Tag: storytelling


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  • [reposted from My Modern Met] “Last year, over the course of a month and a half, Pixar story artist Emma Coats grabbed the Internet’s attention when she shared some of Pixar’s golden rules of storytelling, via Twitter. They were guidelines that she had learned, that she wanted to pass along to others. There were 22…

  • I’ve posted this quote before, but the text with Ira’s voice is a different experience. For those of you who didn’t catch it the first time (and for those of us who need a powerful reminder), here is Ira Glass on what makes good work:

  • I thought I had posted this months ago, but I can’t seem to find it anywhere on this blog: If you can’t see the picture, here is the full quote: “Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because…

  • Zac Whitmore owns thirteen bicycles. He works at my favorite bike shop. He runs Bike Provo, an advocacy program that promotes bicycle culture in Provo. He’s probably the single nicest guy in the state. He rides everywhere. Up hills. Over mountains. Last week he rode to my house to find out more about The Chain…

  • Watch out—today I am unleashing… THE CHAIN GANGย is a hilarious 1,000-page ultra comic about a group of unwanted and forgotten bicycles led by Poppa Wheelie that band together to wreak havoc on the world, one neighborhood at a time! Instead of waiting years for me to draw all 1,000 pages, I’m going to be releasing…

  • [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBOaz7kJPqk&feature=player_embedded] Graphic novelist Nate Powell delivered this presentation on storytelling in comics to students and guests at Pulaski Technical College in North Little Rock, Arkansas.

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    My boy and I like to pick out movies from the library to watch (they’re free and we get ’em for two weeks!) and this week’s picks included Contact, starring Jodie Foster, from 1997. What an incredible film. I picked it up because I remembered liking it, but I’d forgotten just how great it really…