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SummaryArtMeetGeek is a recognition that geek boys should date art girls and visa versa. That each has a lot to contribute to the other. This is Paige's fundamental premise.

Description * ArtMeetGeek is a recognition that geek boys should date art girls and visa versa. That each has a lot to contribute to the other. This is Paige's fundamental premise. What I think when I hear this is the idea of a place where you don't just look for a hook-up - like say OkCupid or other sites - but rather where you can project any number of digital identities into a forum and see how they match up. You can take your eccentric traits and make small persona for them and watch and see how then mix. Also there's the thought that people can be cupid. That you can shoot an arrow through two (or more!) hearts and see if things work out. Perhaps you could even get little prizes for being a good match maker. Another strand of thought is that it should be a maker place; where you create and share your creations; where you show off. This is a key idea. Make people make pictures to communicate, write dirty stories, make chocolate cupcakes, dress up as samurai or pirates and take pictures of themselves, challenge people to get a picture of themselves behind a bar or being a barista or to get a tattoo or a new black dress shirt or to write an essay about something they know a lot about. Of course the secret is that this is the net as a whole. And like Facebook; the continual fountain of energy that replenishes these forums is the fresh blood of new participants. If the site itself is authored, edited and maintained by its membership then it becomes a reflection of itself - it becomes like Urban Honking or other sites - something that dives through itself and is more a pattern than a thing - like the images we see on television about schools of fish balling up when being pursued by whale sharks. The point is to avoid being yet another dating site. To be not a site where you try to fit yourself into procrustean multiple choice quizzes that often completely fail to hit the true distillation of oneself. We are wheels within wheels and the true heart and true motivator of the answers that end up arriving at our lips are not so easily read by other than what we make.