Military Families Near and Far is a social network for military families with kids that provides them with numerous tools for parents and kids to create art, make music, and write, to help guide through challenges, such as deployments, homecomings, and changes that occur when a parent comes home.
I’m proud to have been able to be a part of the project, working with the über creative folks at Funny Garbage.
It was such a treat to work for Sesame Workshop. And not just because I am part of the Sesame Street generation. Their work has inspired me since as long as I can remember. It’s not every day you get to work with your heroes.
We’re doing good. We’ve got 50 backers, and we are about 25% funded. But with two weeks left we really need your support.
Here’s a bit about The Ghost Club:
When a team of reality TV ghost-hunters makes contact with actual ghosts, the pseudo-scientists get a terrifyinglesson in – be careful what you wish for.
Here’s a bit about Kickstarter:
Kickstarter is the largest funding platform for creative projects in the world. Artists (like us) in a variety of disciplines use Kickstarter to raise money from energized patrons all over the world. Rather than rely on a few investors to fund their projects with large investments, artists receive funds of varying levels from hundreds, even thousands of fans from all walks of life in any corner of the world, increasing the level of awareness for their projects. Kickstarter is ALL OR NOTHING. Artists set a fundraising goal and a fundraising deadline and if they don’t raise the entire amount by that deadline, they do not receive any of the funds!
And here are some photos of me as Jimmy, the lead Ghost Clubber:
“Well, we look at the pain that’s out there and we’ve seen stats in certain neighborhoods in New York where, you know, 40 percent of the traffic is due to people cruising looking for parking,” says Rosetti. “People will wait upwards of 45 minutes to an hour. I know on my block here on the Upper West Side, I have neighbors who, after they’ve given up looking for a spot, double park on my block and they’ll idle.”
The abandoned Six Flags of New Orleans destroyed by hurricane Katrina. (more photos here)
How would you use this amazing location? The scene of a zombie apocalypse? Blighted urban love story? A super villains secret hideout? Remake Mad Max with go carts?
My good friends and fellow filmmakers, Luci Westphal and Scott Solary, will be releasing their feature length documentary “All God’s Children” on YouTube soon. The doc is a powerful story about the children of missionaries in Africa.
Through the eyes of three families, All God’s Children tells the personal story of the first boarding school for children of missionaries to be investigated for abuse at the hands of the parents’ missionary colleagues. The survivors and parents share their journey of seeking justice, redemption and healing.
Subscribe to their YouTube Channel to be notified when the film will be available.
I find the Solar Mosaic concept very interesting. Similar to a CSA, they are proposing CSS–Community Sponsored Solar. Rather than purchasing a solar panel yourself and placing it on your roof, you buy shares (tiles) in a community owned solar project located in a more solar friendly location.
This presentation by Bryan Rieger reminds me of a lot of the conversations we had during my days working on Nokia MOSH–an app developer’s content sharing and social network that became the foundation of Nokia’s Ovi.
As designers from the United States we’re somewhat hobbled when thinking about web on mobile because of such a high percentage of us use desktop/laptops as a primary way to access the internet.
I think it might be fun to take a bunch of designers/UXers/technologists, and require them to only access the internet through a non or semi smart phone for a month, and then have them design a web site. I’d love to see what they come up with.
This awesome video by Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen whose project–Immaterials: Light painting WiFi that displays WiFi signal though long exposure photographs and light painting–got me thinking, wouldn’t this be the most useful augmented reality app ever? How great would it be to see the network around you, so you could figure out where to stand to get an actual internet connection, or make a phone call?
Or maybe I’m just sensitive because I’m still on the AT&T network.
