Snapshot of my Onion Peel
Thinking through social network sharing is like peeling a digital onion. Here’s a glimpse at one little piece of my puzzle. Hope to report back in greater detail within a few days. If not, send the bloodhounds.
InkSeine might make me love Microsoft
InkSeine is nirvana for visually-oriented researchers. The software for Tablet PCs combines inking, searching, gathering and research workflow in a seamless, intuitive and utter-joy-to-use UI. Since this is Lazy Month, I’ll leave most of the the show and tell to the creators:
InkSeine integrates four key concepts: it leverages preexisting ink to initiate a search; [...]
A little glimpse inside my comic creation process
This screenshot from the wee hours of this morning shows some of the tools I’m using to put together the upcoming comic on Night’s tale of romantic loss and fulfillment.
The window on the right containing images of Majic at her laptop is from Adobe Bridge. Since I take a lot of shots during a scene, [...]
The kiss I longed for was nowhere to be found
Last night, I worked from mid-evening into the wee hours trying to stage a kiss for a particularly important scene. After going through poseballs, love HUDS, friends’ poseballs and finally a scripted bed, I couldn’t find a single worthy shot.
I have never felt so frustrated and blocked in my creative work by an aspect [...]
Botgirl & Night augment immersively for comic collaboration
Night and I met Tuesday evening to discuss the latest draft of our first joint comic collaboration. I uploaded the draft images and threw them on a couple of gallery poster boards. Wow! What an amazing way to work on visual material together. I got my handy Sketch Sky Pens out of inventory (you [...]
Lifestream visualization
Most people use lifestream applications such as Friendfeed and MyBlogLog primarily to log and view current happenings. Another interesting way to use the collected information is to visualize it over time. Here are a few examples and resources:
Dipity (Image below is interactive. Try setting zoom level to “week.”)
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Swurl
Playing with pictures
I’ve been playing around quite a bit in the current comic series with images captured in Second Life. Over the past few days I’ve gone in a new direction and here are a couple of initial images. The first is a retouching of a graphic used in a previous comic page. The second [...]
New Botgirl vs. Human comic featuring Dale Innis
The Botgirl vs. Human comic series starts a new chapter today. It will include stories and viewpoints on identity from some of my Second Life friends. This first comic is a collaboration with Dale Innis. The complete series can be viewed in full resolution here.
Botgirl vs. Human Comic in virtual print format from Issuu.com
The embed below is a version of the comic uploaded to Issuu which provides a cool electronic publishing platform for books, magazines, comics and just about anything you would normally find in print. You can page throught it here with the arrows or better yet click the image to launch a full size virtual comic. [...]
Botgirl’s celebrity look-alikes
Thanks to New World Notes for the the heads up on this service that matches an uploaded image to a celebrity. What do you think?
http://www.myheritage.com/collage
Identity surfing within and between worlds
Dandellion’s Going Schizo post helped motivate me to finalize the latest in a series of images visualizing the movement of identity between virtual and physical worlds. Thanks to Harper for the comment that spawned the cloud.
Preview of BOTGiRL LIVES web comic
Here are draft versions of the first few panels from the forthcoming web comic “BOTGiRL LIVES!”
