I wasn’t on the cyberpunk train when it left the station, but I thought I caught up with it pretty quickly. When Omni magazine printed William Gibson’s short story, “Burning Chrome,” I bought the issue. Not because it had Gibson’s story, though. I just happened to be buying Omni on a regular basis. As a […]
Thoughts on the FMX 2012 Conference
Earlier this month I attended my first FMX conference, an annual event focused on animation, effects, games and transmedia. Here’s my detailed wrap-up of my awesome time there.
Henry Jenkins Talking Transmedia at Comic-Con 2011
I got a rough video of Dr. Jenkins talking about transmedia and comics at this year’s Comic Con. Dr. Henry Jenkins talks about transmedia and comics at a Comic-Con 2011 panel. He was the last of four panelists, and he only had about 10 minutes to comment on the prior presentations. I love the fact […]
Transmedia and Me – One Year Later
A year ago, I stopped using the term transmedia in reference to my company and my company’s projects. I had just returned from SXSW in time to catch the first ‘Transmedia, Hollywood’ conference, and the cross-currents going on in the transmedia space forced me to re-evaluate my use of the term. The result was that […]
My conflicted relationship with transmedia
After a few months of deliberation, today I scraped the word “transmedia” from my company’s website. I didn’t do it to make some point or start a protest, and this post isn’t a manifesto, a call to action, a damnation, or an act of praise (it’s not likely to receive wide readership, anyway, much less […]