Kickstarter Raised $20 Million For Musicians In 2011. Kickstarter recently took a look back at 2011 and it was a big year for them and for a whole lot of people whose projects were successful.
Over $99 million was pledged overall and over 11 thousand projects reached their funding goal to get their piece of that pie. Even if Kickstarter were the only crowdfunding site in existence, their success is an amazing example of what the Web has made possible and music has been a big part of that success story. 2011: The Year in Kickstarter leads to a variety of recaps, stats and a selection of their favorite pitch videos including: Kickstarter also released a handy stats report. Film and music were the biggest categories funded. Kickstarter.
The Oldest Living Things in the World. I'm researching, working with biologists, and traveling all over the world to find & photograph continuously living organisms 2,000 years old or older Hi there...
My name is Rachel Sussman, and I am working on a project called “The Oldest Living Things in the World.” I'm researching, working with biologists, and traveling all over the world to find and photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older. I started the project 5 years ago, and have since photographed nearly 25 different organisms, ranging from the Bristlecone Pine and Giant Sequoias that you've surely heard of, to some truly unusual and unique desert shrubs, bacteria, a predatory fungus, and a clonal colony of Aspen trees that's male and, in theory, immortal. Decentralize the web with Diaspora. We're fully funded!
Check out some of the other great projects on Kickstarter Diaspora - the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network We are four talented young programmers from NYU’s Courant Institute trying to raise money so we can spend the summer building Diaspora; an open source personal web server that will put individuals in control of their data.