These were the words of my friend and bandmate, Patrick Kelly. He left today, a permanent move to Boston. At his moving away party, I solidified some friendships with his friends, and I'm beginning to think this my first steps in what may end up being a similar path as him.
In particular, I had a nice conversation with Nina Barry, who is a local artist, and teaches at Metro. I hadn't realized it before now, but she and her fiancée, Danny, have actually learned to embrace the social web quite a bit.
They moved here from Brooklyn, about a year ago. They didn't choose Denver, it was chosen for them. They set up a website, Danny and Nina - Our Lives in your Hands, where visitors would vote on the city from a long list. The first city to 1,000,000 votes would be their new home (Denver narrowly beat out Waco, TX). And they love it here. They'll be officially tying the knot this year, and are looking at purchasing a home.
Now they run a Design Consultancy, in addition to Nina's artwork. On the side, Danny and Nina work on a project called Haiku for You, where visitors send stories to them, and they select stories to convert into a haiku, set to a artwork. Some time ago, I sent in a story, and they converted it to this haiku entitled "Time Slips Through Fingers."
They work on other projects, including The Donnybrook Writing Academy, and Minty Forest. But I highly recommend everyone check out the aforementioned Haiku For You and send in a story.
4 comments:
I love that they create haikus based on what people send. A similar site I really enjoy is explodingdog, where you send an expression and Sam draws one of his infamous pictures to represent it. Most of them have a kind of sad tone, but they are pretty interesting.
Eric! i think its awesome that you linked to these sites. i have always heard about the donnybrook writing academy (Jon Wenzel mentioned it at a fireside chat i went to a awhile back) but i had no idea it was so entertaining. i just spent the last hour going through the site. props to pat too for being one of "denver's most fuckable rockstars." awesome that they even have such a thing!
I just find it interesting that they left up where they would be living up to the social web community. I mean similar things have happened before, but it is usually just a shameless publicity stunt. An actual couple deciding to do this seems very offbeat.
The pessimist in me wants to say it was a shameless publicity stunt. But at the very least, it turned out well for them.
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