Current State of the Geek: Wherein I briefly bring the internet up to date on my doings and happenings. Don’t get too excited - until the semester ends I’m far too busy to really bring this site up-to-date.
Projects on the back burner:

Transmission: I love my novel, but it has sadly been left untouched while I negotiate the shifting terrain which is my priorities while at SIAT.
The Geek Game: Briefly reared it’s ancient and venerable head, but has been allowed to once again slumber in the depths of my consciousness until such a time as I need to call forth it’s power to smite my foes. Wait…what were we talking about again?
The LARP Project: This project briefly flirted with Karen’s doctoral research, but didn’t get to second base due to improper hygiene and bad taste in movies. Currently is moping around at home wondering why it will never know true love.

Ongoing Projects:

Scarlet Skellern and the Absent Urchins: My current priority. An interactive narrative exploration of user emotion and context. My top secret collaborator and I are almost finished designing and implementing a simple user model in Flash which will allow readers of our interactive comic to express their mood and emotions to the system, thus altering the contextual elements in which the narrative is situated. In plain-speak this means that if the reader indicates happiness to the system, then things like the lighting, colors, textures, ambient noises, musical themes, time of day, weather, and other environmental aspects of the story will shift subtly to reflect their mood back at them. Keep an eye out for our prototype by April 13th.

rePhase:
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Submitted to: The Vancouver New Forms Festival

rePhase is an interactive audio installation that repurposes abandoned stereo components into an immersive participatory musical experience. Comprised of structural and audio components rescued from junk shops, thrift stores, and surplus dealers, rePhase gives abandoned objects an opportunity for a second life.

Untitled Film Project: This one stays largely under wraps until I have more time to develop it. What I can say is that it is set in the near future, it will incorporate opportunities for multi-linear interactive narratives, as well as traditional linear storytelling, and that it will be a grotesque hybrid of Primer, Office Space, and Clerks, only much more noir.

El Institute of Inappropriate Interfaces (EIII): From our upcoming web launch:
“Here at the Institute, we are investigating revolutionary new ideas in interface design. Ideas so new and brilliant that no one has ever attempted them before! Prepare your children, your friends, and your domesticated animals, for technology so cutting edge that it is considered dangerous to run with by 9 out of 10 mothers, and for ideas so satisfyingly delicious that you should wait at least an hour before swimming after thinking about them!”

Among the EIII’s initial launch offerings will be the much awaited Audio Interfaces for the Deaf, and the long hyped EZ-Prototype Oven.

LIFE - Low resource Improvised Filmmaking Environment : Special thanks to Jim Bizzocchi for the acronym. Still very much on the drawing board, but still a force to be reckoned with on the project list. Look below for some of the theory surrounding it, under it’s previous acronym: LRIF.

That’s the state of geek at the moment. I’ve been composing music like a madman this month for Scarlet Skellern, so keep an eye on my personal site for the soundtrack as I start to nail the final tracks down. See y’all in the summer.