KIM BOEKBINDER:  Nobody Knows I'm a Superstar
Channel: IgniteNYC
Date: 02/12/2012

Kim Boekbinder is The Impossible Girl; a performer and musician who defies genre.  She has fans. The kind of fans who show up 4 hours early to wait around for a glimpse of their hero. The kind of fans who have her face tattooed on their bodies.  In 2011 she went on a concert tour. She played to mostly empty rooms. In each room there were a few people who thought she was a superstar. This kind of crazy disconnect is possible in the world of the internet we live in now. And as fun as it is to be a superstar to anyone, it doesn't pay the bills. The most poorly attended show was in Portland, Oregon. She made $12. So she had an idea... What started as a single pre-sold show in New York City ended as an entire pre-sold tour of the United States. With international press attention from BoingBoing, CNN, BBC's World Service and more. At the brink of thinking she'd have to quit her career, she turned a stunning failure into a shiny success which sparked conversations across the internet and inspired other artists to follow her lead.
https://twitter.com/KimBoekbinder 
http://www.kimboekbinder.com

This talk took place at the Ignite NYC 14 event, "Fails, Facepalms and Spinouts: Stories from the Other Side of Failure" event. 5 minutes and 20 slides rotating automatically in front of NYC's brightest geeks, what would you say? For nearly two years Ignite NYC has cultivated a vibrant community of artists, technologists, thinkers, tinkerers, and personalities to connect, develop new relationships and projects, and answer this challenge. Enlighten us, but make it quick!

Wanna see the slides?
http://www.slideshare.net/ignitenyc/kim-boekbinder-nobody-knows-im-a-superstar