Story Architectures - Jonathan Harris
Jonathan Harris has dedicated his life to collecting and sharing stories. He has developed some of the most inspiring and cutting edge story-telling media around. This recent talk at TED demonstrates how powerful digital storytelling platforms can be. We could possibly deploy something similar in capturing stories in the Monto or Clanbrassil Street.
His project The Whale Hunt shows the different possibilities for mobilising digital photographs and metadata to construct navigable digital photo-stories - creating different story-lines by select specific components. Have a play through the hunt HERE. Make sure to scroll down to the bottom of the screen to play with the different modes (mosaic, timeline, pinwheel, etc.).
His and Sep Kamvar's project - We Feel Fine - is an amazing demonstration of the possibilities of public blogging to capture a sense of how we feel about the world - creating shared communal stories. The We Feel Fine applet allows you to dive through a storm of contemporary emotions - shared publicly to the world. (This one is my personal favourite.)
Labels: Digital Storytelling, Technology
posted by Ian Alden Russell @ Thursday, September 18, 2008
2 Comments:
I wanted to comment on the Jonathan Harris talk. I think he’s a very talented and highly creative designer, but the projects he presents in the talk didn’t deliver on his claim of “more in depth.” I think the goal of “in-depth” exploration is fairly impossible when you’re only recording a 9 day period. I really liked his idea of connecting heart rate with the photos, but wanted more contextual sound and voice and story from the different actors that he briefly introduces. The “I feel” project looked extraordinarily cool, but didn’t move me. And the “storytelling” at the end of his presentation fell very flat. I couldn’t hear people when they spoke because they weren’t miced and they were mostly speaking to Jonathan instead of engaging a group. It therefore seemed like a fairly conventional classroom setting that didn’t build outward. My favorite part of the talk was when Jonathan presented his gorgeous notebooks. They were absolutely amazing.
I just watched the Jonathan Harris talk and thought it was fascinating. I would be very interested in looking at at ways to incorporate this type of word/feeling response to create a larger shared narrative within a particular community. It seems like such an interesting way of connecting so many disparate voices into a collective conscious.
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