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July 11, 2004
a different world
I talk a lot more than I write these days. Blah blah blah people. Blah blah blah usability. Blah blah blah semantic web. There's probably good parts to my well-worn rap I could write down, but for me writing's always been about discovering something new, at least when it works. So what's new on this quiet night? What new clarity might be found given all that's going on? I could comment on the many great movies I've seen lately. I could write yet again about the project, or other business blather. I could dredge up some tender detail from my life and tie it together with something real. . . or . . . I could write about the really interesting part, the part I see only in broken glimpses, as though I were driving past a winter forest, trying to make out some lake or canyon through leaves and branches. Here's what I know so far: there will be a new art form, a new way to tell our stories, a new way to entertain and enlighten each other. Its defining characteristic will be interconnectedness. It won't be sequential, but it won't be haphazard. It won't be some kind of "you choose the ending" lame-o branching crap either. It'll be engaging, involving . . . geniunely creative. In the early days of movies, they parked a camera in the audience and filmed the play. People would say, "Big deal. Where's the art?" It took time to develop the language of film, to imagine splices and overdubs and angles and closeups. We're stuck the same way with digital media. We're still thinking photo albums, when there's so much more we can do. Our children's children will know a different world. We get to invent it.
Falconer's pre-epiphany Timothy Falconer — who has been working on ways to knit people, pictures and words together for a while now — blogs an edge-of-an-epiphany idea that somehow we, collectively, are going to invent new ways to tell stories. Here's what I know ... from Joho the Blog at July 11, 2004 09:15 AM Comments For my second book, I envisioned a website that would contain the world of the people I wrote about. The main characters would all have their own sites (now blogs, probably) with photos of their houses and places of business and etc. -- the same kinds of online stuff real people have. There would be a discussion group or forum, so the visitors from the real world could interact with the characters. Thus, from the main book, the story would evolve. Occasionally, the author or director would inject a situation to keep things intertesting, and characters could come and go. This project was put on indefinite hold when I realized I didn't know how to build a website (this was in 2000) and it would be an ambitious project, requiring online actors, a director and lots more resources than I have. Here's the initial book, posted in blog form The idea of an ongoing fictional work is very interesting. How often have we wanted a character to live on a little? Hiring actors to continue in character is a very cool idea. posted by Timothy Falconer at July 12, 2004 12:51 PMtakes her on a tour of the Peloponnese san francisco and begs her to reverse her decision to florist leave him. The plot emerges through Carson's master meditative, elusive fragments, mysteriously downloads isolated couplets, excerpts from versified womens health conversations and letters, interior monologues wachovia and (as Carson's readers have come to college and university expect) digressions on matters of classical casino posted by breast at July 15, 2004 11:54 AM |
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