Filed Under: The Color Initiative

1982.For those who wonder, I am creating a new label for filing my posts about color, of which there will be more, and related to a project I'm nurturing under careful development.

This label will the The Color Initiative. My main thrust is color and mood and what I can find out about it, but the thing about color theory is that if you dig your beak into it just a little, a whole lot starts presenting itself.

It's my public diary about my exploration of color, and, as usual, everyone is invited along.

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Opening The Science Fiction Museum's Blog

1966.There can be a cool, world-class Science Fiction museum in Oregon.

Oregon has contributed towering talents to the genre: Ursula K. LeGuin, Robert Sheckley, Kate Wilhelm, Damon Knight ...

For a very long time now, a very good friend of mine named Ed who lives down in Salem has nurtured a dream. He has the most amazing collection of Science Fiction memorabilia you've ever seen. Collected over a lifetime of being an enthusiastic fan, he's assembled a collection that truly celebrates the future as seen through the past, or as we like to say, preserving yesterday's tomorrow.

Where I come in is I'm designing (or rethinking) the website. I'm starting out basic and bestowing a clean, organized appearance to it. From there, we want to take it up and out.

The website, http://www.sciencefictionmuseum.org, is in the process of being reborn. Not the entire website is redesigned ... yet, but I'm doing it on a page-by-page basis.

Don't let the newness of the site and the counts fool you. SFM has been developing for more than 10 years now. I may or may not amount to much, but I'm giving it the best push I can.

There is another site I'm shepherding, and its the blog I've opened for posting breaking information to the SFM website. It's http://thesciencefictionmuseum.blogspot.com, and an RSS feed from that is embedded in the SFM website, so we have an effective newswire going.

I really want to help Ed realize his dream. I'm giving what I can (yes, another pro bono job). But if you saw what I've seen, you'll realize it needs to be seen. If any reader of this here blog cares to visit, that'd be nifty. If you care to donate, because this is something really worth bringing to fruition, there's a donation link on the home page (which contains contact information for Ed if you'd like to send encouragement).

At the very least, if you think kindly of me, Ed, and this dream, at least help spread the word.

Ad astra per ardua, my peoples!

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