Author Archives: geoffreylong

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.

Beginning to grok MT4.

It’s taken me long enough, but I’m finally beginning to understand some of the bizarre intricacies of MT4.  I’m still annoyed that some stuff that should be easier simply isn’t, and I’m equally annoyed that there aren’t more resources available online for MT4 yet (there are big gaps of 6A’s official documentation that simply read […]

Monstrous behavior.

Two things can be learned from the following story: A foreign policy adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama resigned on Friday after calling campaign rival Hillary Clinton a “monster” during an interview with a British newspaper. Samantha Power, a foreign policy aide on the Illinois senator’s White House campaign, said the comments were inexcusable. They were published on […]

Undoing the doing.

Typical Movable Type upgrade experience: you spend X hours attempting to upgrade the software, then Y hours attempting to integrate the new version’s functionality into your pre-existing templates.  The tag changes between MT3 and MT4 this time around are particularly sinful, but hey — if this prevents all the comment spam I was getting before, […]

I just finished installing Movable Type 4!

Welcome to my new blog powered by Movable Type. This is the first post on my blog and was created for me automatically when I finished the installation process. But that is ok, because I will soon be creating posts of my own!

Links list: 02-28-08.

Haven’t done one of these in a while either… Behind the Scenes at First Second Books. I love these tours. Warren Ellis’ Freakangels stats. Hmmm. Scalzi offers writers advice on money. Double hmmmm. The poetics of comics. Cool stuff. Gaiman with his Henson Award. Very cool stuff. NYT: Starbucks takes a 3-hour coffee break. Remains […]

New photos up on Flickr!

For those of you who only follow my RSS feed, I’ve posted a few new sets of photos to my Flickr account. They’re primarily GAMBIT-related, but there’s still some great stuff there from this year’s IAP, last week’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and one from Wondercon that features me and the world’s shortest […]

After Kafein.

I realize it’s been almost two weeks since my last entry. Trust me, they’ve been busy weeks. Big update soon, but until then, some art.

Bribing Alan Moore with genius.

Ha! Hahahahahaha!

Covet.

It’s been a while since I’ve been truly excited by any Sandman swag, but day-umn. In other news, today was an extremely long day at the office. Productive, but extremely long. I produced what might be the biggest thing I’ve ever designed today, a 3-foot by 4-foot poster for our lab’s trip to GDC next […]

Two small things.

I find it very weird that, except for the curly hir and earring, Ben Brown and I have somehow become doppelgangers. I think I may very well be a creative generalist. (Thanks, Kevin.)