I spent a few hours shooting videos today on RISD campus for pre-freshmen to experience together with me a short walk through the world of RISD. On the tour arranged by RISD Director of Interactive Media and alum Eric Meier, I lingered longest at the Edna W. Lawrence Nature Lab. The Nature Lab is a constantly curated collection of specimens from nature for freshmen in the Foundation Studies program to see, touch, and taste a myriad of natural phenomena. Butterflies, fish, wood, bone, moose, plants, are all living (or at least preserved) in harmony at the Nature Lab for RISD students to carefully observe and interpret. I felt I was sitting in Google’s database of images of any and every kind for the search term “nature.”