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.
August 2, 2008 – 10:12 am
Ken, this one’s for you, coming courtesy of a link in Journalista! and WFMU’s Beware of the Blog. In 1969, ABC had a musical variety TV show called Music Scene. When the show ended, they got a very special co-host: the 79-year-old Groucho Marx. Sporting an absolutely amazing hat straight from an MIT graduation, he […]
August 1, 2008 – 12:46 pm
I have so many different tabs open at the moment that I have to shut some down before I go insane. So… The Guardian on genre novels nominated for the Booker. Typical kerfuffle. The iffy business of comics to film. Wise words. David Foster Wallace on John McCain. (Hat tip to Kevin Smokler.) The Christian […]
August 1, 2008 – 10:42 am
Someday, when I have an entry in the IMDB, it will include something like: Oozerts (2008) (VG) (voice: English version) …. Scoop McGoop Yes, it’s true. I have made my voice acting debut as an irascible Irish monster with a jetpack. And it was awesome. David Hayter, I’m coming for you.
I love that blessed and beautiful feeling when you discover something that’s been missing for all too long. For me, lately, that feeling has been coming in waves with the discovery of an entire collection of my peers that are working in the slipstream / interstitial / contemporary reinvention-of-genre spaces. I blogged about this before […]
Transmedia narratives are really hot right now, especially if the San Diego Comic-Con is any barometer. DC Comics’ Wildstorm is leading the charge, as the imprint announced Resident Evil and Devil May Cry comics, which may or may not be considered canonical; the Wildstorm Gears of War comic is definitely a transmedia extension; Prototype may […]
First it was the buy-one-get-one-free sale on Criterion Collection DVDs at DeepDiscount (which concluded as of midnight last night, thank God), but now Apple has launched a $6.99 and $7.99 sale on Classical and Jazz albums. My wallet! My poor, innocent, empty wallet! I mean, seriously – Hilary Hahn! Yo-Yo Ma and Ennio Morricone! Joshua […]
While a big motivator for our trip to Greece was the desire to actually see Greece and its islands, the real catalyst for the trip was the 5th World Congress of the International Toy Researchers’ Association (ITRA), a group of which I am now a proud member. If you’d told me that such an organization […]
Maybe it’s because I’m just getting back into it after letting it lie dormant for so long, or maybe it’s because it had been gathering hype for a ridiculous amount of time (approximately 3.5 years) before shipping, or maybe it’s because my imagination almost always outstrips what reality finally serves up on a chipped, faded […]
Another annoyance fixed: the Archives page is now (mostly) fixed. The Archives had been publishing to the wrong page for the last little while (.html as opposed to .php) but now it’s back in the right place. The only thing still missing is the Search function, but one thing at a time.
I’m tidying up some loose bits around here, starting with this blog’s RSS feed. It had been inexplicably busted since I migrated to Movable Type 4, but now it’s up and running again. You can find it at feed://feeds.feedburner.com/TipOfTheQuill.
