Click HERE to watch me celebrate Train Your Brain Day!

We celebrated the Whole Earth Catalog’s 50th Anniversary with many of its creators on October 13, 2018, at Fort Mason in San Francisco. The event was hosted by Stewart Brand, Ryan Phelan, Danica Remy and an amazing group of volunteers, including yours truly. In the afternoon, Whole Earth alumni gathered in the atrium of the Art Institute for a series of lightning talks featuring community members like Larry Brilliant, Carolyn Garcia, Bruce Sterling and Wavy Gravy. The creative minds in attendance all had one thing in common: they gave access to tools and ideas to help people bring their dreams to life -- and change the world together. Many thanks to all the folks who organized and participated in this event! It was a wonderful way to honor a culture that helped change the world and that may inspire many others for years to come.

View more photos of this event: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157674574964798

Watch our video retrospective: vimeo.com/294878432

Learn about the Whole Earth 50th Anniversary: www.wholeearth50th.com/

#wholeearth50 #wholeearth50th #wholeearthcatalog #coevolution #stewartbrand

An adult raven at Porteau Cove Park

Click HERE to watch me celebrate Train Your Brain Day!

Ever wonder what it’s like to be a designer at Google? During this fast-paced, highly collaborative day we explored the tools and techniques Google designers use to create some of the world’s leading products.

Brynn Evans, Matthew Levine, Amy Essigmann, Mike Buzzard and several other design, research, and engineering members of the Google+ team.

Photo by Gia Goodrich courtesy of Design Week Portland

www.create-learning.com

Buffalo State College Students involved in a team building and leadership program with Michael Cardus of Create-Learning.

Outcomes;

- Develop process for support to increase college graduation.

- Teach students techniques in Solution Finding.

- Increase the resiliency of the student leaders.

Forensics: The First 48

Back for the second year, this clover college workshop will offer a Forensics Frenzy. The first forty‐eight hours of an investigation are key in determining the answers to the Who? What? When? Where? How? Time is very valuable and so is the information that will be provided in this session. Youth will use their investigative and problemsolving skills to solve a mock crime scene. Several detective agencies will offer opportunities to learn the methods of observing, gathering and analyzing physical evidence to solve mysteries. This hands‐on session doesn’t stop there. Come take part in a virtual visit to a local morgue and discover the secrets of the underworld. If that’s not enough, have you ever wondered how long it takes for a body to decompose? Or maybe you’ve been interested in body composition and bone structure. Well, take a peek in our Forensics Anthropology corner. This session will offer these opportunities and so much more.

Forensics: The First 48

Back for the second year, this clover college workshop will offer a Forensics Frenzy. The first forty‐eight hours of an investigation are key in determining the answers to the Who? What? When? Where? How? Time is very valuable and so is the information that will be provided in this session. Youth will use their investigative and problemsolving skills to solve a mock crime scene. Several detective agencies will offer opportunities to learn the methods of observing, gathering and analyzing physical evidence to solve mysteries. This hands‐on session doesn’t stop there. Come take part in a virtual visit to a local morgue and discover the secrets of the underworld. If that’s not enough, have you ever wondered how long it takes for a body to decompose? Or maybe you’ve been interested in body composition and bone structure. Well, take a peek in our Forensics Anthropology corner. This session will offer these opportunities and so much more.

Forensics: The First 48

Back for the second year, this clover college workshop will offer a Forensics Frenzy. The first forty‐eight hours of an investigation are key in determining the answers to the Who? What? When? Where? How? Time is very valuable and so is the information that will be provided in this session. Youth will use their investigative and problemsolving skills to solve a mock crime scene. Several detective agencies will offer opportunities to learn the methods of observing, gathering and analyzing physical evidence to solve mysteries. This hands‐on session doesn’t stop there. Come take part in a virtual visit to a local morgue and discover the secrets of the underworld. If that’s not enough, have you ever wondered how long it takes for a body to decompose? Or maybe you’ve been interested in body composition and bone structure. Well, take a peek in our Forensics Anthropology corner. This session will offer these opportunities and so much more.

Students representing all six schools of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston attend the first session of the Interprofessional Team Training Workshop.

We celebrated the Whole Earth Catalog’s 50th Anniversary with many of its creators on October 13, 2018, at Fort Mason in San Francisco. The event was hosted by Stewart Brand, Ryan Phelan, Danica Remy and an amazing group of volunteers, including yours truly. At the event, we presented Whole Earth Flashbacks, a video history of this innovative culture, which I produced and edited with a wonderful group of 60 community contributors. Our half-hour video played all day long in their Gray Box multimedia theater.

In the evening, we played a shorter version of the Flashbacks video at the Cowell Theatre. I'm very grateful to all our core team on this project: Matisse Enzer, Phyllis Florin, Ahmed Kabil, David Lawrence, Jim McKee, and Susan Ryan, to name but a few.

The creative minds we featured in the video all had one thing in common: they gave access to tools and ideas to help people bring their dreams to life -- and change the world together. Many thanks to all the folks who organized and participated in this event! It was a wonderful way to honor a culture that helped change the world and that may inspire many others for years to come.

View more photos of this event: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157674574964798

Watch our video retrospective: vimeo.com/294878432

Learn about the Whole Earth 50th Anniversary: www.wholeearth50th.com/

#wholeearth50 #wholeearth50th #wholeearthflashbacks #coevolution #flashbacks #stewartbrand

I gave D. a lip balm from my bathroom and N. had to have one too. Once I gave it to him I had him put it up on this shelf so he wouldn't get into it during the rest of the evening. About a half hour later I found him here, on a chair, happily putting on about a 1/2 inch layer of lip balm.

Our son Adam Florin gave a fascinating talk about generative music at Algorithmic Art Assembly, hosted by Gray Area Art + Technology. He started with a quick demo of Patter, his music composition software, then took us on an illuminating journey through the many people and ideas which inspired him to create his cool freeform generative sequencer.

Brian Eno, who coined the phrase “generative music”, recently likened it to gardening -- but the material practice is just as much rooted in centuries of formal aesthetics, predictive statistics and industrial automation. How can we negotiate the tension between organic and and the mechanical in the algorithmic arts?

Adam has created some amazing digital tools and art exhibits in that space. It was great to hear what he's learned in this fascinating field, exploring the intersection of human and machine creativity. And to top it off, he gave this talk on his birthday, which was the best present of all!

Watch video highlights:

vimeo.com/326245953

View more photos:

www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157677379327027

Learn about Patter:

adamflorin.work/projects/patter/

Learn about Algorithmic Arts:

aaassembly.org

#AlgorithmicArtAssembly #GrayArea

Ever wonder what it’s like to be a designer at Google? During this fast-paced, highly collaborative day we explored the tools and techniques Google designers use to create some of the world’s leading products.

Brynn Evans, Matthew Levine, Amy Essigmann, Mike Buzzard and several other design, research, and engineering members of the Google+ team.

Photo by Gia Goodrich courtesy of Design Week Portland

We celebrated the Whole Earth Catalog’s 50th Anniversary with many of its creators on October 13, 2018, at Fort Mason in San Francisco. The event was hosted by Stewart Brand, Ryan Phelan, Danica Remy and an amazing group of volunteers, including yours truly. In the afternoon, Whole Earth alumni gathered in the atrium of the Art Institute for a series of lightning talks featuring community members like Larry Brilliant, Carolyn Garcia, Bruce Sterling and Wavy Gravy. The creative minds in attendance all had one thing in common: they gave access to tools and ideas to help people bring their dreams to life -- and change the world together. Many thanks to all the folks who organized and participated in this event! It was a wonderful way to honor a culture that helped change the world and that may inspire many others for years to come.

View more photos of this event: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157674574964798

Watch our video retrospective: vimeo.com/294878432

Learn about the Whole Earth 50th Anniversary: www.wholeearth50th.com/

#wholeearth50 #wholeearth50th #wholeearthcatalog #coevolution #stewartbrand

Forensics: The First 48

Back for the second year, this clover college workshop will offer a Forensics Frenzy. The first forty‐eight hours of an investigation are key in determining the answers to the Who? What? When? Where? How? Time is very valuable and so is the information that will be provided in this session. Youth will use their investigative and problemsolving skills to solve a mock crime scene. Several detective agencies will offer opportunities to learn the methods of observing, gathering and analyzing physical evidence to solve mysteries. This hands‐on session doesn’t stop there. Come take part in a virtual visit to a local morgue and discover the secrets of the underworld. If that’s not enough, have you ever wondered how long it takes for a body to decompose? Or maybe you’ve been interested in body composition and bone structure. Well, take a peek in our Forensics Anthropology corner. This session will offer these opportunities and so much more.

Mohsin Lodhi is an experienced management consultant, trainer and sales leader. He has worked over 30 years with various businesses, gathering deep knowledge of how businesses operate and the problems that they face at each level of the hierarchy.

Mr. Lodhi prepared this 1-day session from the ground up on special request from Techaccess Pakistan. He is the first Asian to ever receive an ICI UK Queen Export award.

We thank Mr. Lodhi for spearheading the training ceremony and making this a highly fruitful experience.

We celebrated the Whole Earth Catalog’s 50th Anniversary with many of its creators on October 13, 2018, at Fort Mason in San Francisco. The event was hosted by Stewart Brand, Ryan Phelan, Danica Remy and an amazing group of volunteers, including yours truly. In the afternoon, Whole Earth alumni gathered in the atrium of the Art Institute for a series of lightning talks featuring community members like Larry Brilliant, Carolyn Garcia, Bruce Sterling and Wavy Gravy. The creative minds in attendance all had one thing in common: they gave access to tools and ideas to help people bring their dreams to life -- and change the world together. Many thanks to all the folks who organized and participated in this event! It was a wonderful way to honor a culture that helped change the world and that may inspire many others for years to come.

View more photos of this event: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157674574964798

Watch our video retrospective: vimeo.com/294878432

Learn about the Whole Earth 50th Anniversary: www.wholeearth50th.com/

#wholeearth50 #wholeearth50th #wholeearthcatalog #coevolution #stewartbrand

We celebrated the Whole Earth Catalog’s 50th Anniversary with many of its creators on October 13, 2018, at Fort Mason in San Francisco. The event was hosted by Stewart Brand, Ryan Phelan, Danica Remy and an amazing group of volunteers, including yours truly. At the event, we presented Whole Earth Flashbacks, a video history of this innovative culture, which I produced and edited with a wonderful group of 60 community contributors. Our half-hour video played all day long in their Gray Box multimedia theater.

In the evening, we played a shorter version of the Flashbacks video at the Cowell Theatre. I'm very grateful to all our core team on this project: Matisse Enzer, Phyllis Florin, Ahmed Kabil, David Lawrence, Jim McKee, and Susan Ryan, to name but a few.

The creative minds we featured in the video all had one thing in common: they gave access to tools and ideas to help people bring their dreams to life -- and change the world together. Many thanks to all the folks who organized and participated in this event! It was a wonderful way to honor a culture that helped change the world and that may inspire many others for years to come.

View more photos of this event: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157674574964798

Watch our video retrospective: vimeo.com/294878432

Learn about the Whole Earth 50th Anniversary: www.wholeearth50th.com/

#wholeearth50 #wholeearth50th #wholeearthflashbacks #coevolution #flashbacks #stewartbrand

We celebrated the Whole Earth Catalog’s 50th Anniversary with many of its creators on October 13, 2018, at Fort Mason in San Francisco. The event was hosted by Stewart Brand, Ryan Phelan, Danica Remy and an amazing group of volunteers, including yours truly. In the afternoon, Whole Earth alumni gathered in the atrium of the Art Institute for a series of lightning talks featuring community members like Larry Brilliant, Carolyn Garcia, Bruce Sterling and Wavy Gravy. The creative minds in attendance all had one thing in common: they gave access to tools and ideas to help people bring their dreams to life -- and change the world together. Many thanks to all the folks who organized and participated in this event! It was a wonderful way to honor a culture that helped change the world and that may inspire many others for years to come.

View more photos of this event: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157674574964798

Watch our video retrospective: vimeo.com/294878432

Learn about the Whole Earth 50th Anniversary: www.wholeearth50th.com/

#wholeearth50 #wholeearth50th #wholeearthcatalog #coevolution #stewartbrand

Ever wonder what it’s like to be a designer at Google? During this fast-paced, highly collaborative day we explored the tools and techniques Google designers use to create some of the world’s leading products.

Brynn Evans, Matthew Levine, Amy Essigmann, Mike Buzzard and several other design, research, and engineering members of the Google+ team.

Photo by Gia Goodrich courtesy of Design Week Portland

We celebrated the Whole Earth Catalog’s 50th Anniversary with many of its creators on October 13, 2018, at Fort Mason in San Francisco. The event was hosted by Stewart Brand, Ryan Phelan, Danica Remy and an amazing group of volunteers, including yours truly. In the afternoon, Whole Earth alumni gathered in the atrium of the Art Institute for a series of lightning talks featuring community members like Larry Brilliant, Carolyn Garcia, Bruce Sterling and Wavy Gravy. The creative minds in attendance all had one thing in common: they gave access to tools and ideas to help people bring their dreams to life -- and change the world together. Many thanks to all the folks who organized and participated in this event! It was a wonderful way to honor a culture that helped change the world and that may inspire many others for years to come.

View more photos of this event: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157674574964798

Watch our video retrospective: vimeo.com/294878432

Learn about the Whole Earth 50th Anniversary: www.wholeearth50th.com/

#wholeearth50 #wholeearth50th #wholeearthcatalog #coevolution #stewartbrand

We celebrated the Whole Earth Catalog’s 50th Anniversary with many of its creators on October 13, 2018, at Fort Mason in San Francisco. The event was hosted by Stewart Brand, Ryan Phelan, Danica Remy and an amazing group of volunteers, including yours truly. I presented Whole Earth Flashbacks, a video history of this innovative culture, which played all day long in their multimedia theater. Another contribution I made was to loan my 6-foot Earth Ball for the public event at the Cowell Theatre that evening. Kudos to my friends Matisse Enzer, Adam and Phyllis Florin, and Jim McKee for helping set up that Earth ball, which added a lot to the scene. The creative minds in attendance all had one thing in common: they gave access to tools and ideas to help people bring their dreams to life -- and change the world together.

Many thanks to all the folks who organized and participated in this event! It was a wonderful way to honor a culture that helped change the world and that may inspire many others for years to come.

View more photos of this event: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157674574964798

Watch our video retrospective: vimeo.com/294878432

Learn about the Whole Earth 50th Anniversary: www.wholeearth50th.com/

#wholeearth50 #wholeearth50th #wholeearthcatalog #coevolution #stewartbrand

SPLs - with a little help from the leaders...

We celebrated the Whole Earth Catalog’s 50th Anniversary with many of its creators on October 13, 2018, at Fort Mason in San Francisco. The event was hosted by Stewart Brand, Ryan Phelan, Danica Remy and an amazing group of volunteers, including yours truly. In the afternoon, Whole Earth alumni gathered in the atrium of the Art Institute for a series of lightning talks featuring community members like Larry Brilliant, Carolyn Garcia, Bruce Sterling and Wavy Gravy. The creative minds in attendance all had one thing in common: they gave access to tools and ideas to help people bring their dreams to life -- and change the world together. Many thanks to all the folks who organized and participated in this event! It was a wonderful way to honor a culture that helped change the world and that may inspire many others for years to come.

View more photos of this event: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157674574964798

Watch our video retrospective: vimeo.com/294878432

Learn about the Whole Earth 50th Anniversary: www.wholeearth50th.com/

#wholeearth50 #wholeearth50th #wholeearthcatalog #coevolution #stewartbrand

Two examples of posters I used in the classroom.

Forensics: The First 48

Back for the second year, this clover college workshop will offer a Forensics Frenzy. The first forty‐eight hours of an investigation are key in determining the answers to the Who? What? When? Where? How? Time is very valuable and so is the information that will be provided in this session. Youth will use their investigative and problemsolving skills to solve a mock crime scene. Several detective agencies will offer opportunities to learn the methods of observing, gathering and analyzing physical evidence to solve mysteries. This hands‐on session doesn’t stop there. Come take part in a virtual visit to a local morgue and discover the secrets of the underworld. If that’s not enough, have you ever wondered how long it takes for a body to decompose? Or maybe you’ve been interested in body composition and bone structure. Well, take a peek in our Forensics Anthropology corner. This session will offer these opportunities and so much more.

This is a synthesis image of some feedback I was given on my visual thinking work a while ago. The same format can be used for any number of topics or situations.

Put Monica together, Qubrix, an innovative 3D puzzle game.

This image shows the process from ideation, to evaluation, and finally to the decision. Visual documentation of the thinking and decision process allows everyone to understand how decisions were made, even if they were not present for the discussion.

Forensics: The First 48

Back for the second year, this clover college workshop will offer a Forensics Frenzy. The first forty‐eight hours of an investigation are key in determining the answers to the Who? What? When? Where? How? Time is very valuable and so is the information that will be provided in this session. Youth will use their investigative and problemsolving skills to solve a mock crime scene. Several detective agencies will offer opportunities to learn the methods of observing, gathering and analyzing physical evidence to solve mysteries. This hands‐on session doesn’t stop there. Come take part in a virtual visit to a local morgue and discover the secrets of the underworld. If that’s not enough, have you ever wondered how long it takes for a body to decompose? Or maybe you’ve been interested in body composition and bone structure. Well, take a peek in our Forensics Anthropology corner. This session will offer these opportunities and so much more.

We celebrated the Whole Earth Catalog’s 50th Anniversary with many of its creators on October 13, 2018, at Fort Mason in San Francisco. The event was hosted by Stewart Brand, Ryan Phelan, Danica Remy and an amazing group of volunteers, including yours truly. In the evening, we all came together for a very special party, where we connected with many old and new friends, including Matisse Enzer, Adam and Phyllis Florin, Ahmed Kabil, David Lawrence, Jim McKee, Scoop Nisker, Tim Pozar, Judy and Mamie Rheingold, to name but a few.

The creative minds in attendance all had one thing in common: they gave access to tools and ideas to help people bring their dreams to life -- and change the world together. Many thanks to all the folks who organized and participated in this event! It was a wonderful way to honor a culture that helped change the world and that may inspire many others for years to come.

View more photos of this event: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157674574964798

Watch our video retrospective: vimeo.com/294878432

Learn about the Whole Earth 50th Anniversary: www.wholeearth50th.com/

#wholeearth50 #wholeearth50th #wholeearthcatalog #coevolution #stewartbrand

Our son Adam Florin gave a fascinating talk about generative music at Algorithmic Art Assembly, hosted by Gray Area Art + Technology. He started with a quick demo of Patter, his music composition software, then took us on an illuminating journey through the many people and ideas which inspired him to create his cool freeform generative sequencer.

Brian Eno, who coined the phrase “generative music”, recently likened it to gardening -- but the material practice is just as much rooted in centuries of formal aesthetics, predictive statistics and industrial automation. How can we negotiate the tension between organic and and the mechanical in the algorithmic arts?

Adam has created some amazing digital tools and art exhibits in that space. It was great to hear what he's learned in this fascinating field, exploring the intersection of human and machine creativity. And to top it off, he gave this talk on his birthday, which was the best present of all!

Watch video highlights:

vimeo.com/326245953

View more photos:

www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157677379327027

Learn about Patter:

adamflorin.work/projects/patter/

Learn about Algorithmic Arts:

aaassembly.org

#AlgorithmicArtAssembly #GrayArea

We celebrated the Whole Earth Catalog’s 50th Anniversary with many of its creators on October 13, 2018, at Fort Mason in San Francisco. The event was hosted by Stewart Brand, Ryan Phelan, Danica Remy and an amazing group of volunteers, including yours truly. In the evening, we all came together for a very special party, where we connected with many old and new friends, including Matisse Enzer, Adam and Phyllis Florin, Ahmed Kabil, David Lawrence, Jim McKee, Scoop Nisker, Tim Pozar, Judy and Mamie Rheingold, to name but a few.

The creative minds in attendance all had one thing in common: they gave access to tools and ideas to help people bring their dreams to life -- and change the world together. Many thanks to all the folks who organized and participated in this event! It was a wonderful way to honor a culture that helped change the world and that may inspire many others for years to come.

View more photos of this event: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157674574964798

Watch our video retrospective: vimeo.com/294878432

Learn about the Whole Earth 50th Anniversary: www.wholeearth50th.com/

#wholeearth50 #wholeearth50th #wholeearthcatalog #coevolution #stewartbrand

Forensics: The First 48

Back for the second year, this clover college workshop will offer a Forensics Frenzy. The first forty‐eight hours of an investigation are key in determining the answers to the Who? What? When? Where? How? Time is very valuable and so is the information that will be provided in this session. Youth will use their investigative and problemsolving skills to solve a mock crime scene. Several detective agencies will offer opportunities to learn the methods of observing, gathering and analyzing physical evidence to solve mysteries. This hands‐on session doesn’t stop there. Come take part in a virtual visit to a local morgue and discover the secrets of the underworld. If that’s not enough, have you ever wondered how long it takes for a body to decompose? Or maybe you’ve been interested in body composition and bone structure. Well, take a peek in our Forensics Anthropology corner. This session will offer these opportunities and so much more.

Visual thinking makes thoughts visible to you and others so you can both see them more clearly, understand them, and make the best decisions about them.

We celebrated the Whole Earth Catalog’s 50th Anniversary with many of its creators on October 13, 2018, at Fort Mason in San Francisco. The event was hosted by Stewart Brand, Ryan Phelan, Danica Remy and an amazing group of volunteers, including yours truly. In the afternoon, Whole Earth alumni gathered in the atrium of the Art Institute for a series of lightning talks featuring community members like Larry Brilliant, Carolyn Garcia, Bruce Sterling and Wavy Gravy. The creative minds in attendance all had one thing in common: they gave access to tools and ideas to help people bring their dreams to life -- and change the world together. Many thanks to all the folks who organized and participated in this event! It was a wonderful way to honor a culture that helped change the world and that may inspire many others for years to come.

View more photos of this event: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157674574964798

Watch our video retrospective: vimeo.com/294878432

Learn about the Whole Earth 50th Anniversary: www.wholeearth50th.com/

#wholeearth50 #wholeearth50th #wholeearthcatalog #coevolution #stewartbrand