December 22, 2008
12:07 pm
Greetings to anyone coming to this site via the mySingapore Twitter stream! To provide you with some context, my name is Geoffrey Long and I’m the Communications Director for the US side of the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab. In early December 2008 I flew from chilly Cambridge, Massachusetts to sunny Singapore to help our Singapore […]
December 17, 2008
1:13 pm
As many of you know, I finished my master’s degree in Comparative Media Studies at MIT in the spring of 2007. I liked it so much there that I decided to stay on, first as the Communications DIrector for CMS and the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab and then as a combination of Communications Director and […]
December 16, 2008
11:52 am
Wherein our hero brings this entire adventure very nearly full circle by signing off from London’s Heathrow airport, and begrudgingly revises his opinion of the earlier-maligned Terminal 5. Final bonus video: turnaround footage of Terminal 5.
December 16, 2008
11:49 am
Wherein our hero introduces the audience to the arts and shopping center that is Singapore’s Esplanade (and reveals that he’s not entirely sure about the preferred pronunciation of the word esplanade).
December 16, 2008
11:48 am
Wherein our hero successfully completes his pilgrimage to the (in)famous Singapore Merlion.
December 16, 2008
11:46 am
Wherein our hero explores the first part of a video triptych entering the Asian Civilizations Museum… …The second part of said triptych… …And the third part of the triptych, which then leads into an introduction of the nifty interactive video kiosks that the museum uses to introduce each exhibition space. Each video kiosk has a […]
December 16, 2008
11:37 am
Wherein our hero expounds on the Singaporean love of shopping malls.
December 16, 2008
11:33 am
Wherein our hero provides a recap of the Night Zoo and the Lucasfilm visit, sends a shout-out to Eddie Wong, and contemplates plans for the last full day in Singapore.
December 16, 2008
11:23 am
Wherein our hero pays a visit to Singapore’s famed Night Zoo and then discovers that his camera really doesn’t take video in the dark worth a dang. This footage of the fire show was the best I could do!
December 16, 2008
11:04 am
Wherein our hero speaks briefly about his time visiting the Lucasfilm Animation Singapore offices. (Apologies for the sound quality, lighting quality and lack of content due to NDA – most of you can probably skip this one.)
