I couldn't not mention this, no matter how upended my life got.
I am giving serious consideration to buying in at the $70 level (which includes not only the basic audio from the $20 level, the expansions from the $42 level that'd be my minimum buy-in, and the video added at $50, but also an official towel, of course).
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dou...-the-world
Prodigal Entertainment Wrote:Douglas Adams: Explaining the World - What is It?
Douglas Adams: Explaining the World is an original Audiobook drawn from Douglas Adams' archive, brought to you by leading audio company Pushkin Industries and written and presented by Douglas' one time protégé and chart-topping Audible author Arvind Ethan David.
Douglas Adams, the legendary creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, saw the world differently, and when he described it from his unique perspective, he made all of us feel smarter.
Douglas also loved the medium of audio. He revolutionized radio drama with the original HITCHHIKERS and throughout his life was obsessed with sound and music. When he died in 2001, Douglas left behind a large archive of recordings - most of which have never been digitized and have sat unheard all this time. We've been given access to that archive and this Kickstarter will support its digitization and proper cataloging -- the process has already begun, and we can't wait to share what we've been finding.
With that material in hand, we've been interviewing many of Douglas' most famous and influential fans and friends. Actors and comedians like Stephen Fry, Lenny Henry, David Baddiel, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Griff Rhys Jones; his collaborators and business partners Robbie Stamp and WiReD magazine founder Ian Charles Stewart; and also the world's leading experts in all the fields that obsessed Douglas: conservation and the mass extinction; the internet and AI; space exploration and alien life.
In other words, we're going to talk to them about the meaning of life, the universe and everything. Mixed into that will be extracts from Douglas' books and work inspired by him, read by actors including Dirk Gently himself Samuel Barnett.
The outcome, we hope, will be a truly unique Audiobook, one that Douglas would have loved himself. One that allows his fans to get to know him better and also brings his unique genius and perspective to a world that feels like it needs him more than ever.
I am giving serious consideration to buying in at the $70 level (which includes not only the basic audio from the $20 level, the expansions from the $42 level that'd be my minimum buy-in, and the video added at $50, but also an official towel, of course).
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dou...-the-world