Tag Archives: Storytelling
Jump on the Bandwagon
Wonder how the housing market folded? Friends of Ira Glass explain how the financial crisis happened in his audio file, Giant Pool of Money at This American Life http://tinyurl.com/5fl6z7. I caught this audible podcast episode early last summer as I … Continue reading
Rising from Ruins: August Movie Trailer
Posted by Hanson Hosein I’m three weeks away from the world premiere of my film, “Independent America: Rising from Ruins” on the 3rd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. This is the second trailer of the film (the first … Continue reading
140 voices ‘Twitter’ing – one story line
posted by Sidnee Heard on NPR this week: A collaborative story is being created by middle school students from across the globe using Twitter.com. Each student is using the same account to contribute their 140 (or less) characters. Contributions are … Continue reading
Flip the Media lives on!
Now that the quarter has ended Flip the Media is just getting started! Hanson hits the road to New Orleans tomorrow with John Liston and Kirk Mastin assisting him in the making of his sequel. They will be blogging here … Continue reading
Failure to Communicate?
Posted by Hanson Hosein: In this digital media era, “communication” is all the rage, especially because there are so many more of us doing it. That’s why this Storytelling class is so important — so fundamental — to our MCDM … Continue reading
So easy…
Well everyone, I just upgraded our WordPress account so that you can all upload video directly from your hard drives to the blog. Just make sure you click on the “Videos” option below your edit box to upload the video … Continue reading
Attempting Storytelling by Democracy
Our project to develop a story with input from 20 really creative and smart people has been challenging. There have been some fantastic ideas for stories. The Tully’s artist lofts, “zombification” in the 21st century, green burial, transformation of the … Continue reading
The Beginning
The beginning challenges the creator. She confronts the blank paper, the uncarved stone, or the empty canvas. As Aristotle tells us in his classic work on storytelling, Poetics, “a whole is that which has a beginning, middle, and end.” What … Continue reading
