Ken Burns on story
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Incensed by the way the viral Invisible Children video simplified the story of warlord Joseph Kony and neglected to include enough of a Ugandan perspective, a group of filmmakers, photographers, activists, writers, poets and artists banded together to launch a counter-organization,Uganda Speaks.
“It was a one-sided story of one organization…It was an American story,” says Rosebell Kagumire in the organization's YouTube video. “If somebody was going to make a video that’s trending across the world, it would be best if it reflected the current realities in Uganda.”
Via The Huffington Post.
Most of us stop making believe sometime in middle childhood. But LARPers decide, as adults, that they want to re-enter Neverland, and so they do. The LARP community is small, but there’s now a huge number of grownups playing online versions of LARP like The World of Warcraft. These video games offer make-believe role-play inside a digital Neverland. For me, this all supports the Peter Pan principle: Humans are the species that just won’t grow up. We may stop acting out our stories, but we never actually leave Neverland, never stop pretending. We just gradually change how we do it. Instead of making up our stories and acting them out—as children do—we spend more and more time inside the fantasies created by others: novels, TV shows, plays, video games, and so on.
Willy Chyr is a Chicago-based physicist by education but interested in storytelling and art. The latter have manifested themselves in the form of an online story experiment. In The Collabowriters, the Twitterverse votes to add successive sentences to a story that gradually reveals itself as it goes along, 140 characters at a time.
Absolutely fascinating project that I've only just realised I've always wished existed. Small Demons expands on the people and places in a story, creating a StoryVerse. You can learn more about your favourite people, places and things from books and movies all in one place.
Story is a retail location that changes its merchandise every few weeks, and tells a story through each of its its different themes.
The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”
"Maybe stories are just data with a soul."
Welcome to Pine Point is a lovely digital storytelling project by Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, it takes you through what life was like in a little town called Pine Point using a range of media: photos, videos, sound. It's a collage of these, and somehow very compelling.
