— I'm Timothy Greig. I live in Wellington, New Zealand, and work
for AIM Proximity. I'm interested in game design, information architecture, librarianship, and transmedia storytelling. Updates? — Try the RSS.

Jem and I have been visiting Te Papa on the weekends to practice our drawing skills! (I’ll get better at it soon…)

During May, I applied for a pretty amazing job at an exhibition design firm located here in Wellington, Story Inc. I took a week off work, and put together an extensive application, complete with video commentary!

Sadly, I didn’t get the “Content Developer” job I applied for – but they did like me and my application enough to invite me back for a number of conversations about other projects they were working on. Through this experience, it was really great to apply my ideas to real-world projects, to learn more about how a creative studio worked, and meet the different people that contribute to their awesome projects.

In particular, this was an important step towards finding a way to keep doing more exciting storytelling projects – like those we’ve achieved with Collective Noun – full time. I was pretty proud to list myself – for the first time – as a “Transmedia Designer” on my CV, and include Collective Noun projects as significant achievements!

Makes the work feel like it is really flying by! Tuesday’s boxes are lined up, ready to go. Each time I finish marking a paper I record how many hours it took me to mark (my aim is for 1.5 each) and colour in the box. It is rather satisfying.

Working titles for the two classes… I’m thinking:
Week 5: “Social Media, Transmedia, & Keeping Up”
Week 6: “Social Networking & Fingerspitzengefühl”
Must remember to update my cute cat picture collection for this round of classes. (Submissions welcome. Crowd-sourced-cats?)

When you visit the National Library of New Zealand, you have to “check in” at a kiosk. It sends an automated message to the person you’ve come to see, to notify them to come get you.

You can enter information about whether you’ll require assistance getting out of the building in an emergency. Also, if you’re a repeat visitor, the system will remember who you are!

I can’t wait to get to webstock tomorrow, just so I can use these awesome Field Notes journals that @spanishmanners gave me! I’ve been saving them. <3

The other exciting thing about Webstock is that Collective Noun will be running a game during both days of the conference, designed to encourage people to interact, explore, and reflect.

In fact, this post just happens to fulfill the requirements of one of the game quests, #48 Field Notes: “How are you recording your thoughts during the conference? Post a photo of your notetaking equipment”.