About
Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Blackboard Kills
Blackboard is an impediment to scholarship, and the sooner universities stop using it, the better. Continue reading
Polyhedral Dice
When I was a kid, I played a lot of role-playing games. The Marshall brothers, Lucas, Paul and Jonas, and my neighborhood pal, Ryan Sullivan, were my primary playmates in this regard. I played intensively between the ages of about nine and fourteen. After that, rock and roll and movies took over. Continue reading
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Tagged ctin-541, dice, imap, rpgs, ryan sullivan, the marshall brothers, tracy fullerton
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David Bordwell on Transmedia Storytelling
Film scholar David Bordwell posts a terrific summary of multiplatform or transmedia storytelling, covering everything from key precedents in cinema and theory to the hope many of us have for the form to reach higher and do more: Continue reading
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Tagged david bordwell, future cinema, transmedia
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tldr – visualizing large-scale discussions
tldr is an application for navigating through large-scale online discussions. The application visualizes structures and patterns within ongoing conversations to let the user browse to content of most interest. In addition to visual overviews, it also incorporates features such as … Continue reading
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Tagged reddit, visualization
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