It’s not a campaign for potato salad, but this might be one of the more creative uses of Kickstarter we’ve seen yet.
After streaming ESPN’s “30 for 30” documentary spotlighting the 1994 Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding Olympic figure skating scandal on Netflix, Brooklyn-based comedians Matt Harkins and Viviana Olen were apparently so inspired by the drama and intrigue of it all that they launched a Kickstarter campaign to convert a long hallway in their shared two-bedroom apartment into a “museum” dedicated to Kerrigan and Harding.
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“The first draft had a tour starting at $500, then all these people started talking about it and wanting to actually come. And we realized these aren’t gonna be weird psychos; they’re gonna be weirdos just like us! And who are we to make something cool and say people can’t come?” the duo told HuffPost in a series of messages on Twitter. “But now that there’s so much interest, the goal would be to get as much raised as possible to we could spend a year letting anyone who wanted come up! And have a big party!”
All that said, the pair said they haven’t alerted their building super to their “museum” plans yet, so we’ll have to see it to believe it.
