As a part of my work on #relationalReconstruction I created smoke and snow effects in @MozillaHubs, to better evoke a memory. Here's a tutorial! This will be part of an upcoming workshop, stay tuned!
Photo is my mom in a snowy yard in 70s Seoul 🥰
Snow works well but smoke was really fun to make and super convincing! Look at it billowing! Can I save this as a model to share rather than a whole scene in @MozillaHubs?
These effects will help to bring memories and histories to life, and create an emotional tone in "relational reconstructions" I'm working on from archival and family photos. I show how to use the Particle Emitter element in @MozillaHubs to create convincing snow & smoke effects.
The recent @NPR@planetmoney coverage of racial terror against Miꞌkmaq fishermen was super inappropriate. First they presented it as a "classic economic problem" of "how to manage a fishery"...
Then they made repeated "seafood puns" before and after describing a violent racist attack of Miꞌkmaq by White fishermen where they burned down a Miꞌkmaq warehouse.
They spent zero time discussing how and why Canadian police (who were present) refused to intervene.
I’d like to share an early iteration of an ongoing project, "Seeing Providence Chinatown: A virtual reconstruction of an erased neighborhood"
These are the only photographs remaining of the heart of Providence’s Chinatown, as collected by the PVD Chinatown project. They paint a very partial picture of what was once a vibrant cultural center and provider of services to the Chinese-American community of PVD.
However, many photographs exist of surrounding streets, from both just before & after Empire St was widened to destroy the neighborhood. Below, the rough envelope of the Chinatown Societies as they would have appeared a few years later on the newly widened Empire St, c1910