Better video & puzz pics & pre-order a puzzle!
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Joel Pomerantz
Apr 21, 2025, 5:26:25 PM4/21/25
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Hey Thinker,
When I sent you my note last week (it's pasted below), it hit your eyeballs without stating clearly:
It'd be amazing if you went to the Oakland Puzzle Company website and pre-ordered our new Lake Merritt Watershed map puzzle. Not that puzzles are for everyone, but they sometimes do lead to magic, even for those who aren’t especially interested in puzzles as a hobby. That describes me, and if you’ve read last week’s note, you’ll understand why recent puzzling was magic for me.
Also, you can now see the short video about the project and what it’s a fundraiser for, in full screen. Last week’s was a reduced and narrow version.
Below, see what I sent last week!
Joel
SENT TO YOU LAST WEEK:
On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM 'Joel Pomerantz' via Thinkwalks <think...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Hi, and brace yourself for happy good news. I know, it’s shocking.
While I was camping and bike riding and trying to pick out the condors from the smaller vultures, my collaborators produced a sweet, short video. It’s about the Lake Merritt watershed map I adapted, from original cartographer Scott Oliver.
I only made six shower curtains of that design, so contact me soon if you want one. There are three left, not available through the seepcity.org website.
That Lake Merritt Watershed map now has a new life as a jigsaw puzzle. The puzzle's a collaboration, too, with Liam O’Donoghue (East Bay Yesterday) and Brandon Jourdan, who's making a documentary film about Lake Merritt—and totally coincidentally was my mom’s neighbor early in the covid pandemic, running errands for her.
It’s all being facilitated by the relatively new and public-good-oriented Oakland Puzzle Company. Their Long Lost Oakland map puzzle was a gift to me by said mother last year. Through that, I learned my old biking pal DeAnna Tibbs has started this new company making local art into strangely shaped pieces that amazingly fit together to form the original art. What a cool invention! Okay, I’m a little behind on technology. I’m told puzzles have been around awhile.
I like how elegantly these stories loop back on one another. Momma Joanie, local mapping, bicycling, neighborliness…and just to rope in the bird side of it, I painted some typical lake birds (not condors) to adorn the puzzle.
Here’s the little intro video:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7q0tptiZEJc
As you’ll see, it’s all part of a fundraiser to support the Lake Merritt documentary. Enjoy!
Joel
PS: I’ll be making this available as a poster and as a puzzle at certain events, such as:
May 31 NOPNA block party (Lyon St at Grove 11–4)
June 21 LakeFest Oakland (11–7 at Lake Merritt)
And when it’s ready in a few weeks, it’ll show up on the seepcity.org order page.
—
Joel Pomerantz
thinkwalks.org
seepcity.org
415-505-8255 (flip phone)
Make your support tax deductible! Contact me for details about our 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
While I was camping and bike riding and trying to pick out the condors from the smaller vultures, my collaborators produced a sweet, short video. It’s about the Lake Merritt watershed map I adapted, from original cartographer Scott Oliver.
I only made six shower curtains of that design, so contact me soon if you want one. There are three left, not available through the seepcity.org website.
That Lake Merritt Watershed map now has a new life as a jigsaw puzzle. The puzzle's a collaboration, too, with Liam O’Donoghue (East Bay Yesterday) and Brandon Jourdan, who's making a documentary film about Lake Merritt—and totally coincidentally was my mom’s neighbor early in the covid pandemic, running errands for her.
It’s all being facilitated by the relatively new and public-good-oriented Oakland Puzzle Company. Their Long Lost Oakland map puzzle was a gift to me by said mother last year. Through that, I learned my old biking pal DeAnna Tibbs has started this new company making local art into strangely shaped pieces that amazingly fit together to form the original art. What a cool invention! Okay, I’m a little behind on technology. I’m told puzzles have been around awhile.
I like how elegantly these stories loop back on one another. Momma Joanie, local mapping, bicycling, neighborliness…and just to rope in the bird side of it, I painted some typical lake birds (not condors) to adorn the puzzle.
Here’s the little intro video:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7q0tptiZEJc
As you’ll see, it’s all part of a fundraiser to support the Lake Merritt documentary. Enjoy!
Joel
PS: I’ll be making this available as a poster and as a puzzle at certain events, such as:
May 31 NOPNA block party (Lyon St at Grove 11–4)
June 21 LakeFest Oakland (11–7 at Lake Merritt)
And when it’s ready in a few weeks, it’ll show up on the seepcity.org order page.
—
Joel Pomerantz
thinkwalks.org
seepcity.org
415-505-8255 (flip phone)
Make your support tax deductible! Contact me for details about our 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
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