I miss my girlfriend. I just spent five days straight with her, and now I’m back in DC and she’s in New York and I miss her.
I’m also blue because there’s a pretty good chance I’m going to spend my birthday this weekend alone. Most of my friends are busy, Kate’s totally slammed with rehearsals, and my folks are balking at making a long trip in cold weather. Man. There’s a decent-sized chance my first day of being 26 is going to suck.
On the upside, some of the old green stuff showed up in my mailbox this weekend. This is one of those times it’s good to be a freelancer: payday is playday. Time for some upgrades.
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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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