I think this video is brilliant on a few levels – the dry humor, the character, the counter-culture anti-Na’vi sentiment…but most especially the animation. I think it’s wonderful, and I desperately want to learn how to do this stuff. …Anyone know how to put together a home-made motion capture studio for less than $1k?  :P

So I finally got my developers sandbox account for Google Wave! …Only problem is that the sandbox accounts (username@wavesandbox.com) are apparently different than the preview accounts (username@googlewave.com), and they don’t connect yet, so it won’t let me find or chat with the only people I know who have accounts. :) Anyway, I’ve been spending last night and today trying to figure out how to embed waves into WordPress, so I can experiment with the liveblogging that I mentioned in my last post. It took awhile just to figure out how to add robots like Bloggy or WP-Bot so...

First of all, if you haven’t seen it already, go to wave.google.com and view the 80 minute demonstration video. Go ahead, I’ll wait. I’ll even let you go sign up for the service, because I know you want to! Or, if you’re impatient and don’t feel like siting through 1.3 hours of cool demonstrations, at least check out from about minute 19 to 22, which is what I’m going to be talking about. So you can see how Google Wave is going to completely change communication, right? Not just the tools that we use to communicate, or subtle changes such as character-by-character...

I had never heard of Clay Shirky before I saw this talk on TED, but I am definitely going to pay attention now. He talks at first about the difference between one-to-many or one-to-one communication that we’ve had in the past (print, telephones, recorded media) vs. the many-to-many model we have now (with Twitter, the web, etc.). He goes on to analyze how organizations or countries that try to censor and control such citizen-powered communication end up failing miserably (i.e. China), whereas organizations that “convene but do not control” their citizens succeed spectacularly...

Last Monday, April 13,  I had the privilege of going to hear Carolyn Handler Miller, author of “Digital Storytelling, Second Edition: A Creator’s Guide to Interactive Entertainment”, speak at Maria’s Bookshop in Durango, CO. I was very excited for this talk, because as a graduate in Multimedia studies and an aspiring transmedia artist (I learned that term from her book!), it’s always great to find like-minded storytellers in new media…especially since I’ve moved away from the city to a realm that is no less artistic, but where more traditional art is the...

Most gamers I know don’t play fighting games. If they do, they stick to Mortal Kombat or Soul Caliber, play them intensely for a few days, and then leave off of them for a year or two until the new versions come out. My husband, however, is a big Street Fighter fan. So I get to hear about all the fun accessories that will make his playing for hours on end that much more fun, such as the new Mad Catz Official Street Fighter™ IV FightStick™ coming out this year: As you can see, Mad Catz (who has a reputation for making those really cheap, crappy accessories you find at GameStop) has decided...