Designers set off Layer Tennis match

A Friday amusement for the design-interested kicks off in about 30 minutes, as the latest iteration of Layer Tennis gets underway. The live artists' face-off begins at noon PST; the artists at the epicenter are Mitch Ansara and Rod Hunting, with play-by-play commentary from Matthew Baldwin.

Layer Tennis is fun stuff. The competition's put on by Coudal Partners (who retains the services of the referees) and sponsored by Adobe Creative Suite 4. Each artist has 15 minutes to work with an image, which is then volleyed back to the other side. There are ten volleys, and at the end, the spectators decide who advances to the next round.