This thing: COVID-19

This thing: COVID-19

We’ve talked about the intersection of art and science for several years now, but this topic seems to be more relevant than ever right now in the era of Covid-19. This blog post may inspire or inflame, depending on your outlook, so here we go: Many in the U.S....
When Art Encounters Science

When Art Encounters Science

What happens when we embark on exploring the art and science of scientific animation with Arkitek? For the longest time, this was a question that I avoided publicly, even while I was engaged in answering it daily through my work at Arkitek. It was the kind of question...
The Power of Visual Education

The Power of Visual Education

Believe it or not, one of our most successful scientific animations at Arkitek involved images of forklifts, dump trucks, radar dishes and faucets. And no, it wasn’t for a children’s show—it was for a biotech company. We used these visual analogies to explain the...
I am uncomfortable.

I am uncomfortable.

(NOTE: I wrote these words several years ago, found them today. And how relevant they are…) Occupying that unholy space between naivete and complacency. A jarring place where questions, fears and answers tantalizingly out of reach, are constant companions. To walk as...
Water skimmers vs. deep sea divers

Water skimmers vs. deep sea divers

No doubt everyone on the planet is or has been both. And it seems pretty obvious that people generally prefer one over the other. But I have a question about the amount of time we spend in both, because it’d be difficult to either live deep in the bowels of...
Have you ever noticed…

Have you ever noticed…

… that when you drive up to an intersection, the second you do, for that brief moment, the coast is clear? But if you wait, then you wait for a very long time? I’ve wondered about this for years, and I’ve decided I can either take this as some sort of...