CAMECO began in three rooms with one pencil and one typewriter. Fifty-seven years later, the tools have changed - the job has not: make good media ideas sturdy enough to survive contact with money, institutions and the real world.

A failed qualifying exam loosened one plan. A 90-day Craigslist experiment supplied another. Tariana Little turned research, a camera and an insistence on community voice into an agency built to make complex work feel human.

He learned media by paying for airtime, then turned a Denver website into a five-city network of shows, memberships, merchandise, events, and one very literal sports bar.
A public-health researcher and a musician tested a business with a Craigslist ad and a three-month deadline. The result is a five-person media shop with its own studio, institutional clients, and a model for turning paid work into community infrastructure.