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 5, 2007 – 12:52 pm
Last week I got a scare that The Power of the Dark Crystal, the sequel to Henson’s The Dark Crystal that Genndy “Samurai Jack” Tartakovsky has been prepping for two years, had been axed. Now this morning’s jog around the Internet reveals news from the Muppet Central Forum that the hiatus was just a rumor. […]
February 5, 2007 – 10:46 am
Just a couple to share with you folks today. Cut me some slack, I’m working on the THESIS. Kotaku tours Square Enix UK. Wow, except for the Final Fantasy swag, that office complex looks like, um, an office complex. You’d think a company that makes such fantastic stuff would splurge for some better architecture. Wii […]
February 5, 2007 – 10:13 am
A couple of days ago, MacNN rolled out their newly-redesigned forums, and I have to say I’m impressed. The level of detail involved in skinning what’s normally a standard, boring element across many websites is serious points. The rounded edges across the board are really sweet, and the style switcher popup is beatiful, but what […]
February 4, 2007 – 6:32 pm
These things she said, then said again, this life he led, no matter when, the lives we lived those miles away, inside my head, where we could play, the dream she dreamed, each night that year, the coat he wore, that smelled like fear, the snow that fell, upon the ground, and fell some more, […]
February 4, 2007 – 6:05 pm
These things she said, this life he led, the lives we lived inside my head, the dream she dreamed, the coat he wore, the snow that fell and fell some more, this all is that, all that is this, with nothing left but a mother’s kiss; this dream I dreamed, a dream before, nothing less, […]
February 4, 2007 – 1:19 pm
My old comrade-in-arms David Seitzinger is moving up in the world! He just finished the DAVE School program in Florida, resulting in the short film Creepers, the story of a group of forest critters who are also superheroes. Cool stuff, and as a result he’s just landed a gig working for an animation studio in […]
February 3, 2007 – 3:37 pm
According to boxofficemojo.com, Guillermo del Toro’s critically-lauded film Pan’s Labyrinth was produced on a budget of $19M and has, so far, taken in a domestic total of $19,188,000 and a foreign total of $25,941,961. This means that the film has a worldwide total so far of $45,129,961 for a profit of $26,129,961 (I think). In […]
February 3, 2007 – 12:21 pm
The followup to my previous post is sort of thesis-related (excuse me, THESIS related) so I thought I’d scribble my thoughts down here. The main direction of my thinking here is simply, “What does it mean to succeed in media?” We’ve heard a lot about Chris Anderson’s Long Tail theory, which suggests, at heart, that […]
February 3, 2007 – 10:37 am
Today is shaping up to be a Very Bad Day and I’ve only been up for about an hour and a half. WTF. I wake up to take my morning jog around ‘teh Internets’ and discover that they’ve canned Joss Whedon from Wonder Woman. This sucks. Hard. It also gives support to my current feeling […]
February 1, 2007 – 7:35 pm
As you may or may not have heard, yesterday Boston was shut down when a bunch of “suspicious devices” were found on a number of buildings and bridges here in Boston. I found out about it when I called Laura after the end of the day’s Sony Game Workshop sessions, and my reaction was, in […]
