Starting a Lens Collection
A review of the Voking 25mm F1.7. lens, used with the sony a6000 camera, as a webcam.
read more →THERE ARE NO CATEGORIES!
rants, raves, and writings by Dylan Kinnett
My New/Used Next/First Camera
After a difficult summer, and searching for something to cheer me up, I got a new camera to see if a reunion with photography could let some light in.
read more →Doing Real Work in Virtual Reality
The idea of working in VR is late for work.
read more →Digital Storytelling Awards
Columbia University’s Digital Storytelling Lab has announced the 2022 Breakthroughs in Storytelling Awards.
read more →Testing Digital Highlighters
You can highlight key passages while you read online. Here’s my review of several options.
read more →A New Scanner for Books
Unboxing the CZUR Shine Ultra
read more →Text Adventures that Go Beyond
One of these text adventures takes a new approach to the old experience, and another pushes the medium towards a limit that could suggest its future direction.
read more →Stories as Conversation; Conversation as Interface
A look at two hypertexts: one game and one visual novel, that tell their stories in a conversational way.
read more →Bandersnatch, Hypertext, and the State of Interactive Stories
Interest in non-linear storytelling is rekindling. Two months ago, the Black Mirror studio released an interactive, non-linear movie called Bandersnatch on Netflix. The choices aren’t merely about what should happen next, but also about the mood, style, and even the meaning of the story that unfolds.
read more →Aleatory Writing Experiment
An experiment, after Bernadette Mayer, to systematically eliminate the use of certain kinds of words or phrases from a piece of writing.
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