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’m there: The Garden State.

Nice. Nicked from k10k, the beautiful little trailer for Garden State, written and directed by Zach Braff, the neurotic lead guy from NBC’s “Scrubs”. Check it out – there’s some great cinematography going on here. Yo, Chicago folks – where are all the great art house theaters?

Truth in advertising.

I find it greatly amusing that the ads for The Matrix: Revolutions is being pitched with the simple catchphrase, “complete the trilogy”. Uh, yeah – because the only people who would buy that piece of schlock are the completists. Which, unfortunately, probably includes me. One of these days. *sigh* Maybe someday they’ll release a Super […]

Return of the Thin Guy.

I’m working on bringing Ken back online – stay tuned.

The Four Corners.

While I’m a little behind on the announcement of this one, my friend (and {fray} alum) Tom Bridge just rolled out a new project, The Four Corners, which appears to be an ambitious weblog celebrating the way everything intertwines. I’m very impressed, and am scouring through my personal notes to find something I could submit. […]

New art style.

What did I do with my weekend? First I had a fabulous Saturday night with Nick F. and SarahScott and her friends Jesse, Adam and Steph, which resulted in a conversation that lasted until 4AM. Love those. Then, on Sunday, I started working on the idea of doing some more character illustrations for my novel, […]

Heading for the big 5-0.

Back when I was the Web Producer for The Advisory Board, and it came time for me to bail, and I had to interview candidates for my replacement, my boss gushed about how the guy who would eventually replace me had thirty websites on his resume. At the time, I remember being rather impressed as […]

Surprise, surprise, surprise.

Well, now, this is certainly interesting. Photographic and documented truth that our President is a big fat liar – not just about the whole WMD state of affairs, but about all the lip service he’s been paying to the firefighters, the children’s hospitals, the retirees, the education sector… One damn lie after another. Oh, and […]

Augmented reality.

Henry Jenkins of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program weighs in with a new Digital Renaissance column, Look, Listen, Walk, which is all about the concept of augmented reality. Basically, you know all those people who use their cell phones to turn on, tune in and drop out? Imagine using devices like the iPod to augment […]

Kinja ninjas!

Well, it looks like Meg Hourihan and her crew have taken the wraps off their secret project. Kinja, the weblog guide has entered its public beta phase, although one wonders about the wisdom of launching a public site on April Fool’s Day. The site, which is essentially an aggregator for weblog feeds, is already peppered […]

Further proof that MT (Mena Trott, not Movable Type) rocks.

Just realized that about the shared initials, which one has to wonder about, but whatever. The lovely Ms. Trott has just launched Mena’s Corner, a personal weblog from inside Six Apart, which I think is a great idea. Two of my favorite weblogs lately have been Jewelboxing, the behind-the-scenes blog for the new product from […]