Not often I post music videos but this one’s worth a watch. Some nice visual tricks, and asks an interesting question about art and work summed up well by Scott Hansen:
“Is out work the true meaning? On your death bed will you praise yourself for the things you’ve achieved as an artist, be fulfilled because you followed your “dream”. Or will you be thankful for the relationships you’ve forged and the lives you’ve touched?”
Source: blog.iso50.com
Let your work be driven not because you need to support a lifestyle and are afraid of changing it, but by the joy of doing something creative, meaningful, valuable.
Leo Babauta
This struck a chord with me this week, as I think about the next big project.
Source: zenhabits.net
This, I assume, is the result of TED founder Chris Anderson’s inspiring 2010 talk about online video and education.
TedEd, which is in beta, has got some fantastic ways to enable teachers to create lessons using TED talks but also any video on Youtube.
Their aim: “to create a free and remarkable library of lessons worth sharing.” I think it’s got great potential.
A must-watch for anyone involved in storytelling on the web. Don’t just watch - take notes!
(@amyoleary is one of the contributors to Inside the Story, a fundraising ebook about digital storytelling, published today)
‘Surprise’ the only genuine requirement in narrative storytelling says Amy. I’m in total agreement however these themes, although relevant and important in todays connected world, are not new. Shakespeare was demonstrating exactly the same principle and his narrativer arc has been the basis for many a blockbuster.
Compelling cues have also been the rock of storytelling in all genre; news, drama, comedy etc but why should we drop them just because the web provides extra capability or interactivity. And why, if these elements are key to our experience do we perceive them as a lower form task i.e. a job for the ‘web monkey’
What’s really interesting here is the cue and the reward relationship and what makes people ‘care’. A brilliant watch.
Beyond the “Like” Button: Digitally Addictive Storytelling and the Brain
Her presentation discusses the brain and its relationship to immediate news. As a writer who crafts the online narrative of a story at the time the idea is conceived, she is uniquely skilled to speak to the power of social media in the news.
Source: dreamlectures
No-one watches online video for the sake of it…
…do they?
I mean, if you were thinking about starting a business (a digital magazine, app etc) around the idea of getting people to pay for video content, it wouldn’t work.
It could be amazing, innovative video, exceptional storytelling, but that doesn’t pull in a crowd, unless, perhaps you’re a famous filmmaker.
Instead, is it more the case, that people watch for the content itself (regardless of the fact it’s in video). The video has to have meaning, it has to say something. The video is just the messenger.
The only exception I can think of (in a different medium) is This American Life, which people listen to to hear what amazing radio sounds like. And even then, you wouldn’t get people to hand over cash for it, without asking nicely.
Just some thoughts…..
An update on production of Inside the Story, a book I’ve been editing with the help of some amazing visual storytellers. It’s for journalists, film makers, digital storytellers, and is raising money for charity.
It’ll be out very soon; more details on the website!
8 questions that will help define the future of journalism
Some really interesting ideas here. Worth a read.
As one of Instagram’s new Android users I’ve been getting to know the service this week. And I’m not surprised it’s just sold to Facebook for $1bn.
As well as being fun and elegant to use, it makes sharing photos social in a way Flickr, for example, hasn’t managed to do.
Knowing you have an audience for your photographs makes you want to take more; it’s also an inspiring pin-board of retro washed-out visuals.
Instagram’s sale prompted Ben Jacobs on Twitter to note: “Kodak goes bankrupt and Instagram is worth a billion dollars. 2012, y’all.”
It’s a salient point to make and let it be yet another warning to all legacy media institutions.
Kodak could so easily have been Instagram. It had the brand, the following of photography enthusiasts and the capital. All it needed to do was realise the future of photography was not in propping up an outdated industry.
But it didn’t. And now it’s dead.
Just amazing. The set of Rear Window stitched together into one shot by installation artist Jeff Desom using Adobe After Effects.
Rear Window’s my favourite Hitchcock film, so it’s great to see it remixed so wonderfully.
h/t @discorick84
Source: collider.com
Angles.
