This round of selections shows the diversity of visual storytelling, from drawings to documentary and interactive immersion. Whether it’s kinetic camera work or the power of a single subject, each of these projects offers some aspect worth swiping. Happy viewing!
“Cannonball,” a short film from California Is a Place. In the midst of economic turmoil, skateboarders [...]
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Richard Morgan on payback, freelancing and the myth of the “made man”
August 12, 2010 – 3:57 pm
Richard Morgan recently found a new measure of fame writing about writing, with his funny/terrifying piece “Seven Years as a Freelance Writer, or, How to Make Vitamin Soup.” Though Morgan’s work has appeared in some of the best-known outlets in print journalism – from New York magazine to Wired and The New York Times – [...]
The very, very personal post: Richard Morgan, Jennifer Lawler and a new kind of Notable Narrative
August 11, 2010 – 3:11 pm
Sometimes long posts appear online that would feel out of place anywhere else. These pieces are often first-person, revelatory and not edited to fit the brand of a magazine, newspaper or corporate website. While it’s hard to imagine a news organization adopting their style, these posts offer a vivid form of storytelling.
As is the case [...]
Short attention span theater: narrative and models of interaction
July 9, 2010 – 12:56 pm
[This post is the second in a series from new media artist Peggy Nelson considering the impact of technology on narrative. Nelson's work includes a barcode narrative, a PowerPoint essay, Twitter novels and a host of exciting new ways of looking at the idea of story. —Ed. ]
No one, it seems, has time to read [...]
What we’re reading: first edition, in which we offer hockey fights, Christmas and a litany of poisons
June 9, 2010 – 4:19 pm
Summer is upon us! Well, actually it’s kind of cold and gray outside here, but as you, our imaginary beachgoer, break out the sunblock and pack the Cheetos and flip-flops for a day in the sand, we’d like to introduce the first in an ongoing series of posts listing stories we’re reading, watching or listening [...]
Give Me Something To Read: collecting long-form journalism online
June 7, 2010 – 4:12 pm
[One in an occasional series of talks with people highlighting long-form journalism online. Prior posts in this series include a look at Gangrey.com and Twitter’s @longreads.]
From “a really little town” in Berkshire County, England, Richard Dunlop-Walters hopes to give you something worth checking out at a site called, well, “Give Me Something To Read.” The [...]
Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Manga Memoirs: transcending the printed page
May 17, 2010 – 12:07 pm
Last year was an important one for memoir and manga (Japanese comics) in North America. To celebrate the 80th anniversary of Canadian diplomatic relations with Japan, Canadian digital media company Zeros 2 Heroes hosted the web 2.0 initiative Manga Memoirs. The site combines social networking, online collaborative authorship and the final publication (online and on [...]
From tales of wonder to tales of horror: David Small dissects Stitches
May 14, 2010 – 11:40 am
David Small has made a career illustrating books for children. So it was no surprise that he should be the featured speaker on the last day of Harvard’s popular class, “History, Philosophy and Literature of Childhood,” taught by Maria Tatar. But on that chilly spring afternoon, standing in front of 190 eager undergraduates, he came [...]
