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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 was) by looking at two different depictions of the X-Men character Jubilee…
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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 why …
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, drinking Rob Roys with a filmmaking acquaintance from out of town. This pal kept talking about the book, Wired for …
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 our need to practice problem-solving, and that this relationship to imaginative—and imagined—conflict is what separates us from the rest of …
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Anyway.
I’m not sure that dreaming really deserves a lot of airtime in a storytelling blog. I mean it’s related, I guess, but that connection seems tenuous to me.
But Gottschall devotes a whole chapter to it, so to took the bait.…
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 Cards season 2?”
What I mean is: Why did human beings evolve in a way that makes them capable of …
from newpublicaffairs.com?
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 of storytelling and storytelling technology and the explosion of digital story-making tools available to the citizen storyteller.
This …
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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 used 30Hands. I didn’t really choose to do a narrated slideshow, though, I just went to 50+ Ways to …
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 Storytelling Animal.
This is something that I think about a lot, especially working as a writer and social media whatever-the-word-is-for-people-who-do-social-media …
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 define. Gottschall doesn’t spend much time defining except by giving examples, but there are problems, I think, with comparing movies …
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 might be.”
We read a portion of the book for the Digital Storytelling class I taught at U-M’s Residential …
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 letters—seems interested in the effects that stories have on us and how we construct them, but that method of defining …
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 typed it into Google, then did a screenshot of every answer option screen I got up until “J,” which was …
Our hero, just before the return journey
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, but which I call Everything Sucks Except George Melies.
To answer …
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 calling this end of summer gif thing.
First, you might have guessed (if you know me), that’s not me. That’s …
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 Bagman–is, in fact, Talky Tina, the banner-awarding doll from H-E-double hockey sticks who has been terrorizing DS106zoners from before the …
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 …
Don’t worry, you’ll be delicious
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 went ahead and grabbed a few scenes from the original episode that the play is …
Kanye Is Due on Maple Street from Brian Short on Vimeo.
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After I made my last audio piece for the DS106 Zone, an audio piece that remixed snippets from the Twilight Zone episode “It’s a Good Life” and a version of the song “Moonglow,” which is featured …
“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 or so.
Then, I grabbed a couple of my favorite quotes to move around.
Then, I went onto Soundcloud, looking …
