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    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…

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    Blogging With a Pencil

    It’s been a long time coming. I have been looking for a way to blog on the go without lugging the gaming laptop everywhere. Running through an airport to catch a plane about to leave you, with a monster laptop bouncing around in a backpack and hammering your spine is not fun. Add to that, writing longhand helps me shift into that creative state of mind, where words and ideas flow and time falls away. So now let’s see if the iPad and pencil can make blogging easier to fit in my schedule.    

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    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…