Four Kitchens blog: 2006

Four Kitchen Studios is proud to announce the launch of That Other Paper — Austin’s FIRST and ONLY publication!

Update: With Alcalde’s permission, I’ve posted the entire text of the article.

The Alcalde, UT-Austin’s alumni magazine, interviewed me about the formation of our company and our approach to working creatively. Wonderfully assembled by assistant editor Tim Taliaferro, the article explains Four Kitchens’ conception and philosophy (and why we’ll never again work a desk job!). Here’s a scan of the full article in PDF format: download “Original Thought” by Tim Taliaferro.

Tim did a great job assembling my meandering, self-indulgent ramblings into something approaching coherence. Here’s the full text, added August 30, 2006:

It’s an old question—if not a touch psuedo-scientific—but it points to a stark divide in human psychology: are you right-brained or left-brained?

Artists and scientists rarely share the same skin, and those who do are heralded as geniuses, eccentrics, or Renaissance Men Persons of Indeterminate Gender. This split is especially frustrating when working on the web, a sprawling medium that requires two very different talents: programming and design.

Four Kitchen Studios is proud to co-sponsor over $50,000 worth of bounties to support OpenID development and inclusion in popular open-source Internet software. We’re contributing both in cash and in kind by designing the handouts for OSCON 2006 and writing the press releases. After OSCON, we’ve agreed to handle the site redesign for iwantmyopenid.org, the bounty headquarters.

I’ll also be personally travelling to Wikimania 2006 to distribute more handouts and answer questions about OpenID’s future in MediaWiki, the software that runs Wikipedia.