Wow, that took forever. Last summer, when Blogger “upgraded” their servers, something got completely FUBARed with Ken Schultz’s “The Thin Guy Diaries,” which was a staple of Inkblots’ Voice section. I went in and tried to fix it, but to no avail. Since then, I’ve been trying to resuscitate the damn thing whenever I got some spare time (and y’all know how often I sit around twiddling my thumbs). Long story short, last night I gave Blogger the finger and did a new Moveable Type install, whipped up a revamped logo, and relaunched The Thin Guy Diaries by Ken Schultz. I backed up the archives, so one of these days I’ll be able to bring those back, but at least Ken, like the Cubs, is back in business.
Welcome back, buddy. Sorry it took me so long!
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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