Birmingham Camera Obscura

A project in Birmingham, UK by Pete Ashton
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Jenny and Pete are building a portable Camera Obscura for Birmingham and need your help to make it happen.
Backers: 98
Average Pledge Per Backer: £25

Funded: £2,430 of £1,000
Dates: Nov 14th -> Dec 14th (30 days)
Project By: Pete Ashton
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Latest News

Posters ready for collection from Tuesday

December 13th - via: kickstarter.com
The posters arrived today and they're lovely!   If you chose this reward and want to give your poster as a Christmas gift, or simply can't wait until the stickers and postcards are ready, you can pick it up from Birmingham Open Media on Dudley St... (Read More)

Postcards for everyone if we hit £2,500!

December 11th - via: kickstarter.com
While we don't want to insult our backers by implying they can be bought with a piece of printed A6 cardboard, we were thinking of ways to boost the Kickstarter in the last couple of days and decided to try and buy you with a piece of printed... (Read More)

Posters should be here for Christmas!

December 8th - via: kickstarter.com
The original plan was to wait until we had the Kickstarter money in before ordering the rewards, but what the hell, let's try and get them in before Christmas!  So the printer has been instructed to print and the posters should be with us by Friday... (Read More)

Here's where we're building the camera

December 5th - via: kickstarter.com
It's not much to look at right now, but it's nice and big and it's all ours. Feel the potential!   This is Studio 1 at Birmingham Open Media (BOM) where we're basing the build and running the project over the next year or so. This room is right... (Read More)

New Stretch Goal structure thingy

November 30th - via: kickstarter.com
This Kickstarter has been a massive learning experience (and if anyone we know is thinking of running one in the future we'd be delighted to share what we've learned) and one of the things that's wrong-footed us has been the rate at which the pledges... (Read More)

Gareth's poster revealed!

November 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Gareth Courage, the artist responsible for our logo and stickers, has completed the poster, and here it is!  What's particularly nice is it could be hung either side up and still make sense.  This is the reward for the £20 tier (or £60 with a... (Read More)

New Rewards

November 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Due to the unexpected success of this Kickstarter we were in danger of running out of our rewards, so we've added a couple of new ones, and included an extra present for those who got in early.  At £20 we're offering a poster by Gareth Courage... (Read More)

Target reached in 26 hours!

November 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Wow!  We did set the target low to ensure we reached it, and we were confident we would, but we never thought it'd happen quite so soon. The original, now rather laughable, plan was to do a quiet launch of the Kickstarter on Friday night which would... (Read More)

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