Bake Sale - Zooglobble
56 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 9 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThere's some great stuff on Kickstarter and other crowdfunding sites specifically for kids and families, but it can be hard to find it sometimes. This show will hopefully make that a little easier
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Monty Harper's Flying Spaghetti Music
February 14, 2015 00:09Project: Flying Spaghetti Music Creator: Monty Harper Description: Oklahoma-based Harper has always been ahead of the technological and IT curve, with podcasts and Facebooks and Twitters and, more recently, crowdfunding. His latest crowdfunding experiment is with Patreon, designed more for ongoing work than one-time project work. Supporters pledge per song, and for varying levels you can get different benefits -- access to Harper, digital downloads, and more. If you'd like a taste, ...
Ep. 18: Tim Ferrin - Ella Jenkins Documentary "We'll Sing a Song Together"
August 08, 2014 15:43 - 28 minutes - 32.2 MBTim Ferrin is a filmmaker and video production specialist from Chicago. He's using Indiegogo to raise funds for an Ella Jenkins documentary. Of *course* we share Ella Jenkins stories.
Imagination Movers' 9th Album & DVD
August 07, 2014 22:12Project: Calling Mover Nation Creator: Imagination Movers Description: The New Orleans-based band is working with PledgeMusic to raise funds for its 9th album and DVD and barely 4 days into the campaign they're already 77% to their goal. Seems like they're gonna make it, no? If you want to get a sense of the sound, the thumping live version of "Big Hola," a work in progress, on the site makes it clear they haven't gone all easy-listening on us. And they've got the usual range of rew...
Ep. 17: Jeff Krebs and the Next Papa Crow Album
May 05, 2014 19:00 - 22 minutes - 26.3 MBJeff Krebs is using PledgeMusic to crowdfund his 2nd full-length album for families, Full Moon Full Moon. We chat about his start in kindie, recording the album, and using PledgeMusic.
Josh and the Jamtones' "Bear Hunt: The Movie"!
April 16, 2014 16:58Project: Josh & the Jamtones present "Bear Hunt: The Mini-Movie!" Creator: Josh and the Jamtones Description: When Josh & the Jamtones' album Bear Hunt was released last fall, I liked the music and the energy the band brings, but I -- an admitted grinch when it comes to skits on albums -- was less keen on the skits on this particular album. Not because they weren't funny -- they are -- but because they felt like they part of a different thing altogether. But when I heard that the Bos...
Debut Kids Album from Yumzah! (aka Steve Lee)
April 14, 2014 23:27Project: Yumzah! Pre-Order Creator: Yumzah! Description: OK, this isn't really a crowdfunding campaign as I've come to think of it -- or, rather Nashville's just being more open than most creators that his album as Yumzah is done, and his Indiegogo flexible funding campaign is purely for pre-orders. But if you've heard What Did You Do Today, Stephen Scott Lee?, you'd know that new music from this guy (and folks like The Wood Brothers, Chris Wood, Kyle Andrews, and more) is worth check...
ScratchJr: Coding for Young(er) Kids
April 11, 2014 00:00Project: ScratchJr: Coding for Young Kids Creator: Mitchel Resnick at Lifelong Kindergarten at MIT Description: Coding for kids is all the rage these days -- seems like you can't go through Kickstarter pages without running into at least one of these every week (here's one of my favorites). But it's also true that the Lifelong Kindergarten lab at MIT has been interested in the subject for a long time, most visibly in the creation of Scratch, a web-based programming interface for kids ...
Ep. 16: Suzi Shelton's Kids Music Album "Smile in My Heart"
April 08, 2014 19:00 - 20 minutes - 23.9 MBA chat with the NYC-based Shelton about her kids' music career, recording an album, and the myth of the DIY musician.
Steve Elci's Next Kids Music Album, "Imagination Nation"
March 04, 2014 13:30Project: "Imagination Nation" The new children's CD from Steve Elci Creator: Steve Elci Description: The Connecticut-based pop-rocker Elci goes simple in his Kickstarter pitch for Imagination Nation, his follow-up to his kindie debut Crayons in a Box. Short funding period (only 25 days at launch), short pitch video (less than 30 seconds!), and short list of rewards (CD, signed CD, concert, and sponsorship). But it seems to be working thus far -- he's already raised more than half of h...
Ep. 15: Joanie Leeds' 6th Album for Kids "Good Egg"
February 27, 2014 13:00 - 28.7 MBI talk with Joanie Leeds, who's going back to Kickstarter to raise money for her forthcoming sixth family music album, Good Egg. We chat about her path to making music for kids, recording in upstate New York, and what she learned about doing Kickstarter from her last Kickstarter project (for her previous album Bandwagon). I had lots of fun talking with her -- sadly (really!), our discussion of weather highs and lows in our lives did not make the recorded portion of the chat. Subscribe: i...
Mai Mai Miracle UK and US Release
February 07, 2014 14:30Project: Mai Mai Miracle Creator: All the Anime Description: Hopefully the phrase "protege of Hayao Miyazaki" is sufficient for fans of family-friendly movies, but just watch what is essentially a trailer for director Sunao Katabuchi's Mai Mai Miracle and hopefully that will convince you that this would be a worthy movie to see in the English-language part of the world. The movie itself won a number of awards upon its release in 2009 but hasn't yet been released in the UK or the Unite...
minimúsica's Fourth Album of Spanish Indie Rock for Kids
January 17, 2014 12:00Project: minimúsica Volume 4 - Education Creator: minimúsica Description: Do I like the indie pop/rock of Spain's minimúsica? I liked Volumes 1 and 2, and Volume 3, too, so the answer is safely "yes." Now the outfit is back, trying to raise the funds produce Volume 4, this one with an "Education" theme. It'll feature music from… OK, I don't recognize any of the artists except Candela y Los Supremos, but I really didn't recognize any of the artists on Volumes 1 through 3, and those t...
A Movable, Wooden Horse
January 11, 2014 00:00Project: My Wooden Horse Creator: Shalgi Design Studio Description: I'm sort of out of the market for toddler/preschooler toys, so I'm not the primary target audience for these lovely, movable wooden horses. But they look like an awesome playthings for your favorite 3-year-old. Pledge quickly, and you can get one of these horses for just $50. The money will be used to convert the convert the current handmade process into an industrial one. Still looks sweet, though.
The Whizpops' Third, Ocean-Themed, Kids Music Album
December 18, 2013 19:00Project: The Whizpops Ocean Album! Creator: The Whizpops Description: Montana isn't the first place I'd think to look for bands to record an album of ocean-themed songs (miles of ocean waterfront in Montana = 0), but the Missoula-based kindie band has shown a taste for science-themed music on their first two albums, so I trust in their ability to overcome their familiarity with wide-open landscapes. The money will be used to record the album, film some music videos, and create and sel...
Ep. 14: Danny Weinkauf's Kids Music Album "No School Today"
December 13, 2013 14:50 - 28 minutes - 32.1 MBI talk with Danny Weinkauf, who's played bass with They Might Be Giants for more than 15 years, about musical memories, the inspiration for his kids songs, and James Jamerson, one of the most influential bass players ever.
Empathy and Creative Dialogue Toy
December 10, 2013 00:00Project: A toy for empathy: unlocking creativity at all ages Creator: Twenty One Toys Description: A lot of the wooden toys on Kickstarter encourage creativity, but that's sort of a byproduct of the toy itself. The "Empathy and Creative Dialogue Toy" from the Canadian company Twenty One Toys is much more designed with creativity (and empathy) as the end product, using the toy as the medium through which those skills are taught. The basic concept is that one player puts together five ...
Ep. 13: Randy Kaplan, Fifth Album for Kids and Families
December 06, 2013 15:00 - 21 minutes - 24.5 MBRandy Kaplan is a storyteller and musician (or is that musician-storyteller?) who's made music for kids and families for about a decade and after funding albums in every conceivable way, he's turning to Kickstarter for album #5.
Monty Harper's More Songs from the Science Frontier
December 01, 2013 18:00Project: More Songs from the Science Frontier Creator: Monty Harper Description: I've been reviewing music from the Oklahoma-based Harper for a number of years now -- I've always thought he's been more skilled than most folks at weaving together the educational into the musical (not an easy task, and one that I have little patience for when done poorly). Harper's also been forward thinking -- this Kickstarter for a new album of science-themed songs (produced by Sugar Free Allstars' Ch...
The Peculiar Tales of the S.S. Bungalow
November 27, 2013 00:00Project: The Peculiar Tales of the S.S. Bungalow Creator: Laki Karavias (part of the large group of folks making the S.S. Bunglow) Description: There are many folks using Kickstarter to raise funds for their first kids music album, but few such projects whose ideas seem as fully thought as that from the Portland-based collective of artists who want to make a very nautically-themed story and album.
New Album from Bari Koral, The Apple Tree & the Honey Bee
November 26, 2013 12:00Project: Bari Koral's New Album - The Apple Tree & The Honey Bee Creator: Bari Koral Description: The New York City Koral went down to Nashville (to record with producer Brad Jones), and is coming back with a new album, her fourth. The Kickstarter campaign features a fairly standard set of rewards for a music campaign, but that's OK -- that's what pledgers want, right? The music, the swag, and the chance to see the artist.
Primo: Pre-Literacy Programming Robot Interface
November 24, 2013 13:00Project: Primo - Teaching programming logic to children age 4 to 7 Creator: Primo Description: Teaching kids programming and programming logic is the In Thing these days, but one of the cooler implementations of it appears to come from the UK-based firm Primo. They've designed a tiny robot (Cubetto) with an appealing puzzle-piece form, which can be controlled via an interface board "programmed" by putting in blocks which serve as non-verbal blocks of programming code. It's an expens...
Jason Didner and the Jungle Gym Jam Debut Album
November 23, 2013 00:00Project Title: Everyone's Invited! Creator: Jason Didner and the Jungle Gym Jam Description: There have been a flurry of kids' music projects raising money through crowdfunding sites. Many of these are from artists who have been around for awhile, but sometimes they're from artists trying to release their first album. New Jersey's Jason Didner is an example of the latter, but he hasn't been shy about talking about and sharing kids music with others. I chatted with Didner via e-mail ...
New Adventures of Morph from Aardman Animation
November 15, 2013 16:00Project: All New Adventures of Morph from Aardman Animations Creator: Peter Lord Description: Aardman Animations, the studio behind Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, Pirates!, and Chicken Run, is looking for help to re-launch one of their classic characters, Morph, online with a dozen new episodes? Sign. Me. Up. As of this writing, they're already cleared their goal and are shooting for stretch goal #1 -- 15 episodes instead of 12. Peter Lord, one of Aardman's co-founders, is in ch...
Ep. 12: Brady Rymer, New Album "Just Say Hi!"
November 13, 2013 16:00 - 17 minutes - 20.5 MBBrady Rymer is turning to Kickstarter to raise funds to produce his seventh album for famlies, Just Say Hi. We talk about Kickstarter and community
Phileas Reid Knows We Are Not Alone: All-Ages Graphic Novel
November 07, 2013 12:00Project: Phileas Reid Knows We Are Not Alone Creator: Scott Fogg Description: I am not a big comics/graphic novel guy, but that's mostly because I'm not into the superhero thing. Or the violence thing. I know, I know, there are plenty of comics out there that aren't that, but there you go. So I'm always interested in seeing all-ages comics because by definition they're probably going to tone down the violence. And I'm especially interested in all-ages comics that don't appear to f...
Ep. 11: Rafael Atijas, Electric Loog Guitar
November 06, 2013 14:00 - 21 minutes - 24.8 MBRafael Atijas used Kickstarter to develop his Master's business plan at NYU into an actual business. Now he's back to turn his acoustic 3-string Loog guitar into an electric version. Power chords, electrified!
Mo Phillips' Next Kids Music Album
November 05, 2013 00:30Project: More Family Supa Jams!! Creator: Mo Phillips Description: Portland-based Mo Phillips had so much fun (and success) Kickstarting his last album, Monster Suit, a couple years ago that he's doing it again for his latest album. Less than a couple days to go, but it'll be fun...
Hi BabyBoo!: Video Series & App from Yo Gabba Gabba Creator
November 02, 2013 00:00Project: HI BABYBOO! \\\ Video Series & App for Babies and Families Creator: Scott Schultz (Hi Babyboo) Description: When Scott Schultz, one of the creators of the very popular (and successful) Nick Jr. TV show (and tour and album-generator and product-generator) Yo Gabba Gabba!, believes crowdfunding is the best way to raise money for his next project, it's clear something has shifted in the media production landscape. Schultz is seeking to raise $150,000 for the show, with a goal of pr...
Loog Electric Guitar
October 26, 2013 15:00Project: The Electric Loog Guitar Creator: Rafael Atijas (Loog Guitars) Description: I'm hopeful to have an interview with Loog Guitars creator Rafael Atijas on the podcast soon, but for now, just take my word, this is really cool. I pledged for the original, acoustic version, liked it a lot, and now this version is electric and cheaper. Better start saving up for an amp, too, I guess.
Cory Cullinan: Phineas McBoof Crashes the Symphony
October 15, 2013 19:00Project Title: Phineas McBoof Crashes the Symphony Creator: Cory Cullinan AKA Doctor Noize Description: For the past several years, Cullinan's been amusing kids with his Doctor Noize and Grammaropolis projects while subtly teaching them something. And while Cullinan's passion for classical music hasn't been hidden amongst the songs he's written and recorded, in his latest project, a Kickstarter campaign to raise $50,000 to record an album of his introduce-kids-to-orchestral-form l...
Ep. 10: Laura Doherty, New Album "In a Heartbeat"
October 10, 2013 16:00 - 27 minutes - 31.1 MBA former head of Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music's fabled Wiggleworms program, Laura Doherty is raising funds for her third kids' music album "In a Heartbeat." We talk all about that project, along with shyness, flamingos, and running both an Indiegogo and Kickstarter campaign (not simultaneously)
Ep. 9: Ann Torralba (Little Miss Ann), New Album "Follow Me"
October 04, 2013 16:00 - 25 minutes - 29.7 MBAnn Torralba has making music as Little Miss Ann for nearly a decade. I chat with her about her path to kids musician, the healing power of music, and the only thing we might remember more from our childhoods than music
Brain Food: Exploratory Creativity Deck for Kids
October 03, 2013 02:00Project Title: Brain Food: A Design for Good Product by AIGA Portland Creator: AIGA Portland Description: This project is the product of a collaboration between the Portland branch AIGA ("the professional association for design") and The Right Brain Initiative, which promotes "whole brain learning," i.e., integrating the arts into daily curriculum in Portland-area schools. The group is attempting to get these 50-card decks with all sorts of ideas (build castles out of blankets) into ...
Ep. 8: Laurie Berkner, New Lullaby Album
September 30, 2013 16:00 - 22 minutes - 25.3 MBLaurie Berkner is a kids music superstar, and in this conversation we talk about her latest project, a lullaby album, which she's seeking to crowdfund via Kickstarter. Hear about lullabies from her own childhood and the possibilities that Kickstarter affords creators.
Laura Doherty: New Kids' Album "In a Heartbeat"
September 19, 2013 14:00Project Title: Laura Doherty is recording a new kids' CD: "In a Heartbeat"! Creator: Laura Doherty Description: Hopefully I'll also get a chance to talk with the Chicago-based Doherty about her new Kickstarter to fund the recording, etc. of her next kids music album. Doherty crowdfunded her last album, the fine Shining Like a Star, via Indiegogo, but is turning to Kickstarter this time around. The rewards beyond the music include buttons and t-shirts.
Laurie Berkner: Lullaby CD
September 19, 2013 01:00Project Title: Laurie Berkner is making a Lullaby Album Creator: Laurie Berkner Description: I'm hopeful I'll be able to chat more with Berkner about the project, but for those of you glued to the Bake Sale site, I wanted to make sure I pointed out this brand new project from the kindie superstar which will fund the recording of her brand new album, an album of lullabies. Berkner has funded all of her previous albums herself, so it's not like she absolutely needs Kickstarter for the f...
Robot Turtles: Board Game Designed To Teach Programming
September 07, 2013 03:00Project Title: Robot Turtles: The Board Game for Little Programmers Creator: Dan Shapiro Description: As soon as I saw this project, I thought it would do well and while my kids are a shade too old to get much out of this, I am a minor backer, one of the first. I did, however, think I'd get a chance to interview Shapiro for the Bake Sale podcast. That was before he'd attracted more than 3,700 backers only about 72 hours into the project. Shapiro -- a Google programmer who took some t...
The Phantom Tollbooth: Beyond Expectations: Documentary Completion
August 24, 2013 15:00Project Title: The Phantom Tollbooth: Beyond Expectations - Final Push Creator: Hannah Jayanti Description: I don't think there's much I need to say about this particular project. It's the last bit of funding filmmaker Jayanti is seeking to complete The Phantom Tollbooth : Beyond Expectations , a documentary on the classic book by Norton Juster and illustrated by Jules Feiffer. Post-production, legal, marketing -- not exactly fun, but necessary indeed. Hey, even Bill Harley's involv...
Episode 7: Adam Marshall and Eric Kreidler, Videos for The Bazillions
August 20, 2013 23:00 - 30 minutes - 34.9 MBAdam Marshall is the music guy, Eric Kreidler is the visual guy, together they've created 6 great kindie videos that have already generated more than a half-million YouTube views. They're now turning to Kickstarter to raise funds to produce four more.
Jon Samson: A New Kids Album
July 22, 2013 12:00Project Title: A New Kids Album Creator: Jon Samson Description: Jon Samson has created a couple albums of kids music that sounds slightly different from a lot of kids music. It has a bit of an improvisational feel to it, most likely inspired by his music therapy work. He's now trying to raise $10,000 to finish his third album, and it looks like he'll probably make it by the time his brief Kickstarter campaign ends a week from now. I chatted briefly with Samson via e-mail last about ...
Episode 6: Noah and Nanda Wilson (AKA Mr. & Mrs. Muffins), The Misty Cowboy Album and LP
July 21, 2013 04:00 - 22 minutes - 25.9 MBNoah and Nanda Wilson -- AKA Mr. and Mrs. Muffins -- join me to talk about their musical and artistic partnership and the inspirations behind their latest album and LP, The Misty Cowboy and Other Songs to Dream By
River Raisin Ragtime Revue: Children's Ragtime CD
July 10, 2013 20:00Project Title : River Raisin Ragtime Revue: Children's Ragtime CD Creator : William Pemberton (River Raisin Ragtime Revue) Description : With the resurgence in family music, especially over the past five years or so, you can find many different subgenre albums -- punk, polka, country, what-have-you. But there really isn't any ragtime kindie out there. I suppose one could argue that a lot of ragtime -- think Scott Joplin -- is kid-friendly, but this new project from Michigan's River Raisin...
Episode 5: Jerome Schoolar (Dusty Biscuit), Biscuit Brothers Fine Arts Farm
July 10, 2013 00:00 - 23 minutes - 26.4 MBJerome Schoolar -- AKA Dusty Biscuit -- joins me to talk about his Kickstarter campaign to finish building a Fine Arts Farm that will host classes, workshops, concerts for schoolkids and others, along with a free-to-the-public fine arts "farm."
App Camp For Girls: Non-Profit Camp Teaching Girls To Program iOS Apps
July 02, 2013 13:00Project Title: App Camp For Girls Creator : Jean McDonald (App Camp for Girls) Description: It's a little sad that there has to be a fundraiser to establish a non-profit camp to encourage girls to get into programming. Software is such an important part of our lives these days that one might hope that their wouldn't be massive gender disparity in terms of who's coding and that these camps targeted at older tween and early teenaged girls wouldn't be necessary. But the disparity does ex...
LightUp: Electronic Building Blocks and Augmented Reality App
June 29, 2013 01:00Project Title : LightUp: Learn by Making (with Augmented Reality) Creator : Josh Chan (LightUp) Description : I've been a supporter of this project since day 1, if I recall correctly, and though I wanted to get Josh and the LightUp folks onto the Bake Sale podcast, we just couldn't get our schedules to sync. No wonder, too, because their project's been a stunning success, raising more than $100,000 compared to their $50,000 goal. What is LightUp? It's a little bit like Snap Circuits in ...
Episode 4: Tim Sheridan, Thunder and Lightning Kids Book
June 25, 2013 19:00 - 20 minutes - 22.2 MBTim Sheridan is seeking to publish an illustrated children's book based on a story he developed many years ago about best friends Thunder and Lightning (who are, in fact, thunder and lightning).
Mobius: Animated Series for Families
June 22, 2013 12:00Project Title : MOBIUS - the animated series! Creator : Charlie Price (Mini Screen Pictures) Description : I love the concept of this project -- it's an animated series developed for smartphones and tablets about Mobius, "an incredibly adventurous 8 year old, who loves nothing more than to escape his hum-drum, fish and chips, tea and toast village in rural England and go on expeditions that almost every kid dreams of." The rough "animatic" posted on the project page is funny, and does see...
Johnny & Jason: Be Alive!, Their Second Kids Music Album
June 20, 2013 00:00Project Title : Be Alive! An album for kids and their adults. Creator : Johnny and Jason Description : I liked the debut album Go, Go... Go, Go, Go from the Portland duo. In fact, I called it one of 2011's best debut kids music albums. As a result, I was happy to hear that the duo was working on a follow-up album called Be Alive! and using Kickstarter to master the tracks, duplicate it, and get it out into the world. There's just a little bit less than 2 days to go, and they've safely c...
The Code Witch: A Pre-Teen Fantasy Novel With a Female Programmer
June 11, 2013 01:00Project Title: The Code Witch: A Novel Creator: Sarah Sterman / Elise Guinee-Cooper Description : Programmer Ada Lovelace is having a bit of a Kickstarter moment. There was Wollstonecraft, a YA novel about Lovelace and Mary Shelley (programming and steampunk), and now a novel from a pair of Stanford University seniors, Sarah Sterman and Elise Guinee-Cooper are writing The Code Witch . It's a pre-teen fantasy novel featuring a female programmer, whose setup is described as "a dragon sh...
BrickPi: Using a Raspberry Pi Computer with LEGO Bricks
June 09, 2013 19:00Project Title: BrickPi: LEGO® Bricks with a Raspberry Pi Brain Creator : Dexter Industries Description : Take your Raspberry Pi computer (it's about the size of a credit card), place it in the board, and you can connect the board to LEGO® motors and gears. The case will protect as it motors on the go. As a parent of a child who's eagerly anticipating the start of LEGO Robotics at the start of the school year, this sounds like an awesome way to have fun and learn some programming skills...