Ask and ye shall receive. It’s not any of the artists I was whining for earlier, but there’s a new album out from Diana Krall, called The Girl in the Other Room. What’s great about this album is it has new songs. Usually Diana’s albums are all covers of jazz classics, but this one features all-new material, penned by the lovely Ms. Krall and her newly-minted husband, Elvis Costello (!).
By the by, I would like to hoist the union of these two up as evidence that even kind-of-frumpy, funky, geeky guys can get hot chicks. Attaboy, Elvis!
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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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