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...)
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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
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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...)
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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...)
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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-...)
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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...)
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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...)
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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)
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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...)
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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...)
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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...)
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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)