This is a sketch I saw Tammy Tso doing during a recent GameChangers workshop, and afterward asked her for a scan of it. Tammy is a 23 yr-old artist and hip-hop crewster from Atlanta, who works as a graphic designer for ignition, an experiential marketing company there. What I found most interesting about the sketch is that Tammy envisioned steps leading to doorways. (more…)
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Tammy Tso Tsketch
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008To J.S.B., Who Lives It
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
In the mythology of the Networked World, Xerox PARC was Camelot. And King Arthur was John Seely Brown.
Yesterday, my partner, Dr. Virginia Kuhn, and I saw ‘J.S.B.’ as he is widely known, speak at USC, where he is an Annenberg Fellow, about the conditions that led to the breakthrough work by the barefoot geeks at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) from the 1970s through the 90s. Much of what he talked about had a familiar ring, and not just because PARC is legendary. Turns out their work, and their culture, were highly improvisational in nature. I grokked it like crazy. (more…)