Storytelling 101: Symptomatic for the People
I totally wrote this whole entire post about one of the chapters of Wired for Story, analyzing whether a particular bit of advice was useful or not (it very much … Continue reading →
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Weeks in Review Feb. 17-28
Five posts in two weeks. Still not awful. So, in these weeks I finished reading Jonathan Gottschall’s The Storytelling Animal with posts on: Why people tell stories How nobody knows … Continue reading →
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Storytelling 101: The next ten years of my life, probably
It started, I guess, 150,000 years ago and it started in 3rd grade when I drew a jungle full of made-up animals and it started in 1999 with my first … Continue reading →
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Storytelling 101: The journey to every book you ever read
The story actually starts way back when I learned to read, but I’m on the clock, so let’s flash forward. I was sitting in The Last Word in Ann Arbor, … Continue reading →
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Storytelling 101: The end of the animal
The rest of Jonathan Gottschall’s book The Storytelling Animal is concerned with providing evidence for the argument that he started in the beginning of the book—that all storytelling emanates from … Continue reading →
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Storytelling 101: Stop pretending you know why we dream
CLICK HERE! THIS FIRST! NO SERIOUSLY! GO HERE! Anyway. I’m not sure that dreaming really deserves a lot of airtime in a storytelling blog. I mean it’s related, I guess, … Continue reading →
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Storytelling 101: 4 monkeys and 6 ideas, OR Why do people tell stories? [video]
Why do we tell stories? I don’t mean, “Why do some people like getting on a stage and others would prefer to sit at home and binge watch House of … Continue reading →
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Week in Review Feb. 10-14
This was the first week of my ongoing, poorly-defined “Storytelling 101” project, where I try to break down what storytelling is so that I can highlight—hopefully?—the connections between the history … Continue reading →
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Tool Use–Week ending 2/14
Happy Valentine’s Day! Speaking of subject changes, I used a couple of different storytelling tools this week. Here are my thoughts on them. I. 30Hands For the narrated slideshow, I … Continue reading →
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Storytelling 101: Non-stop Story People [video]
Again, going from 50+ Ways to Tell a Story master list, I chose Animoto to make my second video on storytelling issues, mostly stuff inspired by re-reading Jonathan Gottschall’s The … Continue reading →
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Storytelling 101: Story IS the tech [audio slideshow]
I was reading J. Gottschall’s The Storytelling Animal (like I’m doing all week), and I got to thinking about what the definition of story is. And it’s basically impossible to … Continue reading →
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Storytelling 101: A Survey of the Literature 1.1.1
In The Storytelling Animal, Jonathan Gottschall’s argument seems to be something like “Stories are powerful, complicated stories are uniquely human, and there are all kinds of reasons for why that … Continue reading →
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Storytelling 101: In the Beginning
I’ve been thinking a lot about stories and storytelling, what stories are, why we like them. I’m not sure there’s a good definition out there, honestly. Narrative Theory—note the capital … Continue reading →
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August is the time to gif!!!!
Okay, so I just barely got this one out. Better late than never, though, I suppose. So, first I took the phrase “August is the best time to” and … Continue reading →
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It’s Subtle
This shot is from George Melies‘s amazing La Voyage Dans la Lune, my absolute favorite movie from that very first age of cinema, known to some people as Early Cinema, … Continue reading →
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The Painted Lady Vanishes
So there are some pretty serious problems with this as my gif submission for day 1 of the August Animated Gifpolooza Eternum or whatever the Dog and the Doll are … Continue reading →
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THE TRUTH.
So I had all kinds of thoughts about how I should break the news to you. The news, the news you’ve all been waiting for, is the I–Brian Short–aka The … Continue reading →
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We Check Out the iOS 7 Beta for the iPhone
A new vlog is up! Last week we were horrible, horrible people and didn't get around to uploading a new vlog, but this week's is up and it's about iOS 7! I'll admit it, I'm an Apple Fanboy. I tune in to all of the conferences Apple has had over the year... -
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To Serve Learners teaser trailer
Sorry, everybody, I just couldn’t resist. After Cogdog sent out an advanced preview of the first bit of “To Serve Learners,” the satirical radio play for Ds106zone’s audio week, I … Continue reading →
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When your eyes are bigger than your stomach, face
This is a more personal post, a little serious. Caveat emptor you muppets. Earlier this summer (anything after the semester finishes is summer) I did a slew of blog posts … Continue reading →
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Kanye Is Due on Maple Street
Kanye Is Due on Maple Street from Brian Short on Vimeo. * After I made my last audio piece for the DS106 Zone, an audio piece that remixed snippets from … Continue reading →
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“That moonglow gave me you”
“That moonglow gave me you…” Man, this was fun to make. First I grabbed the audio from the Twilight Zone episode “It’s a Good Life,” just the last 8 minutes … Continue reading →
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You’re a bad man!
Okay, last paint-over gif poster for awhile, I promise.
