Words and photos by T.J. DeGroat
Just hours after news of Yahoo’s C-suite shakeup broke, one of the company’s relatively new San Francisco offices opened its doors to anyone with a Wii controller and a desire to kick a little butt.
Those watching the live stream from last night’s outing saw me get lost while walking from GUBA’s office in San Francisco’s Financial District to the Brickhouse space in SOMA (and heard a lot of profanity — my bad). It took longer than expected but the buildup fueled my competitive spirit. I definitely owned coworker and friend Kathleen on the computerized tennis court (didn’t do quite as well on the bowling lanes).
The first official Wii Mondays event took place June 11, but the Brickhousers weren’t ready to take on the public until last night. The idea is a great one; sometimes us hard-working Web 2.0’ers want to hang out and be social after a long day of work without having the don a blazer and head to a frou-frou lounge. The Brickhouse crew provided beer and instant noodles and even showed outsiders around the space. One of the best features is the much-Flickr’d Post-It art.
Although not there physically, two familiar faces in the 2.0 space, Min Jung Kim (Photobucket) and Jason Schupp (8020 Publishing), were all over Brickhouse, becoming the default avatars on the big screen for a while.
For more Wii action, check out Flickr photos tagged wiimondays or the archived action from the Justin.tv/bubblicious backpack cam. Special thanks to Jumpcut‘s Ben Long for showing us around.
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