So last night I went out with my friend Laurie, and after driving around town for a while just talking, we wound up going to see The Core at the Wooster Movies 10. It was actually a better movie than I expected, but that may have had more to do with the way we saw it instead of the movie itself. To properly amplify the fun quotient of any movie, go see a flick that was panned but has still been around for a couple of weeks, and then go see the 10 o’clock showing on a Tuesday night. You’ll be yawning the next day, but you will most likely also be the only people in the theater, so you can sit on the floor in the middle aisle and heckle the movie the whole way through. It was great.
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I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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