City Upon a Hill

Here’s another short animation I made. It’s a dissection of our ideas about the Thanksgiving story.

Spectator

Here’s a short animation I made. It’s about perspective, and it’s inspired by the play Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw and the Occupy Wall Street movement. Let me know what you think!

Spectator from Joel Jordon on Vimeo.

Updates

I thought I’d leave some updates here about what I’ve been doing lately, because my grand life plan is coming together. Or something.

– I recently started a video game blog (at gamemanifesto.net) that I generally updated bimonthly (as in twice a month) over the summer but will probably only update bimonthly (as in every other month) during the school year. I’ve been using it as a place to post essays on games, and my intention is to develop a portfolio of writing that focuses on demonstrating how games are important cultural texts whose interactive elements can be used to express meaning and tell stories in new and unique ways.

– I worked as a freelance copyeditor over the summer. I copyedited book-length manuscripts written by self-publishing authors and also wrote these authors comments and editorial letters with suggestions for changes.

– Last spring I invented my own major called Writing and Interactive Media. It’s considered an Individually Designed Interdisciplinary Program (or IDIP), but I like to call it my supermajor.

– As part of my supermajor, I’ve begun to work on a few projects. I’m writing an interactive short story for the Web, for example, which I may link to here in the future if I think it’s decent enough to share.

– I hope to design my first (probably very simple) video game by the end of the spring. I’m taking a computer animation class now and then a 3D game design class next semester.

– I’m planning on designing a video game for my thesis project next year. This one I intend to spend a lot of time on and develop into something I’m really satisfied with.

That’s all! I hope to share some of my work here in the future, so I’ll update as I have stuff.