I just had one of those odd little flashes, where that little voice in the back of my head just whispered, “Psssst. It’s going to be fall soon.” To which the rest of my head replied, “Rock!”
I love fall. It’s my favorite season, and until 2001 September was my second favorite month of the year (behind December, obviously; any month with both Christmas and a man’s birthday is likely to be undislodgeable from the top of his list). I’m so ready to break out my jackets and my favorite old overcoat, although I might have to send said coat to the tailor’s to get some missing parts replaced again (for instance, a chunk of the belt buckle is missing).
Next, though, comes one of my least favorite seasons: August. Muggy, draggy, cram-in-the-last-gasps-of-summer August. Luckily, I have a few things I’m seriously looking forward to (like an Eddie from Ohio show and the Counting Crows show and seeing Jess and Talon in the New York Fringe Festival), which will help make it fly by, but I can’t wait for that first cool breeze to whisper by and tickle the back of my neck. C’mon, September. I’m ready for you.
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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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