Seconded. To be fair, I tend to ask for moleskines since they're one of those 'expensive but worth the cost' things, at least for the watercolour books.
Late, but if this is an assignment, then they succeeded a bit too well... $6,404 or their $6,000 goal. They did start a website just for this "business assignment" (beunruled dot com), so I'm thinking that this was a serious thing. They also have several active social media accounts (not big, mind you, >1k followers). It still baffles me that there's a demand for this sort of crap. I mean it's a small demand, but it's there.
@@jaxsom12 I'm curious on how does that work? Are you supposed to put the funding at a rediclious amount or something and each student is grades based on the money raised?
@@Zxzero36 nah even dumber. We have to take a class that was focused around how to market/budget your senior film. So you know promotional materials, budget plans, things like that. So we HAD to make an indiegogo but were only required to have more than 1 person donate to it. I think my teacher and my mom donated. I got full credit for maybe $25 raised. I think I had put $500 as the goal based on some loose cost I'd need. I had to try to justify it and all. I'm not even sure I took out the money in the end.
Literally all you have to do is brand something as counter-culture and for creatives and the money just rolls in. The quintessential Hipster Notebook...
This series has shown me several concepts in addition to such that ensures funding: - Memes - Buzzwords - Drones - "Smart" products - Retro aesthetic - The word "gamer" - Anime girls I'm almost on my way to the recipe for the perfect Kickstarter.
3x Unruled Notebooks + 1 Tree: $25 3x Unruled 80 Sheet Spiral Notebooks Made with 55% Recycled Paper: $16 on Amazon. A ream of copy paper with a binder ring: $5 Tree Seedling: $1 Getting scammed by the Delightful Children From Down The Lane: Priceless
Also, every time you buy wood products you help plant a tree anyway because forestry companies in the US replant since they want to continue making money in the future.
"you Retsupurae goons think you're *so* clever, well you're Not! no matter what you say, we'll always be one-third ahead in our funding goal! because we don't conform to lined paper like stupid babies!! we knew how to make our books appeal to people, we figured out every last buzzword! and that is why our Kickstarter... *Will Be Funded!!"*
Thank you, Rainst0rm, that laugh was just what I needed after losing an unhealthy amount of faith in humanity from this Kickstarter seeing even moderate success. The Delightful Children From Down The Lane...dammit all, now I can't get the mental image out of my head!
"I'm no artist but I know what a sketchbook is." "I bought one once." "Did it empower you to break free from conventional structures and unearth your mind's creative potentials?" "I liked it." Ladies and gentlemen, I present the 2017 Platonic Dialogue.
Let's be honest, we've all bullshit our way through at least one or two school projects. I remember procrastinating my senior research project and giving nonsense progress updates like "the code only works on one machine" when there was no code to speak of.
ohh come on how do you know their privileged and from money? i mean other than the fact that they're all white, well dressed, able bodied, and have considerably good filming and editing equipment to make a pitch video like this.
Tollie Emmett I actually do see what you're saying, but I feel like this whole kickstarter has less to do with them being well-off, and more to do with monopolizing on current society's desperate pretentiousness. In this series itself, we've seen a lot of different people coming out with dumbshit ideas like this. To be honest, there are idiots actually funding this and I can't blame these kids (or anyone) for taking advantage of how desperate people are to "break boundaries." It's not like the kids are lying about what they're selling, and I have faith that they can come out with a friggin blank [but not empty of meaning] notebook to follow through with their promises. I might even say they're smart businesspeople. That being said, I can't always tell the difference between a liar and some moron who actually believes this product is revolutionary, and in this case I don't really know which would be worse/better. Their creepy smiles keep me from wanting to look at their faces for too long :P Also I feel bad for OmniSonic who didn't post anything warranting this whole conversation. Sorry, my dude!
This is what I get for lying to that nice professor about coding in MATLAB. Seriously though, comments are always at risk of being derailed by replies. I'm used to it.
While we're at it, introduce a pencil without graphite. It makes no marks, allowing you imagination to see whatever notes you want to see, unleashing your creative mind, unhindered by graphite marks. of course, if you're really creative, don't have a notebook at all, don't even go to class. Imagine what degree you want, imagine your future job, eat creativity instead of food because you're destitute but at least you're a free thinker and that matters more than living.
How is thicker paper a bad thing (you need that for sketches or else the paper tears)? Thin paper is much worse! How's non-standard size a bad thing (I mean, you can choose your size... isn't that good?) Why are there no comments from 67 backers? Why are the rewards so shitty? Why do they think an enviromentally focused paper for sketches is a good thing (it's torture for the hands because of the rough material)? Whyyyyyyyy?
Yeah man.. it's really scummy how much stores charge for their RULED(!!!) notebooks! Like 1 dollar or two if you're not careful! And then claiming as well how some of them use recycled paper. How am I supposed to know?! Capitalistic liars!
Diabetus said "get mad", but this was just despairing. The audible forehead slap and the withered tone is that of a man whose threads are being cut. I don't remember him being so distraught since that Nazi Waifu TCG. _"Come o-on...!"_
Amazingly, this kickstarter reached it's goal just barely and it doesn't look like it's a scam as i don't see it plagued with the usual "requesting refund" posts you see in every other scamstarter. I think the biggest pull for people was the "planting trees" bullcrap. Most of the comments address the elephant in the room; which is the comparison between this and a regular sketchbook. It doesn't look like the authors have a clear answer to this (because there isn't this is literally a sketchbook but expensive.) but regardless of that, no one seems mad with this. I am honestly surprised.
The lines have got to you....YOU'RE MORE LINE NOW THAN PERSON!!! You're not creative...you're not free! BE FREE!!! Give us all your money for stuff you could get a lot cheaper elsewhere...but now you get added smugness that'll make you feel superior. It's a bargain!
cyber952 Nonsense, nobody can be creative within boundaries. Next you'll be suggesting architects should make buildings that look like they belong in the same city (or universe) as the ones around them or something!
Hired a crop of new employees. They're geeks, and they really appreciated the pads of graph paper that came with their workplace kit. Heh, little do they know I just do it to control them.
ChairGTables It's a "sustainable" sketchbook under the guise of a noteboom. And according to them... sketchbooks are "notetakers" that are expensive. But they're for SKETCHING.
Something about these kids makes me think of them as the type of people who go vacationing in the Alps. I mean the prices of these notebooks are absurd.
The people behind this kickstarter look like a bunch of high school kids who don't really look like they know what they're doing. Mainly because they are.
Wait, so they don't like regular notebook because it restricts their freedom with its lines, but one of the drawback of sketchbook are that they are non-standard size. So this product is for people who find pale lines to write on too creatively stifling but shut down when confronted with larger than average papers to write on.
Basically these kids are so young and numbed by technology that they don't realize that unruled notebooks have existed for as long as notebooks have been a thing. That, or they're trying to make some mad bank on their idiot peers being that stupid. Reminds me of a video I saw once of a baby playing with a tablet, then groping at the pages of a magazine, not understanding why it wasn't responding to touch controls. Like, what do you think the odds are that someone on that team went "it's like MS Paint, but in REAL LIFE".
I bought an unruled notebook on Amazon a few months ago because I primarily use it for a lot of math and diagrams, and apparently I scrolled past this product and went for one that was about half the price instead...
Years late but jfc imagine going to this incredibly expensive, prestigious private university with a 9% acceptance rate and a litany highly awarded alumni, and the best you can come up with for your business is a normal notebook with no lines and a bunch of neoliberal business jargon.
You think those kids had big smiles in that video? I bet their faces are split in half after seeing that they raised nearly 3000 dollars on bullshit paper.
like a suspiciously high number of these projects that were left up in the air as to whether they got their funding, unruled did indeed get their funding and now you can buy them on amazon.
I can walk into my campus bookstore and buy an ART sketch pad for like 10 bucks. When it costs more for your Kickstarter notebook, you can't use cost as a dumb excuse for it
Unruled notebooks are actually great if you do a lot diagrams or tons of annotations. I made my own in college for my compsci and math classes. Instead of actually paying money, I would just ask my friends who worked in offices to steal me some blank printer paper. Then I'd go to the library and use the free hole puncher. Boom. Free, instant notebook. Eco friendly and made in the USA.
At the very beginning of the video I thought "finally, a Kickstarter video that doesn't have the same stupid jangly guitar/ukelele hipster music as every other Kickstarter video." Then 0:16.
It looks like there's five of them, so they'd only need to get a dozen or so friends to sign up each, plus maybe Mum and Dad, to get all the backers they've got. Probably not too hard given university is the time in your life you probably have the biggest social circle.
Can I just say paper is made out of the trash that is leftover when you cut up a tree, so you aren't doing anything to reduce the amount of trees cut by recycling? Like, it isn't totally worthless because we use recycled paper to make new paper, but it's of very minimal harm since the primary source is a bi product.
That's the problem. We don't really cut down trees for paper. We cut down trees for lumber, then sell the sawdust and other unusable parts to be made into paper. It's a pretty green thing when you are only using farm forests.
TheRealColBosch Dude. Use your brain. Which do you think is worth more, lumber or paper? Trees are rarely cut just for paper. They are cut down into usable lumber and what isn't useful is used in paper. it's a very efficient process.
You know, I've been taking notes on sketchpads for a while now. I've always attributed such to outright laziness and forced complacency but little did I know I was actually being an empowered thinker exercising my creative potential all along! Thanks for validating me and justifying my crippling apathy towards buying a lined notebook, Unruled Team!
Tired of killing trees? Well I've got the product for you counter-culture hipsters. It's called the spiral. Regular notebooks use paper, thereby killing trees. But the spiral is paper free and will allow you to transcend beyond the limits of a regular sketchbook.
So I can make money just by taking an existing product and slathering it more thickly with buzzwords than technobabble in a bad episode of Star Trek? In that case, please contribute to my Kickstarter for the Wheel Mk. 2! It's a "revolution" in sustainable creativity and locally-sourced paradigm shift visual thinking!
Weird. Whenever I've wanted to scribble drawings, I'd just grab a few sheets of blank printer paper and doodle on those. They fold up and tuck away nicely into my lined notebook where I can write organized legible notes on the lined pages. If I'm feeling _really_ rebellious, there are also three ring binders and hole punches. Oh, you know what's also great for visual note taking? Graph paper! It's lined in not one but *TWO* directions!
if you are super dedicated to taking your notes on unlined 8x11 paper, you know what else you can do? Printer paper. 3 hole punch. cheap binder. VOILA.
In my experience, I did take notes in my sketchbooks sometimes because I drew a lot during class. In hindsight, those notes became incomprehensible really fast.
We've gone from two hugely over-ambitious technology Kickstarters that are made by people who have no idea what they're actually doing, to a professional-looking Kickstarter that is being run by a team that clearly know what they want to do selling *fucking paper*.
"Hey! How about, in the middle of our blatant overselling, we also tug at their heartstrings with some last-minute, environmental messages to really seal the deal?" "Genius."
This will be the first Nonstarter that I'm going to keep track of to completion. Come March 27 I'm going to be at my computer, refreshing their page with a gun to my head on the not-so-off chance this thing manages to go through.
As an artist and a writer I can confirm that sketchbooks are the absolute WORST for note taking because there are no lines and whatever you write can be easily lost among the drawings. I personally love notebooks with blank pages or sketchbooks that have ruled paper for this reason.
I have an even freer-range idea for artists to be unbound. It's called "Ofice Printier Papur". These sheets are also blank, BUT they don't have that rigid, non-negotiable spine in the middle holding them all in place.
The paper is empty of lines, but not empty of meaning.
if sketchbooks are "too expensive", just tell everyone you're an artist and you'll get a shitload of them from relatives.
as an artist, I can confirm this, I have more sketchbooks than I'll ever use
Seconded. To be fair, I tend to ask for moleskines since they're one of those 'expensive but worth the cost' things, at least for the watercolour books.
I just realized how true this is. My closet is full of cheap-ass sketch pads that were gifted to me over the years.
"We won't conform to your LINES"
[this notebook is only available in the standard 8.5x11 size]
I honestly feel like half these things are like, university business class assignments that they're being graded on.
Late, but if this is an assignment, then they succeeded a bit too well... $6,404 or their $6,000 goal.
They did start a website just for this "business assignment" (beunruled dot com), so I'm thinking that this was a serious thing. They also have several active social media accounts (not big, mind you, >1k followers). It still baffles me that there's a demand for this sort of crap. I mean it's a small demand, but it's there.
agreed. In film school I was REQUIRED to start an indiegogo for my senior project. So dumb.
@@jaxsom12 I'm curious on how does that work? Are you supposed to put the funding at a rediclious amount or something and each student is grades based on the money raised?
@@Zxzero36 nah even dumber. We have to take a class that was focused around how to market/budget your senior film. So you know promotional materials, budget plans, things like that. So we HAD to make an indiegogo but were only required to have more than 1 person donate to it. I think my teacher and my mom donated. I got full credit for maybe $25 raised. I think I had put $500 as the goal based on some loose cost I'd need. I had to try to justify it and all. I'm not even sure I took out the money in the end.
i would love to get an assignment where the goal is to market a stupid product as well as possible
Literally all you have to do is brand something as counter-culture and for creatives and the money just rolls in. The quintessential Hipster Notebook...
Yea, I was kinda thinking this is 100% brand and 0% product.
So it's an Apple Notebook!
AnimeRegrets, you just don't get it you heathen, you reactionary, you philistine.
100% Organic, silicon-free notebook!
This series has shown me several concepts in addition to such that ensures funding:
- Memes
- Buzzwords
- Drones
- "Smart" products
- Retro aesthetic
- The word "gamer"
- Anime girls
I'm almost on my way to the recipe for the perfect Kickstarter.
3x Unruled Notebooks + 1 Tree: $25
3x Unruled 80 Sheet Spiral Notebooks Made with 55% Recycled Paper: $16 on Amazon.
A ream of copy paper with a binder ring: $5
Tree Seedling: $1
Getting scammed by the Delightful Children From Down The Lane: Priceless
And now I'm imagining the DCFDTL teaming up with the Ed-Boys to defeat the KND once and for all.
That smug feeling you get for funding a shitty kickstarter: priceless
Also, every time you buy wood products you help plant a tree anyway because forestry companies in the US replant since they want to continue making money in the future.
"you Retsupurae goons think you're *so* clever, well you're Not! no matter what you say, we'll always be one-third ahead in our funding goal! because we don't conform to lined paper like stupid babies!! we knew how to make our books appeal to people, we figured out every last buzzword! and that is why our Kickstarter... *Will Be Funded!!"*
Thank you, Rainst0rm, that laugh was just what I needed after losing an unhealthy amount of faith in humanity from this Kickstarter seeing even moderate success. The Delightful Children From Down The Lane...dammit all, now I can't get the mental image out of my head!
"I'm no artist but I know what a sketchbook is."
"I bought one once."
"Did it empower you to break free from conventional structures and unearth your mind's creative potentials?"
"I liked it."
Ladies and gentlemen, I present the 2017 Platonic Dialogue.
Let's be honest, we've all bullshit our way through at least one or two school projects. I remember procrastinating my senior research project and giving nonsense progress updates like "the code only works on one machine" when there was no code to speak of.
ohh come on how do you know their privileged and from money?
i mean other than the fact that they're all white, well dressed, able bodied, and have considerably good filming and editing equipment to make a pitch video like this.
Tollie Emmett lol well that came out of nowhere...
Tollie Emmett I actually do see what you're saying, but I feel like this whole kickstarter has less to do with them being well-off, and more to do with monopolizing on current society's desperate pretentiousness. In this series itself, we've seen a lot of different people coming out with dumbshit ideas like this.
To be honest, there are idiots actually funding this and I can't blame these kids (or anyone) for taking advantage of how desperate people are to "break boundaries." It's not like the kids are lying about what they're selling, and I have faith that they can come out with a friggin blank [but not empty of meaning] notebook to follow through with their promises. I might even say they're smart businesspeople.
That being said, I can't always tell the difference between a liar and some moron who actually believes this product is revolutionary, and in this case I don't really know which would be worse/better. Their creepy smiles keep me from wanting to look at their faces for too long :P
Also I feel bad for OmniSonic who didn't post anything warranting this whole conversation. Sorry, my dude!
This is what I get for lying to that nice professor about coding in MATLAB.
Seriously though, comments are always at risk of being derailed by replies. I'm used to it.
Since when is being white a sign of being rich?
I love it when Slowbeef gets so angry he turns into Marty Mcfly Jr.
*slowbeef gets visibly upset as he browses for stationery*
While we're at it, introduce a pencil without graphite. It makes no marks, allowing you imagination to see whatever notes you want to see, unleashing your creative mind, unhindered by graphite marks. of course, if you're really creative, don't have a notebook at all, don't even go to class. Imagine what degree you want, imagine your future job, eat creativity instead of food because you're destitute but at least you're a free thinker and that matters more than living.
Isn't that a 10H?
2B or not 2B. That is the question.
So be Diogenes is what you're saying.
But do I get a handmade plaque?
How is thicker paper a bad thing (you need that for sketches or else the paper tears)? Thin paper is much worse!
How's non-standard size a bad thing (I mean, you can choose your size... isn't that good?)
Why are there no comments from 67 backers?
Why are the rewards so shitty?
Why do they think an enviromentally focused paper for sketches is a good thing (it's torture for the hands because of the rough material)?
Whyyyyyyyy?
Because it's obviously some money laundering scheme, and not a real kickstarter project.
Bonus question: Why is the average pledge almost exactly $40?
Because $42 would have just been too obvious.
WHY IS MY PRECIOUS ROCKET SHIP DRIFTING OFF INTO DEEP SPACE?
Seems that almost half of the backers come from Evanston. Nothing fishy here.
"We're here to challenge that" always seems to translate into "this shit's dumb"
Yeah man.. it's really scummy how much stores charge for their RULED(!!!) notebooks! Like 1 dollar or two if you're not careful! And then claiming as well how some of them use recycled paper. How am I supposed to know?! Capitalistic liars!
Tollie Emmett I don't even know what that means and therefore it must be genius
Holy shit. Get the kickstarter running now!
Slowbeef's "Come on..." is so depressing.
Diabetus said "get mad", but this was just despairing. The audible forehead slap and the withered tone is that of a man whose threads are being cut.
I don't remember him being so distraught since that Nazi Waifu TCG.
_"Come o-on...!"_
I've broken free from conventional structures, says the college student.
Amazingly, this kickstarter reached it's goal just barely and it doesn't look like it's a scam as i don't see it plagued with the usual "requesting refund" posts you see in every other scamstarter. I think the biggest pull for people was the "planting trees" bullcrap. Most of the comments address the elephant in the room; which is the comparison between this and a regular sketchbook. It doesn't look like the authors have a clear answer to this (because there isn't this is literally a sketchbook but expensive.) but regardless of that, no one seems mad with this. I am honestly surprised.
0:18 - This video series has taught me one thing: When you hear that "indie guitar" cue in, your about to see some dumb bullshit.
I like sketching in lined notebooks.
cyber952 YOU'RE JUST ACCEPTING THAT BECAUSE THE RULE COMPANY HAS TRICKED YOU INTO THINKING IT'S NORMAL!
Wow look at mr Stockholm Syndrome here. Controlled by Big Line much?
The lines have got to you....YOU'RE MORE LINE NOW THAN PERSON!!! You're not creative...you're not free! BE FREE!!! Give us all your money for stuff you could get a lot cheaper elsewhere...but now you get added smugness that'll make you feel superior. It's a bargain!
cyber952
Nonsense, nobody can be creative within boundaries. Next you'll be suggesting architects should make buildings that look like they belong in the same city (or universe) as the ones around them or something!
Hired a crop of new employees. They're geeks, and they really appreciated the pads of graph paper that came with their workplace kit. Heh, little do they know I just do it to control them.
I draw a fair amount
I bought a really nice sketchbook at the dollar store that was really smoothed and properly bleached
guess how much that was
ninjabuddy1 ...a dollar?
With the fact that you went to the dollar store taken into account, I guess it cost you your dignity.
ninjabuddy1 But can it help you take selfies?
$25, and they planted a tree.
But was it BALANCED!!!
How about a pencil... where the eraser and the lead tip switch places? Now that's revolutionary.
Benedetto great idea, too bad you didn't patent it.
Or, hear me out guys, a pencil, that has some kind of motion you use to reuse the pencil!! That propels itself, in a sense. I'm a genius!!
Guys, what if printer paper had a spiral attached to it, and was a quarter of the amount you'd normally get?
Any kickstarter beginning with 'Everyday life is full of distractions' is automatically terrible.
Way to re-create the wheel...wait...I might be onto something here! Kickstarter here I come!
...but not empty of meaning.
So is this basically a sketchbook but for notes
ChairGTables It's a "sustainable" sketchbook under the guise of a noteboom. And according to them... sketchbooks are "notetakers" that are expensive. But they're for SKETCHING.
ZaPhobos and even then most sketchbooks aren't expensive. nobody is forcing someone to buy a high-end multi-media sketchbook
also, good sketchbooks have that neato paper that doesnt yellow with age
A "notebook", if you will
TAKE MY MONEY
This commercial has finally made me realize my need for a notebook without lines, I'm going to the store and buying one
I didnt say it would be theirs
As a guy who sketches and draw doodles. I don't care what I draw on and you can get a sketch book for like 2 bucks on campus.
ARandomAlpaca Hell office max has cheap ones for 75 cents
Something about these kids makes me think of them as the type of people who go vacationing in the Alps. I mean the prices of these notebooks are absurd.
5:00 fly all the way to Chicago to plant a tree sapling. Sounds really environmentally friendly.
I like how it boasts about breaking the norm, then says it being of standard size is an advantage over sketchbooks.
The people behind this kickstarter look like a bunch of high school kids who don't really look like they know what they're doing.
Mainly because they are.
How am I supposed to write in this notebook without a pencil 2.0?
Current pencils don't enhance my creative freedom.
I have to admit, I'm impressed. These people could sell ice to an Eskimo and charge a premium to boot.
Selling polished turds on Kickstarter sounds pretty feasible by this point.
i love how the titles of the videos are getting simpler (but no less accurate)
Wait, so they don't like regular notebook because it restricts their freedom with its lines, but one of the drawback of sketchbook are that they are non-standard size. So this product is for people who find pale lines to write on too creatively stifling but shut down when confronted with larger than average papers to write on.
Basically these kids are so young and numbed by technology that they don't realize that unruled notebooks have existed for as long as notebooks have been a thing. That, or they're trying to make some mad bank on their idiot peers being that stupid. Reminds me of a video I saw once of a baby playing with a tablet, then groping at the pages of a magazine, not understanding why it wasn't responding to touch controls. Like, what do you think the odds are that someone on that team went "it's like MS Paint, but in REAL LIFE".
YOOOOOUUUUUUTH!!!!!! I think I pulled a muscle shaking my fist at the heavens.
You: sketchbook
Me, an intellectual: Unruled
Just last week I bought a sketchbook specifically to use as a journal and it didn't come with pretentious bullshit.
The blank unlined notebook has more original ideas than the creators do.
Every time I think one of these KSNS are peak caucacity they find another one. Incredible.
I appreciate Slowbeef's rage in this one.
I just bet these kids were real anarchist tearaways when they were little. They probably even coloured outside the lines.
I'm surprised over the lack of an option related to drones or Daheer Insaat-related shenanigans on this sketch book.
Even Dahir Insaat needs lines in their sketchbooks to put down machinegun drone blueprints.
you thought this was a normal notebook?
you thought wrong
_HELICOPTER BOMB DRONEBOOK_
I bought an unruled notebook on Amazon a few months ago because I primarily use it for a lot of math and diagrams, and apparently I scrolled past this product
and went for one that was about half the price instead...
They already make these, they're often cheaper than regular notebooks.
Years late but jfc imagine going to this incredibly expensive, prestigious private university with a 9% acceptance rate and a litany highly awarded alumni, and the best you can come up with for your business is a normal notebook with no lines and a bunch of neoliberal business jargon.
For every 1 hypercompetent alumni you've got thousands of these clowns.
You think those kids had big smiles in that video? I bet their faces are split in half after seeing that they raised nearly 3000 dollars on bullshit paper.
Here's another way to EMPOWER YOURSELF - ignore the lines in the ruled notebook and write whatever direction you want.
I'll pass and stick with my $3 64 page, dinosaur covered "Megasaurus" scrapbooks for exam study, thank you.
Life's greatest distraction: lines in a ruled notebook.
Sapphire Crook We lost a whole platoon to that in Iraq.
Unruled notebooks make the perfect gift for your anarchist friends who want to take notes on dismantling the state.
like a suspiciously high number of these projects that were left up in the air as to whether they got their funding, unruled did indeed get their funding and now you can buy them on amazon.
I feel constrained by the use of RECTANGULAR notebooks. I think we need a notebook where every page is its own unique shape and size.
Give me a sketch book, a pair of scissors and a million dollars and your dreams will become reality.
Planting a tree with guys who make sketchbooks for living is akin to a trip to a farm to buy a piglet with Gordon Ramsay.
I can walk into my campus bookstore and buy an ART sketch pad for like 10 bucks.
When it costs more for your Kickstarter notebook, you can't use cost as a dumb excuse for it
When a Kickstarter makes even absurd college campus pricing look cheap, you know you dun fucked up.
Unruled notebooks are actually great if you do a lot diagrams or tons of annotations. I made my own in college for my compsci and math classes. Instead of actually paying money, I would just ask my friends who worked in offices to steal me some blank printer paper. Then I'd go to the library and use the free hole puncher. Boom. Free, instant notebook. Eco friendly and made in the USA.
"Our biggest idea ever is a shitty sketchbook, give us money."
At the very beginning of the video I thought "finally, a Kickstarter video that doesn't have the same stupid jangly guitar/ukelele hipster music as every other Kickstarter video." Then 0:16.
i hope that if this gets funded they send the notebooks out with Office depot logos on it.
Why the fuck is this getting funded?
LargeJohnMadden Because it beautifully panders to counter culture idiots.
People are stupid. That's sort of a universal constant.
It looks like there's five of them, so they'd only need to get a dozen or so friends to sign up each, plus maybe Mum and Dad, to get all the backers they've got. Probably not too hard given university is the time in your life you probably have the biggest social circle.
What happens when there are Kickstarters that are marketed towards HSN and QVC crowds?
LargeJohnMadden because there are enough dumb people
Can I just say paper is made out of the trash that is leftover when you cut up a tree, so you aren't doing anything to reduce the amount of trees cut by recycling? Like, it isn't totally worthless because we use recycled paper to make new paper, but it's of very minimal harm since the primary source is a bi product.
dont tell that to the hipsters though. Theyll REEEEE all day at you
Merrick i think the idea is rather than cut down more trees to make the paper, you use paper that already exists
That's the problem. We don't really cut down trees for paper. We cut down trees for lumber, then sell the sawdust and other unusable parts to be made into paper. It's a pretty green thing when you are only using farm forests.
And even when the whole tree is used to make paper, it's a fast-growing tree from a farm, but fuck reason, right?
TheRealColBosch Dude. Use your brain. Which do you think is worth more, lumber or paper? Trees are rarely cut just for paper. They are cut down into usable lumber and what isn't useful is used in paper. it's a very efficient process.
Empty of lines, but not empty of meaning!
You know, I've been taking notes on sketchpads for a while now. I've always attributed such to outright laziness and forced complacency but little did I know I was actually being an empowered thinker exercising my creative potential all along!
Thanks for validating me and justifying my crippling apathy towards buying a lined notebook, Unruled Team!
I can go to my local 100yen store and buy an unruled notebook that is probably the same if not better
But will they plant a tree? I THINK NOT.
Damn you're right! Excuse me while I invest $1000!
I don't know if you know this, but 100 yen isn't a lot of money.
Presuming you're American, don't you guys have dollar stores? Same principle.
There will always be a market for people with more money than sense. That being said this is totally a last minute school project but on Kickstarter.
Tired of killing trees? Well I've got the product for you counter-culture hipsters. It's called the spiral. Regular notebooks use paper, thereby killing trees. But the spiral is paper free and will allow you to transcend beyond the limits of a regular sketchbook.
it's just an unruled notebook with an 'artistic' commercial by pretentious college students
why does this need to be on kickstarter
Because hipsters.
These pages are as blank as the minds of the kickstarter creators..
Maria Isabella But not empty of... Ah, fuck it. My sarcasm has limits.
I N N O V A T I O N
So I can make money just by taking an existing product and slathering it more thickly with buzzwords than technobabble in a bad episode of Star Trek?
In that case, please contribute to my Kickstarter for the Wheel Mk. 2! It's a "revolution" in sustainable creativity and locally-sourced paradigm shift visual thinking!
And don't forget to sneak in a subtle protest against Big Binary[tm] in your pitch. After all, you only pitch twice(thrice)!
*to help make a better world
Weird. Whenever I've wanted to scribble drawings, I'd just grab a few sheets of blank printer paper and doodle on those. They fold up and tuck away nicely into my lined notebook where I can write organized legible notes on the lined pages. If I'm feeling _really_ rebellious, there are also three ring binders and hole punches.
Oh, you know what's also great for visual note taking? Graph paper! It's lined in not one but *TWO* directions!
Dead to writes.
the notebook's pages are empty, but not empty of meaning
if you are super dedicated to taking your notes on unlined 8x11 paper, you know what else you can do? Printer paper. 3 hole punch. cheap binder. VOILA.
In my experience, I did take notes in my sketchbooks sometimes because I drew a lot during class. In hindsight, those notes became incomprehensible really fast.
Even in a ruled notebook, you don't have to write between the lines.
#FreeYourMind
3:58 "We'll plant a tree and YOU will pay for it!"
so, who's to say they're not just swiping printer paper from the library and running a spiral through one side? 100% profit.
Those kids look like the kind of kids who would come up with something like this
"hmmm I dunno about this one"
Kickstarter: You get to plant a Tree
"OMG TAKE MY MONEY!"
As a non-US citizen, I think I cas safely say this: I do believe we'll find a way to survive, Betus, worry not.
I find these project creators to be way out of line.
We've gone from two hugely over-ambitious technology Kickstarters that are made by people who have no idea what they're actually doing, to a professional-looking Kickstarter that is being run by a team that clearly know what they want to do selling *fucking paper*.
"Hey! How about, in the middle of our blatant overselling, we also tug at their heartstrings with some last-minute, environmental messages to really seal the deal?"
"Genius."
This sounds like the "organic food" of notebook paper. It is so much better for you and you will feel a reward in owning it!
It's really appropriate how they used the Battle Drawyale theme as background music for this Kickstarter.
-Millennial voiceover? √
-Quirky acoustic background music? √
-Bullshit philosophical metaphors? √
-Seemingly useless product no one asked for? √
-Buzzwords? √
=PROFIT!!!
This has got to be the most innovative thing ever.
This will be the first Nonstarter that I'm going to keep track of to completion. Come March 27 I'm going to be at my computer, refreshing their page with a gun to my head on the not-so-off chance this thing manages to go through.
As an artist and a writer I can confirm that sketchbooks are the absolute WORST for note taking because there are no lines and whatever you write can be easily lost among the drawings. I personally love notebooks with blank pages or sketchbooks that have ruled paper for this reason.
I've been looking for just the thing to put into my empty box!
But it's full of meaning
This kickstarter is like a SNL sketch making fun of millenials.
My nightmares will be populated by that smiling kid's skeelatone knees. Yeech.
I have an even freer-range idea for artists to be unbound. It's called "Ofice Printier Papur". These sheets are also blank, BUT they don't have that rigid, non-negotiable spine in the middle holding them all in place.
I'm just... taken aback at this one.
Oh hey, it's the Drawbadge music.
im glad to be seeing more videos coming out again
There's not even a tech angle to this.
Yeah I am down for some drone notebook.