So, today I worked on a couple of projects, then got sick of coding and starting looking for something a little more fun to do. Since our Internet was down due to a dysfunctional DNS server, I wound up breaking out GarageBand and started fiddling around.
What I discovered is that I am my own a capella group.
After years of listening to great vocalists like Bobby McFerrin and Keller Williams and so on, I started working on laying down my very first a capella track. Appropriately enough, I called it “Sunday Afternoon”. Not very creative, but since there are no lyrics, well, it was as good a title as anything. It’s not great by a long stretch, but that was the most fun I’ve had at a computer in weeks.
For your pleasure and my utter embarassment, I present 3 minutes and fourteen seconds of utter silliness: Sunday Afternoon.
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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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