what you want with the money!  In fact, irony of ironies, two producers are trying to make a documentary about this funding called “Kickstart.”  But they ran out of money!  So why not put it on the web, collect the $85K and finish the movie. Yes, they got the funds.  

The whole point behind “Stones Shout” is to look at the building blocks, the foundation of who we are and what they say.  Not to comment on the idea itself.  When I first heard this idea of crowd-funding, I thought immediately about our need to create—on the front end with the idea or the back end with the funding.  It speaks to our need to be a part of something larger than ourselves. Millions of dollars have been raised through this avenue that connects with people and the deeper creative person in us all.