So the last couple of days have been a real maelstrom of activity ’round these parts. Lawn mowed! Leaves raked! Rooms swept, dusted, and tidied! Little things fixed after months’ worth of “Yeah, I’ll get to that sooner or later.” This place is like a whole new house. I’m lovin’ it. We should have guests drop by more often.
In getting-older news, it’s my homeboy Hoser’s birthday this weekend. Drop him a line, let him know you care.
In style news, there’s a neat article this morning over on The New York Times (oh, just register already!) on Searching for a Defining Look on the Road to Ben and Jerry’s, which examines what exactly “Vermont style” is, just in case Dean snags the White House. After reading the article, I’m liking the idea of President Dean more and more. There’s something greatly amusing to me about the visual of a kayak with the Presidential seal.
Finally, in personal news, things are going well. I have a new client that I’m really excited about (she’s an inventor, and I’m doing my first piece of honest-to-goodness product design), I have a friend in town this weekend whose company is extremely welcome (and entirely mexcellent), and the weather out here is slowly easing into September – which, 9/11 be damned, will probably always be my favorite month.
Oh, and keep those requests coming in for a spot on the Fray Day lineup! I’ve still got some spots to fill, and I’d love to have y’all join me on stage.
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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