- Clive Cussler must pay $13.9M in legal fees over Sahara debacle. I wonder what he’s actually worth?
- Inflatable Trans Am. Not what I normally think of when I read ‘transmedia’, but hey.
- Michelle Obama at Miriam’s Kitchen. This is the soup kitchen I used to do design work for in DC. Cool!
- Delia Sherman on pitching novels. Good advice.
- The Cult of Done Manifesto. When you’re overloaded, “done is the engine of more” sounds awful.
- Bob Rehak on Timeshifting. I’ve been wondering how TiVo affects Dollhouse’s ratings, but the buzz is still weak. Next week’s ep might be the turning point, though.
- The Onion on the Kindle. Heaving!
- Philip Pullman on a virtuous nation. Excellent stuff.
- Amber Benson on persistence. “Boobs McBooberton”?
- The Coraline Economy. How Laika saved Portland.
- Downturn is “a petri dish for innovation” for magazines. And other things, you betcha.
- How to write a Sci-Fi Channel original movie. Oldie but goodie.
- Jericho goes transmedia. Another case study, coming right up.
- NYT on crossing America in a train. Want.
- Salman Rushdie on adaptations. Filing this away for a future book…
- The New Yorker on David Foster Wallace. Still so damn heartbreaking.
- Pattie Maes at TED. The sixth sense indeed.
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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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