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.
Something is afoot in the land of online imagery. My Twitter account has come to serve as the CNN crawler to my RSS feeds’ feature stories and interviews: little bits and snippets of news with tinyurl pointers to the latest events. As I scrolled through my account this morning, I saw that at 5:31 PM […]
Pink dye in my braids streaks my fingers, Fuzzy Pikachu pack strapped to my back, String of Hello Kitty charms accompanying each step With a jingle-jangle symphony of tiny bells. My home is a continent where I’ve never set foot, My mother tongue is something I cannot speak, My seinen thoughts read right to left, […]
Like a rock concert in the middle of winter, Like leather pants on a man old enough to be your daddy, Like a convertible in a thunderstorm, A pop reference still too recent to be retro, A line from a sitcom nobody ever watched, This is the way she would walk into the room, Too […]
Tell me a story of swords and sandals, Set in the Vatican, the Pope versus the Devil, The streets cloaked in fog and the sun long gone, Long sweeping shots establishing the mood Just as keenly as the eerie tinkling tones, Philip Glass in the background. From V-1 to V-2: The deep canals covered in […]
I stand a hundred feet above the sand, lifeline cinched about my waist, feathers quivering at my fingertips, the towering mast beneath my feet raising me up beside the deified dead. The sunset horizon stretches out behind me, casting we Totonac into sharp relief, voladores silhouetted against the Mexican twilight. I put my head down and […]
Blink, no, too slow by far, not F-16 fast, throttles full open and engines at full rip-roar blast, still not fast, not ultra-fast laser fast, moving an atom’s breadth, dancing in femtoseconds, weaving and cutting and welding and building, erecting great monuments on the surfaces of semiconductors, entire civilizations on the backs of things too small to be perceived. […]
Tiny bits and pieces of something removed, Artifacts that hint at a larger thing, a greater device, A clockwork the size of the sun, perhaps, Its warmth and fire generated by eternally grinding gears, Shooting plasma plumes each time a tooth catches, Darkening sunbathers a million million miles away, A cancer machine crouching between clouds […]
March 29, 2008 – 11:54 pm
Oh, man.  This is going to be an expensive week.  First Laura and I spent the afternoon shopping for supplies at the mall today, then I came home to find that Jim Butcher’s next Harry Dresden novel, A Small Favor, comes out on Tuesday, as does the new album by R.E.M.  Both of these I knew […]
This is sad: after five years, What Do I Know?, the weblog of designer extraordinaire Todd Dominey, is closing its virtual doors. What he says is true – the site has been a virtual ghost town for months. Yet still it had a place of pride in my Inspirations folder, the collection of blogs from […]
Open your eyes as wide as you can, Make your pupils islands in the middle of moon-white seas, And count the shades of blue you can discover in your periphery (Cerulean, turquoise, navy, aquamarine, etc.) — Be specific, be minute, be exact and precise, Tick them off on your fingers and toes and follicles, Rattle […]
