One of the most inspiring ideas/images I’ve seen in ages, especially from a product design perspective! head to wandaaaa’s flickr stream for larger versions. via automatism

Today’s story…by keri smith click on the image or here loving it. and it’s simplicity. and how cool is this as preview to a book! kudus keri! ps collecting seems to be a theme at the moment. cool.

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 [...]

Happy New Year to you all! As part of my idea that this year I will be sharing stories & doing much more storytelling here is one of the most beautiful videos/digital storytelling pieces I’ve seen in a while, by Jonathan Reed* (from Nov 2007!) Here is the text. Read it and then read it [...]

These things made me smile last week. I hope they make you smile too: By Erin Jang via ohjoy Newresolution (really must submit my own) via ffffound! Bird by Zhili Liu via dezeen Extra links: – Storycorps & National Listening Day – Spend 1hour listening to a story this thanksgiving & record it – Ghost [...]

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. – Leonard Cohen Can’t get these words out of my head!!! Saw them written on a page two nights ago and memorised until could get to my computer and share. I want [...]

It’s about time, but slowly, over the next months, I hope to fill the new “Family Forest” section of my natalieshell.com with some of the pieces I have made or am making… Nothing is ‘perfect’ but it is important for me to begin to share them so I can begin to put this project ‘out [...]

Earlier this year, (think September) while reading Landscape and Memory, by Simon Schama, I read a single sentence about “der holzweg”, the forest way, that led me down a strange dark path of My Family Forest*… Image: The walk to paradise garden (c) W Eugene Smith The sentence was in the chapter of Schama’s chunky [...]

It’s my pleasure that this week I can offer you the chance to experience Storytelling: If you are in NY this weekend please join me, together with Storyteller Seanan Forbes, as we spin tales in Central Park – because it’s the audience that makes the magic! (details below) You’re Invited (together with your friends, kids, [...]

There is a story I wrote that still doesn’t have a name, but I tell it as a Storyteller often… I will record a podcast soon (stay tuned) but in the meantime, I just re-discovered* Die Music, the Klimt painting that somehow matches one of the main characters of the Story, she also plays a [...]