The Persisting Vision: Reading the Language of Cinema by Martin Scorsese | The New York Review of Books
Whenever I hear people dismiss movies as “fantasy” and make a hard distinction between film and life, I think to myself that it’s just a way of avoiding the power of cinema. Of course it’s not life—it’s the invocation of life, it’s in an ongoing dialogue with life.
Brickflow - Turn your media into memorable stories
OLLECT MEDIA BASED ON A HASHTAG, AND TURN IT INTO A BEAUTIFUL SLIDESHOW. Our live hashtag wall is used at events to present tweets and instagram photos for more fun and engagement. BUILD YOUR OWN STORIES FROM THE COLLECTED CONTENT, JUST LIKE PLAYING WITH LEGO. Our builder tool lets you get creative with the content you collect. Tell the story of the event the way you remember it.
On how #edcmooc did a cmooc on Coursera | Doing by Learning (and vice versa)
By demonstrating that you could build a very “open” course on Coursera, the University of Edinburgh team in charge of E-learning and Digital Cultures succeeded in breaking down some walls between the large-scale free course (called xMOOC by some critics) and the cMOOC connectivist learn-fest.
333sound | Books about music and sound from Bloomsbury
33 1/3 is a series of short books about a wide variety of albums, by artists ranging from James Brown to the Beastie Boys. Launched in September 2003, the series now contains 86 titles and is acclaimed and loved by fans, musicians and scholars alike.
Tapestry is a growing collection of short, wonderful stories made for reading on your phone. Inspired by Robin Sloan's Fish: a tap essay, Tapestry is a new way of storytelling, embracing some of the most important pieces of telling a great story: succinctness, pacing, and creativity. It's simple: tap to move forward in a story. There’s no going back, so take your time—that’s the whole point!
Brain Rules: Brain development for parents, teachers and business leaders | Brain Rules |
The brain is an amazing thing. Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know. How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? What can science tell us about raising smart, happy children? Brain Rules are things we know for sure, and John Medina explains what we might do with that knowledge.
When it comes to memory, researchers have known for more than 100 years that pictures and text follow very different rules. Put simply,the more visual the input becomes, the more likely it is to be recognized—and recalled. The phenomenon is so pervasive, it has been given its own name: the pictorial superiority effect, or PSE.
The History of Typography, in Stop-Motion Animation - Ivan Kander - The Atlantic
Let’s face it, fonts and typefaces have officially become a mainstream obsession. In our current design-centric culture, terms like sans-serif, Helvetica, and — heaven forbid — Comic Sans have breached the cultural consciousness. Fortunately, for those of you who still can’t tell your Futura from your Papyrus, Yukon-based designer Ben Barrett-Forrest has crafted this charming stop-motion history lesson to help you get up to speed. Built with 2454 photographs, 291 letters, and 140 hours of his life, Barrett-Forrest’s animated short is a delight . As he guides us from the lowly beginnings of Guttenberg’s printing press, all the way to the computer age, it becomes apparent that the art of type is a corollary for history.
Here we’ll be sharing news, tips and tricks about all things relating to our storytelling tool, the Source Filmmaker. Because it’s the tool we use here at Valve to create our own movies, we will be adding features as we need them and then sharing them with everyone through Steam.
Alfred Hitchcock Explains the Plot Device He Called the ‘MacGuffin’ | Open Culture
Alfred Hitchcock liked to call it the “MacGuffin” — the mysterious object in a spy thriller that sets the whole chain of events into motion. But despite the supposed centrality of the MacGuffin, a Hitchcock movie is always about something else. In The 39 Steps, for example, the MacGuffin turns out to be the coveted plans for an advanced airplane engine, stored in the mind of a vaudeville performer named “Mr. Memory.” But really the film is about a wrongly accused man’s desperate struggle to solve a mystery so he can clear his name and live to see another day. The MacGuffin is always particular — often to the point of absurdity — while the hero’s motivation is universal. Some of the characters may care about the MacGuffin, but the audience certainly does not.
Docusound | Any story can be told "from the point of view of sound"
DOCUSOUND is a crossmedia platform for production and distribution of creative audio-documentaries. DOCUSOUND is a weapon of mass-awareness construction: not only do we produce and distribute audiodocumentaries, we also teach workshops and run a media literacy program, we foster the culture of oral storytelling in all shapes and forms and we advocate for all minorities to be involved in the production and exchange of culture and information. Stories are our currency and just like currency their value lies in exchanging them. Our goal is a worldwide network where stories from all over the world are shared and can inspire the audience to participate. We know the impact of oral storytelling and we want to rediscover it: we look for people’s voices, vehicle of stories and emotions, the essence of communication, roots of every story.
While fewer and fewer people may be subscribing to RSS feeds (I don’t know if the data actually bear that out yet or not), they are still extremely useful tools in the Web development arsenal. Parsing and using them within a PHP application can be a bit of headache for some, though. Thankfully, WordPress includes a tool called SimplePie in the core, and it’s really easy to use. It’s very similar to the WordPress HTTP API.
GitHub Pages are hosted for free and easily published through our site, the GitHub for Mac app, or from the command line. Manage your site’s content from GitHub using the tools and workflow that you’re familiar with
Hacker Storytelling is a new way to tell stories on the Internet, in a way that is open by default. Hacker Storytelling uses several tools to help you tell stories, and is completely stored and operating on Github.
First, throw down whatever you’re reading and pick up Tina Fey’s new book Bossypants. Not only is she pissing pants funny, but she includes something she picked up while studying Improv at Second City in Chicago that serves as a worthy reminder for anyone in innovation, marketing, or life.
The Do’s and Don’ts of Improv Comedy with Liam Neeson, Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey, and Del Close | Open Culture
Attention, all struggling comedians! There’s big money in teaching corporate executives the rules of improvisation. Not to prepare them for a highly lucrative second career on some late night, black box stage, but rather to hone their listening skills, teach them how to work collaboratively, and give them practice communicating in a flexible—and therefore effective—manner.
fancyBox is a tool that offers a nice and elegant way to add zooming functionality for images, html content and multi-media on your webpages. It is built on the top of the popular JavaScript framework jQuery and is both easy to implement and a snap to customize.
Finding the perfect camera can be hard; with so many out there how do you choose? We built CameraRocket to make buying your next camera simpler. We aggregate reviews, benchmarks and specs from around the internet to cut through the hype and help you understand the real life performance of cameras before you buy. CameraRocket helps you: Compare performance of cameras head to head Understand the real life performance of cameras using benchmarks and specs See what people are saying about the camera from reviews collected from around the internet Search for cameras by specific criteria (e.g. price, battery life and image quality in low light)
This website is a guide to getting started using http://www.reddit.com. Reddit is essentially an internet filter and contains lists of links uploaded and moderated by users sorted into subreddits. Each link has a comments section for discussion of the content and a tally of how many people liked or disliked it. As a Reddit user, you too can vote on whether or not you like a link with the up and down arrows next to it. You can also post a comment by clicking on the comment button underneath any link, or you can hide any link by clicking the hide button underneath it.
How to create your own Reddit community | Digital Trends
Over the past few years, social news website Reddit has become one of the most popular, powerful, and controversial destinations on the Web. But unlike corporate-run Internet giants, Reddit’s massive success comes from its decentralized nature, which allows any user to create his or her own community (known as a “subreddit”), with its own central topic, rules, and character. This is also what makes Reddit such an irresistible time-suck, with layer upon layer of new subreddits to explore and participate in. But there’s no reason to just lurk along the sidelines: Getting in on the Reddit moderator action is easier than you might think. Here’s everything you need to know about launching your own subreddit.
Alone in the Wilderness | Watch Documentary Online Free
Dick Proenneke retired at age 50 in 1967 and decided to build his own cabin on the shore of Twin Lakes. The first summer he scouted for the best cabin site, and cut and peeled the logs he would need for his cabin. Dick Proenneke returned the next summer to finish the cabin where he lived for over 30 years. Dick filmed his adventures, and Bob Swerer later turned the film into a video so we can all watch this amazing man build his cabin by hand.
