This my biggest fail to date - MassMosaic.com. I founded this network to syngeristically connect what people all over the world want/have. It evolves the "zero-sum" exchange paradigm common today.
I suppose it *may not be a full fail, as I actually wanted it to fail. Over the last 9 years, people came into the dream, including Eric (5 years ago) and Alison and David (1 year ago). As this happened, I saw the need to destroy the project as I understood it... not because it was "wrong" but because it didn't manifest through the imagination of the collaborators. This, friends, is the most powerful lesson I've leanred in the process.
As I allowed the dream to fade and be reborn in those around me, I took on the role of serving the servants of the original mission. We changed our name to AnyShare (https://anyshar.re), became the first FairShares Cooperative in the US (!), and had thousands of members join us. The network grew stronger, deeper, richer, and more colorful... like I knew it would but didn't have the plan to achieve from within my limited self when starting.
Below are some artifacts from the original vision. In the process, I did 40+ promotional films, 30+ full website designs, wrote 100+ pages of copy and designed 500+ images for everything from promotion to educating people on the nature of the abundant universe.
Here's some legacy films:
Here’s a vid I made for inviting the speakers at OuiShare fest to participate in their new Commons!
Here's a few interviews and talks:
An Interview on PBS: http://video.wcny.org/video/2365307822
Then there was pitching to 200+ investors, being misunderstood as the socialist.
The events were fun... like O+: http://opositivefestival.org/kingston/news/o-launches-online-exchange-center-for-artists-musicians-health-wellness-providers/
And then of course, we even threw one...
I am grateful to have learned lots about design in the process... making many many graphics, like these:
There was lots to learn about community and human nature in the process! http://startfast.net/2014/06/peace-in-a-new-tech-tribe-rob-jameson-ceo-massmosaic/
And many late night sketches on how society could be reorganized to promote spontaneous cooperation.
There were many many website versions I made...over 30 full site designs...which had different navigation structures, logic flows, and 500+ pages individually styled. Since it's so much, I put the site designs in another project. See here: http://completepla.net/mass-mosaic-website-designs
My notebook is filled with concepts for spreading abundance. Visualization here on top of Buckminster Fuller’s map and mass mosaic
