Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo. Timely. Important. tx

Things are changing. Fast. Sometimes it can be hard to articulate quite how much I feel that things are changing and those changes are speeding up. Even our (and my own) shift to visuals over words^. My friend posted the link to the images below on Facebook*. It portrays visually what I feel. Things are [...]

Today’s Story: Haiti Thoughts of healing to Haiti What can we do? – Choose a charity & donate – In US, Text “HAITI” to “90999″ and a donation of $10 will be given automatically to the Red Cross, charged to your phone bill. http://bit.ly/4PYmqE – Pray? Images (c) Matthew Millman (via desiretoinspire) Video via charity [...]

Ever felt time is speeding up lately? Feelings of disorientation and something not quite right or… simply how the hell is it already September? I asked a dear friend futurist and elder, Paul Shumann, about time and space in one of our dialogue-chats. He shared a thought experiment with me. And after the conversation I [...]

I’ve been cruising design sites of late (strange obsession of stuff and increased interest in design in general) and I saw this on designcrush and had to share. It’s not quite Chris Jordan but it’s certainly good! And what I love most is it also seems like a great exercise in statistics in a classroom [...]

With thanks to Joel for passing on a gem of an inspirational talk – I recommend this to everyone! Ted talks: Jonathan Harris: The Art of Collecting Stories”… Jonathan -any chance you want to collaborate one day?!?

A long time ago, or so it seems, I heard about a lecture. And though I never attended it, I can never forget it, either. I was visiting NY for the first time. After magical visits to Austin and Boston I found myself in Manhattan… While waiting in a bagel shop somewhere for my friend, [...]

Happy New Year – and thank you to all of you for being such great readers and friends! Last year was certainly a year of Story! As such, these days I get a lot of emails and things about story and storytelling from friends (thanks one and all – keep them coming please). And I [...]

I was speaking to Simon the other night and given his background – expat parents, international school, two passports, religion, friends living in geographically disparete places and so forth…- and my own multi-natonal background and movements around the world, we had a conversation on identity and home…and how we feel parts of lots of places: [...]

I got an email about Pangea day – and it touched me. Go to the site and watch the video/trailer. Or view it here, on youtube. Essentially it is a global event that takes place next year on various sites (think live earth etc) but shares films and music of the world – about the [...]