Oh, and I guess I should comment on the slight design tweaks I made here a couple of days ago. Nothing too major, but I moved my headshot down to the bottom of the page beside my bio, updated said bio, removed the calendar from the sidebar to save space, and have resolved to do some more tweaks eventually. The problem with keeping this weblog as the editorial of an otherwise static webzine is the pressure to redesign everything if I just want to redesign the weblog. I guess I could strip the weblog out of here and bounce it over to geoffreylong.com, but enh.
One thing I am tempted to do is start posting more pictures, a la Derek’s ephemera.org. That man is constantly taking jaw-dropping pictures with the exact same camera that I use, and it’s making me jealous. I do have a couple neat ones I took this weekend when my friend Laura was in town that I might post here soon, but I’d ideally like to go into the photography section of my portfolio and rebuild it to incorporate photos… Or come up with some way to dynamically update the whole friggin’ system and just have my most recent portfolio addition appear in a thumbnail to the left of this here weblog…
Hmmm.
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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