This weekend I made a last-minute flying trip to The Big Apple to see my girlfriend. Added bonus fun: she wasn’t expecting me, so it was a real surprise. So much fun – the big event of the visit was a one-act festival, where Kate directed The Choir Loft and starred in Medusa’s Tale, and both productions were fantastic. My girlfriend rocks. Then Sunday night we picked up her sister Shannon from the train station, and she and I promptly began ganging up on her big sister. Heh heh heh.
I got back on Monday afternoon to meet up with my friends Kevin Smokler and David Thomas for a night of design, discussion and dinner. It was like a mini-SXSW, just one of those great evenings brainstorming and ranting and raving. Fantastic.
Today I’m fighting off the urge to just plain slack. These short weeks are lethal for productivity, but good for the soul.
Now Kate just needs to get back down here tomorrow. We’ll be having Thanksgiving proper with her family and then hightailing it back to Ohio for the Long family Thanksgiving on Saturday. Should be a fun weekend.
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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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