Animated poetry, creative collaboration
Anticipating How To Be Alone will soon make a MediaStorm or Multimedia Shooter must-watch list. For now, it’s on mine. (Via NFB on Facebook.) Poem and performance by Tanya Davis, film (animation, photography and editing) by Andrea Dorfman. Walter Forsyth is the producer.
Notes from: Photographing the Personal
I’ve just finished listening to Photographing the Personal, a live webinar featuring Briony Campbell (The Dad Project), Philip Toledano (Days with My Father), Sohrab Hura (Life is Elsewhere) and Leonie Purchas (In the Shadow of Things). For anyone working on a personal project in the most personal sense of the word — one about their [...]
The Burning question
What came first, the story or the storyteller, and should one be stronger than the other? it’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg scenario, but over in the “dialogue” section on Burn, David Alan Harvey is once again getting his faithful to weigh in with their thoughts on what makes for good storytelling after a viewer [...]
Soul of Athens: What You Have
More on the theme of home: “What You Have” is a really nice series of video portraits by Brad Vest and Kelsey Spellman. A girl in the woods. A believer. An 80-year-old seeking to live out the rest of his life in peace. A couple and their “holler”. There is a continuous search for something [...]
notebook Q&A: Eric Maierson on Three Women
It’s been just over a week since I received this email from Eric Maierson: “Thanks for all the great plugs for MediaStorm. Did you have a chance to check out ‘Three Women’? Be curious to hear your thoughts.” Thus began an email conversation about Eric’s new piece — a series of three monologues depicted with [...]
Neighbourhood Stories
I’m going to try to make it out to this week’s launch of a new Neighbourhood Stories Project co-facilitated by Jen Lafontaine of the Centre for Digital Storytelling Toronto, whom I met in 2008 during the Envisioning workshop. The photos, audio portraits and videos being shown this Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Regent Park [...]
Some days you need a pep talk from Ira Glass
I can’t remember when I first watched this, but then Della Rollins, whom I met in a grant-writing workshop, reminded me of it over coffee a month or two ago. Ira Glass on Storytelling is divided into four clips. To see them all in order, start here. I’m partial to #2, on looking for stories, [...]
The Boy in the Moon
In a post a couple months ago, my friend Lucas wrote that he wanted to photograph the way Karen Dalton sang. On the weekend, curled up on the couch reading Ian Brown’s The Boy in the Moon, I realized something I’ve been trying to put my finger on for a while: I want to photograph [...]
More than just a picture: Carnie workers
The timing couldn’t be more perfect, for those headed to the Ex and other fairs, and after my own visit to Coney Island with MEM in search of “characters”: Globe and Mail photog Charla Jones focuses on Canada’s “carnie” workers in eight multimedia pieces. Who are the people working the midway? Charla and co-producer Jayson Taylor [...]
