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.
February 6, 2008 – 9:36 am
Ugh. Well, at least he took Boston: Hillary Clinton withstood a string of high-profile endorsements for Barack Obama to glide to a surprisingly decisive victory, while Mitt Romney held onto his Republican base to handily beat John McCain yesterday, in the most competitive and meaningful Massachusetts presidential primary in memory. In one of the largest […]
February 2, 2008 – 11:34 am
So far this weekend I’ve knocked off another two films on my AFI Top 100 project: Network (1976) and A Night at the Opera (1935), and so far it’s been a fantastic weekend. I know I should write more about these films, but really, you’ve gotta see these to believe ’em. When someone told me […]
February 1, 2008 – 8:46 am
Obviously the hottest story on the wire this morning is Microsoft’s $44.6B bid for Yahoo! (That wasn’t meant to be exclamatory, but writing “Yahoo!.” just looked odd.) Given that the struggling Internet giant just announced on Tuesday that it would be cutting a thousand jobs, reported internal concerns that Jerry Yang can’t rally the troops […]
January 29, 2008 – 9:12 pm
Jean Hannah Edelstein of The Guardian asks an interesting question today: Can the novella save literature? In the microessay (which is itself fitting), she argues: Readable in a couple of hours, a novella demands far less time than a full-length novel: you can get through them in the same amount of time it takes to […]
January 29, 2008 – 10:03 am
Okay, this is a fantastic data point in my recent research into niche media groups – specifically, the Jim Henson Company. As of today, Fraggle Rock and Farscape are available on iTunes. Why is this big news? Because Farscape is infamous for being a difficult show to collect. First, because it’s been reissued in several […]
January 27, 2008 – 11:37 pm
Since the last time I posted an update on this project, I’ve managed to watch A Clockwork Orange, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Unforgiven, and Raging Bull. If I weren’t still feeling relatively laid low by the bug I caught last weekend (this sucker’s a tenacious little SOB) I’d be writing up the kind […]
January 24, 2008 – 8:09 am
Bonus points to those in the audience who get the lyrical reference in the title to this post, but it sums up my current state of the universe pretty much perfectly. I began coming down with something on Monday, was down flat on Tuesday, was back up on my feet (but exactly one Red Bull […]
January 22, 2008 – 5:30 pm
I don’t believe it – Heath Ledger has reportedly committed suicide. I’m stunned. It’s possible that this is due to a relationship ending last year, but still… The man had so much going for him.
January 21, 2008 – 12:15 pm
Last night Laura and I continued our trek through the AFI top 122 with Frank Capra’s 1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, one of the films I’d been most looking forward to for several reasons. One, I’m a big Jimmy Stewart fan. Cary Grant and John Wayne are both awesome in their own ways, but […]
January 20, 2008 – 10:42 am
Today’s New York Times Magazine features a brilliant essay by Virginia Heffernan on Friday Night Lights and Art in the Age of Franchising: The fault of “Friday Night Lights†is extrinsic: the program has steadfastly refused to become a franchise. It is not and will never be “Heroes,†“Project Runway,†“The Hills†or Harry Potter. […]
