Seeking Collaborators

I used to collaborate on a consistent basis. But the only collaborations I do these days are the ones I am assigned for work.

I want to get back to making stuff for the sake of making stuff.

No agendas other than maybe make a handful of people laugh. My crew and I used to operate like this in college, and then for a couple years after. But somewhere along the way, things changed, we didn’t make the time for projects anymore.

I thought that moving to Tokyo would put a damper on potential collaborations with former cohorts, but lately I am feeling the opposite. With the immediacy of technology, we are all right there. We can trade ideas over email, Twitter, whack YouTube videos… etc.

I’m starting, well, restarting a creative side venture that I’ve neglected for a few years. It’s called the Co-Pilot. (very work in progress. it will be in an incubating beta stage for a while…)

It started off as a bit of a joke in college, when the school paper refused to run weekly column. I told the editors that I would start my own paper, and I did. For one printed issue. A small crew of us worked day and night for a week to get the thing out the day the official paper was released. We had a circulation of 400 for that one day. It was glorious walking through the common area and seeing people chuckling at our columns and cartoons. I like bringing that kind of unexpected enjoyment.

And I love working day and night on a project, just because you want to see it through. Almost on a whim that takes hold so strongly you have to see it through. Whim + Follow Through = Magic Time.

So it is in this spirit that I am bringing back the Co-Pilot, and offering it as a creative forum to anyone interested in working together to make stuff. Send me an email if you have an idea, and let’s figure out some original content together.

I want the Co-Pilot to be a place for art, writing, digital experiments, venting, entertaining, inventions… I want to create a creative community that works to make something.

I have no endgame. I don’t know where the hell this thing is going. Let’s figure it out together.

I know many people who are filled with ideas, and have been wanting an outlet. Well, here is a chance. Let’s get those ideas on the record and build something.

So calling all makers, creators and thinkers.

What are you making?