Thinktorium's HistoryIt was a dark and stormy night…
Actually, it was not stormy at all. It was dark and a little cold in a dorm laundry room. It smelled a bit of fabric softener and excitement, but there was no storm. We were huddled around a Ouija Board (pronouncing it WEE-jə as we had been instructed by the 80’s horror classic Witchboard) trying to decide what to do. It was a game. That was all. There was nothing to fear… |
…and, in the end, there really was nothing to fear, but it took us many, many years to figure that out. And in the right (or wrong) hands, Ouija is certainly more than a parlor game. In the meantime, we (the founding members of Thinktorium) found ourselves on quite an adventure. There is something to be said for venturing into the unknown without over thinking it. We certainly learned some lessons the hard way. We learned that we could connect to forces that other people refused to acknowledge, and with time, we learned the difference between that which is imagined and that which is manifested, and ultimately, that “reality is just a collective hunch.” (Thank you Jane Wagner. We never met you, but your quotes vandalized many wooden desktops at arts school [North Carolina School of the Arts/UNCSA-High School-in case you were wondering], and we were more prepared for life in the real world, as a result.)
Our early days were full of reading and philosophizing. We spent many hours lounging about and reading random passages out of whatever books we could get our hand on, trying to divine messages from the other side. It was an odd and wonderful time full of wild creativity and experimentation. We had no idea that our adolescent, mystical, think-tank would endure. We didn’t know we were creating it. It was more like an accidental chemical reaction. Once the parts were combined, they would be forever changed and would make something far greater than the sum of its parts. It was alchemical vermillion.
After we left school, our lives moved on in many different directions, but our creative collaboration experiment never died. It continued to exist in the ether for several decades. In 2014, with a single stroke of a pen, it was reanimated and officially given a name--Thinktorium. Today, Thinktorium is much like it was at its origin--a place of creativity, experimentation, philosophizing, and risk taking. It is a place where expansive thoughts are as valued as minutia, and where truth is sought, but is recognized for the elusive, mercurial thing that it is.
Thinktorium, the website, is an experiment all by itself. We want Thinktorium to continue to grow and become more than the sum of its present day parts. As its name implies, thought has gone into Thinktorium’s online incarnation. However, as it was in the beginning, so it is now. In other words, we haven’t exactly been overthinking it. We've ventured into this unknown with the same reckless abandon that we had that night on the laundry room floor...
...and we can’t wait to see what happens, next.
Our early days were full of reading and philosophizing. We spent many hours lounging about and reading random passages out of whatever books we could get our hand on, trying to divine messages from the other side. It was an odd and wonderful time full of wild creativity and experimentation. We had no idea that our adolescent, mystical, think-tank would endure. We didn’t know we were creating it. It was more like an accidental chemical reaction. Once the parts were combined, they would be forever changed and would make something far greater than the sum of its parts. It was alchemical vermillion.
After we left school, our lives moved on in many different directions, but our creative collaboration experiment never died. It continued to exist in the ether for several decades. In 2014, with a single stroke of a pen, it was reanimated and officially given a name--Thinktorium. Today, Thinktorium is much like it was at its origin--a place of creativity, experimentation, philosophizing, and risk taking. It is a place where expansive thoughts are as valued as minutia, and where truth is sought, but is recognized for the elusive, mercurial thing that it is.
Thinktorium, the website, is an experiment all by itself. We want Thinktorium to continue to grow and become more than the sum of its present day parts. As its name implies, thought has gone into Thinktorium’s online incarnation. However, as it was in the beginning, so it is now. In other words, we haven’t exactly been overthinking it. We've ventured into this unknown with the same reckless abandon that we had that night on the laundry room floor...
...and we can’t wait to see what happens, next.