mike k in l.a.

So this is pretty fresh news but looks like i’ll be doing some work with the Barbarian Group this summer. They’re a pretty well established interaction company, with a history in innovative interactive website work, but now doing commissioned installations, independent projects and even gallery art work, occasionally. They just finished working on the Photoshop express project. It seems commercial, and it is a lot of the time (it’s a company), but it’d be tough to find a good company that is equally as packed with cool funny people who have artistic sensibilities too; doing alternative projects. One of the professors I TA’d for works there.

It’s co-founded by Robert Hodgins, mastermind behind Flight404, the popular Processing, animation blog. He heads up the S.F. office. I exchanged some emails with him and we wound up with something that’s not quite an internship but more of a chance to go work on my own stuff, help them brainstorm, do some intern work and just be awesome. I’m super excited about it.

What this means: I will most likely be kicking it in San Francisco for about a month and a half after mid-late July. The first half of the summer i’ll be teaching in the pre-college program in my department, making some paper. There are still many details to iron out in the next few months, which is why I’m reluctant to say anything too definitive. But my summer seems to be fleshing out in this direction.