So for various reasons, my brain has been moving further and further from web development and closer and closer to storytelling. This is fitting, seeing as how I’ll be starting classes in Cambridge in three weeks, but it’s problematic since I’m also feverishly trying to cram in all the stuff I want to do here in Chicago before I go and polish off all my client stuff. Jeezus. So it didn’t help when this morning I stumbled across the weblog of John August, who happens to be the screenwriter for Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Big Fish. The next thing I knew, it was 11 o’clock and I’m still sitting in my bathrobe going click, click, click. Rats.
Fascinating, fascinating stuff, but do not start reading unless you have a little time on your hands. You have been warned.
After researching transmedia storyworlds at MIT, guiding Microsoft in its CTO/CXO's think tank, co-founding Microsoft Studios' Narrative Design team, and exploring the future of entertainment and media as the Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab, I'm now the Creative Director for USC's World Building Media Lab, a storyteller, a designer, a consultant, and a doctoral student in Media Arts and Practice at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. more »
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