December 2011
8 posts
Top 50 multimedia packages of 2011
Thiw week, Tracy Boyer Clark shares her top 50 of the multimedia projects for this year.
Below, enjoy her selection in Journalism & Documentary
Journalistic Multimedia:
- Portraits of grief – NYTimes.com
- How does your income compare? – WashingtonPost.com
- The debt crisis: What should Congress do? – NYTimes.com
- A week on Foursquare – WSJ.com
- The death of a terrorist: A turning point? – NYTimes.com
- Arab spring: an interactive timeline of Middle East protests – Guardian.co.uk
- Empty cradles – JSOnline.com
- Victims of gang violence – LA Times
- Japan earthquake – AP
- Battles and casualties of the Civil War – WashingtonPost.com
Documentary Multimedia:
- One millionth tower
- Africa to Australia
- Mindstorming
- A matter of decency
- Brain games
- Half-Lives: The Chernobyl workers now
- The Denali experiment
- Surviving the peace
- Almost there – the Muir project
- Balloons of Bhutan
Read more on her website
“The universe is made of stories, not atoms”
We highly recommend you to read the whole article “Monoculture: How Our Era’s Dominant Story Shapes Our Lives” by Maria Popova
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”The independent life begins with discovering what it means to live alongside the monoculture, given your particular circumstances, in your particular life and time, which will not be duplicated for anyone else. Out of your own struggle to live an independent life, a parallel structure may eventually be birthed. But the development and visibility of that parallel structure is not the goal — the goal is to live many stories, within a wider spectrum of human values.” F. S. Michaels
Redefining Interactive Narratives & Multimedia Storytelling →
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drewvigal (Multimedia Editor, The New York Times)
AIGA recently updated its Pivot website and made available a few of the “main stage” presentations as videos from their convention in Phoenix. I’d recommend watching a few of them, including Jonathan Hoefler & Valerie Casey.
Accompany this with a recent interactive story we produced at The New York Times (more on this later), and I’m inspired to write this overdue post on my contributions to the conversation at AIGA-Pivot. It’s an opportunity to share some of my thoughts on what excites me today about interactive storytelling and the projects we are producing on the multimedia desk.
In Africa, the Art of Listening →
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drewvigal commenting the article In Africa, the Art of listening on the NYTimes
“… Homo sapiens might be Homo narrans, the storytelling person.”
Brilliant. I love this sentiment.
“Western literature is normally linear; it proceeds from beginning to end without major digressions in space or time…. Here, instead of linear narrative, there is unrestrained and exuberant storytelling that skips back and forth in time and blends together past and present. Someone who may have died long ago can intervene without any fuss in a conversation between two people who are very much alive.”
I’d like to think of an application for this in Redefining of Interactive Narratives.
“Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.”
Again, reminds me of Al Tompkins’ mantra: “people remember what they feel longer than what they know.”
