Along with a representation gallery, I also wanted the lab to have a research gallery, where everything that everyone made would get a permanent square of reality forever, to be browsed and pointed at and walked past every day.  I'm still not sure how to do that well, for interactive things.  But after some of the recent email threads, I've come to think that a representation-gallery-like paper gallery would be better than nothing.

I'm basically thinking of a kind of group work blog (shared, chronological) but on foamcore instead of the web.  But I'd like to make it as easy as possible to add to it, so it actually happens.  The current idea is to get a color label printer, which will sit next to a big blank poster,

and anytime you send out an email with a screenshot of your thing, you also send the screenshot to the label printer, then slap the label on the next available slot on the poster.  (If you're feeling extra lazy, maybe you just do the printing step, and someone else later will flush the label queue to the poster.)

This wouldn't just be for Big Important Things, but basically anything you made that day that seems at all interesting.  If it's worth emailing out, it's worth 4" x 3" of our lab.

As I was trawling the archives to gather some initial material (to seed the poster with at least the highlights of the last year), I came across Toby's old proto-shadershop interface, which I had forgotten about.  I really really would like us to work in a space where it is not possible to forget about these things.

Any thoughts?