Creative Technologist working in the Themed Entertainment and live events worlds.
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GDC: Storytelling Siblings
Hi everybody. If you’re attending GDC this week please join Adam Bezark, Lex Rhodes, and me for our Game Narrative Summit talk, Storytelling Siblings: The Kindred Connection between Games and Theme Parks. We start at 14:40 PDT on Tuesday July 20th and we’ll be in the chat for live Q&A. Hope to see you there!…
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Seconds to Last
In a departure from previous materials, Cynthia Minet used discarded tents to create this life size representation of the nearly extinct Northern White Rhinoceros. In this installation, Seconds to Last, Cynthia wanted to use light to convey the disappearance of these huge beasts. Due to the volume of the sculpture and in an attempt to…
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Jacked: Panthera Atrox
Another collaboration with Cynthia Minet. Jacked: Panthera Atrox is the latest of her incredible animal creations built from reclaimed plastic and this time animated with a similar mechanism to a pump jack used to push oil out of the ground. The lioness’ head tilts up and down with the rhythmic movement of the pump arm.…
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Open Studio – Migrations
Friends! As some of you know I’ve been collaborating with Cynthia Minet on her new installation that will soon be opening at the International Museum of Art and Science in McAllen, Texas. If you’re in Los Angeles this Sunday, March 4th from 2p – 5p you can get a sneak peak of the work at…
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Collaboration
It’s been quiet in my creative world…but not uneventful. Over the last couple of months I’ve had the pleasure of working with Cynthia Minet on her upcoming installation, “Migrations.” Cynthia is an accomplished artist and her creations are constructed from post-consumer plastics and LED lighting. Migrations depicts six Roseate Spoonbills in varying stages of flight. With this…
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AR…MR…XR
It’s been a busy spring for Augmented Reality and the last week really topped it off. The 8th annual Augmented World Expo was 3 days of vendors, developers and enthusiastic end-users coming together to talk about, demo and try on the latest AR gear. If there is to be one thing I came away with from the expo…
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Thanks for Artwalking
Friends, family and totla strangers. Thanks so much for coming to thespring Brewery Artwalk. Hopefully you experienced some art that spoke to you…or at the very least whispered in your general direction. I appreciate everyone that comes by to support all of us here at the Brewery. Hopefully we’ll see you again in the fall.…
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PaGoda
There have been many, many trips to Burning Man and many, many plans to create something or other to display in the middle of the desert. As it goes time disappears and distractions mount. Participating in our theme camp was the primary focus for a long time. This year, at the last minute, I managed…
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The Drone Show
While the future of flying cars we were promised is still a way off (if not postponed indefinitely) all manner of counter-rotational flying devices are readily available in all manner of sizes and we’re finding all manner of uses for them. The common nomenclature for these machines is drones. That label comes with so much…
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Greenlight VR Report: Consumers Are Surprisingly Unaware of Virtual Reality
This article relates a bit to my VR post from last week: After our latest US consumer research in October 2015, we wanted to find out if the trends we were seeing in the survey data held for a larger, more international pool. In December, we surveyed over 1,000 respondents throughout the United Kingdom about their awareness of virtual…