I came to SF to meetup with a friend and former supporter of my work for the world, ie. to create a mechanism for social change via http://creativity.net/, http://creativity.com/ and the physicalization of the two: Creativity Cafe: A New School for the Next Millennium and Edutainment/Broadcast/Facilitated Networking Center. I arrived on Thursday night at the home of Dan Kottke in Palo Alto (the name may seem familiar, yes, he's the one-in-the-same-Apple-employee #12). It was great to visiting Daniel and be in his orb; mostly because we are on many of the same wavelengths- hard to find in Hawaii. His house a treasure trove of cultural memorabilia, packed with a library reflecting various science, social, electronics, computer and esoteric knowledge of every shade and hue. I was right at home in the piles of blinky LEDs, gizmos, gadgets and computers… but its the music making we share where lays the real symbiosis. Friday was relaxing day after my 6 hour journey up rt 5 and Saturday was THE DAY I was looking forward to for such a long time… It has been some 16 years since Jim Schuyler and began getting to know each other. He resonates with the idea of creativity, music, photography, computer science and the potential of both CREATIVITY domains .NET & .COM in service to the World, for as steward; I would never sell unless these domains were in such service. Ideally I would rather develop them according to plans longstanding for a networking venue network that is educational, warm and friendly, and dedicated to acts of pronoia and nurturing the creative in us all. After a great meeting on Saturday with Sky (as he's called) at Crissy Field, I swung by my old Creativity Cafe office in Pacific Heights on Sacramento St. I was lucky to find my friend still there with his family and got to visit with Abraham and his daughters/wife. They loved the blinkytape!!! As expected. From there I went to The Noisebridge Hackerspace open house in the Mission District. I found a friendly welcome and space packed with electronics, people in small focus groups and the kind of atmosphere that would lead to collaboration, education and relaxation… hummm very much like a Creativity Cafe environment. I had forgotten the BlinkyTape I was given my Matt Mets. I'm one of his KICKSTARTER investors. He was the one person I wanted to meet at the NYC MakersFaire Sept 21 and 22 (a month ago from this writing while still in Palo Alto), where I got my first taste of just how big the Maker Movement actually is! Mat and company are the BlinkyTape inventors. His associate Ethan was nice enough to walk me thru getting the BT going (only to discover the BT Mat had given me was not the latest revision and was balking). Ethan sent a new BlinkyTape in exchange for PR and torture testing while on the road. I must say, I've stepped on it a few times and even put a crease in the metal which was easily uncreased without harm! I went back to NOISEBRIDGE HACKERSPACE Tuesday Night after taking both Sky and his associate, Jerry Michalski out for dinner to discuss how best to develop CREATIVITY.COM and whom might be suitable available attracted to be the CEO? I of course would be more involved on the creative side, i.e. GUI development, Systems Flow, Integration Design, etc. Here are some images from these latest BLINKYTAPE testing. This time, with the new version of PATTERN PAINT, everything worked like a breeze! Not only were the NOISEBRIDGE people thrilled to see their LOGO PAINTED IN LIGHT in their space, but I was delighted to see the VARIOUS logo that was also uploaded to the tape and via passing the tape in front of the LOCKED OPEN SHUTTER of my Canon 60D, rendered the LOGO FLAWLESSLY. I was able to disconnect from the computer and have the pattern for POV display continue! Nice Job Gentlemen!