Day 2 with Camp Firebelly

I had the amazing opportunity to help out with Camp Firebelly 2009 today. The campers arrived yesterday and got their “design brief.” Today we had some awesome presentations, broke up into groups and got grindin’.

I am working with the Website team of 4 campers and Keith the Firebelly coder. I guess my experience of “design a website a day” pays off when you are under pressure. First Layer Tennis, now this.

We sorted through the client’s existing website, made some chicken scratch notes and developed a much more streamlined “new V2 site.” Don’t wanna say web 2.0, cause that is played out… more like Version 2.0.

More tomorrow.

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More details on Friday’s match.
I will be Tweeting as well as probably opening a Skype chatroom as we rock from Chicago, so stay tuned. #jaycrimes

Coudal Partners Presents: Layer Tennis
Date: 4/24 Jason Schwartz Vs. Ana Benaroya
Time: 11a-3p Central

www.layertennis.com

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Jason Schwartz
Chicago, IL
www.brightbrightgreat.com
www.butterflavoreddesign.com
Twitter: JayCrimes

Ana Benaroya
New Jersey
www.anabenaroya.com
Twitter: ABenaroya

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For all of y’all who don’t know, Layer Tennis is to a designer, what Jeopardy is to a smart person. I guess you can be smart and compete in Layer Tennis, but mostly it’s about awesome design.

Anyways, on 4/24 I will be competing in a Quarterfinal Qualifier Layer Tennis Match against a yet to be named opponent from 11am to 3pm Central time (I think.)

I plan to be Twittering (@jaycrimes) as well as Flickring (www.flickr.com/photos/jasons). Add me on Twitter now and be part of the fun. If you are a friend of Bright Bright Great, or me I will need your support in the Layer Tennis Crowd. Please post comments.

Yes, this is just a “qualifying match” but if I can take home the Layer Tennis gold, expect to see more of me throughout the season.

Just a start… a sweet beautiful colorful designy start.

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One of Jocelyn’s awesome photos showed up on Chicagoist today. Apparently the weather will also be “versatile.”

You can view her Flickr stream here.

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