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World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo. Filling in the gaps. Bobby McFerrin didn't ask everyone to guess a sound - he started a pattern with one sound, then another, and another...

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Lean Into Art Cast - Skill Set Overlap

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  I call it an "emergent topic". We started with the intent to mention my recent talk for the Comic Artist's Forum at the Ann Arbor District Library and the topic took a life of its own. Jerzy and I went with it to explore how building an audience for your creative work...

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Interactive Empathy as a Design Concern

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Considering how interactions flow - whether in-person or in an app/web system with empathy as a focal concern.

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TurboGrafx Cameo w/Game Design Workshop Notecards

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Notecards are part of my iterative process. These notecards are from whittling and playing with the topics I'll be covering in my upcoming game design workshop at Lean Into Art. It'll cover part of what's outlined here - enough to design and build a basic game in HTML5...

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My Desk is Like an Upside Down Spider That Likes Computers

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Well... perhaps not quite a spider. I’ll need to add four more desk arms before I can respectfully claim my desk has eight limbs. Though as to why I added the bendy arms to my desk… I started using a Cintiq 12WX back in September of 2008 as a way to explore...

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Character Silhouettes

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More practice with making character silhouettes! I've become rather taken with this outer-shape approach of designing readable characters by establishing a strong silhouette. I've doing this via Sketchbook Pro, pencil & paper, and the iPad app Inkpad...

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Character Design Practice

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This design is based on what I learned in Krishna Sadasivam's Creating Crazy Characters class at Lean Into Art.More practice to come, this time I tried to do all the steps in Sketchbook Pro which led to some improvisation on the silhouette step. The characters silhouette...

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Thoughtful+Entertaining+Cartoon Illustration = Awesome Mobile UX Presentation

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Presented by Brad Colbow at last week's M3 conference. Paging through this deck is rather entertaining - would have loved to have seen Brad present this live. I couldn't agree with the core thesis more: to provide a good user experience, first you have to care.   M3...

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UI and UX Commentary - Google+ Create-a-Page Final Step

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While using Google+ to setup a brand page for Lean Into Art - I noticed an interesting situation. The "finish/complete" screen tells me two things at once. First I see a message that I should know that I'm now using Google+ as a "page" user. Second, I see another message...

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Blog of an Interactive Storyteller

Blog of an Interactive Storyteller

Rob Stenzinger's Blog. This is where I share a variety of thoughts and sketches surrounding my creative projects and interests (similar to what I share via audio on the AGZ Polytechnicast). I make comics, videogames, do comics and videogame workshops at Lean Into Art and provide design services as a UI+UX and Game Designer.

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