When you love the outdoors and geometry in equal proportions, when you are about to become a new parent and and you want to share the night sky with this new human, when you live in the city and can hardly see any of the stars you remember from your own childhood, it doesn’t take long before you get to inventing a new way to project the night sky on a bedroom ceiling. Gnight Sky is an indoor simulation of the outdoor sky. Each one is calculated to replicate the stars of the sky as seen in a specific place on Earth, for a specific date, and at a specific time… and then custom built. This might bring tonight’s sky into your house where you can see it. Or it could be a snapshot of the heavens from another time and place — perhaps the night of a first dance, or a wedding, or the birth of a child. At first glance, it is merely a black box with holes in the top to represent the constellations. It is crisply made, with tabs folding neatly into slots to lock it all together. But this simplicity of form does not anticipate the realism of the starscape it will cast in a darkened room. There are no lenses, no electronics, no film, and nothing plastic. And yet you are transported back through your memories to the quiet, open places where you have spent time at night — by a lake, in the mountains, or in an open field — looking up with wonder into the depth of the universe. The most awesome shit I can imagine would be to scale back my day job as a web-developer, to bring these to the world. People need to get these in their hands. And this is where I need your help! My social media skills are lacking. I think a lot could be gained for Gnight Sky with a strong presence on facebook, twitter, and/or instagram. If I won the pot of awesome-shit money, I would spend it on social-media coaching and/or service, to help build a strategy and set a tone, to properly launch this project. I gneed some gnowhow to gnegate my social-gnetworking gnaivité. Let’s gnail down a gnockout for the Gnight Sky!
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