Information Superhighway: The Forty Days of Dataviz Edition September 12, 2009

The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences and The Information Superhighway Cordially Invite You To...

FORTY DAYS OF HOT HOT DATAVIZ
An Awards Ceremony & Party for the Awesome Foundation
September 12th, 2009, 8:00 PM - 12:00
Berkman Squared, 50 Church Street, Cambridge, MA

A venerable institution founded in June 2009, The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences gives monthly $1,000 fellowships to projects that advance the interest of Awesomeness in our universe. There are no requirements for applying, no definite criteria for deciding the winner, and no limitations beyond the necessity for being awesome. The winners receive the money in cash, check, or gold doubloons.

This month, we are extremely proud to award our September Awesome Fellowship to Greg Kapfhammer and the Forty Day Visual Feast Project. His plan: to use Awesome Foundation money to create a forty day competition for sweet data visualization, with the winners to receive fabulous cash prizes and high quality reproductions of their work. You can read more about it here at our blog. So fire up your Processing and rally your geeky designer friends, and get ready for some maximal awesome.

Come celebrate with us, meet the fellow and our micro-trustees, and hear about the plans to set the scheme into motion. We'll talk and answer any questions about how you can apply for the next round of Awesome grants coming out in October. And we'll also be giving the latest update on August's Hammock Project.

NOTE: the price for this event is free, just like how much it'll cost to hang out in the huge ass hammock. You can expect beverages, food, ideas, cool people, and a big ceremonial check.

To submit to be the Awesome Fellow for October, please drop us a line at: http://awesomefoundation.org.

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