Hey, all – I just got back to Washington, DC to discover great heaping piles of things waiting for my attention. I’ll be slogging through emails and the to-do list tomorrow, so if you’re waiting on something from me, look for it then.
Let’s see, what all is new and notable? On the geek front, the return of scheduled startup and shutdown times has me more excited than anything else in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther (whew, what a mouthful). I’ve been mourning the ability to set a wakeup time and macro to check my email, load the morning news, and start playing music ever since I abandoned Mac OS 9. I can’t wait until September.
On the arts front, Neil Gaiman has penned a very touching and personal essay on Dave McKean which is quite nice. I hope I manage to warrant an essay like that from someone someday. Hopefully before I have been planted six feet under.
On the personal front, Chicago was amazing. Apologies to those I didn’t manage to see this time around. I will do my damnedest to rectify that very soon, which may be sooner than you’d expect.
Oh, there are lots of things to discuss and post about and whatnot, but right now I’m dog tired and have every inclination to turn in early. I’ll post more details soon, just as soon as I’ve slept off that drive and have time to think. Stay tuned.
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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