November 15, 2007
10:58 pm
Gotta clear up some memory for tomorrow’s big show, so here goes. Little to no commentary this time, still working on slides. JOMA: Fairy Tales for the 21st Century. Star Wars Shop offers Concept C-3PO, R2-D2 figures. IBM to launch cloud computing initiative. $170 Torpedo Projector. I want three. Veer: Estilo font. Considering this for […]
November 15, 2007
4:40 pm
Current word count of tomorrow’s presentation: 3,300. No joke. Add to that a concern that it’s simultaneously too esoteric and not really saying much that’s new, plus a passage about fanfic that I’m sure will have my critics over at Henry’s calling for my head… Oy! Snip snip snip snip snip…
November 15, 2007
1:31 pm
Somewhere deep down in my soul, my fifth-grade fanboy self is squealing with joy while my nearly-30 modern self is reeling from a bizarre sense of cultural vertigo: according to Cinematical, Ghostbusters is coming back as a video game – and this canonical extension written by Aykroyd and Ramis will make Ghostbusters a transmedia franchise. […]
November 15, 2007
11:35 am
I’m reporting to you live from FuturePlay 2007 in lovely Toronto, Canada. So far I’m happy to report that I consider the trip to have been already worthwhile, due to my getting to hang out a little with Stephen Jacobs, John Lester, Mia Consolvo and Constance Steinkuehler. A good time is being had by all. […]
November 13, 2007
4:33 pm
I just wrote a 2,150-word essay on the use of user-generated content in video games to present at FuturePlay later this week, and I just realized it may need to be heartily reworked to sound less like a blog post and more like a, you know, presentation. Still, it’s good to know that I still […]
November 12, 2007
10:22 pm
Sometimes it just doesn’t pay to be running too far out in front of the rest of the pack… And, honestly, that doesn’t seem to be that far ahead. This weekend I received a coupon in my email for an additional 25% off anything at Barnes and Noble, on top of my existing Member discount. […]
November 12, 2007
4:55 pm
It’s just a little thing, but it’s a nifty thing nevertheless: the travel website Home and Abroad picked one of my photos to illustrate their Shanghai Art Museum page.
November 12, 2007
11:35 am
To those of you visiting this blog for the first time from things magazine, welcome. Hopefully you will find some observations, projects and other creations that will interest you. By way of introduction, let me refer you to my bio. For old friends and regulars, hey, look — I was picked up by things magazine!
November 12, 2007
10:25 am
Many of you Gaiman fans in the audience will know Marc Hempel as the artist on the next-to-last book in the Sandman series, The Kindly Ones. Hempel apparently wasn’t quite finished with the character once the series was over – behold the lampoon episode “Insomniac” at Tales of Munden’s Bar…
