A cool thing just happened: the postal carrier arrived with a small box from Latvia of all places. I’ve been to Latvia but I didn’t know the people on the return address label. It turned out that it was a deck of artist playing cards that I had sponsored on Kickstarter. And the deck was just as amazing as I had hoped it could be. There are 54 cards, each sourced by a different artist from around the world, plus an index card so you can figure who and from where each card was created. |
I believe my Kickstarter investment was $15. I was struck by the nature of this transaction: $15 buys me a deck of cards, individually designed by 54 different artists from probably 25 countries, managed in Barcelona, printed in Latvia, and shipped to me in Connecticut.
I have a concept called the Ten Facets of Computing that consolidates everything you can do with a computer system into 10 basic “human” categories. This project clearly fits into the categories of Create and Move. There is also a Transaction, plus probably elements of some of the others. But it does go to show the power of interconnected networks, the globalization of even small parts of the economy, and the potential of crowdsourcing.
In short, this really made my day. I think it is time for a card game.
For more information about the deck, you can check it out for yourself at http://digitalabstracts.com/playing-arts-project/
I have a concept called the Ten Facets of Computing that consolidates everything you can do with a computer system into 10 basic “human” categories. This project clearly fits into the categories of Create and Move. There is also a Transaction, plus probably elements of some of the others. But it does go to show the power of interconnected networks, the globalization of even small parts of the economy, and the potential of crowdsourcing.
In short, this really made my day. I think it is time for a card game.
For more information about the deck, you can check it out for yourself at http://digitalabstracts.com/playing-arts-project/