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.

Finishing Season #1: Tory Ross.

As I push these projects live, I’m going to throw links to them up here so you can see what I’ve been working on. First up, a nifty little Flash piece for one of our Sound Advice voiceover clients, Tory Ross. Check out the nifty zooming trick accomplished by a scaled motion-blurred Photoshop image bookended […]

In the words of the Black Eyed Peas…

All right. I fly out of here and into DC tomorrow at noon. This means I have to finish up a whole pile of projects in the next 24 hours, then make a movie in the 48 after that. In the words of the great Black Eyed Peas, “Let’s get it started in here.” Watch […]

Ugh.

It’s 4:30 A.M. on a Tuesday It doesn’t get much worse than this In beds in little rooms in buildings in the middle of these lives which are completely meaningless Help me stay awake, I’m falling… – Counting Crows, “Perfect Blue Buildings” 4:30 AM on a Thursday, actually, but close enough. Late night marathon email […]

Bring on Adobe Flash MX 2006.

Dear sweet Jesus, if the Adobe-Macromedia merger means that Flash MX 2006 will support Photoshop-esque layer effects, I want it and I want it right now. That is all.

From sThig: Basic Human Requirements.

The good Scott Thigpen provides yet another interesting life insight: Nineteen Basic Human Requirements. These are as follows: Connect emotionally Be vulnerable and share feelings Have an appropriate sense of power and assertiveness Say “NO” Have initiative and drive Have at least a minimal amount of organization Be real, but not perfect Accept imperfections and […]

Grrr.

Have had this design for less than a week and I’m already tempted to chuck it out the window. Someday when I have time again (ha!).

The source of said charts.

I just realized that I neglected to link to where the aforementioned charts came from – they are implementations of the XML/SWF Charts widget from maani.us. Truly excellent widgets, as widgets go. Also, I’ve elected to try and do exercises one day and cardio the next, to attempt to give my legs and other muscles […]

On exercise charts.

So in an effort to overcome this plateau I seem to have hit entirely too early in my exercise efforts, I’m adding charts to the new right-hand sidebar to track some additional statistics. I’ll probably add two more here soon – caloric intake and current weight – but right now I need to get back […]

Argh.

So I finally bite the bullet and install Google AdSense on this page (the new “From Our Sponsors” bit in the upper right there) and now Google thinks I’m a teenage girl. Great. What, guys can’t focus on their weight? Hmm. I wonder if I can game the system here. Baseball basketball soccer football weightlifting […]

Progress report.

It hasn’t been a bad week – it hasn’t been a great week, but it hasn’t been a bad week. I’m finishing up a couple of gigs, leading off on a couple more, and still hitting the exercise bike with determined zeal. It’s weird – remember what I wrote earlier about being more toned but […]