Michael Verdi

Category: Process

  • Zine Pals

    One of the cool things about sending zines out into the world is that sometimes people send zines to you. I got this one yesterday and it made my heart full.

  • Apple Vision Pro Persona

    I installed Persona Webcam so I could use my persona in zoom meetings on my Mac and realized I could also make a recording of it, so here it is.

  • Immersive Video Process Iteration

    Shooting and editing immersive video is not very straightforward. Thankfully, Hugh Hou has made a million tutorials on this subject. I’ve been experimenting with the techniques he’s outlined to try to find what works best for me. This week I tried Mistika VR again and I found that it doesn’t do a noticeably better job…

  • Printed and Assembled

    Issue 4 is ready to go. Next, I have print mailing labels, write some notes, and stuff envelopes. I’m aiming to get these in the mail by Monday at the latest. I’ll also have a few copies with me at Zine Camp on the 21st.

  • Test Print

    I’ve still got one more image to create but I can get the printing started today.

  • Making Progress

    I finished re-writing issue 4 for the third time today. It’s finished now. I cut a couple of things that I’ll put on the issue’s page. Other than the covers I have to create new illustrations. I’ll start working on those tomorrow. Only one side will be 4 colors. The others will be just 2…

  • A Cookie and Forgiveness

    I’m aiming to print the zine I’m working on next weekend so my goal was to have it all ready to go this weekend. That didn’t happen. While I did make a bunch of progress on it, I also had a nice relaxing couple of days. I hung out with Rebecca, watched some movies, did…

  • Jenny Nicholson on the Star Wars Hotel

    User experience, service design, game mechanics — it’s all in here. This is a fabulous, four hour (yes four hours — totally worth it) breakdown of what went wrong with the Star Wars hotel.

  • Playlist for Issue 4

    I’m working on finishing up issue 4 of and, of course, I’m listening to the playlist I created while I’ve been working on it. The thing is though — I’ve been working on it for months so I wanted to post this before I started listening new things. I’ve written about a bunch these songs…

  • Waking up with an idea