We Make Stories
I love the explorations Penguin Books UK is doing in storytelling and web-based medias. A year or so ago they launched We Tell Stories asking authors to remix familiar classics into interactive forms such as blog, maps, flash applications.
Recently they've released We Make Stories where
t-rex in the kitchen
i saw Land of the Lost a few days ago. i thought is really funny(!!) despite all the rotten reviews. anyway, this is what came out of that:
andy says its a green chicken...
flying elephants
i should spend more time looking at sunsets.
and on that note: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photogalleries/new-cloud-pictures/photo2.html
paula scher on failure
When you're fulfilling a function—when you're being obedient, in other words, you're doing as expected—you can't learn anything. Because you already know the answer. It's through mistakes that you actually can grow.
You have to get bad in order to get good. You have to try a lot of things and fail in order to make the next discovery...
thoughts on sketchbooks
by the awesome jillian tamaki
http://www.jilliantamaki.com/sketchbook/sketchbook.html
Your personal work (sketchbook) and jobs (projects) are not separate. Your sketchbook work should be experimental and free and represent what truly interests YOU. Discoveries made in your sketchbook can and should find their way into your paid work.
If it helps, work on loose paper. 'Helps get away from the "object-ness" of the sketchbook itself.
Start drawings simply by asking yourself "what if...?"
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