The kids of vizhood.org are into something new Sidecasting!
On the third Saturday afternoon of each month, a different group of youngsters from vizhood.org puts on a live performing graphics show at Veli's Graphics Bar in West Oakland. The visual band for this Saturday is The Truthing Sidecasters Live Visual Blogging Crew. They're fast, they're good, and they're after the facts. Mix with local politics and the result is bound to be trouble. Also, very entertaining.
Download first 3 chapters of Sidecasters.
There is one previous novel in the Veli's Graphics Bar series.
Q: Hey, you just made up a lot of those words! You can't do that.
A: That's not a question. And, yeah, I can. Here's why (spoiler alert)
About the Author ...
FRED LAKIN once got an
MFA in design and decided to build an instrument for text
... and ventured down the hill to do a book reading
at SXSW 2009 in Austin.
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graphic
improvisation. So he learned to program, fell in love with LISP, invented
a truly visual form of LISP, spent a year as a visitor at the Stanford AI
lab, and another year as a visitor in the smalltalk group at Xerox PARC.
Then he founded The Performing Graphics Company. Then he worked at
Stanford's Center for Design Research and the NASA AI Lab. Now he lives in
a cabin in the mountains and writes novels about Veli's Graphics Bar.
Lakin also writes non fiction: Visual Grammars for Visual Languages and other Graphic Stories
