One year, one month, and one day ago - on 7/7/07 - I posted the first blog entry. Today - on 8/8/08 - I have two exciting things to post about. The first: Webcraft Studios is now in Boulder, CO. WCS is still based out of my home office - and *I* moved to Boulder. Today I turned in the keys on my Westminster apartment and have fully moved into my new place. Well, all my stuff is here now - but I still have a lot of boxes to unpack.
Boulder is a fine city. So fine, in fact, that my previous employer longs to be here. Gaiam recently relocated out of Broomfield (a rather nice place for a business, actually - very near a nice airport) to “Boulder Rd”. However, they still aren’t in the city of Boulder. Gaiam is next door, in Louisville, CO. (note: maybe I should update their Wikipedia entry, it still says Broomfield).
Gaiam’s CEO, Jirka Rysavy, is so keen on being in Boulder that he’s asked that a Boulder PO Box be put on certain printed materials instead of the Louisville address - or so I’ve heard. Boulder really does seem to carry this strong of a stigma. You’ll find countless companies in both fitness and technology coming from Boulder. Where do you think those horrible-looking yet comfy-fitting Crocs come from? Yup! Boulder! And to be fair, Gaiam was originally founded in Boulder in 1988. Google is even moving an office into town. Anyway, if you wanna know more about Boulder, go read the wikipedia page.
The other exciting news, our first Digital Theatrics experimental project hit a big milestone today. The integrity of the project would be at risk if I gave out too many details. While we’ve had a strong evidence of public attention via our stats tracking, and while many people have engaged the story characters in various places around the web, we now have our first bit of real world user interaction with our primary story component. It feels like a first “customer” so to speak. Very exciting stuff!
The attached image overlooks the city of Boulder. I took this photo during one of my first hiking trips in Colorado last summer. We were very near the royal arch.
Now it’s time for me to finish the unpacking.
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