MakerBot Industries

We’re very pleased to lend our new workshop space to the Impossible Girl this Thursday evening.  I’m afraid that her entire audience has already been pre-booked through a very clever Kickstarter campaign, and thus you cannot attend in person.  However, there will be a live stream of the concert, which will start at around 7:30pm.

Read more about Kim’s awesome project after the break!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Kim Boekbinder Redefines The Rock Tour – First stop, MakerBot Industries in New York City
Iconoclastic New York musician, Kim Boekbinder, has set the internet abuzz with her passionate rant about the state of the music industry- and how she’s decided to circumvent the broken system by using her vibrant social media presence to pre-sell her shows BEFORE they are even booked. Kim’s first test run of the idea was launched on Kickstarter and she got her funding for a show in New York City in under 24 hours. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/KimBoekbinder/the-impossible-girl-in-new-york
Kim’s first ever pre-sold show will be held at the MakerBot Workshop, 314 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217.

MakerBot is an affordable, open source 3D printer. It makes almost anything up to 5”x5”x5” and prints with ABS and PLA (biodegradable) plastic. Use the MakerBot to print your very own Kim Boekbinder!  http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:9277

For more info visit MakerBot.com.
“I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect venue for my first pre-sold show,” Kim explains, “MakerBot embodies the spirit of rampant creativity and self-sustaining culture that inspires me and makes my career successful.”
In addition to hosting the show, MakerBot will be using their innovative 3D printing devices to print 3D replicas of Kim to be given out to a few lucky audience members.
ABOUT Kim Boekbinder: Kim Boekbinder is The Impossible Girl; a performer, composer, musician, and visual artist who defies genre. She has travelled the world, stealing hearts and changing paradigms with her indelible live performance and her excitingly original and unforgettable music. http://www.kimboekbinder.com/about/
BoingBoing post about the pre-sold tour idea:  http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/14/crowdfunding-the-tou.html#comments
BBC Radio’s World Service interview with Kim: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00hffcn
Link to pictures: http://www.kimboekbinder.com/photos2/
www.twitter.com/kimboekbinder