Introducing: Rodica Buzescu

As I mentioned in my last blog post, Thinking Machinima is getting an overhaul, but even more importantly, some help on the blogging end. Starting this week, Rodica Buzescu will be contributing to the site giving TM readers a bit more intelluctual fodder to chew on.

Rodica's background in Machinima spans a wide range of clients and projects. She's helped developed Machinima (and live action) shorts for Harvard's first open access course as well as collaborating with Machinima impresario, Pierce Portocarrero on several pieces for Coke (where I first was introduced to Rodica - check them out here). Additionally, she worked with Michael Verdi on a Machinima piece for Intel. She's also a keen follower of the art form as both a medium and as a production approach.

Please join me in welcoming her into the fold. Her first posting here will be a review of Hugh Hancock and Johnnie Ingram's Machinima for Dummies (just got mine in mail!) Stay tuned in the upcoming weeks for her thoughts on the various Machinima subject matters that have been surfacing. Rodica's take on Machinima is extremely well-rounded, looking at it from practitioner, democratizing medium and educational viewpoints. I'm really looking forward to reading her insights and think TM readers will welcome the additional vision around Machinima. Welcome, Rodica!

In other news, I'm still banging on the site redesign...slowly but surely....