For
the fourth year I sang bass in the California
Revels chorus. Here I am with my medieval family: lovely wife
Helen and lovely daughter Clio, and spirited son Harry. Photo by
Jan McMillan.
My first experiments
displaying stereo images with simple two-framed animation
attracted a surprising amount of attention, starting with
a mention on Metafilter.
See my "how to" article here.
Stereo
Views of the Grand Canyon
My
first stereo photos were taken with an old
Stereo Realist from the '50s on an 18-day
rafting trip down the Grand Canyon.
The Oakland
Camera Club, whose newsletter I edit,
is the best place in the Bay Area to learn
about stereo photography.
Another first prize
came at the 2004 Photographic Society of America competiton,
stereo division, for Corn Mother Bleses the Harvest.
That image and two others also won the grand prize
in the Pokescope
3D Photo Competition.
Interaction
Design & Storytelling I've been
designing works of interactive storytelling for fifteen years now.
Here are links to sites discussing some of them.
ScruTiny
in the Great Round is my hard-to-describe, award-winning
collaboration with artist Tennessee Rice Dixon, on CD-ROM
.
For
two years I worked for Maxis as Creative Director on the
third version of the city simulation game SimCity.
It
was designing the Time
Machine series of reader-active books that got me
hooked on interactive storytelling. Some have now been
re-released in the IPicturebooks
electronic format.
A nice
fan site keeps alive the memory of the series.
Clubmobile.org
celebrates the women of the Red Cross Clubmobile Service
during World War II.
Much of it is
based on the letters, scrapbook and spoken stories of my
mother, Charlotte Colburn Gasperini.
Hidden Agenda, my 1989 simulation of Central American
politics with Ron Martinez and Greg Guerin, is now out of
print.
Also available
through the Maricopa Center is Alan Levine's interview of
me concerning the
making of Hidden Agenda.
For six years I've worked
as Senior Designer-Analyst for many clients of Aaron
Marcus & Associates, a Berkeley-based firm with deep
experience and wide-ranging clients from Fortune 500 companies
to technology start-ups. A heuristic analysis I made of software
used by the San Jose Police was written up in the San Jose Mercury
News and the New
York Times.
Some websites I've designed
for Atomic Design of Boylston, Massachusetts.
Personal
& Performance
I've
enjoyed throat-singing in Ohana, a SF Bay throat singing choir. Here's
a site I prepared for our leader and teacher, Arjuna,
who has since moved to Joshua Tree.
Incidents
of Travel shows off pictures from several months in Nepal and
Vietnam in 1999.
Here
I am blueing up for the
Burning Man Opera, for which I also serve as webmaster.
Caution: crazy naked Dionysian revels here.
Just
in time for St. Patrick's Day 2001, Jim gets an Irish
passport.
Scattered
Pontifications
These were
all written a while ago but if you Google my name somehow they still
appear. So here they are again...
