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Writing Sci-Fi Could Make Architects Better at Their Jobs
Architects aren't usually in the business of writing science fiction—but maybe they should be. By Margaret Rhodes.
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The Disappointing Legacy of Alan Moore’s Watchmen
Adam Duke looks at the effect gritty and realistic comic book sources - like Alan Moore’s Watchmen have had a dangerous legacy on film making.
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The Storyteller’s Guide to the Virtual Reality Audience
As VR storytellers, we are charged with molding experience itself into story, and none of our storytelling tools have prepared us fully for that.
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Games as Lit. 101 - Do Social Issues Make Art Better?
Does addressing important issues actually make a story better?
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When You’re Broke, Breakfast Is Hot, Buttered Hope
Dreams of biscuits, bacon, and Eggos kept me going during a dismal time. By John Devore.
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Cookie Jar
By Steven King.
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Possibilia: An interactive love story
What if you could influence someone else's breakup? By Daniels.
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400 Fourth Wall Breaking Films Supercut
The Video Shop
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The BBC Halloween Hoax That Traumatized Viewers
A 1992 broadcast of a supposedly haunted house led to documented cases of PTSD in young viewers. By Jake Rossen.
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Are humans evolving beyond the need to tell stories?
Neuroscientists who insist technology is changing our brains may have it wrong. What if we are switching from books to digital entertainment because of a change in our need to communicate? By Will Self.
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Why photographers commit to long-term storytelling
For a certain type of photographer, the only way to represent the truth is to stick with a story for a lifetime... or beyond.
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Dark Passages: The Devil in the Details
To make the performance of a tedious, exacting, time-consuming task riveting to watch, it is only necessary for the activity to be illegal… By Imogen Sara Smith.
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Four Lessons for Storytellers from Four Movies of 2016
2016 was a pretty good year for movies- at least, it was from my perspective. While there were some notable disappointments (Batman v. Superman being my least favorite film of the year), there were also some great surprises, such as the mysterious and moving Midnight Special. Even the big budget popcorn flick Captain America: Civil War was brimming with character and surprisingly good writing. Four movies from 2016 really left me thinking about what storytellers across mediums stand to learn by watching them. Be forewarned, this article includes spoilers...
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The Intergalactic Battle of Ancient Rome
Hundreds of years before audiences fell in love with Star Wars, one writer dreamt of battles in space. By Lorraine Boissoneault. (Dec. 14, 2016)
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Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth”
A Richly Imagined, Dreamlike Voyage of Self-Discovery and Character Formation. By Guillermo Navarro.
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“Love Hurts” MVI 4962
Tom Sitter at The Moth in Madison StorySLAM (Feb. 13, 2017)
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The Intrusion Artist
The director Robert Bresson used his camera to observe humans so nakedly that the resulting films can seem cruel. Yet Bresson’s gamble was to turn these acts of theft and violation into a way of conferring power on the models themselves. By Max Nelson.
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Reading The Game: Stardew Valley
Our occasional series on storytelling in video games travels to Pelican Town to explore the bucolic pleasures of Stardew Valley, a farming simulator inspired by the classic 1990s Harvest Moon games.
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Rod Serling on Kamikazes
Blank on Blank
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Vlad the Astrophysicist
Peter Mulvey tells the story about an astrophysicist and a centuries old question.
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