There’s a brilliant essay by Mahohla Dargis in today’s New York Times called Defending Goliath: Hollywood and the Art of the Blockbuster. It’s brilliantly written, includes dashes of insight (such as contamination anxiety being a core motivation behind many film purists’ snobberies) and has a poetic twist to it that feels reminiscent of a really well-done NPR piece. Check it out.
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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