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The Wonder of Storytelling
Ira Glass: This American Life A week ago Bob Davidson (@bob_davidson) asked, “What makes good story?” on my new favorite blog, rednow. Davidson is the creative producer for Rule29 and co-founder of...
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Storytelling: From Ira Glass to Benedictine Monks
At its best life rhymes. Like yesterday. While tuning up for a pair of Storytelling in the Digital Age workshops, two rhymes tumbled out of the interwebs and landed at my feet. More accurately, kindred...
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Storytelling, Stillness & Deep Listening
Life can become so very hectic and full of movement that we can forget what it is to be still and have nothing to do except to be still. (Abbot’s Notebook) Before joining Mary Beth Coudal, Joanna...
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Ed Rondthaler Flips for Spelling Reform
Ed Rondthaler (1905-2009) was a typographist and the co-founder (with Harold Horman) of Photo-Lettering, Inc. A man of letters. A man of words. And, it turns out, a man of spelling… Ed Rondthaler was...
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Goggling Welcome to Pine Point
Welcome to Pine Point, innovative digital storytelling by The Goggles Much of the innovation driving digital storytelling is still half-baked. Most storytellers are just beginning to fathom the riches...
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Amy Burvall’s Edupunk Revolution
What is Edupunk? (image from NYTimes.com) In my perennial quest to expose the most innovative digital storytellers plying their crafty art I recently happened onto Amy Burvall (@amyburvall) via a...
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Nuala Hayes: Transformative, Immersive Storyteller
Storyteller, Nuala Hayes(Photo credit: Peter Dibdin) A good story brings you somewhere that you hadn’t intended to go. Something happens, and a transformation takes place. It can be imaginative; it can...
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Fort Apache Trailer
Fantastic news from Addison Mehr and the Fort Apache team. Film editing is in the final stretch, trailers out (and slick, slick, slick) and their reaching out to film festivals looking for...
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Commit. Begin. Now.
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back — Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and...
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The Emerald Mile: Kevin Fedarko’s Intrepid Tale
Kenton Grua, Rudi Petschek, and Steve “Wren” Reynolds… embarked on [an adventure] in late June of 1983, when they defied common sense and the National Park Service and set off, at night, to attempt a...
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Storytelling and Social Engagement
Talk to Me! Storytelling and Social Engagement… Prepare for a reactive post, no, an interactive conversation, about social engagement. But first, what about that photo? Bam! A powerful graphic. Except...
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Persuasion and the Art of Storytelling
Persuasion and the Art of Storytelling (Image: Inc.com) Persuasion is not just for salespeople and their prospects… Often the most effective persuaders are your kids. Somehow they come by it naturally...
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I Want to Live: Praise for 12 Years a Slave
12 Years a Slave (doodle by virtualDavis) Almost 24 hours after watching 12 Years a Slave (movie) I still can’t shake it. The story and characters won’t let go. They’re both still gripping me in...
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One X-Ray and Two Tooth Stories
X-Ray of my Chompers on February 9, 2011. Sorry about the creep x-ray. And about the even creepier tooth stories I’m about to tell. If you freak out about going to the dentist, this post is not for...
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Caffeinated Comics and Quirky Cars
Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee (with Jerry Seinfeld) [Note: If you're a linguistic puritan, please excuse the liberty I took in my title for this post. Caffeinated Comics is actually a misnomer given...
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12 Years a Slave Wins Oscar
12 Years a Slave (doodle by virtualDavis) In a triumph long deferred, “12 Years a Slave” won the best picture Oscar at the 86th Academy Awards… “I’d like to thank this amazing story,” said Steve...
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Kickstart David Berkeley’s Stories and Songs
David Berkeley, by Avery Rimer I’m fresh back in the Adirondacks after a revitalizing Santa Fe sojourn where I discovered David Berkeley (@davidberkeley). I was invited to a concert. I was unable to...
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Illiterate: Lost Narratives
Discourse is dead. Soundbite hypnosis prevails. We’ve forgotten how to hear, watch, and read the lost narratives that swim around us, that weave us together. We’ve forgotten. The lion’s head from the...
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Cancel your conference call. Skip lunch. Toggle your status settings to “Do not disturb.” On everything. Switch your phone to vibrate. Better, turn it off. Now click the play button (bottom left)....
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Storytelling, Dramatic Arc and Neurochemistry
Classic Dramatic Arc: exposition/rising action/climax/falling action/denouement (Source: Aeon Video) What does neuroscience have to do with storytelling? What do cortisol and oxytocin have to do with a...
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