Support an artistic project with Kickstarter

Kickstarter is one of those brilliant ideas you wish you'd had, but aren't too envious about because you're just glad it exists at all. It connects creators of movies, books, music, public art and other endeavors with people who want to throw money at them, to make sure that these proje cts actually get made. Funders get rewarded in various ways, such as through credit or copies of the finished works. There's also, of course, the satisfaction of knowing that instead of just complaining about the preponderance of crap in movie theaters, galleries, top 40 radio stations, etc., something concrete can be done to resist it. So kick away, by all means. 

Effort involved: roughly more than throwing coins into the hat of a street-performing mime, but there's also more choice and variety involved too.

Image from: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/kicked_out_for_prank_8itjNST1uZYzxodQW3GwhM