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Coming Up At Bucketworks:

A Message from Bucketworks to the Community

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On June 19th Bucketworks experienced another flood. Below is a message from Buckat, Project Manager for Flood III: 2009 Edition

Hilariousness by James Carlson

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Photo by James Carlson

REGISTER TO VOLUNTEER

An Uncommon Opportunity

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Bucketworks, the world’s first health club for the brain, is responding to the challenge o­f­ the current economic times. In partnership with other businesses and non-prof­its, an effort is on the way to create hundreds of new opportu­nities for unemployed workers.

­The world is rapidly shifting to a knowledge economy, and Bucketworks helps people to become proficient as knowledge workers. A combination of formal training and hands on practice in real business settings allows the program to be free and self-funded, while ensuring high quality learning.

The business partners in this program benefit from high quality rapid business analysis and improvement at the fraction of the cost of
traditional consulting.

The participants receive top notch experience at the forefront of innovative business practice development through the Bucket Brigade, a
professional services network providing social, educational, and cultural media design and transformation to a variety of organizational
clients both locally and nationally.

Participants also get the benefit of a Bucketworks Pro membership, including full use Bucketworks facilities, such as the FlowSpace, a
meeting and collaboration environment; the Entrepreneur’s Greenhouse, a co-working business environment; the FabLab, a hands on project
environment; the PlaySpace, an infinitely customizable performance environment; and the Café, a social gathering environment to launch
their success.

Anyone who is currently unemployed or severely underemployed can stop at Bucketworks any Friday between 2 and 4 pm for an on-the-spot
interview.

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It's time for the Web414 Show again!

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Wow, we must say, the response has been overwhelming from "yeah, I like it" to "it's cool" and even "I didn't fall asleep" we're just stacking up the kudos (bars) from the audiences at The Web414 Show.... and you're in luck, as we'll be taping a new episode this week Thursday, June 11th, 2009 at 7:00 PM in the World Famous Bucketworks Flowspace...

If you're interested in being a part of the studio audience, you need to be able to clap on demand, and laugh at HeyGabe's jokes... OK, well, just clap on demand then.

See you Thursday! http://web414.com/node/870

Kai Simone-Issa

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Kai Simone-Issa has been a performing artist for over 20 years as a
self taught musician, visual artist, and an actress with a B.A. in
Theater Directing and Design from the University of Illinios in
Chicago. Kai has also been a featured storyteller in several places
including the African Festival of the Arts, Round Lake Parks Festival,
and the Los Angeles Children's Museum, just to name a few. She is also the
founder of a children's theater company known as Growing Seeds (http://www.growingseeds.net), and the
author of the musicals Imani and the Magic Drum. She is
currently a guest lecturer at Columbia College's Summer Education
Graduate Program and a teaching artist with the Advanced Arts Education
Program for Chigago Public High Schools and Gallery 37.

Welcome Kai!
It's fantastic to have you here.

Welcome Melissa Phillips

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Melissa is a designer and art director with 10 years experience. During her design career, she's worked with clients such as Kimberly-Clark, Adidas, Target, Rimmel London, Celine Dion, Pfizer, Miller, and the NFL, as well as a roster of smaller independent organizations across North America and Europe. She recently moved back to Milwaukee from Montreal, where she lived for three years, working as a Senior Designer for an international aviation trade organization. Throughout her career, she's adapted her approach to suit multiple clients and cultures, having also lived in New York and Phoenix, and working abroad in Canada, the UK, Switzerland, and Turkey. Her focus includes interactive media, design, branding, and illustration. She is also a freelance photographer, passionate about music and politics, and can drive 18 hours without sleeping. GO MELISSA! 

New Member, Graig Peterson....

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Graig Peterson is one of our recently registered core members. He comes to Bucketworks with a passion to launch a pet food delivery service for all to 'subscribe' to for a recurring drop off. Previous to joining us, Graig helped his family open a business known as Hounds Around Town (http://www.houndsaroundtown.net/). He has also worked as an management consultancy analyst for The Monitor Group. His interesting group of interests also brings me to let you know that he is 'a willing proofreader and editor if anyone needs any written materials looked over.' We're excited to have you here Graig. Welcome to Bucketworks.

Volunteers au Lait

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You has it. You know it. You wonder what sort of magical life those hipsters working ­behind the counter at your favorite coffee shop live. We're here to tell you. It is magical. It's everything you ever dreamed it could be, only cooler. Imagine your happiest day and add some bacon.

­So, we're going to let you in a little secret, ok? This is just between you and me. You want to make a difference? Be a Quasi~Cafe barista. That's the stuff.­

You're into it right? You want to know more, right? We're not going to lie to you. It's not easy. You have no idea how exhausting carrying around metric tons of awesome is. That's where you come in.

Honest? You know you are. Hardworking? You better believe it. Friendly? Positively endearing. Older ladies blush at how unabashedly nice you are. You're Quasi~Cafe material, and you know it.

Listen, real baristas work the espresso machine for the love of the bean, but remember there's the opportunity for paid positions down the road.

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Interested? Email Kyle at kyle@quasi-cafe.com

Balancing Act - James Carlson

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I've been working on a documentary film titled "Balancing Act" since the spring of 2008. Most of the work so far has been in shooting, but I'd like to start putting out some promos, or bits and pieces of the footage I've found interesting.

In this short clip, James Carlson, Executive Director of Bucketworks, talks about where the idea for Bucketworks came from.

(You can find out more about the film at: balancingactfilm.com This video is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative License.)

Laptops donated for Wikibots

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Big thanks to Qonsort Corp for donating 2 Toshiba laptops to Bucketworks!  We have used these laptops to create Wikibots, which are mobile recording platforms that we use to communicate physical-space ideas in virtual space.
 You may have seen the Wikibots at Photocamp last weekend, where they were streaming content to the internet and recording time-lapse video at 1fps!  Output from the 'bots will be available soon.

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