@mathieupradat and I visited MASS MoCA this weekend. The fall colors were stunning. This was taken on our way to see James Turrell's C.A.V.U. at Dusk; the next day we walked through the galleries. The Vincent Valdez:
Just A Dream… exhibition is a must-see show; worth the trek to MASS MoCA, /event/vincent-valdez-just-a-dream//event/vincent-valdez-just-a-dream/
I will be speaking at the VRTO 2025 Spatial Media World Conference in Toronto this week https://conference.virtualreality.to/ if you are attending, lets find a time to connect while we’re at the conference. In my talk I’ll argue that XR design requires a multidisciplinary approach that balances desirability, feasibility, and viability to develop immersive experiences that provide meaningful value and resonate with people beyond mere technical novelty. The talk is based on the new book Mediating Presence (Focal Press, 2025) by Peter Zakrzewski and yours truly. #VRTO #VRTO2025 #XR #VR #VirtualReality
The Newton Indivisible Storytelling Action Team was in Boston Common today interviewing #NoKings protest participants to learn what brought them out today, #Indivisible #storytelling #Boston “Experts on authoritarianism say that peaceful mass mobilization at national scale is what keeps democracies from becoming autocracies.” — Emily Phelps, co-founder, Indivisible
Inspiration for today: “... in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.” ― Thomas Paine, Common Sense (Pamphlet), 1776 #NoKings
Beth and I went canoeing on Nine Mile Pond in the Florida Everglades over winter break … sublime and outside of cellphone range … nature and nothing else.
“These seeds will always be tulips, even if at the moment you cannot tell them apart from other flowers. They will never turn into roses or sunflowers, no matter how much they might desire to. And if they try to deny their own existence, they will live life bitter and die.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Spy
“The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. […] It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow.” — Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) from Gitanjali, “Song Offerings” (verse 69)
The view from our front door this morning. A snowstorm punctuates the end if the semester. A lovely day to wrap up grading; final reflections and reworks are due today.
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