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.
September 1, 2006 – 12:00 pm
Today I’m supposed to give a presentation to introduce myself to the new first-year students in CMS. Since I’ve been so busy with other stuff, I totally haven’t gotten around to making something new, so I’ve been wracking my brain about how to repurpose something old in a creative way. You know, show off something […]
August 31, 2006 – 9:16 am
Laura and I arrived safe and sound in Boston late last night, with little to no trouble from Fawkes the Benz (that we didn’t *totally* bring upon ourselves, anyway). I am now sitting in a mild disaster of a house half-disassembled from one roommate leaving, staring at today as the one day that serves as […]
August 29, 2006 – 12:43 pm
Wow. Wow. Courtesy of my friend Adam, check out songstress Vienna Teng, who has a beautiful Tori Amos vibe – only with plain-language lyrics. Wow. Wow.
August 27, 2006 – 7:37 pm
My world right now is something of a crazy blur. That post I made last week about slowly going crazy? I am now going quickly very very quickly. The problem is this: each of my projects wants me to drop all of my other projects and work on their project exclusively. This clearly doesn’t work. […]
August 24, 2006 – 6:49 pm
The amount of work I’ve been doing this week is nigh-inhuman. I should have a bunch of nifty stuff to show for it when it’s done (kind of; mostly a bunch of MIT-related portfolio pieces) but still… Ohmyfreakinglord, I’m just about destroyed. I am one man, doing the work of an entire design agency, for […]
August 22, 2006 – 8:00 pm
So right now I’m alternating between heavy-duty crunch mode and heavy-duty nesting mode. I suspect that if I stay at MIT for more than just this next year, most of my Augusts until I’m well into my thirties will be like this. I’m trying to finish up all the open projects that I’ve been working […]
August 22, 2006 – 2:31 pm
I’m still contemplating buying the Simplehuman single cup pod brewer for my home studio. I’ve been resisting it because none of my favorite coffee providers make pods (a direct result, I suppose, of pods inherently brewing suboptimal coffee) and the deivce’s inexplicable lack of a timer. I suppose if it only takes a minute to […]
August 22, 2006 – 2:26 pm
A nice piece in Atlantic Unbound on the writing life: So You Want to Be a Writer. Currently available for free, but probably slipping behind the subscriber wall shortly, so skim it while you can… The only piece of advice I’d add: don’t tke a gig that will freely suck all your time in addition […]
August 17, 2006 – 4:17 pm
I’m way too excited about the news that there’s a new album out from the Gin Blossoms, “Major Lodge Victory.” This is awesome. The last new full Gin Blossoms album I know of was Congratulations… I’m Sorry, which came out back in 1996, the same year I graduated from high school – and the clips […]
August 16, 2006 – 6:25 pm
Ugh. One of the “perks” of having to upgrade to a new MacBook Pro is now I can run Windows on it. Whee. I’ve run Windows on a Mac before, in the eternally-pokey Connectix/Microsoft “solution”, but now that I can run Windows natively using Boot Camp or Parallels Desktop, ‘m hoping it will be somewhat […]
