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Monthly Archives: April 2007
It would appear that the first pictures taken with an iPhone have just surfaced, courtesy of some EXIF data and some rabid Flickr-searchers. There are two photos, one of which isn’t that great (largely due to some horrible backlighting) and one of which clobbers my little Treo’s snapshots six ways from Sunday. I’m a little […]
Scratch that last post. I hit an amazing panel this morning on storytelling using mobile devices (which is pretty much one of my research areas here at CMS) moderated by Michael Epstein (CMS ’05), the cofounder of UntravelMedia. That was recharging, and made me extremely enthusiastic about what comes next… More on this later. Now […]
So we’re about 3/4ths of the way through day 2 of MIT5, and the combination of last week’s THESIS craziness, this weekend’s intense series of panels and discussions, and the looming defense next week means my head is well full-up. If one were to look closely into my eyes one would see two little fuel […]
My paper presentation this morning came off relatively without a hitch, and I now have several other likeminded individuals with which to engage moving forward. Let the academic conversations begin… But, yes. For operating on only four hours of sleep, this afternoon went remarkably well! Doubleplusgood element: Kenyon professor Lewis Hyde is here in Cambridge […]
Adobe : Creative License. Fancy bit of promotion, that. Final Fantasy XIII series to last a decade. Wow. Also here. Smallville Legends launches online. Warch the artist bridge Welling and contemporary Supes. G.I. Joe 25th Anniversary Ed. gets carded. Hello, nostalgia. Jack Valenti dies. And with him, the war on Napster… what? Transmedia Storytelling 101. […]
It’s official. I have hit The Wall. Luckily, I hit the wall after I sent a draft to my thesis committee early this afternoon, and after Henry sent me a nice note saying that the latest draft I’d sent him was “SIGNIFICANTLY and SUBTANTIALLY improved” (emphasis his). Thank you Jesus. I may have a chance […]
Okay, I know I have to be writing THESIS stuff here, but dear sweet heavenly host have you guys seen the trailer for The Bourne Ultimatum!? Man, this summer is going to rock for movies… The Bourne Ultimatum, Spider-Man 3, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Shrek the Third, Stardust, Ratatouille, Oceans 13, Pathfinder, […]
The last time I posted a ‘score’ (read: wordcount) about my THESIS, it was up to 28,712. This was before my advisor laid into it. Now, less than a week later, I’ve sliced out big, huge chunks of text and added in even bigger chunks, grafted in an all-new framework, including six subclasses of hermeneutic […]
I don’t think anyone has written extensively yet about the great boon that high-def DVD could be to academic media studies. I’m currently re-(re-re-re-re-re-)watching Labyrinth and trying to make out exactly what it says on the clippings in the notebook in Sarah’s room. Not the headlines, mind you, the text. If I had this in […]
That’s it, it’s official – my THESIS is far and away the nerdiest thing I’ve ever written. My most recent draft includes Barthes, Genette, Lévy, Umberto Eco, Edgar Allan Poe, John Keats, Indiana Jones, Hellboy, Neil Gaiman, the Muppets, Stephen King, Batman, Superman, Stargate, Final Fantasy, Star Wars, and, as of this morning, the Battle […]
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