cia geek week 3

we're at the next level of getting our heads around things, and we've decided that the best way to think is actually do. this may be the mark of fools, but it's worked so far, so we're going with it.

i've done quite a bit of writing this week for a new blog, and some more writing for other bits'n'pieces, so i don't know how much i can really contribute.

rather than a long wrap-up, some highlights included:

- the third afternoon tea: with about 7 of us there. much laughter, discussion and sharing of stresses. feedback is already coming in that these kind of face-to-face connections are having an impact. it sounds obvious, but you'd be surprised how often 'obvious' doesn't happy.

- purchasing equipment and fun stuff for our first arduino workshop. we got sparkfun flex packs from robot gear - super helpful local peeps with next day delivery :)




- making and starting to work with my new super-high-tech critical meter (above), measuring the amount of proper thought, meaningfulness and rigour we've felt we achieved/received in the day. i've been uploading the 'results' onto instagram.


- planning our geek party. instead of doing an artist talk, which is standard for new residents, we're having a party instead. there'll be music and alcohol and people dressing up as geeks. we'll have some of our toys to show and we're setting up a bit of a geek spin-the-bottle for matching geeks with other arts organisations that said they needed geeks on board. revenge of the nerds vs rebecca black mashup. 


- some admin stuff: a nice clear schedule of works that we're making and working towards, promoting the workshop and the party.

- starting to thrash out some of the deets from our two major projects (langley and project socrates) - more on them later in the week methinks.

here are some pics to make the whole thing make a bit more fun: