This will probably come back to haunt me someday, when my musical tastes have evolved a bit more, but right now, as I write this, I can’t stand Björk’s music. She does, however, have fantastic taste in artwork, as evidenced by the kick-ass aesthetics that accompany her new album, MEDULLA. Of special note is the amazing free screensaver available for download, which is full of beautiful pictures of jellyfish and other aquatics.
It’s funny, actually, how I can appreciate so much of an artist’s life except for a few things that make me shake my head and go, ick. I don’t care a great deal for Dave McKean’s type of music, if you’ve ever heard it – a strange, dissonant form of atonal jazz. I also don’t share Neil Gaiman’s taste for sushi, or his penchant for punk rock. I’m also not a big fan of Sigur Ros, although People That Know Such Things assure me that they are, indeed, quite cool. I just don’t get it.
This doesn’t bug me that much, it just means that every artist has different things influencing what they create. I also suspect that two different artists with the exact same tastes would create two entirely different things. I’m just infinitely amused by the endless variety that things like this provide.
Which reminds me, I should go pick up the new Tori Amos DVD. Scuttlebutt has it that there’s a CD in there of previously unreleased songs, and somehow the early fall is always perfect Tori season to me.
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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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