A little context: I turned 31 on Saturday, at which point I promptly fled to country for Singapore. America is a country for the young, I decided. I will therefore leave it to its starlets and its High School Musicals.
No, actually I’m in Singapore to help shill for GAMBIT at SIGGRAPH Asia 2008, where I’ll be hanging out at the GAMBIT booth and telling people about the wonderous amounts of fun and hijinks that are to be had in our summer program. I’m also here to just get a sense of the place, which should be a huge help for my job in general. It was decidedly weird to go from celebrating 31 with Laura and my parents in Boston to jump on a plane and fly literally halfway around the world, but I have friends here that I’m hoping to meet up with ASAP so they can show me around.
One thing I’ve decided to try out, though, is using the video function of my Canon Elph SD890IS to videoblog this excursion. So far I’m finding out it has a sort of crappy microphone, but that’s not that surprising. The video above was grabbed while waiting for the plane from Boston to London to take off, and I’ll upload some more travel videos momentarily. Tomorrow: tourism!
Wish me luck!
Storyteller, scholar, consultant. Loving son, husband and father. Kindhearted mischief-maker.
I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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