Just a quick note here to invite you to check out the trailer for Jeunet’s next film, A Very Long Engagement. I love this man’s work – I loved the films he did with Carot, Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children, and I truly adored Amelie. I can’t wait to catch this next one.
Meanwhile, where am I? Where have I gone? I’m still hammering on my new site, and taking some time reading things that don’t appear on computer screens. At the moment I’ve been poring over both Howard Rheingold’s Smart Mobs, a book which has been sitting on my shelf for ages but never got the real in-depth examining it deserved, and Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media. I’m trying to build a system into the new weblog to accommodate book reviews. We’ll see if it works.
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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