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.

Inspirations: Michel Gondry.

There’s a great article in the New York Times right now on videomaker Michel Gondry, called “Captain Video Prepares for Takeoff“. Gondry is the one responsible for the upcoming movie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, starring Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey (apparently in another antiCarrey role). Gondry does nifty things with yarn and Legos […]

Finishing Season Part 3: Voiceproblem.org.

Next up in Finishing Season is Voiceproblem.org: The Voice Problem Website, a project I’ve been working on for – no joke – three years. Voiceproblem.org (which is also the enormous project I alluded to earlier) is the brainchild of David Bradley, the founder of The Advisory Board and the owner of The Atlantic Monthly. The […]

Finishing Season Part 2: CollaborationTown.

As part 2 of Finishing Week Season, I’m proud to unveil the website for CollaborationTown: a Theatre Company. CollaborationTown is a theatre troupe doing neat political satire and commentary theater up in New York City. One of the founding members is my old compadre Jesica Avellone, of whom I’m insanely proud, and happy to help […]

Finishing Season Part 1: The Yellow and the Orange.

I’ve got a couple things rolling out this weekend, after the long work of Finishing Week. First up: Kimberley Reid Voice Over, another little site for my friends over at Sound Advice. Nothing too complex over here, just a pretty little design. With fruit. More to come! Update: Since getting all these wrapped up feels […]

Bigha, betta, more!

So I’ve been reading over at Matt Haughey’s blog about his recent trip to the Bigha bike factory. Bighas are those weird-looking bikes that have you seated more upright than the bent-over models. There’s something about those suckers that appeals to me, although I’m not entirely sure what it is. Maybe it’s the high-tech gadgetry […]

I mean…

Finishing week. That’s what I meant. Finishing week. Yeesh.

Life: The Lightning Round.

Right now things at Dreamsbay HQ are moving fast and furious. One project I’m working on now doesn’t look like it’s going to go live until after SXSW (which I’m still pissed about missing, BTW), so I have a leetle breathing room on that front. My compatriot, brother-in-arms and programmer for the video game is […]

Renewal.

Had a great day yesterday. Bounced back from Sunday’s stomach bug with a vengeance, resulting in a long day of client meetings and hammering on projects. I’m hoping to follow that up with another one today that’s almost as productive – which means I’ll probably be offline for most of the day. Suffice it to […]

Last night was geek night.

So last night The Lord of the Rings won all 11 Academy Awards for which it was nominated, tying the record held by Titanic and Ben-Hur. What a night for the genre, and what further proof for my theory that really great work in the fantasy/sci-fi vein can equal or surpass works from other genres. […]

Writing journal under (re)development.

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