Did you know that Wilco, the alt-country geniuses behind last year’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, have released a free EP? Anyone can stream it, and owners of YHF can download it. Swanky.
Bonus: I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, the documentary about the troubled birth of the aforementioned smash hit album, is now available on DVD. Even if you’re unfamiliar with Wilco, the movie is well worth watching as a report card for the music industry and how artistic experimentation can be snubbed by the suits and celebrated by the masses. That, and it’s really beautiful cinema to boot.
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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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