Clock of the Long Now

On one of my first nights in town, I went to a woman named Teague's house for her 28th Birthday. Felicity and I were in charge of making vegan carrot cake cupcakes.

During the evening, I met a guy named Matt who was interested in my work with The Committee, and told me about another think tank called the Clock of the Long Now. I've done some research into this, and found the following links to be intriguing:
http://www.longnow.org/press/articles/Michael_Chabon_-_The_Omega_Glory.pdf
http://blog.longnow.org/
http://www.longnow.org/projects/

I think I need to spend more time with this. Maybe a long time. But it's worth sharing.

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Sketches

During this Committee Meeting, Eric, Chris and I met to begin sketching our plans for Rudy. We drew a lot of pictures and decided on how to visually categorize the information we collected. We also divvied up tasks and developed an equipment list.

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Data Transmogrification

After 7 meetings with Rudy, Chris, Eric and I have split off to prepare a document of some kind that provides Rudy with some possible creative trajectories he can take in order to enhance Junior Ambassadors. The three of us met first to come up with as many possible ideas as we could think of. We used the Consensus Workshop technique where you brainstorm individually on small pieces of paper, post those ideas on the wall in groups, and begin organizing the groups. Our process looked like this:


We used orange sticky notes to indicate general categories for our suggestions, and pink to indicate ideas we see as possible "paradigm shifts" as in ideas that would require a change in thinking from Rudy.

After arranging the ideas into groupings, we spent time discussing what to do with the information. As Rudy provided us with two maps showing his desires in relation the food cart, we discussed the possibility of creating a map of our own in which to present our ideas back to Rudy. We discussed ways in which to make this map interactive and three dimensional, in order to mimic the ways in which Rudy can choose to take a birds-eye view, man-on-the-street view or any view in between towards his situation. We are working beyond this point to develop and create the map.

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The Committee

In December, Chris Hudson and I started working on a project called The Committee. The idea behind The Committee is that as creative people we can act as a think tank for other people who are stuck or trying to figure out different aspects of their lives. We will form partnerships with various people and help them design various "trajectories" or paths to follow that may be based in present reality but may head into unknown territories.
So far, we've only worked with our friend Rudy as he tries to build his new business, Junior Ambassadors Food Cart. We spent our first meeting thoroughly discussing where Rudy would like Jr. A's to be by the next summer. We spent another meeting talking about accounting, and another discussing a map that Rudy produced illustrating his desires for the next year.
After the first few meetings, we asked Eric Steen to join us, and are now in the process of creating our response to our work with Rudy.


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