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.
October 15, 2003 – 12:16 pm
Thinking about things this weekend, I thought I’d jot down a few notes here, for when (if ever) I get as depressed as I was earlier this year. The open road. A good cup of coffee. Joni Mitchell on the iPod. Happy clients. Good friends. Work in the queue. Money in the bank. Ideas for […]
October 14, 2003 – 7:39 pm
Dear sweet Jesus Yeshua. I fall off the Internet for a few days to go see my girlfriend and I make Wired magazine. Well, there’s another life’s ambition realized. Cool!
October 13, 2003 – 1:13 pm
Doing a lot of driving these days, and enjoying every minute of it. I’m currently sitting in Kate’s apartment in New York, working on client projects and singing faint hosannahs to the gods of mobile computing. I do believe that for my next trick, I’m going to subscribe to the T-Mobile HotSpot service so I […]
October 9, 2003 – 10:37 pm
I wanted to point out the ridiculous amount of cool stuff appearing lately in the mediasphere. Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver, Neil Gaiman’s 1602 and Endless Nights, Dave McKean’s impending Mirror-Mask, Stephen King’s upcoming Dark Tower continuation The Wolves of the Calla… By the twiddling of my thumbs, something damn cool this way comes. I love the […]
October 9, 2003 – 9:54 pm
Slowly, bit by bit, things are returning to normal. Fray Day is done (except for the video editing and recaps), the Virtual Book Tour has blown through (I’ve archived the page here if you want to see what the TOTQ Virtual Book Tour Edition looked like), and now it’s back to client work, hammering on […]
October 8, 2003 – 11:51 pm
I want to wrap today’s Virtual Book Tour stop here by thanking Dennis Hensley and Dave White for stopping by, and Erin Quill for her multiple attempts to access the system. We never did figure out what bizarro MT bug prevented her from logging on, but rest assured she was with us in spirit. Guys, […]
October 8, 2003 – 6:15 pm
I’m with you on the whole Meg Ryan thing, Dennis. The combined cocktail of her nude scenes in “In the Cut”, the recent surgery, and the whole relationship explosion plus fiasco with Russell Crowe add up to one of the most horrific midlife meltdowns I’ve ever seen on the public scene. Which is awful, because […]
October 8, 2003 – 5:35 pm
Never been much into westerns I’m afraid. I remember when Unforgiven was the big Oscar fave–I finally managed to go see it and I fell asleep. For shame–but it was late and I had had a long day of doing whatever it was I was doing in the early 90s. I also want to clarify […]
October 8, 2003 – 3:59 pm
Actually, dance movies are sort of seeing a revival, what with MTV Films’ “Save The Last Dance” and the recent explosion of onscreen musicals like Baz Luhrmann’s “Moulin Rouge” and “Chicago” (if you can count those as ‘dance’ movies) but I’m not sure that such a small handful qualifies as a full-blown resurgance. I’m all […]
October 8, 2003 – 3:29 pm
Speaking of nutty movies, has anyone seen the old sci-fi musical Toomorrow with Olivia Newton John. it’s from like the early 70’s and it’s nuts. I’ve seen clips of it but my friend who has the video only has it in Spanish. I’m dying for an English version…
