| January 10% of the films at Sundance are Kickstarter-funded 19 films selected; four win top prizes
(http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/Sundance2012?ref=yir2012) FUBAR hits the New York Times Best Sellers List
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1607639297/fubar-2-empir...) The Kickstarter Popsicle
Little Bee Pops celebrates backers with a new flavor
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/730155451/little-bee-pop...) Incident in New Baghdad nominated for an Oscar
Second Kickstarter-funded film to be nominated
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1941167757/incident-in-n...) ----- February Double Fine Adventure (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doublefine/double-fine-a...
) kicks off a huge year for games Games in 2012:
561,574 backers
$83,144,565 pledged
2,796 projects ----- March Backers make Chattanooga the first US city with its own font
Font integrated into bike lanes, billboards, and even the public library, then released online for free
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chatype/chatype-a-typefa...) Stanford teaches Kickstarter for class credit
(Our Kickstarter School is still free)
(http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/storyviz?ref=yir2012) A Kickstarter-funded bus stop in Georgia
Athens artist spices up the morning commute
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1016187241/the-love-shac...) ----- April Google Maps integrates images from DIY mapping project
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1775485688/balloon-mappi...) Dark Sky app predicts the weather
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jackadam/dark-sky-hyperl...) Air Quality Egg makes fighting pollution awesome
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/edborden/air-quality-egg...) Kickstarter turns three
(http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/happy-3rd-birthday-kickstart...) ----- May Classical music goes open source
Musopen and Open Goldberg Variations release recordings to the public domain
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Musopen/record-and-relea...)
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/293573191/open-goldberg-...) Cards Against Humanity tops the Amazon charts
Friends make irreverent card game, sell 100,000+ copies, ruin family gatherings forever
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maxtemkin/cards-against-...) ----- June A Kickstarter-funded opera premieres at the Kennedy Center
188 backers help produce Paola Prestini’s Oceanic Verses
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/MexicoSings/oceanic-vers...) MaKey MaKey inspires the world’s first banana piano
One project, infinite possibilities
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joylabs/makey-makey-an-i...) Open source geiger counters measure radiation levels in Japan
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seanbonner/safecast-x-ki...) Musician writes songs for backers, including his grandma
The cutest thing we saw all year
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2031742392/he-said-she-s...) ----- July Kentucky sixth-graders send a camera to space
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scifres/the-edge-and-bac...) Design firm Final Frontier develops a civilian space suit
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/872281861/final-frontier...) Publisher's Weekly calls Kickstarter the #2 publisher of graphic novels
(http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/co...) Kickstarter gets parodied
The New Yorker, The Daily Show, Portlandia, McSweeney's, The Onion, Funny or Die, and others make us laugh
(http://www.newyorker.com/humor/issuecartoons/2012/07/30/cart...)
(http://www.kick-stopper.com/)
(http://www.ifc.com/portlandia/videos/portlandia-kickstarter)
(http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/welcome-to-the-official-k...)
(http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/70f7ef3d34/bar-refaeli-s-se...) ----- August T-Rex wins Olympic gold
Boxer Claressa Shields, subject of the doc T-Rex, triumphs in London
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zcdc/t-rex/posts/286163) 87 projects go to Burning Man
Art cars, bathroom beacons, laser lights, oh my!
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/search?term=burning+man) Kickstarter-funded journalists cover the world
(http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/journalism?ref=yir2012) ----- September Amanda Palmer debuts in the Billboard Top Ten
Thanks 24,883 backers with a block party
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amandapalmer/amanda-palm...) The world's first pizza museum
Philadelphians pay tribute to the glory that is pizza
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2023690459/pizza-brain-t...) Kindergarten class launches experiments into space
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1569698176/1000-student-...) XOXO Fest explores the creative universe
Kickstarter-funded festival unites artists, creators, and technologists
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/waxpancake/xoxo-festival...) Projects transform public spaces
The Lowline, Kulturpark, and Logan Parklet create new urban environments
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/855802805/lowline-an-und...)
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1353197694/kulturpark?re...)
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/122241678/lets-build-the...) ----- October The first hackerspace opens in Baghdad
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bilal/baghdad-community-...) Kickstarter opens to UK creators
Picade first to launch, Chime Pavilion first to succeed
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pimoroni/picade-the-arca...)
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/georginanaishmsa/the-chi...) Photography exhibition travels across Afghanistan
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/52943134/streets-of-afgh...) ----- November OpenROV sends underwater robots around the world
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openrov/openrov-the-open...) Atlanta's first squirrel census
Turns out, there are even more squirrels than we thought
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jamiewashere/inman-park-...) Windowfarms grow in the American Museum of Natural History
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/windowfarms/learn-to-gro...) ----- December 63 Kickstarter-funded films (http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/filmsintheaters?ref=yir2012) open in theaters The first marriage proposal via Kickstarter project
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1042570429/the-last-door...) The Griz Coat (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hansr/griz-coat?ref=yir2...) makes bear hugs even better
(Aaron's dancing skills not included) |
Thank you!
Thanks to everyone for making 2012 an unforgettable year. Here's to an amazing 2013!
Love, Team Kickstarter Perry, Yancey, Charles, Lance, Cassie, Fred, Andrew, Brett, Cindy, Daniella, Cedric, Samuel, Kendel, Mike, Justin, Meaghan, Tieg, Elisabeth, Jed, Jared, Cooper, Nicole, Aaron, Zack, Stephanie, Aurora, Callan, Jessica, Alex, Chris, Andrew, Dan, Brandon, Tomasz, Katherine, Bridget, Erik, Emily, Shannon, Niina, Bethany, Ian, Luke, Michal, Aaron, Eli, Chris, Leland, Michael, Ellen, Shayne & Jake (http://www.kickstarter.com/team?ref=yir2012)
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