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

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 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-empire-of-the-rising-dead?ref=yir2012 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-pops/posts/160739?ref=yir2012 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-new-baghdad-oscar-qualifying-la-releas?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1941167757/incident-in-n...) ----- February Double Fine Adventure (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doublefine/double-fine-adventure?ref=yir2012 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-typeface-for-chattanooga-tennessee?ref=yir2012 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 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-shack-bus-stop?ref=yir2012 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-mapping-kits?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1775485688/balloon-mappi...) Dark Sky app predicts the weather (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jackadam/dark-sky-hyperlocal-weather-prediction-and-visuali?ref=yir2012 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?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/edborden/air-quality-egg...) Kickstarter turns three (http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/happy-3rd-birthday-kickstarter?ref=yir2012 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-release-free-music-without-copyrights?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Musopen/record-and-relea...) (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/293573191/open-goldberg-variations-setting-bach-free?ref=yir2012 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-humanity?ref=yir2012 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-verses-an-opera?ref=yir2012 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-invention-kit-for-everyone?ref=yir2012 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-kickstarter-geiger-counter?ref=yir2012 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-said-thats-what-she-said/posts/239704?ref=yir2012 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-back?ref=yir2012 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-designs-3g-space-suit?ref=yir2012 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/comics/article/52925-is-kickstarter-the-2-graphic-novel-publisher.html 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/cartoons_20120723#slide=17 http://www.newyorker.com/humor/issuecartoons/2012/07/30/cart...) (http://www.kick-stopper.com/ http://www.kick-stopper.com/) (http://www.ifc.com/portlandia/videos/portlandia-kickstarter http://www.ifc.com/portlandia/videos/portlandia-kickstarter) (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/welcome-to-the-official-kickstarter-page-for-greece http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/welcome-to-the-official-k...) (http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/70f7ef3d34/bar-refaeli-s-sex-tape-kickstarter 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 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 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/search?term=burning+man) Kickstarter-funded journalists cover the world (http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/journalism?ref=yir2012 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-palmer-the-new-record-art-book-and-tour?ref=yir2012 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-the-worlds-first-pizza-museum-and-rest?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2023690459/pizza-brain-t...) Kindergarten class launches experiments into space (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1569698176/1000-student-projects-to-the-edge-of-space?ref=yir2012 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?ref=yir2012 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-underground-park-on-nycs-lower-east-sid?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/855802805/lowline-an-und...) (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1353197694/kulturpark?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1353197694/kulturpark?re...) (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/122241678/lets-build-the-logan-parklet?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/122241678/lets-build-the...) ----- October The first hackerspace opens in Baghdad (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bilal/baghdad-community-hackerspace-workshops?ref=yir2012 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-arcade-cabinet-kit-for-your-raspberry-p?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pimoroni/picade-the-arca...) (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/georginanaishmsa/the-chime-pavillion?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/georginanaishmsa/the-chi...) Photography exhibition travels across Afghanistan (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/52943134/streets-of-afghanistan-exhibition-hits-the-streets?ref=yir2012 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-source-underwater-robot?ref=yir2012 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-squirrel-census?ref=yir2012 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-grow-and-share-with-new-windowfarms?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/windowfarms/learn-to-gro...) ----- December 63 Kickstarter-funded films (http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/filmsintheaters?ref=yir2012 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-episodic-horror-adventure/posts/366903?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1042570429/the-last-door...) The Griz Coat (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hansr/griz-coat?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hansr/griz-coat?ref=yir2...) makes bear hugs even better (Aaron's dancing skills not included)