I shouldn’t be blogging from work, but I have the New York Times as my homepage and when I saw this front-pager I couldn’t resist: a small tornado was sighted this morning in Brooklyn.
A tornado. In New York.
I was first struck by a tiny touch of homesickness, followed rapidly by the quirky idea that this might make a truly bizarre children’s book, a la George Selden’s The Cricket in Times Square. “Timmy the Twister is lost and searching for a way home, leaving wrecked taxicabs and bodegas in his wake…”
After researching transmedia storyworlds at MIT, guiding Microsoft in its CTO/CXO's think tank, co-founding Microsoft Studios' Narrative Design team, and exploring the future of entertainment and media as the Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab, I'm now the Creative Director for USC's World Building Media Lab, a storyteller, a designer, a consultant, and a doctoral student in Media Arts and Practice at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. more »
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