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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

www.sbs.com.au/news/article... that graph is interesting, to say the least..

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The conference schedule is out, and paper titles tomorrow. Phew! Humanizing 3D Heritage schedule, 30 September, a morning session, siesta, and afternoon session. Register via zoom but free. Papers selected are in 3 Themes, Premises, Practices, and Participation. www.linkedin.com/groups/40737...

Humanizing 3D Digital Heritage conference, provides schedule, 30.09.2026. Zoom. Free online conference. Papers selected.

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We're gonna need a bigger block..

Lego model Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

19 August: open lab day for Playful Cultures (shorturl.at/3ofgb) with 3 of our PhD students (Alaa Aljurais, Fadilah Arief & Sophia Booij + Jonathan Goon), Drs James Calvert and Susannah Emery Roblox, GenAI/Gsplats/VRchats, VisionPro, Quest Pro, Films, boardgames etc. Thanks to support by IVE.

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Finally found my spirit animal..and it's otterly inoffensive..

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Yesterday we had a lab open day at Playful Cultures, hardly moved into and set up the space yet but it was fun. Thanks to IVE (adelaide.edu.au/research/aus...) for snacks and popcorn!

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

CONGRATS TO SPAIN's Football team! Your Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives are eye-opening!

The entire Spanish team. Some dressed up more than others.

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Is Macron getting taller or the other shrinking? They look basically the same height in this Washington post article! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I managed to go to France today. Impressive, given I was only meant to be travelling in Belgium!

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Go easy on Lufthansa, please, authorities. It was just plane tired.

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I can only remember when conferences are now by the related free conference cups

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This butterfly took awhile finding the real flowers, hardware stores never think about the poor butterflies!

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Last night's Prof Brian Cox talk. Apart from the space colonizing conclusion, Prague bridge in space and the AI modern monumentalism in space images it was great (with P J Harvey music and him breaking into final countdown like the 80s/90s popstar he is)...

Snowflakes in Prague, a cosmic idea by 17rh c Kepler when he forgot a greeting card

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

On point! Meanwhile, in game design:

game designer/developer explaining how the screen width changes depending on how each pirate ship player is doing compared to the other

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

My pleasure! There is a book on the actual writing of actual Ludd-ites that a chatbot could use abertzalekomunista.net/images/Libur...

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I didn't find one (although I was told there is a podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...) but Google AI helpfully said it would roleplay Ned Ludd for me. I asked it to treat the national archives as its main source and to flag any conflicting or external sources if it used them:

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I think I went to the wrong Philosophy department: www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/find...

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Yes line manager, of course I feel very efficient in my new (yet old) office with nobody else around, a clutter of books and a clutch of old VR equipment, a large wall monitor, and game DVDs.

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Prison corp here we come. www.news.com.au/world/north-...

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

"Tower of freedom" in a creepy, beautiful, style that Sauron could have penned. But I'm not one of the convinced that bombs are the answer. It's like we have gone back 100 years. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

the Azadi (freedom) tower in Tehran suffering airstrike.

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Sure, if you are interested in actual cars you can find more details about this actual EV (Skoda Epiq). But more importantly, I want to know if one can order the pebbles paint version!

Test drive of Skoda Epiq EV, against what looks like a Prague bridge backdrop.

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Next time I am asked to tidy up my desk this will be the spark joy inspiration..

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

This is how I just landed in Luxembourg, in the fog, mist and snow. Felt like a subarctic Casablanca stage set ..

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

And if you aren't in Luxembourg on Monday but near LMU Munich THIS Thursday do I have (another) talk for you! (Image by Sophia Booij, part of her PhD on collections and games). Talk starts at 6PM, Lecture Hall A119, LMU Main Building, Geschwister-Scholl-Pl. 1, Munich.

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

A photo of a French env. student explaining arctic circle myths in Rovaniemia at midnight on a hill named after 1000 wolverines, while we wait for the aurora (that never arrived). From 2021, when I was a visiting fellow to Jyväskylä...

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Is it my imagination or is Jemaine Clement turning over time into a Tintin character? (from www.fastcompany.com/3054716/don-...)

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Game Jam in the Garden! We invite GLAM professionals, creatives, researchers & students to design & prototype games inspired by nature, the gardens, & the living world around us. Adelaide Botanic Garden, Goodman Bldg, Hackney Rd Adelaide Fri 7 Nov 9am - 5pm ACDT. events.humanitix.com/game-jam-in-...

Game Jam in the Garden, Adelaide Botanic Gardens, 7 November 2025, 9--5. Poster of the free event. Run by Playful Cultures Lab, IVE UniSA.

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

#CFP www.digraconference2026.com Intersectional Pleasures Maynooth Ireland 14-18 June 2026. Abstracts due 1 Dec.

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

The surreal shard edges of gaussian splats are so interesting, I need to find someone with an XGRIDS-3D Reconstruction-Spatial Computing-Handheld Scanner! superspl.at/view?id=ca36...