February 2012
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Face Blind
After a lifetime of trouble recognizing people I’d met once or twice before, I finally realized I have a mild case of face blindness. This was brought home for me a couple weeks ago when my wife and I were working our way through Season 3 of The Wire. She made a comment about the scar on actor Michael K. Williams face. Of course, I said, “What scar?”
She thought I was joking....
December 2011
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A 100 Word Story for Nancy
OUR ORIGIN STORY
First meeting:
Mark dared me to walk over to the waitress and greet her by name as if we’d met before.
I said, “Hi Nancy.”
She said, “I don’t know you. How do you know my name?”
I mumbled something about being a friend of Mark’s and retreated back to the bar with my tail between my legs.
First argument:
I said, “You always say...
October 2011
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A 100 Word Story on the anniversary of my birth
I can’t remember when my birthday stopped being something that felt important enough to lose sleep over. As a child, I stayed awake late into the night each Birthday Eve in anticipation of the new age. Although gifts, party and cake were ingredients in the stimulating mix, the overwhelming factor was the realization that dawn’s portal would transport me into some wondrous new level of...
From Wounded Knee to Wall Street: Columbus Day and...
Have you ever wondered why the United States still celebrates a national holiday honoring the guy who initiated the genocide of the native American peoples? The man who sold girls into sexual slavery, burned escaped slaves alive, and had babies killed for dog food? I have. I’ve wondered about it quite a bit.
It seems to me that Columbus Day’s continued place on the U.S. calendar is...
WatchIt’s sad to say that this twenty year old song I wrote during the Presidential election campaign of 1992 is even more applicable today than it was then. I was inspired to revive it by the Occupy Wall Street movement. The video is composed of clips from Occupy Wall Street video out on YouTube and some old footage from the Prelinger Archives.
Greed (Let ‘em Starve)
Why should my...
August 2011
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WatchNYMWARS Comics. This is the e-book version from issuu.com and will update automatically with new additions.
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WatchLittle Google Boxes: A Nymwars Protest Song. A multi-identity Botgirl/fourworlds collaboration. For those of you unfamiliar with the issue, there are links to dozens of great articles here.
WatchA 100 Word Sci-Fi Story inspired by the Nymwars
July 2011
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May 2011
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WatchThis is the presentation Bill Howard and I gave at the 2011 Association of Change Management Professionals Conference. It provides an overview of Asynchrony’s change management work supporting the USTRANSCOM Corporate Services Vision initiative, with a focus on the experiential ChangeViz workshops that were held for executive and management level stakeholders.
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April 2011
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Preview of ChangeViz Comic
Best viewed full screen.
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March 2011
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WatchBotgirl and I gave the opening keynote for the fourth annual Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference in Second Life. I don’t know if we’ll be invited to co-host the next Academy Awards show, but we had a lot of fun. Our presentation starts at about 5:00 into the video.
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WatchI had a great time as a guest on the Metanomics Community Form show. Here’s the vid.
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Join Me (and my Avatar) on This Week's Metanomics... →
I’m going the be the guest on this Thursday’s Metanomics Community Forum at noon PST. Probable topics are virtual identity, Gamestorming, Second Life as a creative platform and the upcoming Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference. You can watch and participate at their studio in Second Life or view the streaming video from your browser.
February 2011
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WatchBig Ball of Change. I spent most of last week at a Prosci Change Management certification class. Instructor Stefanie Simon was brilliant, the curriculum was dead-on and my fellow students were smart and fun. I got a chance to screen this video I put together last year and thought I’d share it here as well. It will be part of a presentation Bill Howard and I will be giving this May at the...
December 2010
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WatchHappy New Years to Everyone in All Worlds. Since I’m a charter member of Botgirl’s multi-world family, I thought it would be fitting to share this video greeting.
November 2010
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WatchHappy, Shiny, Psychedelic Plastic People. I shot this on an iPhone in two and three minute bursts while I was waiting for sections of the “real-job” video I was working on to render. Most effects were recorded live with Videocam illusion. That night I threw on some additional effects using Vintage Video Maker and Cinema FX for Video and edited with iMovie, using their cliched, but...
October 2010
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July 2010
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June 2010
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April 2010
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Geek interpreter Guy
It’s time to abandon boring business titles and replace them with superhero names. So I’m trading in “Co-founder and Vice President of Marketing” for “Geek interpreter Guy”. Here’s a draft of the front of my new business card. What would your superhero title be?
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WatchSpock Rides Again: Bringing to Life a Key Concept of “Switch” Through Archetypal Action Figures.
I’ve been having a lot of fun recently bringing physical props into my VizThink facilitation work. One technique I’ve been playing around with recently is the use of action figures, puppets and ventriloquist dummies in the Persona creation process. A key concept from Chip and...
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The Challenge of Innovation in Department of...
March 2010
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Brain Locker: Ubiquitous Computing Interrupted
No. I’m not exaggerating. That’s what it feels like when I leave my net-connected iPhone behind to spend time within a secure area at USTRANSCOM.
McLuhan’s insight has been validated by recent experiments: Tools are experienced as extensions of the body. An intimate Ubiquitous Computing device like an iPhone extends memory, speech, hearing and nervous system. Removing it from...
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Watchskull speaks. Latest in doll anthropomorphizing project. I found the Skull Bride in a Halloween clearance rack at a Michaels store and have already used it a few times to create iPhoneViz content. The video was created using GhostReader to generate the voice, Crazy Talk for the lip-sync animation and Motion for the video editing.
February 2010
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Watchmask speaks. This is the first attempt to move from stills to video in my doll anthropomorphizing project. I found the mask at an antiques mall and it kind of spoke to me, so I collaborated with my fictional friend Botgirl to create this bodiless guru identity.
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The Storyfication of Everyday Life
Although it is said that every picture tells a story, the truth is that images merely provide the raw material upon which our minds create the narratives. Humans are story-making creatures. We compulsively and continuously infuse stories into the raw data of our sensory experience. On an experiential level, we live as much within a world of our self-created narrative as we do within the...
January 2010
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fourworlds on Avatar
The “Inside The Avatar Studio” show I participated in earlier this month just came out on rezzed.tv. I (through my fourworlds Ra avatar) was one of a five member Second Life panel discussing the potential impact of the “avatar” movie on the future of virtual worlds.
The first five minutes were pretty rough. I started off blasting eardrums with an overly-hot microphone...