Bob's View
No Boundaries
When I was 9, the walls of my bedroom were covered not with hot rods or pop stars. They...
August 3, 2020The Next Normal
The Next Normal My grandparents never completely let go of the Great Depression. Mistrust of banks, obsessive frugality and...
September 28, 2020Caliban and the Mask of Villainy
Here, I presume a reasonable lay-person’s familiarity with Shakespeare. Fair, I think, and if you know but two of...
October 19, 2020Using What You Have
Improvisation immediately drives me to music. I spent a good deal of my life as a “musician” but I...
November 23, 2020
Duncan's View
Themed Entertainment’s Obsession with Space Exploration
Space: the final frontier. These are the visions of themed entertainment. It’s perpetual mission: to generate new revenue, to...
August 16, 2020Post COVID-19 Realities for Experience Design
Once there are medically-proven vaccines readily available and it becomes reasonably safe to mingle and assemble among strangers outside...
September 14, 2020Villains
A good story must have conflict and one way to drive that dramatic tension is having an antagonist play...
October 26, 2020Improvisation
In an early chapter of my life that was several decades ago, I was a writer and performer in...
November 1, 2020
Olivia's View
Out of This World
“Themed Entertainment’s Obsession With Space Exploration” That’s the topic of the month. But what is “Themed Entertainment?” Am I...
August 24, 2020Actually, The Masks Are Part of It
Experience Design is a pretty broad term. Break it down and it’s just the practice of…well…designing an experience. That...
September 21, 2020Disguises
It’s spooky season folks! October is here! Autumn is here! It truly is the most wonderful time of the...
October 5, 2020Making Things Up As I Go
I feel I have very little authority on the topic of improv. I mean, in various acting classes and...
November 16, 2020
Jared's View
The Promise of Things To Come
History will tell you that man took his first “small step” on the Moon in the summer of 1969....
August 10, 2020The Fall of Repeatability – Experiential Entertainment After Coronavirus
Safety, Courtesy, Show, and Efficiency. Anyone who has ever worked for “The Mouse” can recite these Four Keys of...
September 7, 2020Villains, You’re Our Heroes!
Good vs. Evil. It is the most rudimentary of human conflicts, disputed in theatres of war, chambers of argument,...
October 12, 2020Existential Jazz
It’s riding a rollercoaster as the track is being laid. It’s running an obstacle course shrouded in opaque fog....
November 9, 2020