the weight of dreams - by Spencer Chang

I just finished a week of "summer camp" for creative technologists and makers. We had a final showcase yesterday which featured everything from moving stanchions, a vending machine full of interactive and mischievous trinkets, and light and sound installations that I watched little kids gape in wonder at. The week before that I hosted my first international event at Trust in Berlin1. And a few more weeks before that I showed off my first physical installation, a dedication to how much of us and our labor makes up the Internet in the least expected places, at Gray Area. A tweet about my computing-infused experiments went viral, I'm hosting a workshop on making tiny social networks with playhtml in a couple of weeks, and I start work on computing shrines funded by a small grant for the month. I pushed a big update to Gather and still hope to release it publicly to app stores by the end of the month. From the outside, it looks like all the things are falling into place, right? The backdro

I just finished a week of "summer camp" for creative technologists and makers. We had a final showcase yesterday which featured everything from moving stanchions, a vending machine full of interactive and mischievous trinkets, and light and sound installations that I watched little kids gape in wonder at. The week before that I hosted my first international event at Trust in Berlin1. And a few more weeks before that I showed off my first physical installation, a dedication to how much of us and our labor makes up the Internet in the least expected places, at Gray Area. A tweet about my computi