RedPost turns 1
I almost forgot in the midst of a busy week, but today marks the 1 year anniversary of RedPost inc. Because I’m off to see a film as part of Goshen’s first First Fridays Film Festival (aptly namd “4F”) I’m not going to blog much. Instead, I’ll give you an excerpt from an article in Goshen College’s alumni publication, The Bulletin, that came out this week. The online version is the full interview…it’s weird for me to read it. I sound dumb to myself. The photo is also from the article. Here’s the excerpt:
What contribution do you hope to make for this community as an entrepreneur and promoter of the arts?
Business, technology and the arts, I see those as very much interrelated. And even though most people don’t traditionally see entrepreneurship as an art form, it’s the exact same as creating a sculpture or painting. You are designing something, you are using creativity, you are building something from scratch. It’s an artistic process.
Through the internet, I have connected already with companies like Google and Time Warner and made connections I could never have made without that technology. And part of it is that we are doing something different in that we are treating the technology we are creating as something a little more artistic, something designed. And people are responding to that and connecting with it. Our screens are metal and they look more like something you would want to actually hang on your living room wall instead of a lot of the other screens out there they are making look like picture frames, but it’s not a picture frame, it’s a computer and so you shouldn’t try to mask it and make it look like something else. It’s its own thing.
Goshen College is single-handedly responsible for the majority of the creativity that goes on in this town. Even people like Dave Pottinger, that’s what they are drawn to, that creativity … the Old Bag Factory, the Open Studio Tour – nearly all Goshen grads. It is very distributed and there aren’t any really big names. I like that about Goshen is that it is like First Fridays – we aren’t drawing people downtown with one huge event, but we are drawing them downtown with 40 participating businesses who are all doing their own things. There is a much greater diversity of activity, creativity, cultures.
