On Saturday evening, Robbi and I will be speaking on collaboration at a small gathering of creatives in Baltimore, the second installment of the Field + Foundry series curated by Laicie and Mark Heeley of the blog A Thousand Threads. (If you like gorgeous photography, sumptuous foodstuffs, and date ideas, check it out).
Laicie and Mark, who we met at Alt Summit in June, have collaborated with Microsoft’s search engine Bing to create the series, which combines great food and even better conversation for the sake of inspiration, networking, and celebration of all things beautiful and stylish.
Which begs the question of what we’re doing there.
As opposed to our other recent presentations, which are carefully orchestrated talks backed by hundreds of illustrations, this time we’ll be standing in front of the room, freewheeling with no projector. Which means people will actually be looking at us. Which makes it more likely that I will shower beforehand.
We plan on doing a hyper-consolidated version of the talk we’ll be giving at the Society of Illustrators next month (telling our story while introducing key modes of collaboration and describing their relative virtues), followed by the no-fail Microflash Picture Books exercise, which should, at least, make people laugh.
And it’s harder to throw fruit when one is laughing, right?
We’ll post photos from what promises to be an extremely lovely evening next week.
For now, here are some shots from Alt Summer (in Salt Lake City), where we met Laicie and Mark not so long ago.
On vespas, flaunting the aforementioned style.
And a close-up of the ladies looking ravishing.
Followed by a close-up of the ladies looking goofy.
Somewhere in the middle lies the truth of things. Come Saturday night, we’ll see which Robbi (and Matthew) shows up.
