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Brookyln
- nhangen 13y agoI posted this, not to rag on the guy for his mistake, but because many of us have been in this very same place, stuck in between multiple painful decisions. I'm also a backer and interested to see how creative the HN community can be in recommending solutions.
- zt 13y agoI'd just call is art and ask everyone to live with it.
- dnautics 13y agoagreed. It's not like it's fraudulent; the proofs were there on the original kickstarter, and no one noticed it! Often in numismatics, errors are more valuable than perfectly cut coins.
- lightbritefight 13y agoI recommend posting this thread to the kickstarter comments. It should serve to buoy the artists spirit, if nothing else. It also looks like tolmasky has landed on an excellent compromise solution. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6968241 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6968241 If he opts to do the above, ill gladly shell out for the limited edition run.
- theDoug 13y agoCameron’s a nice guy and a great designer. It’s a shame this passed so many sets of eyes unnoticed!
- vsviridov 13y agoi only noticed the misspelling in the article title on HN after reading the post :)
- gkoberger 13y agoIt's a shame it's too late to back -- it was funded almost two months ago. Even with the typo, it's beautiful. Hopefully he does the Golden Gate Bridge someday.
- nemof 13y agoDon't you mean Godlen Gate Bridge?
- ChrisNorstrom 13y agoKEEP IT! I'd consider it an important part of the art itself. The piece stands out more than the biggest flaw on it. Ha, that's actually kind of neat. I'd consider it a good flaw like a beauty mark (mole). Consider it a feature. Slap a transparent sticker on the bottom right corner that says, "Did you know Brooklyn is misspelled? Hundreds of others didn't. Read the back story about this at brookyln.com".
- npongratz 13y agoI like the sticker idea. It could be paired with another sticker in the form of an asterisk, to be placed directly after the misspelled "Brookyln".
- chrislgrigg 13y agoOuch. This same thing happened to another friend of mine. I referred him to a client in need of a freelance graphic designer. They had been contracted to do a design for something in Camden, NJ. He gave them the design, they printed thousands onto hoodies or t-shirts or something, and it was misspelled as "CANDEN."
- tolmasky 13y agoWhat I would do is offer a reprint to anyone willing to send the original back. So, give people a month to request it or something, send those people a tube to send the original back in, then know exactly how many to reprint. Then, resell the originals with the typos that are returned as a novelty. I know I'd be happy to purchase one of these typo-ed ones, which I'd hang in my apartment and love to tell the story about.
- gkoberger 13y agoHaving "corrected" ones for sale is a great idea... makes the "typo" ones much more valuable.
- mathattack 13y agoThis is kind of like baseball cards with errors being more valuable than the corrected ones that came out later.
- TamDenholm 13y agoThis is one of those things thats hilarious yet not at all funny. The typo versions are going to be worth WAY more than the corrected versions. Call it a limited edition.
- apgwoz 13y agoI think the solution is the non-solution. Yes, it sucks, but backing something on Kickstarter is a risk.
- nfoz 13y agoWeird that this URL brings me to a Kickstarter page that pretends I'm logged in as someone else. The link submitter?
- crorella 13y agoBy the way, Nathan, the link contains your log information: http://grab.by/t7ws http://grab.by/t7ws
- natrius 13y agoI thought this was going to be a Kickstarter for a community pottery kiln in Brooklyn, which felt very Brooklyn to me. This works too.
- Detrus 13y agoDon't point it out and they won't notice, if they know how to spell it in the first place.
- mhb 13y agoBrookyln in the the spring.
- weisser 13y agoI read this post title as "Brooklyn" and wondered what it was all about.
- sinesawsquare 13y agoHas no one has pointed out the Typoglycemia effect yet? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typoglycemia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typoglycemia
- badman_ting 13y ago587 backers. 587.
- jessefriedman 13y agoIf Cameron had created an architectural blueprint that was going to be used to build a bridge then a mistake like this would be a problem. I think it's charming and frankly something that's expect with art. How many paintings have you seen that are absolutely perfect? Probably none. I hope @tolmaskey's idea goes, so I can hang mine, with the mistake and be proud of it.