Road trip

I’m slacking on the updates. Here’s what’s up. Last week I spent Thu and Fri in the new Stimulant offices in San Francisco. Everyone had just moved in the previous weekend, but it was looking pretty great already. The main reason I was there was for two video shoots.

The first was for the Surface blog (similar to this one featuring my friend Joel), and was a pretty casual thing where we showed our upcoming music app and the balance board demo, and discussed Stimulant and Surface design/development. That video will probably be posted next week.

The second was a more marketing-ish video for the Expression team that was more about how we use those tools in our project work. This was a much larger video crew with much brighter lights and an actual director. I’m not really sure when that will come out or where it will live.

I’m not much of a slick talker, but hopefully I managed to sound fairly coherent on both shoots. In any case it was lots of fun to actually work with my company in person for a couple of days. I hope to do that more often.

The music app is almost done and will be shown to the public for the first time at the IxDA SF meeting on Wed. I’m excited that it’ll start getting out there, and hope to continue to be able to make fun non-paying Surface stuff in the future.

The physics renderer has taken a back seat to all this but I’ll be putting more time in this week and next.