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.
Dramatic chipmunk. Best five-second film on the Internet, indeed. Screenwriters for Bay’s Transformers writing Star Trek. Not sure this is good news. Brad Bird considering The Incredibles 2. Sweeeeeeet. Fossil + Starck Palindrome watch. Very, very pretty. Wall-E. The first trailer for Pixar’s next appears! Mocking Surface. “Your next PC will be a big-ass table.” […]
Gotta close some tabs, as my machine is slower than dirt… Savion Glover hates festivals. Guess he’s leaving the noise and funk outside. New focus on a forlorn Cleveland tower. Cleveland needs architects! MIT School of Architecture + Planning. Cool site. MOCCA Art Festival 2007: June 23-24, NYC. I wanna go… Michael Philips on Saul […]
Wired: Steam-Driven Dreams. The pieces by Halleux are amazing. stephanehalleux.com. More on the artist. Outdoor rooms. *adds to future-home notebook* Wired: Homestarrunner forsakes TV to stay true to web. Gutsy or dumb, you decide. WETA Workshop Mini-ManMelter at SDCC. Awww, I wanna go. The Batpod. Saywhatnow? Interactive art at the Toronto Sheraton. Check out the […]
So, for those of you who have been wondering what I’ve been alluding to for the last couple of weeks or so, methinks it’s time to finally let the cat out of the bag. I’ve been offered, and accepted, the position of Communications Director for the MIT Comparative Media Studies program and the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT […]
Hey, I got a hat tip from Henry on his blog entry about Pirates of the Caribbean 3: The secondary characters rely heavily on what my former student Geoffrey Long likes to describe as negative capability — they are well enough defined that we can imagine who they are, what they want, and why they […]
2007 Apple Design Awards. I can’t wait for Delicious Library 2.0. iPhone Interface in JavaScript. Mwa ha ha. MacWorld on Leopard’s iChat. “Invisible” sounds amazing. NYT: giant bird-like dino in China. Gigantoraptor! Don “Mr. Wizard” Herbert, 1918-2007. Rest in peace. Saul Steinberg’s Art of the Letterhead. I love the Smithsonian on the cliff. New York […]
Weeks will go by without something really truly purchase-worthy making its debut on the store shelves, and then a week like this comes along. First up was the release of Hellboy Animated: Blood and Iron, where I snagged one of the 10,000 Best Buy exclusive DVD-and-figure packs this morning. (Ah, to open or not… Oh, […]
Is it just me, or are the Apple Keynotes getting more and more disappointing? Today’s WWDC keynote featured the following: EA returning as a Mac game developer Stacks, folders in the Dock Translucent menu bar and a 3-D dock “Back to my Mac” .mac feature, which is essentially iDisk Cover Flow in the Finder, which […]
Adobe Apollo now AIR. Stupid, stupid name. Disney making Muppet Star Wars figures. I remember a comic based on this way back when… LAB Magazine. “Because semicolons are for wimps.” Heh. PBW: What WD Missed. Great online writers’ resources. Hellboy animated series in the works? How cool would this be? Farrago’s Wainscot. Nifty new webzine. […]
Everyone and their brother has seen a variant of the LOLcats meme – a saccharine-sweet picture of a kitten (or kitteh, in LOLcats speak) with a l33tspeak-esque caption photoshopped on, often in bitmapped Helvetica or something like it. Well, rstevens of Diesel Sweeties fame has co-opted thememe and unleashed LOL BOTS upon the world. It […]
