Yesterday over lunch, Stroodle Doodle creator Eric Neuman told me (in so many words) that unicorns are bullshit. Meaning that the urge to become a billion-dollar startup is counterproductive to actually growing the immersive media industry. I nodded my head vigorously. The key to VR’s growth, we agreed, was for a lot of people to…
Monday night, in HBO’s stylish offices downtown, Geekwire hosted a chat with Steven Soderbergh, the director of such movies as Traffic and Sex, Lies, and Videotape, and writer Ed Solomon, who were in town to promote a project called Mosaic. This filmed experience is a branching story that can be viewed via an app, but…
I consider myself lucky to have landed in Olympia, Washington in the fall of 1991, precisely when that city birthed, with the help of dozens of midwives, the riot grrrl movement. The moment I became aware of the existence of riot grrrls was a Melvins/Beat Happening show at the Northshore Surf Club. A cadre of…
Congratulations are in order to everyone who helped secure Seattle’s designation as a UNESCO City of Literature. This was an effort that inspired a lot of people who worked hard for this, and the designation is well-earned. Way to go, Bob Redmond and the rest of the board of directors. I’m proud of you. I…
Last night I had the pleasure of participating in an extraordinary conversation with a group that included two women pioneering mixed reality at Microsoft, an expert in artificial intelligence, a filmmaker just back from a trip to Cuba, an Amazon art director, an author, an editor, and an internationally renowned exonoree who advocates for the…
I live a minute and twenty-three seconds away from one of the finest bakeries in Seattle, Bakery Nouveau, a purveyor of croissants and macarons that has improved the quality of my life to the detriment of my waistline. The bakery is across the street from a small park called Williams Place, where some of my…
Yesterday I caught up with Elizabeth Scallon, the Associate Director of CoMotion Labs. It’s been a little over a year since I started renting a desk at this VR/AR startup incubator overseen by the University of Washington. I’ve seen a couple startups come and go, while others, like Mechanical Dreams, Invrse, and Pear Med, have…
