Smart Bubble Society

When we first concieved of this venture, a part of our excitement in building it from the ground up was to include the public in our growth. It’s difficult to let go of the need to reach perfection before letting something out into the world. But we decided that in order to flourish as the educational resource we one day hope to be, we needed the involvement of our future partners, clients, and users in our progression from start-up to knowledge-sharing-machine.

If you’ve read our first post, you understood that we have a big vision for this studio, and a long road ahead of us. Stage 1.0 is our launch, the Thought Bubble Studio, up and running and building an archive of motion graphic shorts. Stage 2.0, Thought Bubble Website, is our fully functional online network and archive, and stage 3.0, Thought Bubble Cafe, is the culmination of our efforts, the purpose of Thought Bubble as a whole. A community created online goes offline, engaging in debates, discussions, listening to lectures while sipping beverages like tea and coffee. Right now, we’d say we’re at stage 0.5.

But even with the future opening of a physical studio space – cafe attached, we dream of a slow reveal. Our cafe would open while it was still being furnished, painted, and decorated. Why? Because again, we want you to see our process, our growth, and our effort from ground up. We want the people who will help the community flourish to be part of its development. We want people to walk into the raw, exposed cafe and wonder for themselves what it will look like, how it will feel, and how they will like it. They’ll be encouraged to draw ideas on our walls in chalk, and add visions of their own. By the time we’re finished, we’re hoping they’ll be thrilled to take part in our space, and share it with their peers and colleagues. The goal is to create a grassroots shift in what we think about, talk about, and do for the world.

So, in the end, we think of this blog as our starting point. It’s our raw, exposed-wall cafe, that we allow you to see as we add things to it, improve it, and build it to suit the vision we’ve had for it all along. Soon Thought Bubble Beta will be a functional website capable of supporting a social network. But right now, it’s just a canvas.