Exploring the ways in which artists, artisans and technicians are intelligently expressing their creativity with a passion for culture, technology, marketing and advertising.
All the illustrations from the book ‘Rework’ by Jason Fried are available as a flicker set. Great collection, brilliant thoughts disguised as common sense in black and white illustrations. The book: http://bit.ly/afgZP0
A recent speech by Ken Robinson at the Royal Society for the Arts. His book “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything” is a great resource full of anecdotes and words of wisdom concerning how you respond to your natural talents and passions.
Participatory culture is a global phenomenon. Young people all over the world are embracing the expressive and distribution resources of the computer to create and share their own cultural materials with each other. In countries all over the planet, they are mixing together local traditions of folk culture with the now globally accessible forms of digital expression in ways which could not have been imagined by previous generations. And as they do so, educators and parents are starting to recognize these creative communities as sites of informal learning which are transforming the ways these teens see themselves and the world. In every country, it is different. In every country, it is the same.
Sean Stewart is an award-winning science fiction novelist, a groundbreaking figure in transmedia storytelling, and one of the most experienced and influential writer of Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) in the world. He was an integral part of the creative team behind the ARGs “The Beast” for the film “AI” and “I Love Bees” for the game Halo.
Transmedia, deep media, cross media, whatever you call it, stories being so compelling they transcends the method of delivery have been around for thousands of years. With so many new technologies that interconnect everything a good story is very important for any message to get across.
We’ve only just begun to explore the many new ways in which a story can be told in the twenty first century.