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Teaching Tales
"A collection of teaching stories, fairy tales, and koans drawn
from the world’s great cultural and spiritual traditions."
koans  fairytales  teachingstories  references  culture  storytelling  stories  via:robinsloan  from delicious
27 days ago by robertogreco
David W. Orr: " What Is Education For?"
"The plain fact is that the planet does not need more "successful" people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every shape and form. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these needs have little to do with success as our culture has defined it. Finally, there is a myth that our culture represents the pinnacle of human achievement: we alone are modern, technological, and developed. This, of course, represents cultural arrogance of the worst sort, and a gross misreading of history and anthropology."

[via: http://borderland.northernattitude.org/2012/04/08/search-for-meaning/ ]
love  lcproject  deschooling  unschooling  1991  local  place  learning  wisdom  living  well-being  history  anthropology  culture  morality  moralcourage  storytellers  stories  storytelling  healers  healing  peacemakers  peacemaking  success  education  davidworr  from delicious
7 weeks ago by robertogreco
Event < opinion < idea < story · robinsloan · Storify
"Adam Sternbergh went on a tear with #bettereditor and #betterfreelancer tips today; you can find them all in his timeline and here too. It was these three that caught my eye. Together, they offer a crisp formulation that's applicable not just to magazine pitches but all kinds of writing—daily news, blog posts, tweets, you name it:

Maybe top #betterfreelancer tip: Know difference btw event, opinion, idea, and story. Those are listed in ascending order of likely appeal.

Event = "So and so has an album coming out." Opinion = "...and I love/hate it." (1/2) #betterfreelancer

Idea = "...and it's important b/c X." Story = "...which almost never happened b/c of battle with label." #betterfreelancer (2/2)"
2012  wonder  meaningmaking  meaning  engagement  experience  stories  storytelling  adamsternbergh  robinsloan  opinions  ideas  storify  events  from delicious
9 weeks ago by robertogreco
Mapping Main Street » A Collaborative Documentary Media Project [See: http://www.mappingmainstreet.org/participate/index.php ]
"Once you start looking, you'll notice Main Streets are everywhere and tell all kinds of stories. There's a Main Street in San Luis, Arizona that dead-ends right into the Mexican border. The Main Street in Melvindale, Michigan runs through a trailer park in the shadows of Ford's River Rouge plant, once the largest factory in the world. Main Street is small town and urban center; it is the thriving business district and the prostitution stroll; it is the places where we live, the places where we work, and sometimes, it is the places we have abandoned.

Mapping Main Street is a collaborative documentary media project that creates a new map of the country through stories, photos and videos recorded on actual Main Streets. The goal is to document all of the more than 10,000 streets named Main in the United States. We invite you to capture the stories and images of the country today. Go out, look around, talk to people, and contribute to this re-mapping of the United States."
stories  classideas  photography  video  baughmanreinhardt  josieholtzman  sarapellegrini  iangray  local  localprojects  matthewlong-middleton  jamesburns  jesseshapins  annheppermann  karaoehler  crowdsourcing  collaboration  flickr  storytelling  towns  cities  community  via:steelemaley  us  mapping  maps  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Object memory on Vimeo
“‘This trade’, he said, ‘was not the trade as you Europeans know it. Not the business of buying and selling for profit! Our people’s trade was always symmetrical.’

Aboriginals, in general, had the idea that all ‘goods’ were potentially malign and would work against their possessors unless they were forever in motion. The ‘goods’ did not have to be edible, or useful. People liked nothing better than to barter useless things - or things they could supply for themselves: feathers, sacred objects, belts of human hair.

‘Trade goods’, he continued, should be seen rather as the bargining counters of a gigantic game, in which the whole continent was the gaming board and all its inhabitants players. ‘Goods’ were tokens of intent: to trade again, meet again, fix frontiers, intermarry, sing, dance, share resources and share ideas.”

With Bruce Chatwins quote as a starting point, a group of friends got together to explore storytelling through the trading of objects…"
stories  things  possessions  brucechatwins  totems  tokens  richardhouguez  2011  objectmemory  memory  storytelling  trade  trading  objects 
february 2012 by robertogreco
The Object Ethnography Project
"The Object Ethnography Project aims to show how stories influence the value, meaning and circulation of objects. It is a creative laboratory where participants–like you– determine the outcome of the cultural experiment.

The team behind the Project will look at the objects and stories accumulated through the project for trends, patterns and insights about the types of objects people donate, the kinds of stories they tell about them, and how those stories influence the object’s value and subsequent exchange. The results of these studies will be presented at a conference at New York University in March 2012."
nyc  2012  value  exchange  patterns  stories  culture  storytelling  objects 
february 2012 by robertogreco
REALRURAL
"Ever since Americans have had to define what “rural” means, they have done so simply by saying what it is not. In common usage, rural is any place not populous, not developed, not easily reached by an interstate. Our national authority on demographics, the U.S. Census Bureau, classifies it merely as a remainder: “‘Rural’ encompasses all population, housing, and territory not included within an urban area.” That’s it.

And yet, anyone who has ever left the highway in the Golden State knows that rural California is a place far too diverse to lump into the category “other.” From Modoc County to Raisin City, from the Carissa Plains to the Coachella Valley, the experience is in fact one of diversity and depth. The stories here are about rural California as a world unto itself—not a list of the things it is not, but an exploration of the things that it is."
stories  rural  documentary  photography  california  lisahamilton  via:javierarbona  realrural  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
Dr. Chris Mullen, The Visual Telling of Stories, illustration, design, film, narrative sequences, magazines, books, prints etc
"A lyrical encyclopedia of visual proportions…Rugged design in opposition to elegance…It's bigger than you could ever think—just explore—no clues from me…big letter and no fancy-dan embroidery—on opposition to the fey…"

"This site records a range of material dedicated to the study of the Visual Narrative. The original site, intended by me for part-time students and other interested parties was closed down by the University of Brighton in 2004. I was subsequently denied access to the original images most of which, however, were in my own collection. I have developed the site on a daily basis thereafter. It remains exclusively educational and is in constant use. Many thanks to those in the UK and beyond who shared my irritation at events. Contact me on chris@fulltable.com "
writing  stories  narrativesequences  magazines  _narrative  film  treasure  susia  philbeard  rebeccamarywilson  hypertext  ruthrix  janecouldrey  clarestrand  grammercypark  petruccelli  jackiebatey  jaynewilson  dickbriel  chrismullen  america  visual  visualcodes  advertising  comics  classideas  tcsnmy  srg  edg  glossary  reference  books  images  visualization  wcydwt  art  design  illustration  storytelling  via:litherland 
january 2012 by robertogreco
Searching The Library Of Babel - The Rumpus.net
"Esteemed as both a critic and author, Borges was as selective as he was well read. And, given all the accounts of his nearly superhuman erudition, he was probably one of the most well read men in history. The highly referential nature of his short stories and the disarming insight of his criticism both serve to underscore the range of his literary knowledge. He was a voracious reader, but also a good reader—and one of particular tastes."

"the problem of guessing which specific handful of stories Borges chose was daunting. And what was daunting became laughable when confronted by Volume 12: trying to guess which 16 of the 431 tales Borges chose from Pu Songling’s fantastic 17th century collection, Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, was like trying to find a copy of Borges’ “The Library Babel” in his own Library of Babel."
Borges  literature  2009  via:Preoccupations  readinglists  lists  reading  stories  books 
january 2012 by robertogreco
TEDxMidAtlantic - Tyler Cowen - 11/5/09 - YouTube
Transcript here: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/8w1/transcript_tyler_cowen_on_stories/

See also: http://www.ted.com/talks/tyler_cowen_be_suspicious_of_stories.html

"So what are the problems of relying too heavily on stories? You view your life like "this" instead of the mess that it is or it ought to be. But more specifically, I think of a few major problems when we think too much in terms of narrative. First, narratives tend to be too simple…

Another kind of problem with stories is, you can only fit so many stories into your mind at once or in the course of a day, or even in the course of a lifetime…

A third problem with stories is that outsiders manipulate us using stories, and we all like to think advertising only works on the other guy, but that's not how it is.

So as an alternative, at the margin (again, no burning of Tolstoy), just be a little more messy."
simplicity  complexity  good  evil  counterintuitive  2009  meaningmaking  culture  economics  storytelling  stories  tylercowen  messiness  truth  perspective  from delicious
december 2011 by robertogreco
"Teddy", by J.D. Salinger
1953  shortstories  children  stories  teddy  jdsalinger  from delicious
december 2011 by robertogreco
Sal Randolph: A Call for Migratory Objects
"Do you have an object whose story you would like to share? An heirloom, an artwork, a toothbrush, a stone? An object which has inspired you, dominated you, educated you, exalted or degraded you? For our second exhibition of the Migration year, we invite you to lend us your object and include with it everything you know about its migratory story.

These objects will be our starting point for a three-month exploration of the Migration of Objects. We will view them as independent beings with stories of their own, stories that began before the object’s encounter with you and that will likely continue long after you part. Your story of the object may start with you but may necessarily migrate into the economic, the industrial, the political, the historical, the geologic, the environmental and so on.

Anyone can play. Here’s how it works:…"
salrandolph  objects  storytelling  migratoryobjects  art  stories  migrationofobjects  proteusgowanus  exhibitions  crowdsourcing  classideas  writingprompts  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
The Infinite Adventure Machine (prototype 01) on Vimeo
"TIAM is a proposal for a computer program which generates fairy-tale plots. 

While fully automatic story generation remains an unsolved problem for computer science, this project explores the links between imagination and computation. Tales and myths; the core narratives of human culture, have been transmitted for generations through various technologies and media. What new forms might they take through digital formats and Artificial Intelligence?

Based on the work of Vladimir Propp, who reduced the structure of russian folk-tales to 31 basic functions, TIAM aims to question the limitations and implications of attempts at programming language and narrative.

Because the program is unable to deliver a finished story, rather only a crude synopsis and illustrations, users have to improvise, filling the gaps with their imagination and making up for the technology's shortcomings."
applications  ios  ipad  storytelling  stories  writingprompts  video  improvisation  from delicious
november 2011 by robertogreco
A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs - NYTimes.com
"…worked at what he loved…really hard…opposite of absent-minded…never embarrassed about working hard, even if results were failures…wasn’t ashamed to admit trying…

Novelty was not…highest value. Beauty was…didn’t favor trends or gimmicks…philosophy of aesthetics…“Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.”…willing to be misunderstood…Love was his supreme virtue, god of gods…believed love happened all the time, everywhere…never ironic, cynical, pessimistic…choices he made…designed to dissolve walls around him…humble…liked to keep learning…cultivated whimsy…had surprises tucked in all his pockets…had a lot of fun…treasured happiness…set destinations…

We all—in the end—die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories…

character is essential: What he was, was how he died…

…final words were: OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW."
life  death  work  happiness  stevejobs  monajobs  2011  eulogy  living  wisdom  storytelling  beauty  parenting  love  attention  failure  character  stories  fun  pessimism  cynicism  irony  virtues  art  time  timelessnessm  durability  workethic  ethics  philosophy  aesthetics  from delicious
october 2011 by robertogreco
blackoystercatcher: Taking history back from the "storytellers"
"Some of the most interesting documentary films take their structures from organic phenomena like the hours of the day, or the trajectory of a river from source to mouth. Others are essays that follow a structured thought process. Still others divide into sequences or parts that need to be understood and compared as discrete units for the film to generate meaning in the viewer. In fact, there are nearly infinite possible documentary structures, of which I think we've only seen a small fraction. By contrast, the mainstream documentary focuses on what's now called "storytelling," a highly traditional representational strategy…<br />
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Of course, there's nothing wrong with storytelling, whatever it may be, and not all stories are bad. What's wrong is the assumption, which has become not only pervasive but compulsory, that documentaries need characters, that the narrative arc must reign supreme, and that we're obliged to show people wrestling with and resolving problems."
storytelling  history  culture  documentary  stories  film  rickprelinger  2009  filmmaking  structure  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
Eide Neurolearning Blog: Stories, Empathy, and the Brain
"If we want to train children up in empathy, then stories are a great way to do it. Seeing the complexity of the pathways required for empathizing should help us understand why people with sensory processing challenges have such difficulty projecting themselves into stories and empathizing with different story characters. But this spatial network can be trained and research suggests empathy can also improve."
empathy  teaching  literature  stories  learning  schools  2011  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
Haruki Murakami: “Town of Cats” : The New Yorker
harukimurakami  2011  stories  shortstories  toread  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
The Never-Ending Story | design mind [via http://twitter.com/frogdesign/status/105785778331852800 via @bobulate]
Harris: "I think that’s something stories can do—prepare their way of finding meaning in this madness and bringing some order to the chaos.<br />
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…creating a space that’s more about slowing down and contemplating and being introspective is a prerequisite for getting people to tell stories that have impact.<br />
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…Cow Bird is basically a storytelling platform that people can use to tell stories online using photos, sound maps, timelines, videos, and casts of characters. It’s geared towards long-form narrative…when many different people tell stories, the system automatically finds connections between them and weaves them together into a kind of meta-story…The platform automatically analyzes all the text in your memory, figures out your cast of characters, and connects it to previous stories.<br />
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…one of the pieces of this system I’ve been building is that to tell the story you have to dedicate it to somebody, which creates a gift economy of stories."
design  art  writing  storytelling  jonathanharris  cowbird  slow  slowness  multimedia  thisishuge  gamechanging  2011  interviews  classideas  curating  curation  twitter  facebook  longform  meaning  meaningmaking  meaningfulness  self-expression  internet  web  stories  social  socialsoftware  metastory  relationships  connectivism  narrative  memory  memories  soundscapes  soundmaps  timelines  video  gifteconomy  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
The Thousand Nights and a Night
art  culture  history  books  storytelling  stories  classideas  thousandandonenights  arabiannights  translation  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Jelly Helm Studio — STORY: Limited edition letterpress + full color print
"Joseph Campbell’s famous chart of the archetypal story, typographically illustrated with color-coded examples of ten classic heroes, from Buddha to Jesus to Luke Skywalker to Dorothy Gale of Kansas.<br />
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Letterpress printing by Kyle Van Horn in Baltimore, color printing by Stevens Printing in Portland, on 88# Strathmore Bristol Wove Writing Cover Ultimate White, 14” x 18” <br />
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Numbered edition of 150 prints, $65 + shipping."
josephcampbell  stories  storytelling  classideas  charts  jellyhelm  prints  flowchart  myth  tcsnmy  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
SpeEdChange: Hulu in the Classroom: Building Literacy
""I've never understood our classroom commitment to "the book," but, I've really never understood our classroom commitment to "the chapter book."

What skills are learned from reading a book which are not learned from watching a film? I'm not saying books are "bad," just asking, "why are they 'better'?"

And why is longer 'better'?

[Short stories discussion]

But then I thought, why do we start with text on a page. I thought back to discovering books of those Twilight Zonestories after years of watching the show, and how much I loved "reading" them (or really, listening to them via audiobook, but I think that's the same).

And I thought that, as part of our effort to make kids want to read, want to write, we must first get them interested in stories, in wanting to know stories, and in how stories are told, and why.

And one great way to do that is to use short fiction in another medium - the short fiction of Hulu and other free sources of video - film and television."
irasocol  classideas  shortstories  reading  writing  hulu  youtube  film  learning  stories  storytelling  narrative  dialogue  2011  lists  video  tv  television  twiliightzone  huma8  literature  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Gourmet Food Articles, Stories & Artisan Food Recipes at Gilt Taste
"Gilt Taste is an online market giving you direct access to artisan products and ingredients, many of which have only been available to professional chefs until now.   Here you can connect with the farmers and artisans who make and grow the products, discover where food comes from, learn how to prepare it for the best results and buy it with a single click. Gilt Taste is also an interactive magazine. We’re creating original recipes and thoughtful stories with writers including Ruth Reichl, Francis Lam, Melissa Clark and Barry Estabrook.  There are unique contributions from chefs, photographers, filmmakers and tastemakers. We aim to de-mystify ingredients and food trends, and inspire you with the confidence to discover, shop, cook and taste."
food  stories  via:rushtheiceberg  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
The Telling Room: the place where stories grow
"The Telling Room is a nonprofit writing center in Portland, Maine, dedicated to the idea that children and young adults are natural storytellers. Focused on young writers ages 6 to 18, we seek to build confidence, strengthen literacy skills, and provide real audiences for our students’ stories. We believe that the power of creative expression can change our communities and prepare our youth for future success."
writing  education  maine  creative  stories  storytelling  nonprofit  lcproject  portland  youth  826 
july 2011 by robertogreco
Smories - new stories for children, read by children ["Smories are original stories for kids, read by kids"]
"We got the idea for smories.com during an extremely long journey…<br />
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Our daughter (8) had the idea to film herself w/ our ipod reading Enid Blyton short stories, & then play them back to her younger sister (6). This kept them entertained for hours.<br />
Our kids have always loved reading to each other a&nd are transfixed when other children read them stories. They are also obsessed w/ the internet & will make their way to youtube any time they get their hands on a computer.<br />
We thought a website that had a continuous flow of new stories, read aloud by kids, would make a healthier destination than so much of the stuff out there. Imagine you're stuck in traffic & need to keep a miniature person entertained…<br />
…we also thought it would be a great unthreatening forum for showcasing unpublished stories. This allows writers to test their work in a straightforward and transparent way, hopefully giving them exposure which they might otherwise not have received."
education  children  books  online  writing  stories  storytelling  via:cervus  webdesign  classideas  readalouds  tcsnmy  toshare  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
unphotographable: 1976, en una cárcel del uruguay: pájaros prohibidos. [English translation also on page]
los presos políticos uruguayos no pueden hablar sin permiso, silbar, sonreír, cantar, caminar rápido ni saludar a otro preso. tampoco pueden dibujar ni recibir dibujos de mujeres embarazadas, parejas, mariposas, estrellas ni pájaros.

didaskó pérez, maestro de escuela, torturado y preso por tener ideas ideológicas, recibe un domingo la vista de su hija milay, de cinco años. la hija le trae un dibujo de pájaros. los censores se lo rompen a la entrada de la cárcel.

al domingo siguiente, milay le trae un dibujo de árboles. los árboles no están prohibidos, y el dibujo pasa. didaskó le elogia la obra y le pregunta por los circulitos de colores que aparecen en las copas de los árboles, muchos pequeños círculos entre las ramas:

- “¿son naranjas? ¿qué frutas son?”

la niña lo hace callar:

- “shhhh…”

y en secreto le explica:

- “bobo. ¿no ves que son ojos? los ojos de los pájaros que te traje a escondidas.”
eduardogaleano  freedom  children  innocence  birds  uruguay  1985  1976  latinamerica  literature  writing  stories  love  revolution  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Less Is More: Using Social Media to Inspire Concise Writing - NYTimes.com
"How can online media like Twitter posts, Facebook status updates and text messages be harnessed to inspire and guide concise writing? In this lesson, students read, respond to and write brief fiction and nonfiction stories, and reflect on the benefits and drawbacks of “writing short.”"<br />
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[Related: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/opinion/20selsberg.html AND http://www.pdscompasspoint.com/?p=4466 ]
writing  literature  twitter  facebook  brevity  classideas  fiction  stories  storytelling  socialmedia  summary  texting  constraints  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
OKBB — austinkleon: Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of...
Austin Kloen: "This is so great. I’ve read the Palm Sunday chapter where he goes into this a dozen times, but seeing him draw on the chalkboard for the audience is just the best. Thanks, Maud!"<br />
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Kate Bingamam Burt: "Holy Mother. Kurt Vonnegut talking and drawing about the shapes of stories. I LOVE THIS MAN."
vonnegut  drawing  stories  storytelling  classideas  chalkboards  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Wanderlust
"Wanderlust is an experimental location-based storytelling platform.<br />
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You can use Wanderlust anywhere in the world, as long as you're in the right type of place.<br />
To begin a story, you might need to be at a bar, restaurant, cafe, or airport. And if the story moves to another location, that's where you'll need to go.<br />
It's a new way of telling stories.<br />
How does it work?<br />
We use Foursquare's database of locations around the world and combine it with your phone's GPS to work out where you are.<br />
Wanderlust also uses JQuery Mobile so it works on any smartphone without installation.<br />
Why do I need Twitter?<br />
We use Twitter to keep track of where you are in a story, no matter what device you're using. We promise we won't send out any posts from your account without your permission, and we certainly won't spam you or pass on your details!"
storytelling  locative  geolocation  stories  classideas  location-based  iphone  applications  sixtostart  foursquare  twitter  webapps  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
The Technium: Possibilians vs Agnostics
"Eagleman: "Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion. A third position, agnosticism, is often an uninteresting stance in which a person simply questions whether his traditional religious story is true or not true. But with Possibilianism I'm hoping to define a new position -- one that emphasizes the exploration of new, unconsidered possibilities. Possibilianism is comfortable holding multiple ideas in mind; it is not interested in committing to any particular story."

…Agnostics end w/ lack of an answer. Possibilians begin w/ lack of an answer. Agnostics say, we can't decide between this & that. Possibilians say, there are other choices… Agnostics say, I Don't Know, it's impossible to answer that question. Possibilians say, I Don't Know, there must be better questions. Both start in humility, but agnosticism is bounded by our great ignorance, while possibilism is unbounded by our limited knowledge."
davideagleman  kevinkelly  uncertainty  possibility  possibilianism  religion  certainty  science  belief  agnosticism  atheism  doubt  curiosity  humility  skepticism  storytelling  criticalthinking  philosophy  ambiguity  hubble  ultradeepfield  ralphwaldoemerson  literature  myths  greekmyths  greeks  romans  creationstories  stories  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
David Eagleman on Possibilianism on Vimeo
"Neuroscientist and best-selling author David Eagleman introduces the concept of Possibilianism, a new philosophy that simultaneously embraces a scientific toolbox while exploring new, unconsidered uncertainties about the world around us."
davideagleman  religion  atheism  agnosticism  possibilianism  philosophy  science  ambiguity  uncertainty  certainty  belief  curiosity  hubble  ultradeepfield  ralphwaldoemerson  literature  myths  greekmyths  greeks  romans  creationstories  storytelling  stories  possibility  doubt  humility  skepticism  criticalthinking  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
aalbright.tumblr : Keep Moving Please. We Will NOT Be Taking Questions.
"But the better question to ask is this: Why would Bevens ever want do do anything else? Conformity and obedience are easy, compared to the immense work of breaking the mold, asking questions, and as a particularly innovative computer company used to say say, “think[ing] different”."
anthonyalbright  stories  conformity  unschooling  deschooling  criticalthinking  tcsnmy  tcsnmy8  obedience  citizenship  difficulty  pathofleastresistance  moldbreaking  iconoclasm  radicals  rebellion  revolution  identity  individualism  change  gamechanging  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
russell davies: a this for a that
"There are three things I really want to see.<br />
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1. Stories written for the the kindle - that use 'kindleyness' the way novels use 'bookiness'.<br />
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2. Music made for the shuffle - pieces designed to appear randomly but still hang together. More than a bunch of songs. And long too, filling up a shuffle, hours worth of it.<br />
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3. Comics made for an iPad. Something that's not just a port of a comic, that combines words and pictures in a way that exploits the iPad's capabilities."
russelldavies  kindle  ipad  comics  stories  media  creativity  newcanvasesneednewcontent  music  shuffle  flow  books  novellas  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Orion Magazine - nature / culture / place
"Once upon a time, Orion published a regular department called The Place Where You Live. Though the department was discontinued in 2003, we’ve been asked about its fate ever since—and reminded by readers of how important it was to them.<br />
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So we’re bringing it back. This is a space for you to exercise your sixth sense and tell us about your place. What connects you to it? What history does it hold for you? What are your hopes and fears for it? What do you do to protect it, or prepare it for the future, or make it better?<br />
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A few of the contributions we receive will appear in the print edition of Orion. The Place Where You Live will be published in every issue of Orion (as well as online), so submissions will be considered for the print magazine on a rolling basis…<br />
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Your contribution can take the form of a short essay or story of no more than 350 words, up to six photographs, a painting, drawing, or handmade map."
place  landscope  onion  nature  orionmagazine  classideas  local  hyperlocal  life  theplacewhereyoulive  writing  newmedia  drawing  maps  mapping  essays  stories  photography  culture  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
I hope Buddha doesn't hate me.
"This is Chanter. It began its humble life as one of those free prayer boxes you can get free from the Buddhist Temple in LA. My friend the wonderfully bizarre Negativland co-conspirator Tim Maloney (Naked Rabbit) gave it to me to see what I could do to it. Here's his comment on the modification: "No matter the motivations, you are still offending a world religion."<br />
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Well. I was able to do much to it, as you can see.<br />
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I added a 500K pot for fairly wide pitch down control, 2 optical resistors (under the glass blobs), an LED snakelite that is hooked up to the audio output so it can optically play itself, and an amazing noise bank of 9 switches (8 toggles and one momentary pushbutton). Each group of "additions" can be switched on independently, together, or left off for "normal" mode. "
stories  sounds  via:russelldavies  buddhism  buddha  prayerboxes  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Rodrigo Hasbún | Granta Magazine
"“The Place of Losses” is a story whose details are difficult to discern much less hold on to—I finished reading it for the second time only five minutes ago, and can’t recall any of the characters names, or even what happened—and whose evoked atmosphere and feelings I can’t imagine forgetting. Good writing is almost always description, but great writing is the thing itself: the kick in the gut, the kiss on the lips, the vomit, the cum. This is the most exhilarating story I’ve read in a long time, and a reminder of what can be gained when some of the expectations of the form are dispensed with. We’ve become so used to the idea that a story should tell a story that we’ve forgotten what a story can actually do, which is not merely to inspire us to remember the writing, but to remember ourselves. This story touched the ends of some of my long-forgotten nerves."
storytelling  writing  stories  jonathansafranfoer  rodrigohasbún  memory  emotion  reading  classideas  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Figment: Write yourself in.
"Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors. Whatever you're into, from sonnets to mysteries, from sci-fi stories to cell phone novels, you can find it all here."
blogs  books  community  content  creative  writing  stories  poetry  classideas  via:lukeneff  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
The Answer Sheet - Why are we failing in history, science education?
"decades ago…we gave up teaching history as idea-centered discipline played out by succession of characters whose actions led to results that can be analyzed. That kind of story-based history is engaging. We replaced it w/ litanies of facts.

…in 20th century, w/ advent of world-changing physics of relativity & quantum theory, we gave science to scientists…accepted what CP Snow called “two cultures;” disconnecting science & arts…no reason to separate them…shouldn’t have happened. Understanding ideas behind today’s incredibly exciting sciences is something all of us can do. But to make science a true liberal arts subject means telling its stories & science history is on curriculum in only 1 state…

…many of our schools have marginalized subjects that make you think, subjects that provide intellectual stretching. History & science—taught as idea-based subjects—give you something to think about. Turning them into rote memorization disciplines gives you a headache."
history  science  education  teaching  learning  schools  policy  memorization  thinking  criticalthinking  ideas  tcsnmy  stories  storytelling  historyofscience  fourthculture  art  arts  interdisciplinary  crossdisciplinary 
october 2010 by robertogreco
ctina.com: Haruki Murakami: The Second Bakery Attack
"ever try to share something that impresses you very much w/ someone who impresses you very much, only to receive an impressive lack of appreciation?<br />
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It's like taking landscape pictures from your vacation, & then showing them around. Just don't bother.<br />
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This happened to me w/ Haruki Murakami…a very talented, absorbing, inspiring writer who wrote the best short story I have ever read, "Sleep." He also wrote the following story (shorter than "Sleep" & more transcription-friendly), which I numbed my little fingers typing out one day at work, risking my job, eyesight & circulation for sake of e-mailing it to 3 ingrates whose puzzled, lackluster reactions made them unworthy of my suffering. (I mean, I was also really bored &, in retrospect, potentially a bit touched that day; but that's beside the point.)<br />
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I guess we must choose our cultural battles carefully.<br />
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But if at least 1 person is searching for e-Murakami & is gratified by this page, my labor will not have been in vain."
via:robinsloan  harukimurakami  fiction  stories  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
The Vulture Transcript: Neil Gaiman on Comics, Twilight, Twitter Etiquette, Killing Batman, and Sharing Porn With His Son -- Vulture [via: http://ayjay.tumblr.com/post/1347702944/things-with-stories-became-incredibly]
"Things with stories became incredibly unfashionable for kids. There was a point in the eighties and nineties when young-adult literature was being driven by the opinions of some teachers and some librarians, who were of the opinion that young-adult literature should be wholesome and informative and nutritious, like stone-ground wheat or whatever. I was in England back then and you’d get these books for review, and they’re all about this 15-year-old boy who lived in this tower block in London, and his older brother was using drugs, probably heroin. But there was a teacher who believed in him, and even though things weren’t going very well, it was kind of bleak and miserable, but because the teacher believed in him, maybe by the end he was going to be okay, we sort of hoped … And if I read that book once, I must have read it 30 times, and I didn’t like it any better any of those times. But that was the book, and it wasn’t a story. It didn’t keep you turning the pages…"
neilgaiman  education  books  storytelling  stories  trends  yaliterature  children  literature  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Kiyash Monsef, How to Build a Troll-Proof Bridge
kiyashmonsef  toread  stories  classideas  via:robinsloan  tcsnmy  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
The School of Life : Charles Fernyhough On Memory
"new science [explains]…Memories are…constructed, when needed, according to demands of present…Memories of childhood are particularly suspect. When I recall my first day at school, I know I’m not remembering event itself, so much as my last act of remembering it…Here we go again, complaint might sound. Science gets teeth into something quintessentially human, & chews it to bits. But I think that coming to terms w/ slipperiness of memory can be surprisingly liberating. I cherish that first-day memory: sound of my mother’s voice, floating dust-motes in September-warm school hall. Understanding that it probably didn’t happen in quite that way doesn’t make the memory any less precious. If anything, my scepticism about memory makes me freer to be the person I am now. I don’t have to be constrained by particular habits of remembering; I can make myself anew each day. Memory may be a kind of storytelling, but I happen to like stories. They contain a rather wonderful kind of truth."
charlesfernyhough  memory  identity  stories  storytelling  human  self  truth  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Cookies by Douglas Adams [Something for the first week of school?]
"This actually did happen to a real person, and the real person was me. I had gone to catch a train. This was April 1976, in Cambridge, U.K. I was a bit early for the train. I'd gotten the time of the train wrong.<br />
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I went to get myself a newspaper to do the crossword, and a cup of coffee and a packet of cookies. I went and sat at a table. … [Funny story]"
anecdote  douglasadams  stories  writing  humor  funny  psychology  perspective  classideas  via:preoccupations  life  society  uk  english  england  tcsnmy  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
jeweled platypus · text · Augmented reality for non-programmers
"When people care about the place where they live, they often end up helping make it a better place. But how do people get interested? It might help if the history of that place is brought to the surface, making its compelling stories more noticeable. A good local newspaper or blog can do this, but only if you find one and read it regularly. An augmented-reality mobile app might be able to do this instantly for anyone curious about their surroundings, but only if they have that device. What about for everyone? These are some stories about a place I like." …<br />
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"So I’d like to install some sidewalk plaques in IV! Traditional bronze markers would be very expensive (and require who knows what kind of permission and work to install), but there’s an alternative made with linoleum: messages in the style of Toynbee tiles, which are crackpot graffiti anonymously glued to asphalt roads in a few cities:"
comments  islavista  santabarbara  ucsb  brittagustafson  annotation  annotatedspeces  space  place  meaning  classideas  tcsnmy  cities  history  neighborhoods  stories  storytelling  augmentedreality  toynbeetiles  graffiti  streetart  intelligentgraffiti  noticings  local  yellowarrow  blueplaques  spaceinvader  analog  waymwaymarking  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Sticking the world together with words | Tim Parks | Books | guardian.co.uk [via: http://plsj.tumblr.com/post/833198983/sticking-the-world-together-with-words]
"what if language & literature were as much a part of the problem as the solution? Consider. Invented, not part of nature, words are thrust upon us the moment we emerge from the womb. Heads stuffed with them, we start to imitate. The right sounds in the right sequences get us what we want. Soon these patterns of sound seem as natural as breathing. For stream of consciousness, read stream of words…<br />
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Predictably, society prefers writers who don't meddle with the word sequences we all know and on which our identities depend, who treat syntax & grammar as if they were natural & inevitable, as if from birth the brain was made up of words, English words.…<br />
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Foreign languages are unsettling. They remind us how arbitrary the mental world we live in is. Silence is worse. When we try to imagine consciousness without words, when we think of a day, even an hour, without any words in the head, we are overcome by a kind of vertigo. As when we think of death…"
timparks  words  conciousness  classideas  language  english  languages  culture  humanity  storytelling  literature  knowledge  stories  power  books  wisdom  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
La Autopista del Sur
stories  classideas  laautopistadelsur  juliocortázar 
august 2010 by robertogreco
El baúl de Israel Centeno: Las Manos que crecen
"Miró hacia abajo y vio que los dedos de sus manos arrastraban por el suelo.
juliocortázar  hands  literature  stories  shortstories  classideas 
august 2010 by robertogreco
You were doing it wrong | Ask MetaFilter [second quote from and found via: http://bobulate.com/post/785160274/jackass-knowledge]
"Crap, I've been doing it wrong." We've all had those sudden epiphanies where we realize we've been doing something incorrectly, ineffectively or just suboptimally our whole lives, in domains from handicraft to human relations to technical stuff to personal grooming. What have you spent large portions of your life doing wrong?"
metafilter  stories  learning  life  wrong  grammar  mistakes  reading  culture  lifehacks  humor 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: griotism
"So employing an internal data griot makes a lot of sense: someone who can spend the time looking for both large trends and individual needs and uses that illuminate and portend. It’s a hard job, needing a mix of skills rarely found – a smidgen of hard maths and statistics, a pinch of programming, and dessert spoons of various liberal arts. The Economist (sub required) posits them as data scientists (a position Flickr are currently looking for), but this misses the ability to ask interesting questions, and having hunches – being so immersed in the data that relevancy screams out."
chrisheathcote  last.fm  data  griot  processing  python  stories  visualization  web  storytelling  interdisciplinary  hunches  questioning  math  mathematics  relevance  patternrecognition  patterns  newliberalarts  programming  statistics  trends  griotism  datagriots 
july 2010 by robertogreco
What’s a media inventor? > Robin Sloan
"Fun­da­men­tally, I think, a media inven­tor is some­one who isn’t sat­is­fied with the suite of for­mats that have been handed down to him by his cul­ture (and econ­omy). Novel, novella, short story; album, EP, sin­gle; RPG, RTS, FPS—a media inven­tor doesn’t like those choices. It turns out a media inven­tor feels com­pelled to make the con­tent and the container.
media  stories  mediainventors  robinsloan  identity  moldbreaking  gamechanging  containers  content  writing  creativity  invention  format 
june 2010 by robertogreco
Why link out? Four journalistic purposes of the noble hyperlink » Nieman Journalism Lab
"Links are good for storytelling. Links give journalists a way to tell complex stories concisely... Links keep the audience informed. Professional journalists are paid to know what is going on in their beat. Writing stories isn’t the only way they can pass this knowledge to their audience... Links are a currency of collaboration. When journalists use links to “pay” people for their useful contributions to a story, they encourage and coordinate the production of journalism... Links enable transparency. In theory, every statement in news writing needs to be attributed. “According to documents” or “as reported by” may have been as far as print could go, but that’s not good enough when the sources are online."
storytelling  web  writing  hypertext  links  journalism  transparency  collaboration  jonathanstray  nicholascarr  sharing  references  connections  information  internet  stories 
june 2010 by robertogreco
Do blog - We used to gather around a fire to listen to...
"why are stories so important?...over time we have become comfortable with this way of getting information. We like the format. It works for us. We know how to decipher them. Indeed stories are how we used to learn but will also be very much how we learn in the future. In its simplest form they pass knowledge on. They explain things we don’t fully understand. They inspire us. With each great story comes life’s important lessons. About their determination, about what drove them, about trying to find a better way of doing something, about the struggles they met along the way. Stories are also important because they are about doing things. Stories need verbs. It’s the verb in the stories that gives it the action. The ‘Do’ bit. & importantly, people don’t forget stories, especially when told brilliantly. But they often forget facts, even if told in unique way. These stories in terms of learning are important; they show us the way. They demonstrate what is possible. They give us hope."
stories  verbs  action  do  doing  storytelling  learning  tcsnmy  ted  information 
may 2010 by robertogreco
cityofsound: 14 Cities
"In the previous entry I wrote about an unsuccessful submission for the Venice Architecture Biennale Australian pavilion. As I noted, it grew out of an earlier internal ideas competition at Arup Sydney, in which I produced a set of 14 super-short stories, each pertaining to describe a particular Australian city of the future. In reality, each is a facet of almost any contemporary Australian city, extrapolated to bring into sharp relief, as per Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (albeit with a lot less craft). Regular readers will recognise many of my prejudices and predilections surfacing here, which is perhaps why I found it so enjoyable to put together."
danhill  cityofsound  fiction  stories  shortstories  italocalvino  australia  future 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Weird California - Villa Montezuma Mansion
"So regardless of if strange spiritual activity occurs around and in the Villa Montezuma, regardless of if has at least two ghosts reside in the house, regardless of if there is buried treasure, regardless of it the ghosts of countless séances still pass through the property, and regardless of if a curse lies on the occupants of the house causing them to fall into financial ruin, the stately Villa Montezuma still stands proud in San Diego, overlooking the coastline. Weird but proud." [more "Weird San Diego": http://www.weirdca.com/search2.php?city=San%20Diego]
sandiego  myths  myth  legend  stories  buildings  architecture 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Telling stories with interfaces « Snarkmarket
"This genre makes absolutely no sense on TV. I love things that make absolutely no sense on TV.
stories  storytelling  google  advertising  ads  video  michaelwesch  themonitor  robinsloan  snarkmarket 
january 2010 by robertogreco
russell davies: true stories told live
"Gladwell suggests people w/ the best stories are those whose jobs involve lots of sitting around w/ their colleagues; cricketers, for instance, or pilots. I'd suggest it's not just the sitting around, it's sitting around while half paying attention to something else (the match, automatic pilot). This leaves enough room for proper story-telling, for holding court, not interrupted by sniping, conversation or one-up-person-ship...I'm still not sure that story is that important to stories. You know, all that beginning, middle, end stuff, narrative arc...Games people go on about it all the time, ad people are convinced they're masters of story miniatures. I think, very often, story is just something to hang all the important bits on. & not in a significant, meaningful way, like a backbone or scaffold...more of a coat-hanger. The actual stuff that connects isn't about plot or narrative; it's texture, observations, images, jokes, juxtapositions, felicitous phrases & little moments of aha."
communication  storytelling  stories  malcolmgladwell  russelldavies  narrative  listening  attention  entertainment  games  gamedesign  delivery 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Tangled histories – Blog – BERG
"I don’t know why I write this. I’m interested in tangles and multi-actor histories, and how you tell stories in them. Books are for the linearisable. Hypertext is for hyperhistories. I’m curious about how simple patterns in behaviours or social relationships somehow persist, complexify and grow over decades and hundreds of thousands of people, and somehow don’t die away.
berg  cybernetics  history  storytelling  stories  consilience  stevenjohnson  brianeno  mattjones  timelines  graphy  charts  1989  prague  brunolatour  longzoom  multi-actorhistories  hypertext  books  behavior  relationships  social 
november 2009 by robertogreco
If children's stories aren't scary, they're failing their audience | Sam Leith | Books | The Guardian
"Art for children...needs to be scary. A children's story often starts & ends in the comfort of home, sure. But nothing's at stake if the story never leaves it. Rattle your memory. What are the books and films that are deepest rooted in your imagination, the memories with the strongest flavours? Do you remember laughing merrily at the pantomime dame? Or do you remember, rather, being scared of King Rat? The young generation will, 30 years on, remember what it felt like to be scared of one of the soul-sucking dementors from the Harry Potter stories. I can still remember what it was like to be scared almost to death by Nicholas Fisk's heart-stoppingly horrible book Grinny. Imagine if an evil alien disguised as an elderly relative hypnotised your parents and moved into the spare room. (Pipe down at the back, Les Dawson.)...And what about the long red legg'd scissor-man from Struwwelpeter? Thumb amputation – that's the stuff to throw at kids."
children  stories  literature  writing  fear  scary  mauricesendak  harrypotter  wherethewildthingsare  tcsnmy  via:crystaltips 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Click Nothing: Live and Let Die
"meaning does not come from playing a game... it comes from playing WITH a game. It is the manipulation not only of the actors in the game that is meaningful, but the manipulation of the game itself. This discussion is not about how to make a game more meaningful. It is about how games mean."
via:preoccupations  games  meaning  gaming  play  manipulation  videogames  narrative  stories  storytelling 
july 2009 by robertogreco
Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood - The New York Review of Books
"Childhood is a branch of cartography... Most great stories of adventure ... come furnished with a map... traveler soon learns that the only way to come to know a city ... is to visit it alone, preferably on foot, ... become as lost as one possibly can. ... our children have become cult objects to us, too precious to be risked. At the same time they have become fetishes, the objects of an unhealthy and diseased fixation. And once something is fetishized, capitalism steps in and finds a way to sell it. What is the impact of the closing down of the Wilderness on the development of children's imaginations? ... Should I send my children out to play? ... Even if I do send them out, will there be anyone to play with? Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If children are not permitted—not taught—to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world of adventure, of stories, of literature itself?"
children  childhood  parenting  society  freedom  fear  safety  maps  mapping  michaelchabon  literature  cartography  creativity  narrative  education  learning  exploration  unschooling  deschooling  travel  risk  survival  independence  adventure  stories  storytelling  danger  mattgroening  writing  culture  books  youth  kids 
june 2009 by robertogreco
EyeWitness To The Middle Ages and Renaissance
middleages  renaissance  history  tcsnmy  research  reading  stories  medieval 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Near Future Laboratory » Gradually Undisciplined. Stories Not Titles.
"Crossing into a new practice idiom, especially if it offers the chance to feel the process of learning, is a crucial path toward undisciplinarity. The chance to become part of a practice — with all of its history, ideology, languages, norms and values, personalities, conferences — is an invigorating process. Embodying multiple practices simultaneously is the scaffolding of creativity and innovating, in my mind. It is what allows one to think beyond the confines of strict disciplinary approaches to creating new forms of culture — whether objects, ideas or ways of seeing the world." ... "Objects, I have learned, are expressive bits of culture. They make meaning, help us understand and make sense of the world. They are knowledge-making, epistemological functionaries. They frame conversations and are also expressions of possibility and aspiration."
julianbleecker  undisciplinary  undisciplinarity  crossdisciplinary  multidisciplinary  engineering  art  science  design  learning  education  tcsnmy  curiosity  objects  janchipchase  titles  stories  understanding  creativity  technology  culture  transdisciplinary  interdisciplinary  innovation  ideas  identity 
april 2009 by robertogreco
3quarksdaily - Choose Your Story
"grew up on dusty, rural road ... occasional ride to nearest city, Las Vegas, was a 2-hour special event...smog, sprawling stores, slums & soaring signs of Strip were best of urban life that I knew...visiting the big library at the UNLV feels like arriving at the Library of Alexandria & being anointed with knowledge, olive oil & cool water from a half-functioning drinking fountain. I didn't understand what I was missing until one morning when, as a 16 year old boy, I landed in Paris. My perspective on LV changed dramatically, as did my perspective on most things in my life... walking or driving through a city — and especially, doing so in multiple cities — is like walking or riding through one's own mind...like reading literature...Giles Gunn has suggested that literature enables two functions: to speak what is unspeakable and to experience feelings which have been forgotten. When one reads about faraway lands in a book, one simultaneously visits strange feelings w/in oneself."
cities  libraries  knowledge  travel  urban  urbanism  learning  thinking  reading  experience  parenting  paris  lasvegas  cv  glvo  exploration  stories 
february 2009 by robertogreco
russell davies: from product to project
"So I've been thinking about how I can continue to projectise this product. And how this bag can have a 10-year + story. So I'm trying to add spimeiness to it and to use internet stuff as a memory aid for this thing. So, I've created a unique URL for it at thinglink, in the spirit of the skuwiki idea. And I've built a tumblblog for it at HMDbag.tumblr.com. That tumblr extracts things from flickr and delicious that I've tagged appropriately, so it's sort of self-generating. I imagine telling the story of the life of the bag that way, keeping it as a project not a product.
brucesterling  design  sustainability  russelldavies  manufacturing  howies  bags  rfid  spimes  brands  products  stories  gps  physical  things  unproduct  beausage  plannedobsolescence  plannedlongevity  glvo  wabi-sabi 
january 2009 by robertogreco
Mobile Digital Storytelling at mTrends - mobile media lifestyle trends - m-trends.org
"I learned a lot of new stuff how digital storytelling is currently used in online marketing campaigns and I tried to project how the cell phone can be used in future digital cross-media marketing. Check my (slightly adapted) slides of my presentation here below."
mobile  phones  storytelling  narrative  stories  participation 
october 2008 by robertogreco
The Baldwin Online Children's Literature Project...Bringing Yesterday's Classics to Today's Children
"The Baldwin Project seeks to make available online a comprehensive collection of resources for parents and teachers of children. Our focus, initially, is on literature for children that is in the public domain in the United States. This includes all works first published before 1923. The period from 1880 or so until 1922 offers a wealth of material in all categories, including: Nursery Rhymes, Fables, Folk Tales, Myths, Legends and Hero Stories, Literary Fairy Tales, Bible Stories, Nature Stories, Biography, History, Fiction, Poetry, Storytelling, Games, and Craft Activities."
children  tcsnmy  books  free  audiobooks  classics  reading  stories  ebooks  online 
october 2008 by robertogreco
A Glimpse into the Minds of Kids in 1931 America | Geekdad from Wired.com
"I've always been fascinated by history, and particularly by personal accounts, because too many history books are little more than dry enumerations of facts. So I was very pleasantly surprised to read an article on Thingamababy (via MetaFilter) about a remarkable book from 1931. The book is a collection of short stories written by fifth-graders from the Buffalo, New York area. Some of the stories were obviously written on teacher-directed subjects, but some weren't, and those stories provide a view into the lives and minds of children from that era that I've never encountered before. The book has been transcribed and the contents published on the web."
children  writing  stories  1931  books  tcsnmy  classideas 
september 2008 by robertogreco
The Liberal: Writing & Society - On Myth
"Borges liked myth because he believed in the principle of ‘reasoned imagination’: that knowing old stories, and retrieving and reworking them, brought about illumination in a different way from rational inquiry."
borges  wisdom  myths  mythology  myth  intertextuality  literature  stories  writing  culture 
august 2008 by robertogreco
Telescopic Text © Joe Davis 2008
storytelling  stories  via:foe  writing  classideas  javascript  text  literature  hypertext  tcsnmy  tea 
july 2008 by robertogreco
raconteur: Definition and Much More from Answers.com
"One who tells stories and anecdotes with skill and wit."
srg  glvo  words  definitions  storytelling  stories 
july 2008 by robertogreco
THE MACHINE STOPS - E.M. Forster -"Cannot you see, cannot all you lecturers see, that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives in the Machine? We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will...
"...It was robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralysed our bodies and our wills, and now it compels us to worship it."
literature  fiction  technology  internet  sciencefiction  1909  machines  dystopia  scifi  stories  relationships  communication  senses  freedom  attention  resources  human  virtualworlds  society  network  online 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Lit to Go: MP3 Stories and Poems - Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format.
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via:cburell  audiobooks  literature  mp3  free  books  storytelling  podcasts  audio  elementary  elearning  education  ebooks  stories  poetry  poems 
july 2008 by robertogreco
hitotoki : A Narrative Map of Tokyo, New York, London, Paris, Shanghai, Sofia...
"Hitotoki is an online literary project collecting stories of singular experiences tied to locations in cities worldwide."
tokyo  shortstories  geography  cities  mapping  location  literature  travel  nyc  paris  sofia  shanghai  london  japan  writing  stories  maps  ethnography  storytelling  place  community  magazines  narrative  hyperlocal  street  urban  hitotoki 
july 2008 by robertogreco
The Boys and the Subway - Niemann Opinion Art Blog – Abstract City – NYTimes.com
"My sons Arthur, 5, and Gustav, 3, are obsessed with the New York City subway system...They can barely sit through an episode of “Sesame Street.” But when we go for aimless subway joy rides on the weekends, they sit like little angels, devoutly callin
abstract  art  children  subways  subway  transit  nyc  illustration  transportation  urban  nytimes  humor  stories 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Access : Of myths and men : Nature News
"Worries about an apocalypse unleashed by particle accelerators are not new, says Philip Ball. They have their source in old myths, which are hard to dispel."
science  nature  physics  myth  experiments  mythology  disasters  risk  scifi  stories  truth  cern  lhc 
may 2008 by robertogreco
We Tell Stories - 'The (Former) General' by Mohsin Hamid
on creating the interactive story: http://mssv.net/2008/04/22/creating-the-former-general/
hypertext  stories  storytelling  chooseyourownadventure  literature 
may 2008 by robertogreco
Axxon - Enciclopedia de la Ciencia Ficcion y Fantasia argentina
argentina  literatura  wikis  sciencefiction  scifi  history  future  books  stories  comics  magazines 
april 2008 by robertogreco
MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages
comic  make  diy  onlinetoolkit  storytelling  stories  writing  literacy  education  learning  free  elearning  online  internet  web  webapps 
april 2008 by robertogreco
Find The Why - mind-expanding programmes for gifted and all-ability pupils aged 7 to 14
"CHILDREN ALWAYS WANT TO KNOW WHY, especially at that philosophical age from 7 to 14. Our programmes work with the grain of their curiosity to help them explore the deeper significance of the subjects they study every day. Every day they use words and mea
education  language  learning  literacy  science  homeschool  citizenship  creativity  questions  teaching  schools  curriculum  lcproject  facts  stories  storytelling  government  music  curiosity 
april 2008 by robertogreco
We Tell Stories
"Six authors. Six Stories. Six Weeks." "Digital fiction from Penguin"
literature  storytelling  arg  digitalstorytelling  web  online  interaction  stories  writing  penguin  internet  fiction  interactive  gps  googleearth  experimental  fairytales  convergence  infodesign  twitter  visualization  locative 
march 2008 by robertogreco
We Tell Stories - 'The 21 Steps', by Charles Cumming
digitalstorytelling  storytelling  stories  scifi  sciencefiction  geotagging  googlemaps  writing  walking  maps  mapping  london  literature  fiction  travel  cities 
march 2008 by robertogreco
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