angela pan wong

lonely pickle

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

"children (of all ages, though the site is aimed at 6-11 year olds) can create, print and share a variety of story forms. They can make pop-up stories, customise audiobooks, design their own comics, produce exciting treasure maps and develop a variety of entertaining adventures."

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...

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...

Now, as a working professional and a partner of Pentagram with a reputation to uphold, I'm probably less likely to make outrageously ugly things. But the downside of that is that the work becomes expected, so I have to make changes on my own. So I began painting as a way to balance and be able to make other discoveries, and I made these very complicated map paintings and they started selling. The success hurt the expression. So I have to go back to R&D and develop some other ways of pushing that.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brainstorm/200905/paula-scher-failure