- North Atlantic Explorers. Beautiful tunes, link courtesy of Mr. Gaiman. Pissed they’re not on iTunes.
- Nerve: 20 Comics That Can Change Your Life. I’ve read six of these. My life has been undoubtedly irrevocably changed.
- Kotaku: Bunnies Can’t Avoid the 360. Rayman: Raving Rabbids was lunacy on the Wii, but I’m not sure how well the fun will translate without motion sensitivity; the camera’s a win, though.
- NYT: All The World’s a Stage – That Includes the Internet. No new big picture stuff here, but cool detail stories nevertheless. Plus, magic!
- MoCoLoCo: Adam Frank’s Reveal. IMHO, Frank is a flippin’ genius, doing some of the more interesting light-based work today. If my next studio is in a basement, I’m definitely getting one of these.
- NYT: Is Style Only for the Upper Class? Ignore their canned response; all signs point to yes. There is a huge growth opportunity for some fashion company out there to fill the hole left by the Gap. (Ironic, that.)
- BT logo. A quick pointer here to one of my new favorite logos out there – watch the way the new BT logo animates as the page is loaded.
- D’Israeli’s digital art: a how-to guide. Fascinating.
- Saving the bacon house. Not in English, but the pictures say a thousand words, all of them awesome.
- Engadget HD: TI demos first HD playback from a mobile phone. Something’s wonky here. A torrent of a movie in HD runs around 20GB – so unless that’s one fat phone (not phat, fat) the idea of using a phone to play back HD-quality content on a TV seems questionable for the near future.
- Cinematical: Christopher “Dr. Who #9” Ecclesiaston coming to The Dark is Rising. First Heroes, now this. This guy knows his geek entertainment!
- Endicott Studio: Stroud’s Ptolemy’s Gate lands a Cybil award. I thoroughly enjoyed the first book in the Bartimaeus trilogy – nice to know the quality stays high throughout.
- VernissageTV. “VernissageTV provides insight to the social side of the art world. For you, Vernissage TV is talking with artists in a relaxed style.” A new favorite videoblog.
- Interview with Jeff Smith on Shazam: Monster Society of Evil. I can’t wait to get my hands on this book.
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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