Enter the room

Augmented reality (AR) is starting to live up to its promise. This new app from the International Committee of the Red Cross places you in the bedroom of a child living in a war-torn city.

Sharing the Experience of Chaos

Two very affecting depictions of what it is like to move from relative normalcy, to chaos, and onto a journey to find a new normalcy.

Compassion and Meaning

Making environmental concerns meaningful through compassion.

Unhappily Ever After

An artist reimagines Disney characters in real-world contexts and creates potent images.

Storytelling takes a body blow: The sale of Newsweek

Can long-form journalism survive in the age of Twitter and Facebook news?

Visualizing Everything.

Telling stories and communicating the heart of that story to a listener, reader or viewer has always been a fun creative challenge.

My Baby’s First Text Message

The title of this article is taken from a great post by Dominic Basulto on the bigthink blog. He writes about the need for our educational system to keep up with the changes in childhood development due to omnipresent digital devices. If babies can use iPads how will they remain engaged as students in elementary […]

Sealed With An eKiss

The idea of a long-distance relationship has always been challenging, even a deal breaker at times. I have plenty of experience with the concept. Living in Seattle, one of my closest friends lives in Milan, my brother lives in Brooklyn, and I have family all over Japan. In fact, my wife and I solidified our […]

Retro Modern Redux at CES

I first wrote about a great Retro-Modern mash-up in April of last year but, unfortunately it was only a very imaginative April Fool. But, like all those who dreamt of an iPhone on Verizon’s network, good things come to those who wait. A few weeks ago I was browsing articles about the 2011 Consumer Electronics […]

Making The News Meaningful

One of the challenges to turning an incident into a movement is finding the single thing that will cause multitudes to connect with the issue at hand. When you live where the issue is happening that single thing is often an incident that symbolizes all that is wrong. In Tunisia it was an act of […]