I ran across a supercool resource yesterday – a Solarpunk-style High Speed Rail is moving forward in California and you can see a bunch of HD concept art / videos right here! Of course, your first question might be ‘how is this solarpunk?’ The answer is simple. ‘Solarpunk works to address how the future might…
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Interesting ‘Life imitates Mesh’ moment – Lambda School went from ‘hottest start-up in Silicon Valley’ to ‘another failed con job’ in a little under seven years. Heartbreaking loss for all those who pinned their financial dreams on Lambda’s success, but there’s more to the story.Let’s take a deep-dive on this lovely Monday morning: If you…
Woke up this morning to an EFF podcast and the realization that Alex “Bill S. Preston Esq. from ‘Bill & Ted’” Winter is an unlikely supporter for my novel Mesh. That’s an awesome way to kick off the second half of any week! It all begins and ends with EFF’s ‘Fixing the Internet’ podcast, so…
I was reminded of Schoolhouse Rock when I ran across this publishing advice related to ‘how books become movies.’ Any writer worth their salt wants a book to become a movie – unless you’re Clive Cussler. Sadly, ‘book-to-film scams are extremely common these days … the best way to avoid being scammed is to understand…
Let’s take a step back on this Friday afternoon to discuss Mike.Sierra.Echo and Mesh – are they ‘hard science fiction?’ Why does it matter? What’s ‘hard sci-fi,’ anyway? Who cares about the answers to these questions. Let’s answer the last question first, I stumbled upon TVTropes’ Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness page and they…
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Happy Monday – here’s a new painting I’ve been working on for a few weeks – it’s ‘The Station’ from my novel ‘Mesh,’ a massive VR space somewhere between a Victorian library and a train station designed by MC Escher. The Station exists as a doorway between different virtual universes. Worked about 13 hours on…
Happy to share some cool new free scifi and cyberpunk wallpapers with you! My work with MidJourney continues and it gives me great pleasure to pass along some of the awesome things the AI art is helping me to make. Take a look: It’s important to note – MidJourney is not doing all of…
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Let’s sidebar back to some cool hacking stuff for you Mesh fans – listen to the Darknet Diaries. I started yesterday and I’m already enthralled. These stories are EXACTLY the kind of thing that inspired me to write Mesh and it’s happening all right now in real time! Here’s an example: Remember that scene in…
Super cool news – some new Mesh concept art is now online! I’ve been working for *hours* on Midjourney to create some new concept art to explain the universe of Mesh. Why does concept art matter? As this artist notes, “ Concept art helps to convey the look, feel and mood of a design idea….
Being a Xennial kid, I draw my inspirations from different places. That’s why one of Mesh’s inspirations is a PBS show called ‘Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?’ (WitWiCS) and you can find old episodes on Youtube. While Mesh is written to be thrilling, not educational, I still feel obligated to communicate information to…
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