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.
January 10, 2004 – 11:40 pm
So I spent the whole day Saturday sorting, cleaning, trashing old magazines and moving things around in my room. The result? I think I liked the way I had it before better. Whoops. Oh, well – there was some desperately-needed reorganization done, a bunch of crap got chucked, and now I have a more open […]
January 10, 2004 – 3:47 pm
The 20th anniversary issue of Vanity Fair, from September 2003, doesn’t get to the actual content until 173 pages in. IN the first 173 pages, they get through the table of contents, the contributors’ profiles, and the letters. One hundred and seventy-three pages worth of glossy ads taking up my shelf space. Ugh. See ya.
January 10, 2004 – 11:57 am
Every so often, I pull up to my desk, reach for one of the five coffee mugs I keep full of pens, highlighters, scissors and other assorted desk tools, and select a thin, black shaft with metal at one end and a plastic cap at the other. This is no pen or mechanical pencil – […]
January 9, 2004 – 6:00 pm
In a bout of “Designer, design thyself,” I’m contemplating new looks and trends and whatnot for 2004. I just got done flipping through the new issue of GQ (the one with Orlando Bloom on the cover, whom I was appalled to discover is the same age as me), and they had this big huge multi-page […]
January 9, 2004 – 4:45 pm
One of my favorite designers-with-blogs Todd Dominey has weighed in with his take on the iPod mini. As always, interesting reading, and, yeah, he’s just about right. The iPod mini is overpriced for its target – but now there’s talk of an HP-branded iPod hybrid, which could be interesting. Will it be the same price? […]
January 9, 2004 – 12:59 pm
So I’ve been thinking about moving to Chicago, but one thing keeping me here is a fear of what the economy and market are like out there. The craigslist entries for my line of work are downright paltry, which drives the point home that DC is recessionproof and New York is, well, right up there […]
January 8, 2004 – 11:03 pm
Tonight Hoser gave me some utterly kickass late Birthday/Christmas presents, most notably the DVDs of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, the BBC show he did a few years back which I’ve always wanted to see but somehow never got the chance. Thanks, bro. You rock.
January 8, 2004 – 10:59 pm
So sleepy. Will blog tomorrow. Okay, quick update. Spent most of the day driving and then catching up on stuff. My New Year is starting about a week late. 🙂 Also. Bit the bullet this week and bought the Adobe Creative Suite (the Standard edition, not the Premium, as all the PDF handling I need […]
January 7, 2004 – 10:32 pm
We liberal-leaning types tend to accuse Bush of saber-rattling with Tom Ridge’s continual tweaking of the security level. Code Orange! Code Red! Will we ever get back to Code Blue? Were we ever at Code Blue? So why doesn’t Dean or Clark or one of these fellas start asking why we’re still at Code Orange […]
January 6, 2004 – 2:14 pm
Am posting this from the Apple Store in Soho, where I just missed the end of Steve Jobs’ Macworld presentation. S’ok. As I was telling Kate while we were having lunch a couple of blocks away, the old Reality Distortion Field gets a little old after a while. Mini iPods? Eh. They’re okay. Not really […]
