Maybe I’m just getting old, or maybe it’s just that I’ve been doing this for too long, but I’m getting really, really sick and tired of building websites with no imaginative content. Seriously. The same old lame brochureware stuff with few graphics, just a bunch of text in a semi-modern color palette, is just painful. Today I spent all day building a site for a project that’s nice and functional and all, but aside from having some halfway decent texture it’s just boring. Here’s hoping these last couple of sites are the last ones I have to build before moving on to something more interesting, like more films or games or mobisodes or books or, well, anything.
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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