Volume 1, Issue 9 | Records
People ask us (The Management, which comprises Livvy, Norton, and me) how things are going with all of this, and it’s hard to answer because we aren’t expecting The Experiment of The Viability of The Business of The Company to be sustainable for quite a while, and it currently isn’t. But even though that part is still in progress, the company at The Company has been kinda perfect.
On a few nights this week, after an event had ended, we (and not just The Management) all lingered for a while—broke into that lovely liminal space of staying, just for the company—really needing to and meaning to head home but not quite wanting to.
If you were part of that this week, thank you for it, so much. And if you weren’t, we hope you get a chance at it soon. Maybe this week? As always we’ve got a Worknight, and on Saturday we have one of our major events: PowerPoint Party No. 17.
Also! our very dear friend, Steve, who years ago was in a very short-lived startup with the three of us, and who was the best man at Livvy and my wedding years before that, and who was part of forming the idea of The Company back in college—way before I’d even talked to Livvy about it—is going to be visiting for the week, and as always we’re going to try to convince him to move here. Help us out, if you can.
—Ivan
Happenings
This week:
Weekly Wednesday Worknight, Wednesday, August 14
The Company is about combining creative work with good friendships. Make an appointment with your side project this (or any) Wednesday at a Worknight, where we oscillate between enforced, focused, quiet time and optional chatty social time. $5, or free for Company and Moonlight members.
PowerPoint Party No. 17, Saturday, August 17
What’s a PowerPoint Party, you ask? Twelve people giving 7-minute presentations about whatever they’re currently into. At past ones people have presented about their rules for life, giraffes, lightning, designing mazes, and loved ones. It’s a wide mix.
It’s a nerdy and sincere crowd that cares a lot, and we’ve met some of our favorite people at these.
Want to present? We’ve got a waiting list (email us back if you want to get on it). Want to just show up and meet interesting people and learn about what’s fascinating them lately? That’s great too. Bring yourself, bring your friends, bring your relatives.
Offsite:
MARO’s The Trio Tour (with opener mon cher (with visuals by Mason Cullen)), at Ophelia’s, Thursday, Aug 15
Company member and creative coding artist Mason Cullen, who we know, is doing live visuals for local musical artist mon cher, who we’ve heard of, who is opening for touring musical artist MARO, who we’ve just learned about. Some of us are going to go to watch Mason’s performance.
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Also coming up: Glint: Stuck, Conscious Spending Class, and Join or Die
Nostalgia
Do you remember the new piece of art that hung in the space? How much it did to have it on the wall?
That, on a whim, Allyson and I decided to name a Chess Grandmaster of The Company, and I held the title first, though my reign was quickly challenged? That we all lingered after the Moonlight Showcase and watched José and Trevr play? That sweet story Trevr told about his dad teaching him how to play?
How Allyson drove us home after, and we ended up next to Trevr at a light and tried our best to hold a conversation out the car windows?
The Tuesday afternoon when Livvy came in, and it thundered as she stood in the doorway, and it felt like a portent? How that night we played games, and Justin was frustratingly close to finding the treasure? While in the other room, Halie was finally able to cry while talking to her mom on the phone? How we all hung out with her afterward?
When Allyson showed up at Worknight during quiet time, and Dan was so excited to see her that they stepped outside to talk, and, after quietly closing the door, he shouted “HOW HAVE YOU BEEN??!!”? How after Worknight ended Jacob showed all of us gorillas?
That Justin had to leave early that one day because of the weather?
How Mason set the record for earliest punch on Trevr’s first workday? The walk to Fox and the Hen, and the food, and the shirts the wait staff wore that called our city ‘Denvy, Colorado’? The brief afternoon of seven?
Meeting Pat and Ian at the Creative Code Meetup?
Or how, that week, it rained almost every night, that we got to run the ACs on low, how it was so hard to fit the cards into the card holder, and that we discovered Norton had been keeping a secret for months about how to adjust the chairs?
Bureaucratic Minutiae
We now have a Halie Willis original hanging in the space. Come look at it.
If you’ve previously used a punch card, but haven’t been here since August began, we have new month-long punch cards, and you will need to get one at your next visit. A courteous reminder: ghosts have to punch in too.
At the Moonlight Showcase for Lunation 1256: Norton presented about adding another unicode block to his pixel typeface, Allyson presented about learning to play chess, Livvy presented about setting up the company “Guestbook“ (it’s a time clock), Ivan presented about writing a full draft of a script, Trevr presented about writing blog posts, and José presented about publishing the second issue of the print edition of Moving Offline.
At Worknight: Livvy read through a script and thought about it. Ivan looked through all the photos on his phone from the past 10 years. Lizzie added images into her PowerPoint presentation, and almost started crocheting a hat. Jacob reviewed 200 flashcards of Japanese vocab. Norton thought he’d work on his PowerPoint presentation outline but it was hard. Dan built templates for his presentation the following day. And Drew ate dinner.
At Game Night: We played Trio, Treasure Island, and Chess.
At Creative Code Demo Day: Norton presented about the pattern generator he developed for The Font for The Company, and Livvy presented about turning people into football players.
Finally, a reminder that The Company is a membership-supported mixed-use creative space, and if you know any of us, you’re welcome to pop in any time for free (outside of events). If you know that one of us is here and you’d like to come by, reach out and we can let you in.
Do you know anyone in the Denver area who might be looking for creative community? Feel free to forward this email along to them. Everyone loves Paperwork.
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This issue of Paperwork was made possible by the support of our members, Halie, Drew, Justin, Mason, Lexi, José, Mary Ann, Trevr, and Aubrey.
