THE FISHERY: a diary of the Loose-Fish Project

or, how to use ARG-tools to Rickroll the Internet

We’ve got a new Facebook group for The Loose-Fish Project. Please join us.

And I’m exprimenting with Twitterfeed to automatically announce when new Spoon River entries are added.

The second Loose-Fish Project story is now live.  “The Spoon River Metblog” is an adaptation of Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters.

Read the story here.

Read more about the project here.

Now available from Lulu Publishers, a paperback edition of The Good Captain.  All the transmedia, net-native fun you expect from a Loose-Fish Project, now available in an old-school, dead-tree package!

Ripples are starting to show on the surface of the water.  The Fish is getting ready to breach once more.  So keep your eyes on this space for updates in the very near future.

After four months (!) The Good Captain finally concluded tonight.  It’s been a fascinating journey, and it leaves me totally pumped for the next one.  You can find the story archived on this site, by clicking any of the Good Captain links.  They’ll lead to this page. Now, it’s time to start my presentation for BarcampLA5, which begins tomorrow. A perfect bookend.  Perhaps this will become a habit, launching and closing at BarCamp.  So the Loose-Fish will turn its attention away from the world of Melville (although not forever - there’s still a big whale waiting out there.  It tasks me.  It heaps me,) and enter the fascinating domain of America’s second most successful poet of all time, the complex, flawed and utterly human Edgar Lee Masters.  Spoon River, here we come.  

The Electronic Literature Organization’s 2008 conference, Visionary Landscapes, has selected “The Good Captain” to appear in its Media Arts Show, May 29-June 1.

This is the serial number to Mike’s Kindle:

Those Artificials are everywhere.

I found out today that “The Good Captain” has been invited to be exhibited at the International Symposium on Electronic Art 2008, as an Artist’s Presentation.
The ISEA is a biannual conference devoted to academic and artistic developments in digital and interactive media.  The previous conference was held in San Jose in 2006, and here are some of the people who participated.

I’m honored and somewhat staggered to be included in such company.  Now I just have to figure out if I can get to Singapore in July.

We’ve had Alternate Reality Games. Now there’s a new Social Reality Game (SRG):

Nowheremen