03 December 2006
other people's stories
Every story on OPS is a story a contributor heard from someone else. These stories have been overheard and misheard, told and re-told and sometimes refined over time.
02 December 2006
Making Sense of Metaphors by Bernard J. Tibbetts
subtitle: Visuality, Aurality, and the Reconfiguration of American Legal Discourse, 1994, long full-text essay online
01 December 2006
BBC - collective - the interactive culture magazine
by 4 othersa social networking site in which BBC offers cultural reviews, with clips, and readers comment or write alternative reviews; readers also submit own reviews
Flickhead
online film journal, offbeat and cult as well as international film covered
Offscreen.com :: Volume 10, Issue 10
by 2 othersCanadian film journal online since 1997, wide coverage of independent and international film; many resources
27 November 2006
Visuarios: broadcast your skills
how-to videos or, more commonly, audio/slideshows; useful rhetorically for both technical writing and instructional video learning; web2.0 sharing of video that is perhaps instructionally more useful than YouTube.
Dr. Chris Mullen, The Visual Telling of Stories, illustration, design, film, narrative sequences, magazines, books, prints etc
by 1 othera very large historical archive, often from advertising, "to provide for all levels of possible viewer a visually orientated taxonomy of the ways in which pictures are used to tell stories." unique collection, also useful for many other purposes
Mojiti-video commentary software
by 11 othersuseful for teachers making clips to analyze in class; "personalize any video with your story. With visual spotlights, you can narrate your personal videos, add captions or subtitles, or comment on any scene."
group hug // anonymous online confessions
by 9 otherslike postsecrets but in prose; "type a note about a fault of your own, something you did or thought about and are not proud of"; filters out obvious lies, overtly vulgar, identifying specific others.
22 November 2006
StorySprawl Hyperfiction Story Creator
ongoing fiction sites that readers can contribute chapters to
Please help me find movies that end with the main character dying. | Ask MetaFilter
It's a query that garnered 135 comments and added film titles within ten days. It lets me think MetaFilter might be fun for students, to craft media-related questions that would get lots of responses, simple queries like this one.
20 November 2006
photos you likebetter: you are what you like
a charming game in which you pick which of two photos you like the best, supposedly revealing something about you
Modern Ruins, Photographic Essays - Shaun and Wendy O'Boyle
Traces, in the sense of Walter Benjamin's Arcades project, mark visual culture and always tell a story, if we take the time to notice
Storytelling in Flickr on Flickr
various modes of flickr storytelling are described, and the keywords needed to get to them
National Storytelling Network - History of Storytelling World
links list, many categories, many audio stories
19 November 2006
Video History Project: Resources
information from/about practitioners and groups of videomakers; technical explanations of early video formats and equipment
18 November 2006
Observations on film art and “Film Art”
blog by senior film scholars David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson
15 November 2006
100 films
film blog; announces upcoming blogathons: Lovesick Cinema, Feb. 14; Unspoken Cinema, 08 January; Film Criticism, 01 December-03 December; Alfred Hitchcock, 15 November; large network of film bloggers write for these
14 November 2006
Puzzle JumpStation - Links to Puzzles on the Web
visual computer puzzles; if you have kids at your house or visiting, this will keep them busy for hours; levels from easy to difficult
13 November 2006
Digital Archive of American Architecture: Contents
invaluable for mise-en-scene; suggestive for writers
06 November 2006
Roadside Architecture
documenting roadside architecture in the US, under many whacky categories; this is a favorite theme of mine in photography
02 November 2006
Tameri Guide for Writers: Plot and Story
one page of a larger, useful site for writers; this page covers what a screenwriter thinks about to construct a spine, here called plot, or basic story idea; it is the central task for the writer
15 October 2006
MRQE - Movie Review Query Engine
search engine for Internet film and DVD reviews
11 October 2006
Digital Story Examples
a page leading to many examples, things you could make with imovie; from more than decade of practice from 1990-2003
