Goooooooood Morning SuperForest!

As you can see, I’ve spent the day spicing the site up a bit. Now you can see our happy ol’ faces, and read our names!

I hope the change isn’t jarring. I must warn you, if you’re the sort of person who dislikes change, I’m not sure that SuperForest will ever have a set “look.” As Carla so wonderfully said, SuperForest is us documenting the process of trying to live SuperForest. Does that make sense? SuperForest is a philosophy with a website.

One thing that won’t change is the logo, which I love so very much. The story behind the logo goes like this: Back in the Fall of 2007, I came across the wiki entry for the Penrose triangle, or tribar.

There are many reasons I love the tribar. Firstly, it is called an “impossible object” since it would be impossible to reproduce the shape in real life exactly as our visual senses see it. That for me describes SuperForest perfectly. The joy and energy that I receive from keeping this blog seems like it should be impossible, as does how quickly the SuperForest meme has spread, and all of it accomplished with nothing more than pixels on a screen.

It is our visual senses that brought all of Team SuperForest together. I hadn’t really thought of that interesting little tidbit until I typed it just now.

Sorry, sidetracked… The logo!

Besides being a little wink to Gary Anderson’s recycling symbol, I also love that our logo is an inverted triangle. It is nice to take a shape as old and stable as the triangle, so reminiscent of pyramids, and flip it upside down. It’s downright cheeky!

As if to say: We’re taking a very old concept: “do unto others”, and we’re updating it using the latest and greatest: the internet.

Also, the tribar is made up of three main sections. These represent the three main topics of this blog: Humans, Nature, and Technology.
SuperForest is about documenting the mutually successful relationship between Humans, Nature, and Technology. I believe that it is in the successful union of the three that our hope survival lays.

As you can see, the logo is rich with meaning!

Here’s an early version of the logo on a sketch for a costume:

We pushed and pulled the logo for a while, experimenting with different colors and shapes.

Then the remarkable designer Brooke Romney took the tribar and gave it that special pizazz. Brooke introduced the lovely little curve at the bottom, as well as the two-color facets for each section of the tribar.

And in the end it looked like this:

I was just looking through the hard drive of early SuperForest-as-kids-show images and came across this little beauty!

Ha ha! I’ve never mentioned the puppets I built! I built Jiggles the Pirate and Carl there for the original incarnation of SuperForest, which hilariously was called Creamy Forest! I can’t believe that this is the first time I’ve ever mentioned Creamy Forest!

There is still so much to tell…

:) Ha ha ha!

Love to All,

Jackson