“Cowbird is a simple tool for telling stories, and a public library of human experience.” Jonathan Harris’ latest project, just released, Cowbird is a gorgeous new platform for individual and collaborative storytelling. As Harris describes it on his site, “Cowbird is a small community of storytellers, interested in telling deeper, longer-lasting, more nourishing stories than you’re [...]
Archive for the ‘Narrative’ Category
Cowbird
Posted: December 9, 2011 in Co-creation, Collaborative Tools, DCRC, Narrative, Participatory culture, ToolsTags: Citizen journalism, Cowbird, Jonathan Harris, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, Sep Kamvar, Storify, TED, We Feel Fine
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The Open Video Conference
Posted: October 7, 2010 in Documentary, Tools, Co-creation, Participatory culture, Collaborative Tools, UGC, Narrative, DCRCTags: Michael Wesch, Aaron Koblin, Brett Gaylor, HTML5, Creative Commons, Mozilla, Open Video Conference, Open Video Alliance, Scott Draves, Casey Pugh, Jamie Wilkinson, LucasFilm, Arts, Video, Ben Moskowitz, Kaltura, Vincent Moon, Intelligent Television, Star Wars: Uncut, Star Wars: A New Hope, popcorn.js, Susan Crawford, Ushahidi, Eric Whiteacre, Virtual Choir, Dove, Onslaught, Shawn Ahmed, Uncultured Project, Adam Chodikoff, The Yes Men, Eyebeam
Having worked in TV and then for a decade in “new” media I’ve felt acutely aware of inhabiting distinct cultures in my professional life. It’s perhaps been most apparent when I’ve been involved in cross-platform projects. Linear and non-linear production structures and processes don’t easily mesh, and I’ve been in situations with good creative people [...]
Storytelling
Posted: September 21, 2010 in Co-creation, Narrative, Participatory culture, UGCTags: Capture Wales, Center for Digital Storytelling, Clay Shirky, Guillermo del Toro, Henry Jenkins, Joe Lambert, Kurt Rheinhard, Pan's Labyrinth, storytelling, transmedia, transmedia storytelling
Gosh, there’s a buzz about transmedia storytelling at the moment. It seems like some kind of tipping point’s been reached in terms of a recognition of just how significant non-linear storytelling is going to be. Here for example is Guillermo del Toro, the director of Pan’s Labyrinth, talking at the Toronto Film Festival last week; [...]
Arcade Fire
Posted: September 4, 2010 in Co-creation, Collaborative Tools, DCRC, Documentary, Narrative, Participatory culture, Tools, UncategorizedTags: Aaron Koblin, Arcade Fire, Chris Milk, Google, Google Maps, Google Street View, HTML5, Music video, Street View, The Johnny Cash Project, The Wilderness Downtown
Since my recent post about The Johnny Cash Project, its director Chris Milk has followed that up with the launch this week of another very interesting participatory piece, a collaboration with Google Creative Labs and Aaron Koblin in his role as Technology Lead there. The Wilderness Downtown offers an interactive experience of the Arcade Fire song “We [...]
Mapping Main Street
Posted: June 16, 2010 in Co-creation, Documentary, Narrative, Participatory culture, UGCTags: Anne Heppermann, BBC, Berkman Center, Capitol of Punk, James Burns, Jesse Shapins, Kara Oehler, Main Street, Mapping Main Street, Media and Place Productions, National Public radio, NPR, Sinclair Lewis, UnionDocs, Voices, Yellow Arrow, Zeega
“When politicians and the media mention Main Street, they evoke one people and one place. But there are over 10,466 streets named Main in the United States… Mapping Main Street is a collaborative documentary media project that creates a new map of the United States through stories, photos, and videos recorded on actual Main Streets.” Back [...]
Quilts
Posted: April 26, 2010 in Co-creation, Collaborative Tools, Narrative, Participatory cultureTags: Dorothy Osler, Elisabeth Fry, Fine Cell Work, HMP Wandsworth, Jen Jones, Mavis FitzRandolph, Porth Quilters, Quilts, Rajah Quilt, Rural Industries Bureau, Tom Phillips, Victoria & Albert Museum
When I moved to Wales a decade ago I brought a quilt with me. Not a real quilt, but a print by the artist Tom Philips, see left, from a piece called “Women’s Work”, (which is in fact made from the prostitutes’ cards that used to fill London phone boxes). Anyway, bringing a quilt to [...]
The Story
Posted: February 28, 2010 in Co-creation, Collaborative Tools, Documentary, Narrative, Participatory cultureTags: 2D Goggles, A Small Town Anywhere, Annette Mees, Cory Doctorow, Digital Revolution, Matt Locke, Sydney Padua, Tassos Stevens, The Story, Tim Wright, Virtual Revolution, World Without Oil
Last Friday I went to The Story – a treat of a one-day event organised by Matt Locke – Channel 4’s Education & New Media Commissioner and former Head of BBC Creative R & D. His idea was to offer an alternative to creative industries conferences with their “focus on collapsing business models, the end of [...]
