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.
January 7, 2008 – 9:04 pm
I think the secret to keeping one’s New Year’s resolutions is making the right resolutions. Yesterday Laura and I marched down to Whole Foods and dropped somewhere around $120 in groceries, but I’m willing to bet that we bought enough stuff to keep us in chow for a week or two. Tonight I finally got […]
January 6, 2008 – 10:12 am
This is one of my favorite times of the year – the two-week period that contains both the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and MacWorld. As a future-loving son of a gun, I’ve been restlessly refreshing the newsfeeds at Electronista, Gizmodo and Engadget to stay on top of all the new announcements. So far, here are […]
January 5, 2008 – 9:24 am
Last night my friends Matt and Clara and I went out after work to catch Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, There Will Be Blood. Matt’s a huge Anderson fan, and when he found out the film was opening up in Harvard Square, we rocketed down there to catch the 6PM showing. I myself am a […]
January 4, 2008 – 4:22 pm
According to a new press release, “Warner Bros. Entertainment to Release its High-Definition DVD Titles Exclusively in the Blu-Ray Disc Format Beginning Later This Year“. Rats. Well, it’s like I’ve said from the get-go – I have a HD-DVD player, I will have a Blu-Ray player, and until my HD-DVD player dies and it’s impossible […]
January 3, 2008 – 9:34 pm
I’m trying not to get all worked up about next year’s election, since the last time I was thoroughly excited about an election – ahem – things didn’t go as I’d hoped. However, I’ve still got enough political interest left to have me keeping an eye on the Iowa caucuses tonight, which, for those of […]
January 2, 2008 – 7:45 am
Following up on last night’s post about Bob Rehak’s movie-a-day project, one of my longstanding goals has been to watch the entirety of the AFI’s Top 100 Movies list. Putting two and two together, it only makes sense that this would be a great place to start my own movie-a-day project (right after I finish […]
January 1, 2008 – 8:20 pm
After yesterday’s lengthy status report, I was just going to make a quick “Auld Lang Syne” type of post here today, but I’ve decided instead to outsource the expressing of my sentiments to others. “I am never sad to see a year go because, if I’ve done my job living wisely and well, it will […]
December 31, 2007 – 11:02 am
Things are nice and quiet in our Belmont apartment at the moment. There is a jet passing somewhere overhead, the cats are playing outside my office door so the bells on their collars are going jingle-jangle-jingle in a muffled sort of way, my computer tower is whirring softly on the floor beside me and the […]
December 23, 2007 – 10:23 am
Not particularly holiday-related, but I’d like to share a recent short piece nevertheless. Embers alight, tiny bulbs flickering on Smoke smoulders and crackling chars the scents and sounds of home Comfortably warm in blistering heat, cool and relaxed in licks of blue flame I stretch out and snuggle deeper beneath a quilt of ash My […]
December 21, 2007 – 5:08 pm
A couple of little notes before leaving the office for the rest of 2007… Tori Amos comic anthology coming in 2008. Comic Book Tattoo: awesome. Mass Effect as transmedia property. I smell a paper. Dead Space as transmedia property. I smell another paper. PICNIC conference videos. Must-see TV.
