So while doing my Christmas shopping, I picked up Coldplay’s new A Rush of Blood to the Head, and it’s good, but it’s not the incredible art that people seem to be making it out to be. It’s a nice example of fairly nice, slightly-more-intelligent-than-most pop puff music, but that’s about it. It’s no Hard Candy or The Future That Was, in other words. There are better places to spend your allowance, kids.
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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