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Re: Bored / Aboard — Welcome Aboard!

Colin Kloecker — Sat, 21 Sep 2013 10:52:12 -0000

Test comment. C'mon 'n ride it!

Re: falling down the mountain

Colin Kloecker — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:06:42 -0000

I absolutely cherish your writings on video games. Please keep it up!

Re: Best iPhone and iPad Games of 2012: Endless Runners

Colin Kloecker — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 11:49:02 -0000

I'm really surprised that Blood Roofs didn't make the list. IMO, it was one of the top iOS gaming experiences of the year, and I'm not even a fan of the endless runner genre!

Re: Salon Saloon: Twin Cities Art & Culture Review

Colin Kloecker — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:50:32 -0000

Show description:
“Are you ready for the country?” asked Waylon Jennings once. “Ain’t that a sight to see?” Join Salon Saloon as we answer both questions definitively: I think so and yes. We’re packing up the pickup and heading out of Minneapolis into rural America to see what we can see. Steel pedal guitars, low population density, farming practices, blue highways, and the collected works of Merle Haggard will all feature prominently as a distinguished group of guests intimately familiar with the country tell stories, play songs, show images, or do all three at once. Country folks can diversify!

Photographer ALEC SOTH
Artist, musician and vegetable farmer MALENA HANDEEN
Writer and musician DYLAN HICKS (“Boarded Windows”)
Television hosts VIVA and JERRY BECK of MTN’s Viva and Jerry’s Country Videos

With your host, Andy Sturdevant, and as always, the Salon Saloon House Band (Katie Condon, Jake Mohan, and Claire Tiller).

Re: http://weworkhere.tumblr.com/post/10806314855

Colin Kloecker — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:31:52 -0000

Thanks for the resource!

Re: http://weworkhere.tumblr.com/post/16046178539

Colin Kloecker — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:40:26 -0000

Thanks for the link Kate! Interesting article. Seems to me like everybody needs to find their own balance between solitude and collaboration. I think great work can come out of either end of the spectrum, but one thing that really irks me is the idea that a "lone genius" creates in a vacuum. To me, collaboration is as much about honoring the work of others (whether it's your immediate collaborators or the author of an influential book your read) as it is about a particular kind of work environment.

Re: Detroit Urban Farm Tour

Colin Kloecker — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:48:37 -0000

Very cool!

Re: http://fightwithknives.tumblr.com/post/8391860569

Colin Kloecker — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:00:26 -0000

From your reply above it sounds like you think "not having time to read" is a just some bourgie 1st world problem. That's kinda classist, no? I wouldn't assume you actually think this, especially not in a public forum, but you can see how quickly something can be twisted online.

For instance, the idea that everything that happens at the Walker is automatically bourgeois. 5 years ago you might have had an argument, but Open Field has done a lot to open up the social capital within those walls, and to me (especially when talking about an Open Field project) that argument seems out of touch. Having benefited from Open Field yourself, I'm genuinely surprised to hear you still trumpeting that line.

Field Office Fellowship was dreamed up over beers with Sarah Schultz as a way to involve more local artists in Open Field. It's the three of us working on it as a labor of love: Shanai, myself, and Sarah. You might have met Sarah when you were doing your Twin Cities Runoff Storymaking event at the Walker in early July. I don't need to comment on the irony here.

I'm sure you're busy (and I make no class assumptions in saying that!), but you're welcome to come to the conversation next Friday and learn more about the project, it's intentions, Chris' background, etc. Your voice would be a welcome addition to the conversation, and I think we'd all learn quite a bit.

Re: http://fightwithknives.tumblr.com/post/8391860569

Colin Kloecker — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:38:01 -0000

I'm sorry Deb, but I think you're off the mark here.

The public library is a place primarily about open access to information while Reading Room MPLS is an event primarily about the experience of intentional reading with others. It’s like apples to oranges, there’s no way to compare the two!

More importantly, Reading Room MPLS is a creative project, put together by an artist, Chris Fischbach, who is thinking very intentionally about the experience of reading, and who is posing very interesting questions in doing so. Kurt Vonnegut said that “Literature is the only art form in which the audience performs the score.” Reading Room MPLS provides a platform for a community of readers to test the claim that reading is a creative act in and of itself. Saying “You can do that at the library!” dismisses the role of the artist in this project and discounts yourself from a really juicy conversation going on in the Twin Cities right now: What happens when you draw a frame around the act of reading?

The bookmarks made for Reading Room MPLS suggest that others take the project on the road… so what about Reading Room at the local library? A quite room away from distraction that asks your to consider the act of reading with artful intention. I think that’d be fantastic!

[Full disclosure: Shanai and I helped to develop the framework for Field Office Fellowship, of which Reading Room MPLS is a part, and are currently facilitating it and the 7 other FOF projects. MORE INFO: http://blogs.walkerart.org/...]

Re: A Teacher Uses Khan Academy, As a Student

Colin Kloecker — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:18:46 -0000

Hey Erica, have you seen http://www.sophia.org/#popu... It's a Mpls based start-up that allows anyone to upload an online lesson, and everyone to learn from them.

How are these models being received by teachers you know? I'm kinda creeped out by Khan's vision of his lessons becoming standard the world over while teachers are reduced to "coaches." It does have a nice market appeal to it, though. How soon before the first Khan Academy charter school? Think of the savings with just one (virtual) teacher on faculty! Sorry, end cynical rant.

Re: http://walkersignproject.tumblr.com/post/8562748705

Colin Kloecker — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:16:17 -0000

Test comment!

Re: A fairly Nice Ride in Minnesota.

Colin Kloecker — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:43:59 -0000

Great write up. Your concerns are spot on, and also shared by just about everybody I've talked to. I'm hoping that as more people use the system they'll continue to provide feedback to Nice Ride (like you did) and that improvements will be made. And they've GOT to get some stations in North. It's shameful that there aren't any.

In any case, Shanai and I are looking forward to a spin this weekend. We actually plan to tour the whole system so there will be a lot of docking and re-swiping, thanks for the tip on how it works!

Re: http://fightwithknives.tumblr.com/post/701456699

Colin Kloecker — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:58:36 -0000

Hahahaha.

That's awesome.

I mean, nobody ever ice me. Ever.

Re: http://fightwithknives.tumblr.com/post/701456699

Colin Kloecker — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:45:04 -0000

What is icing?

Re: http://weworkhere.tumblr.com/post/474847531

Colin Kloecker — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:48:58 -0000

Noted! Request sent! Awaiting response!

Re: http://weworkhere.tumblr.com/post/521341622

Colin Kloecker — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:47:36 -0000

Peter, We Work Here loves comments! We try to respond to each one.

As for this one, Version is definitely on our list for next year. We'll have to talk more about your experiences there next time we see you.

Re: http://colinkloecker.tumblr.com/post/518922485

Colin Kloecker — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:38:10 -0000

Hah!

The Current's webpage for RTG said it would be announced at 4pm on the radio. Guess they figure nobody reads MNMO?

Re: Hi, I'm Colin. - Two momentous occasions.

Colin Kloecker — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:35:36 -0000

Thanks K-Frey!

Re: http://weworkhere.tumblr.com/post/482967374

Colin Kloecker — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:59:46 -0000

I think you're spot on.

I can picture the authors having this light bulb moment when they realized that the call for "less talk" and "more rock" in practice could also apply literally to the type of video games they admire (not to mention grew up with) and are trying to make now. And yes, the double meaning there is nice, when your medium is something visceral like like video games, but it certainly doesn't apply everywhere.

While we're picking it apart, I think there is actually a big benefit to LTMR that the authors missed out on mentioning. When you jump from 1 (idea) to 3 (rock), all kinds of good things happen, and they do a good job of talking about that, but more importantly - you're gonna make mistakes. And that's a good thing. It's how we learn. I think we can learn so much more if we idea, rock, talk.

Look at a company like IDEO, they've intentionally built learning from making and failing into their creative process. Of course, you don't call it making and failing, it's called prototyping!

Re: http://weworkhere.tumblr.com/post/474847531

Colin Kloecker — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:55:47 -0000

I agree! We'll certainly post tent hours at WBSC if we manage to secure one for a weekend.

(BTW, yours was the first comment on here at We Work Here. Made us both smile. Thanks!)

Re: http://freshmn.tumblr.com/post/464782837

Colin Kloecker — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:04:08 -0000

I don't think so you guys. The spacing between the line and the dot is wrong, and that's not even to mention that Drink: The Original Fun Bar certainly does NOT fit with these other fine Minneapolis drinking establishments. What respectable bicycle pub crawl would be caught dead at Drink?

Re: http://weworkhere.tumblr.com/post/428895380

Colin Kloecker — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:54:43 -0000

Just a test comment.

Re: http://east-lake.net/post/443961698

Colin Kloecker — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:16:43 -0000

I want one too!

Re: http://weworkhere.tumblr.com/post/428705480

Colin Kloecker — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:32:09 -0000

Just a test comment!

Re: Gmail > Settings > Labels > Buzz > Hide

Colin Kloecker — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:31:37 -0000

There's also a link at the bottom of your Gmail window that simply says "turn off buzz."

That works too.