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.
A few weeks ago, none other than former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins published an essay in The Wall Street Journal called “Inspired by a Bunny Wabbit“, wherein he extolls the virtues of Warner Brothers’ Looney Tunes cartoons. He outlines their influence on his work, and even includes four poems from his first published collection […]
Ho. Lee. Cats. Some of you might remember that I TA’ed the Interactive Narrative course in the 2008-2009 academic year for Professor Ed Barrett. This was a huge amount of fun and I enjoyed every moment of it, as I usually do with teaching. It was massively educational, even though I didn’t get paid and […]
I’ve been meaning to write up my thoughts on this month’s trip to Greece for weeks now, but things immediately became so hectic upon my return that it’s kept slip-sliding down the to-do list. (Case in point: I’m writing this over my lunch hour, which is falling at 2:30.) Things are good, mind you – […]
I’ll come back to this subject in a week or so, because all the things I really want to talk about in Nolan’s The Dark Knight are going to require a decent number of spoilers, and trust me – this is not a movie you want spoiled. It has nothing (well, almost nothing) to do […]
I would be remiss if I didn’t point out to all my media-loving friends out there the buy one get one free sale currently going on over at DeepDiscount.com. My picks: Box Sets Monsters and Madmen (4 films) Olivier’s Shakespeare (3 films) Akira Kurosawa Sanjuro Seven Samurai Frederico Fellini La Strada 8 1/2 Ingmar Bergman […]
The interview I did for the State Department’s America.gov has just gone up with the somewhat dubious title Beachgoers’ Portable Movies May Distract Them from the Waves, which I find highly amusing and somehow fitting given that I’m leaving for vacation tomorrow evening. I myself plan to be distracted from the waves by Conrad, Pynchon […]
For those of you not following my Twitter stream, I have just posted a short essay featuring my (bemusement/excitement/fascination) that Warren Ellis is writing G.I. Joe webisodes over at the C3 blog. The article also features Joss Whedon’s new project Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and Seth MacFarlane’s upcoming Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy. Check […]
When C3 was first booting up in 2005, our circle of students would speak wistfully of how the Internet could have saved Joss Whedon’s Firefly or Warren Ellis’ Global Frequency. Although both of those properties seem to be dead or at least comatose, their creators have each announced new Internet-launched properties. Last week the trailer […]
This weekend I’ve been continuing some old quests: regular readers will know that I’ve been working my way through the AFI’s top 122 movies list (the result of combining the Institute’s original top 100 list and its revised top 100 list – 22 movies were added the second time around). As of this writing I’m […]
Man, I gotta learn to pace myself. In addition to my own entry this morning, “On Maps and Legends,” I also posted two more essays on the MIT blogs: “WiiWare, PSN, XBLA and the Long Tail” on the GAMBIT blog and “The Dangerous World of a GPS That Does Not Exist” on the C3 blog. […]
