Hello
I’m Michael Verdi. I'm an artist and product designer.

I’ve had many past lives including: nuclear sub engineer, performance artist, videographer, Ironman, high school teacher, and freelance designer/stay-at-home dad. I helped invent vlogging in the pre-YouTube days, and wrote a how-to book about it.
For the last few years I’ve been obsessed with combining zines, film, and games. And now that the Apple Vision Pro is out, you can add immersive, 180 degree, 3D video to that list. I've been documenting all that on my blog. ← Check it out.
Projects

A short immersive film.

A web-based player for immersive video.

Riso-printed, personal zine.

Art zine.

Great critique sessions.

Better styles for Twine.

Animal Crossing art installation.

A very simple CYOA game.

A special Wordpress template.

Machinima series created with SecondLife.

Cheap and simple website.