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.
See, this – this right here – this is the kind of stuff that drives me insane. Last weekend I did all my school reading first, and didn’t get to almost any of the big projects currently hanging over my head. This weekend I decided to reverse the process, spending all my time instead on […]
Oh my word, it feels so good to be telling stories again instead of just building websites. Remember last weekend when I posted about the interactive narrative and the video game pitch that were due this week? Well, thirty-odd drawings, at least one 4-hours-of-sleep night and a new URL later, I’ve got both little projects […]
February 25, 2006 – 7:03 pm
Like Alec, today was a massive reading day for me. When I woke up today, I pledged to work on my many various web design projects (I swear, I think I have eight right now that are all snapping at my heels for attention, down you little buggers, down, dammit) but then decided that it […]
February 22, 2006 – 10:15 pm
Sorry I’ve been so cranky on this blog lately. Life is still (for the most part) excellent – I’m teaching a class on Gaiman tomorrow, how bad can life be? – it’s just that I’ve been dealing with a lot of crap lately that makes me feel like I’m spinning my wheels instead of getting […]
February 22, 2006 – 9:43 am
My annoyance du jour: the failed promise of PNGs. They seem like they should be the holy grail for so many designer problems, no? But alas, no – support for them is still iffy on almost all browsers, as evidenced this morning by my continued attempts to get a simple JavaScript rollover working with PNGs. […]
February 20, 2006 – 2:38 pm
So there’s been another group of miners trapped underground, this time in Mexico: SAN JUAN DE SABINAS, Mexico, Feb. 20 — Rescue workers dug through about 500 yards of fallen rock in efforts to rescue 65 workers who were trapped early Sunday when a gas explosion collapsed the shaft of the coal mine here. Officials […]
February 20, 2006 – 6:41 am
I have finally kicked the Plague of Much Deathness (TM), but now the catching-up is kicking my ass. Hopefully I don’t get sick again from all the stress of trying to catch up from the first round. I’ve been up since 6:45 this morning and everywhere I look there’s something else that has to happen. […]
February 15, 2006 – 3:39 pm
At first it was an aggravation. Then it became an annoyance. Now it’s becoming a little disturbing. I’m on day four of 100+ temperatures. I woke up this morning feeling pretty good, but suddenly and abruptly convinced that my room was tilting backwards. When I got up, I started to stumble around and had a […]
February 14, 2006 – 10:31 am
Illness is God’s way of handing you a speeding ticket. Every time I’ve tried to do too much too fast, wham! Instant virus. Never fails. Thus, I shouldn’t be surprised that I’m now sick for what I think is the third time this school year. I don’t believe I got this sick before; I imagine […]
February 12, 2006 – 12:44 am
It’s 3AM here in Boston and I don’t see a single snowflake out my window. If Jack Frost is listening, BRING IT! Blizzard. Pfft. And yes, I’m taunting the snow gods on purpose for one last winter fling before Spring starts in earnest. I was warned that Boston winters were horrible, dangit, and this winter’s […]
