Just the Beginning

I produce and host Just the Beginning, a podcast from Kickstarter featuring stories about how independent creators bring their ideas to life. Meet an engineer turning air pollution into ink, a married couple who invented a device that lets you sing like a robot, an artist touring the US in a mobile tattoo shop for women, and other creative people of all kinds. You’ll hear what inspires them, scares them, and keeps them going—and how they’ve remained true to their visions, even if mainstream culture didn't buy in.

What does it mean to sound more like yourself? Voice teacher Daisy Press guides us through some pretty unusual vocal exercises. Maya and Bosco Kante are the founders of ElectroSpit, a family business devoted to helping people sing like robots. They tell us how an ungainly vintage instrument and a disappointing performance with Kanye West inspired them to create it.

"Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. ― Buckminster Fuller" Meet two designers turning environmental pollution into useful products. Anirudh Sharma and Graviky Labs collect carbon air pollution and turn it into ink for writing, drawing, and printing.

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Science Fiction Gets Real Meet creators making work that explores the gap between science fiction and reality. Inspired by science-fiction movies from the ʼ80s and ʼ90s, Shawn Frayne, the founder of Looking Glass Factory, dreams of making a holograms a part of everyday life.

In this episode, we explore creative projects that attempt to reconstruct the past-at least a version of it. Plus, we take a look back at some personal moments from the first 10 years of Kickstarter, as told by creators and backers. Say Something Bunny Interdisciplinary artist Alison S.M.