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.

Holy catfish.

Warren Ellis reads our C3 blog. Whoa.

Now playing at the Media Lab: Alex McDowell.

Yesterday afternoon I spent a couple really terrific hours geeking out over the work of Alex McDowell, the production designer for Minority Report, The Corpse Bride, The Terminal, Fight Club, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and a number of others. McDowell is the new artist-in-residence for the Media Lab, working with Tod Machover on this […]

Phofilmusigner, Part II: Reorientation.

So the last five days now have been spent largely in a sort of reorientation. This is good, since it’s largely what I needed to use this summer to do. In my last post I mocked Apple’s made-up term ‘phofilmusigner’, but I think the reason it rankled me is because it hit a little too […]

Phofilmusigner?

I received an email newsletter from Apple yesterday with the headline “Phofilmusigner” – apparently a linguistic mash-up of photographer, filmmaker, musician and designer. They’re promoting their newly-redesigned Apple Pro site, which is indeed sharp, but phofilmusigner? It sounds like some Swedish pop band…

The sound of Bilbao.

Just a quick note here to point out that I just added an MP3 of me reading one of my recent poems, Bilbao, in anticipation of future possible podcasts. That is all.

A well-animated man.

My old brother David from my Advisory Board days is back in school too, down at the Digital Animation and Visual Effects School in Florida, and boy howdy is he doing some amazing stuff down there. If you swing by his Photojournal you can see some of his new work – make sure to check […]

Sweet with asphodel.

Have been struck with an immense pang of future homesickness, a bizarre disease where one longs for someplace he’s never been. Only in my case, it’s a house in Ohio with a teaching gig at Kenyon. Yeah. That’d work.

NYT on digital publishing.

Interesting piece in today’s New York Times (free subscription required, yadda yadda yadda): Digital Publishing Is Scrambling the Industry’s Rules. Nothing too terribly astonishing here, except for perhaps the exclusion of the otherwise ubiquitous Cory Doctorow – but there are some funny bits: Mr. Chandra, a former computer programmer who already reads e-books downloaded to […]

Huff and Cooper got married!

Holy catfish! A great big congratulations to my friends Andrew Huff and Cinnamon Cooper, who just tied the knot in New Orleans! Conga rats to the Huffencoopers!

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

One of my great long-running personal projects is to watch all 100 films on the AFI Top 100 list, a scheme greatly aided by my Netflix account. Today, while continuing the listmaking that I’d started in earnest yesterday, I watched The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a 1948 John Huston film starring Humphrey Bogart. Bogart […]