The Small Creators Great Twitter Migration
Plumbing Issues are for the Birds It’s been a crazy couple weeks. Right after this weird dude showed up at Twitter with a sink, my hot water heater at home blew up. I did that whole thing of mopping up the water with stacks of towels, hauling out the old heater and ordering a replacement. Only instead of replacing with the same old thing and looking at having to do it all again when a new tank outlive it’s life, I decided to try a tank-less water heater. Hopefully the upgrade will prove satisfying. I logged back into Twitter. Looks like the new plumber is really crap at…
Adventures in 3D Storytelling
We celebrated 10 years of 3D storytelling at Nara’s Nook grid this year. The above pic was from the launch day of our Immersive Edge story regions back in 2015. It’s always been challenging, and crazy and an endless adventure. We never grow tired of it. While it looks like we’ve been absent for awhile, we’ve been growing our skills and expanding techniques. This year’s group project has been the Story Islands. You can find them at world.narasnook.com: 8900 Once you land on the default region, search for “story” on the map and teleport in. We brought books to life as interactive beach reads on a series…
Why The Tech Giants Want to Buy the Metaverse…
We make magic here I’m talking the homegrown and handmade sort of magic. Stories that cast a spell. Art that transports you to another reality. Music that picks you up and puts you back together after a lousy day. The kind of magic made when ordinary people with no power or influence do powerful things. Why they’ll fail Biting into homegrown tomato—one carefully tended and left on the vine to go ripe in the July heat, one so fragrant you can breathe in the flavor, one fattened on summer rain—is an experience that will turn you away from the pale, fragrance-free, flavorless things produced on a factory farm. Art needs…