Author Archives: geoffreylong

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.

I AM David Duchovny!

Oh, this is too much fun. And eerily accurate! You are 46% geek You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate […]

The Iraqi occupation is getting out of hand.

According to an article in The New York Times this morning,

Crosspost: the elements currently shaping Bones of the Angel.

(Cross-posted from my writing journal.) It’s been a while since I’ve done any major writing on this journal about Bones of the Angel, and it’s worth a quick update to discuss what directions the story is currently taking as it slouches towards Bethlehem. It’s funny – while I’ve always wanted to tell stories, my interests […]

A concept: the elements currently shaping Bones of the Angel.

It’s been a while since I’ve done any major writing on this journal about Bones of the Angel, and it’s worth a quick update to discuss what directions the story is currently taking as it slouches towards Bethlehem. It’s funny – while I’ve always wanted to tell stories, my interests in video gaming, film and […]

Behind the scenes.

Apologies for the radio silence in this journal lately. I’ve been doing a great deal of client work, as well as some just general thinking. I have some plans and new concepts, but they’re not ready for “prime time” yet. For more news and updates, please refer to my regular weblog at www.inkblotsmag.com/voice/totq/. Thanks!

The next big thing: Hollywood directors making video games.

So there’s a neat New York Times article today called

Sold: The new Ford Escape SUV.

Hot diggety. If this thing drives and rides as well as its press release reads, I’ll be the proud owner of one of these babies come the end of the summer. Check out the new Ford Escape Hybrid SUV. Update: Oh, I just found the full Ford Escape Hybrid site. Oops. Nice Flash there, guys. […]

Helping a worthy, if geeky, cause.

My friend Kasi just pointed out that the first result on a Google search for ‘jew’ is a hate site. That ain’t right. So, Jew.

The wrong kind of fusion.

Oh, no. Nicked from Scott Andrew: the horror that is Beatallica. That is wrong on so many levels. I love it.

The return of Ken Schultz!

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 […]