Spanning the years between 1988-1998, Game Over? gives the details of experiments that attempted to build a device that could capture and record a piece of the Akashic records or "Meta-records". Chronicling projects at the Esalen Institiute, the ISC San Francisco, UCSC, Millbrook West, and the F.O.G., this book gives blow by blow accounts of each groups approaches, methodologies, and ultimate results. Did they succeed?
First 15,000 copies ship with a copy of Fear and Loathing on the Internet, a special 100 page report covering the years 1999-2001. A full freeware copy will be made available on this and other sites as well.
Some may say that my career spans varied fields and that is true enough, however I would add that I have a multi-discipline approach that is necessary in the modern age. As Robert Heinlein once said, "Specialization is for insects".
Some of the things I have achieved as an inventor, creator, marketer, product manager, CEO, CTO, writer and artist include: Playing a role in establishing and evangelizing standards and practices such as CD ROM, PDF, DVD, XML, RSS, Podcasting, ARG and digital video. I am an inventor . I am a published author of screenplays, white papers, technology, sci-fi, marketing and gaming books. My pioneering work in Transmedia is chronicled in the University level textbook: Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong's Hat (University Press of Mississippi (May 17, 2011) Specialties
I have also been the executive producer and originator of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival Podcast the first film festival to podcast from the event, the executive producer/director of the Los Angles Film Festival podcast and the ABA All Star Game podcast. I was one of the two founders/curators of the Greylodge Podcasting Company, a Independent film review site covered on MSNBC, Wall Street Journal and Boing-Boing, and the executive producer of Alterati, an on-line culture zine and a founder of Piltolite/Hukilau. I have beena podcast editor at TheNervousBreakdown.com. I have staged and orchestrated very successful, large scale, mass media Alternate Reality Game/Transmedia style projects since the mid-80s, utilizing print, phone, fax, email, Internet, advertising, video, film, audio, CD ROM, DVD, and on-demand media. My work has been featured on CBS Marketwatch, CNN, CNET TV, Kiplinger's, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, NHK, MTV, PBS, LA Times, Clear Channel Radio, BBC, MSNBC, Boing-Boing, and many other weekly newspapers, trade magazines, local and regional radio, television and newspapers.
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Here is some of my family background.
Artistic Statement
Joseph Matheny is a pseudonym used by a plethora of evolutionary intelligence agents throughout the galaxy. Like Monty Cantsin, Luther Blisset or Saint Germain, you never know when or where he's going to pop up. He is rumored to never sleep, moonlight as a technology consultant, daylight as a fireproof vampire, live by the motto: Non Serviam! and almost never fail to leave a ticking time bomb behind.
Joseph is a "Hypermedium" who believes that Occam's Razor is not a disposable. Joseph Matheny is a Curator, Contributor and Producer of seditious sites like Greylodge and Alterati. Joseph seems to be a verb. Joseph Matheny is an Internet litterbug, leaving flotsam and jetsam all over, like Ong's Hat, to hopefully act like a message in a bottle. If you read it, you will be infected. If you are infected you will be InFicted. If you are InFicted, you will get UnFucted. Meanwhile, Joseph is holding himself hostage until all his demands are met.