Author Archives: geoffreylong

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.

Second season of the new Doctor Who coming to Sci-Fi.

I’m not sure how I feel about Sci Fi airing the second season of the new Doctor Who – on the one hand, I loved last year’s episodes with the ninth Doctor, but I’m not sure how I feel about the tenth Doctor, nor am I sure how desperately I need to surrender another hour […]

One more step towards the perfect studio.

Very, very cool. Check out Gizmodo’s First Look: Belkin Surge Protectors, Good for Cable Management Fiends. I totally want to grab a couple of the Concealed models…

Florida Styx.

To all friends and strangers in the Chicago area between now and August 20 – go see Florida Styx, the new play by Caitlin Montanye Parrish being presented by Hypatia Theatre Company. It’s the third play in a loosely-affiliated trilogy (meaning the three plays only really share geography, thematic content, certain semblances of structure and, […]

A good haul!

The crew and I just got back from WizardWorld Chicago, which was, unfortunately, smaller than last year – but I still walked out with a heck of a haul. For about a hundred bucks, I walked out with all the following: Issues 2, 3, and 4 of How to Self-Publish Comics by Josh Blaylock and […]

My kind of town, Chicago is.

So much travel, so little time. After picking Laura up at the airport, we spent a week bumming around Boston to get her a feel for the place, and then we turned around and rocketed back to Ohio to reunite her with her family for the first time in eight months. I’m really glad that […]

Batman: The Dark Knight.

So, according to Cinematical (and countless other film blogs this week), the next Batman movie will be called The Dark Knight and will star Heath Ledger as the Joker. Heath Ledger. The Joker. Well, somebody’s sure joking around. I dunno – seeing Ledger play a villain would be kind of cool, but I’m not sure […]

The Power of the Dark Crystal at Nerd Prom.

More news from Nerd Prom (SDCC), this time from Comicon.com: Brian Froud, Genndy Tartakovsky and the Henson people discuss the new movie. Man, how come Wizard World Chicago doesn’t have any of this cool stuff going down? No Henson stuff, no Hellboy stuff… WTF?

The Nerd Prom Report.

My friend and housemate Ivan just posted a collection of photos from the San Diego Comic Convention over at his Flickr account. My favorite is the one of Spidey and Black Cat checking out Spidey’s cell phone. Awesome.

So much happening.

Dear sweet heavenly host. So much has been happening. The head doth reel. To reduce to simple bullet points: I have now been to China, and have returned safely. So many stories to tell. Soon. Last weekend I attended my 10-year high school reunion, where I got to hang out with Rob and Stacey and […]

Off to China!

Well, I’m off! Wish me luck – and follow along over at the Project Good Luck Blog! This is going to be so cool. 🙂