Today is our 10-Year Anniversary party, and the office is buzzing with last-minute preparations. The beer, wine, and martini fixin's are here. Cocktail tables are being installed, tablecloths unfurled. The new sign is lit (look for another post, forthcoming, or just take a stroll down Broadway in downtown Portland. And, the makings for our special interactive art project are complete.
Last night, Ben Fogarty, Justin and myself spent hours laying out a 20 foot wide grid of three-inch squares onto the wall of the Pop Art Community Conference Room. Why 3 inch squares? Well, that's the size the good people at 3M decided upon when they began producing the ever-popular Post-It™ note pads. Recently, in their infinite wisdom, they've introduced many more colors to the product line. Plain ol' yellow is passe - check your office superstore for new pads in Fuschia, Burnt Umber, and yes ... Seafoam. And thus, an idea was born ...
For our interactive party project, we've labeled each square in the grid with a number, and we're going to ask party-goers to put individual Post-Its on the wall, with each number representing a color. We're calling it "Post-It-By-Number."
We're going to be filling in some of the hard to reach areas of the grid this afternoon. Later in the week, we'll post a time-lapse of the mystery image coming together, but youcan surveil our progress for the time being with this handy-dandy web cam image, updated every 10 seconds.