So I finished my taxes on time, sent ’em off, and then yesterday I decided to work on Me Stuff – something I hadn’t done in weeks. I had all that inspiration built up from earlier in the week, you know, so I had to do something. So I did.
I didn’t finish the Spring Inkblots, as I’d hoped. See, on Tuesday night I went to see I.M. Pei lecture at the National Building Museum. It was fantastic – another inspiring element – but while I was there, I bumped into a girl that I’d studied with at The University of Exeter way back in 1998-1999. It was great seeing her again, and when we parted I told her to swing by my web site and drop me an email. Which one? I suddenly thought to myself, and found I was reluctant to confess that I have three or four different URLs I could give her. So I gave her my personal site, geoffreylong.com. And then I remembered that said site was not only abysmally out of date, but also pretty embarassing.
So yesterday I hammered on geoffreylong.com. And this morning, I finished it. (Kind of. I have a ton of portfolio pieces that still have to be added.) And then, this afternoon, the new geoffreylong.com went live.
What do you think?
Storyteller, scholar, consultant. Loving son, husband and father. Kindhearted mischief-maker.
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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