Geoffrey Long is a media analyst, scholar, and storyteller exploring transmedia experiences, emerging entertainment platforms and the future of entertainment as the Lead Narrative Producer for the Narrative Design Team at Microsoft Studios. He is an alum of the MIT Comparative Media Studies program, a FoE Fellow with the Futures of Entertainment community, and a co-editor of the Playful Thinking book series from the MIT Press. His personal site can be found at geoffreylong.com.
August 23, 2004 – 1:35 pm
There’s a scene in Zach Braff’s Garden State where Natalie Portman looks at Zach and says, “You’re in it right now, aren’t you? That’s what my mom always says when she looks at me and sees I’m trying to work something out in my head. You’re in it.” I’ve been in it all morning. This […]
August 23, 2004 – 11:31 am
Ah, the neverending refrain of my life: bang bang hammer hammer. If my life had a soundtrack, it would be an infinite symphony of metaphorical power drills and electric saws. A quick note: Adam Greenfield has once again made my linked-list with a very insightful piece on the psychology of a redesign and the state-of-the-art […]
August 21, 2004 – 11:23 pm
OK, well, “high score” might be a weird term for it, but I just finished typing in almost all of the stuff I’ve been writing lately. My current page count as of this moment is 129, with a word count of just over 33,000. In the last two weeks I’ve written almost 7,000 words and […]
August 21, 2004 – 12:38 pm
A brief observation here. It’s no secret that my favorite writers on the planet are Neil Gaiman and Jonathan Carroll. I wear my influences proudly not just on my sleeve, but tattooed across my forehead. I also like Stephen King, Nick Bantock and Dave McKean. (And, here, I want to throw a quick Bad Dave, […]
August 21, 2004 – 12:04 pm
Wow. I guess I should have posted that quasi-obituary months ago. In the last couple of weeks, I’ve plowed through almost the entirety of Act Two for Bones of the Angel and laid almost all the groundwork for Act Three. I’m writing as fast as I can, filling several of those little Moleskine journals with […]
August 20, 2004 – 9:44 am
I found a trailer this morning for a new movie called I Heart Huckabees, which is billed as “An Existential Comedy” and looks like it could easily become my favorite movie since The Royal Tenenbaums. In select cities October 1; I am hereby sincerely, deeply hoping Chicago is a Select City. Also! I am looking […]
August 19, 2004 – 11:15 am
This will probably come back to haunt me someday, when my musical tastes have evolved a bit more, but right now, as I write this, I can’t stand Björk’s music. She does, however, have fantastic taste in artwork, as evidenced by the kick-ass aesthetics that accompany her new album, MEDULLA. Of special note is the […]
August 19, 2004 – 9:23 am
I should have done this a long time ago. By starting work in earnest on a new project and getting myself neck-deep in client work, I’ve managed to unblock myself on Bones of the Angel. Since I was in Ohio two weeks ago, I’ve written fifty pages’ worth of new material and plowed almost three […]
August 19, 2004 – 12:39 am
So you’ll notice that I’ve been playing with Flickr lately. So far this seems like a great tool, and I’m interested to see how I could combine Flickr with Moveable Type to create an automation system for my portfolio. This does, of course, raise the question of whether or not entries into the Flickr system […]
August 19, 2004 – 12:07 am
Somehow it seems like I can never get anything done unless there’s something else I’m supposed to be doing. Like tonight. I’ve got a pile of freelance work that I need to be plowing through, and what did I do? Wrote another chapter on my novel. Sheesh. (I wrote another chapter of my novel! Woo-hoo!)
