What does a new-media guy do when he's away on vacation? In Howard Goldbaum's case, he spent a couple of hours each morning sitting out on the balcony looking over the Caribbean, Powerbook atop his bathing-suited lap, creating a tongue-in-cheek travel journal with multimedia tchatchkas in it.

Fear and Loafing on the Mayan Riviera is the delightful result.

Howard certainly fits the bill of a new-media guy, being director of the Multimedia Program at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. This entertaining piece was created with Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, SoundEdit, QuickTime VR Authoring Studio, MakeCubicPPC, Stitcher, and VRWorx. Howard suggests that probably the most interesting technical aspect of the piece is that all the QTVR was done entirely hand-held, as our new-media guy is morally opposed to taking a tripod on vacation. Stitcher made it possible to create the cubic VR panoramas with a hand-held camera.