Face Shield Art: I first met my friend Mike Wooldridge in 1996 — huddled up in a small RV, hustling to put together the
Black Rock Gazette (Burning Man’s now-defunct daily newspaper). Over the years, I’ve seen him hatch brilliant, and often absurd, ideas**. His latest offering,
Face Shield Art, combines the open-source face shields he was already making with some really terrific artists. They decorate the shields, Mike puts them up for
auction on eBay, and the
Open Source Shield Project benefits.
Josh Ellingson (his art featured above),
Mark Frauenfelder, and
Jesse Reklaw have already made contributions and more are expected soon.
**I’m going to take this opportunity to brag about stuff Mike’s done for a minute. On one hand, he’s this unassuming user-interface developer,
but he’s also proven himself to be a pioneer of web culture. A real ahead-of-the-curve innovative kind of guy. Don’t take my word for it, here are just a handful of the many
crazy and wonderful things he’s been behind:
:: 2004: He was the first to put “pets in uniform” via petsinuniform.com (domain lost but video remains)
:: https://youtu.be/4EQ-eUoDk0w
:: 2006: Similarly, he brought the world “Pancake Astronaut”
:: https://www.flickr.com/photos/clickfarmer/106060621
:: …which ended up in the beginning of a Charlotte Gainsbourg music video (2010)
:: https://youtu.be/CrWN0-MuK38
:: 2005: He launched a camera-phone scavenger hunt called Stalk
:: http://www.stalk.com (I would love to see all the domain names he owns)
:: 2009: He accidentally coined the Halloween term “spoopy”
:: https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2017/10/what-does-spoopy-mean
:: (1997) This is the big one: if you were on the internet in the nineties, you probably knew him as thatguy.com
:: https://web.archive.org/web/19970306105858/http://www.thatguy.com/play/
Anyhoo! That’s Mike. He’s got face shields with art on’em on eBay.
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:: Great Small Works, a miniature theatrical production collective, has been hosting wonderful Toy Theater Festivals on Facebook
:: https://www.facebook.com/watch/GreatSmallWorks Thanks, LeBrie!
:: I bought a gallon of A-1. Help.
:: https://www.instagram.com/p/B_yNip-hKGQ
:: When you get to be 68, you’ve learned some things. Here are 68 things Kevin Kelly knows.
:: https://kk.org/thetechnium/68-bits-of-unsolicited-advice
:: Escaped sheep doesn’t get shorn for six years, stays alive because wolves can’t bite it
:: http://nowiknow.com/shear-determination
