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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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Author Archives: Jeff Watson
Silicon Valley Is Ruining Sharing for Everybody
“Brad Burnham, a partner at Union Square Ventures in New York, was one of the few panelists at the recent Share conference to dissent from the airy-fairy rhetoric there. ‘What we’re talking about is the natural tendency of capitalism to … Continue reading
David Byrne’s “Report from LA” (1986)
There are so many movies coming out and David Byrne wants to see them all. His “Report from LA” (1986) somehow banishes easy irony and parody from a frantic recitation of (mostly) imaginary genre film titles, leaving us with something … Continue reading
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Tagged 1986, david byrne, los angeles, movies, performance art
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Well hello again
Well hello again Continue reading
Kalmykia’s Alien Chessmaster’s Chess City
Games don’t need to be linked to an existing IP or storyworld to generate enthusiasm, excitement, and narrative. Indeed, they don’t need to start off with any kind of storyworld at all for players to engage with them, obsess about … Continue reading
Rooftop view, looking west
Rooftop view, looking west Continue reading
Zonkeys of the Flying J
Zonkeys of the Flying J Continue reading
DiGRA Talk: Drama, Narrative, and Sports
What Hockey Wants: Drama, Narrative, and Sports (DiGRA 2014 Talk) from Jeff Watson This talk presents an examination of hockey as it exists in early 21st century North America, paying particular attention to how narrative both emerges from, and is … Continue reading
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Tagged content generation, digra, drama, emergence, games, hockey, narrative, process intensity, sports
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Charting culture
Skip to around 4:50 to see California’s magnetic pull — first centered on San Francisco, then on Los Angeles — as it draws migrants from the eastern seaboard as if they were iron filings. This animation distils hundreds of years … Continue reading