Amanda Fucking Palmer was asked to give a TED talk earlier this week on ‘The art of asking’ after the success of her unprecedented $1million+ Kickstarter campaign. She talks about her early days as a street performer and compares asking her audience for a contribution to her very public Kickstarter successes and failures. “I got a lot of criticism online after my Kickstarter went big for continuing my crazy crowdsourcing practices, specifically for asking musicians who were fans if they wanted to join us onstage for a few songs in exchange for love and tickets and beer.”
Want to know more? Want to know how to acquire Kickstarter currency? First, disregard females. Second, read her recent billboard interview or just watch the viddy here:
via musicfeeds
