In: Creativity|Video
26 Sep 2010I was honored to serve as a “Story Navigator” for a four minute film contest at a conference in Chicago called Story. The idea was to comb through Twitter and pick two submitted story lines to compete against each other. The stories needed to be original and be picked, developled, shot, and edited in under [...]
In: Church|Storytelling
5 Jun 2009I was first introduced via an email to Ben Arment and over the last several of months I have really come to appreciate his kindred spirit. A few months ago, Ben asked me to be apart of something really revolutionary. Something which at first mention resonated with me in a powerful way. He invited me [...]
Brothers and sisters, we are gathered here today to mourn the death of Story. As you may have heard, it’s kaput—or, at the very least, terminally ill, wracked by videogames, wikis, recaps, talkbacks, YouTube, ADD, and the rise of a multiplatform, multipolar, mashup-media culture. That’s what Wired Magazine reported last week that “storytelling” is dying. [...]
In: Change|Storytelling
26 May 2009This morning I was reading a post from Ben Arment on “Three Kinds of Jobs” and it got me thinking of happiness and what really matters in life; It was a great mind food post. hap·pi·ness [ ˈha-pē-nəs ] 1: obsolete : good fortune : prosperity 2a: a state of well-being and contentment : joy [...]