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.
October 31, 2006 – 10:28 am
Happy pumpkin day, everybody! Life here in Beantown is actually quite excellent at the moment. My housemates and I threw a Halloween party this weekend which went over extremely well – I dressed up as the good doctor Gregory House and Laura wore her best Japanese dress – and then the rest of the weekend […]
October 26, 2006 – 12:39 pm
It’s not as catchy as Wolfmother, but it strikes me as an excellent title for a fun pulp paperback kind of book, which, you know, wouldn’t be a bad thing at all. Games, books, films, all these media types need a good dose of fun, and I think working under a title like Children of […]
October 26, 2006 – 12:21 pm
Today is a day for much art, apparently. Courtesy of my friend Barry, check out the beautiful works of Dutch paper artist Peter Callesen.
October 26, 2006 – 11:59 am
Tonight CMS is holding a special Colloquium roundtable on New Media and Art, which features Lauren Cornell from rhizome.org. I’m looking forward to this; Rhizome has been one of those sites that flits across my radar every couple of months, in part because of stories like this: The work is based on a simple concept: […]
October 25, 2006 – 11:59 pm
I have a porous mind, and a nearly insatiable hunger for pop culture. Thus, it’s embarassing (but not wholly surprising) when a phrase pops into my head that I think is catchy and highly useful for a new project, and then later I find out it’s totally in use. So yeah. The new project? Not […]
October 23, 2006 – 10:22 pm
Cool – the designer t-shirt site Threadless is having another one of their $10 sales, running now through Wednesday. They’ve also launched several nifty new tees, including Future Under Construction (which I’d buy if it were a print on paper), the deeply gorgeous Night Birds, and, finally, one that I like not so much for […]
October 23, 2006 – 11:34 am
Both Neil Gaiman and Warren Ellis do these little roundups of the blogosphere every so often, presumably for eventual use in upcoming projects. Today I’d like to try resuscitating an old Inkblots feature, The Note Pad, to follow their lead and jot down little discoveries to share with my readers (which includes my own later […]
October 23, 2006 – 10:19 am
While on my morning “jog” around the news sites, I read the The New York Times piece on Barack Obama’s hinting at a 2008 presidential candidacy. I am neither racist nor sexist, but I find myself wondering at the wisdom of a Democratic party simultaneously attempting to retake the White House and elect either the […]
October 21, 2006 – 6:06 pm
I have, on occasion, been accused of being permanently cranky, stressed-out and short-tempered. Unfortunately, this is more true than I like to admit – usually the direct result of one deadline or another going completely kerflooey or some other nightmare scenario. However, it’s also true that, on occasion, it actually takes very little to make […]
October 21, 2006 – 10:57 am
Much coolness: thanks to Fleen, I just discovered the webphotocomic a softer world. This is a media type that I’ve been kicking around the back of my head for a while now, actually, as something I might want to try at some point. We’ve seen different degrees of photography-in-comics in the past, including the hyperstylized […]
