Gone Writing!
Book project well under way examining ‘Narrativity’ as a feature of ‘narratives’ across media and a process reframed via experience design
More to come…
Mapping Digital Narrativity: Design, Practice, Theory
TMC Resource Kit
I’m showcasing the TMC Resource Kit website, co-created with Anthea Foyer, which we developed to provide How-To design tips and case studies for traditional media producers wanting to jump into digital media, interactive storytelling and transmedia. The site has case studies on groundbreaking & award winning transmedia projects, interviews with leading transmedia and interactive media storytellers, and fantastic production ‘manuals’ shared key producers around the world. This site was a collaborative project with Anthea Foyer, synthesizing & capturing some of our experience and thinking over the past 14 years working in digital media.
Recently, in consulting, I’ve been referring quite a few people who are dipping their toes in the digital waters to TMCResourceKit.com & although it’s a few years old now, the content has absolutely held up. Nice to see our original goal still in play!
Prince… memory time.
Prince. memory time..
I’m so sad, way sadder than over Bowie’s death & it’ll take a while to process. Over the decade+ of DJ-ing I played so much Prince. Almost every Saturday night at the Dance Cave, every Monday (thanks A!) at the Phoenix. I’d mix him in at the Bovine, at the occasional Fetish Night at Buddies, at more clubs and speaks than I can name or remember. Bowie I’d play occasionally mostly in the early 80s & usually only stuff from the 1970s. I always had Prince & he was my go-to for the down & dirty sexy or the sparkle of Kiss or Alphabet Street, or the late late night groove of Sign of the Times. I’d bring multiple 12 inches, albums then cds for the unusual request. B-sides. Lesser played tracks.
What I’m remembering the most right now is LOVING lining up Prince for right after some indie/alt rock/ metal track with a heavy head banging beat & SLAMMING that into a Prince track – White Zombie’s Thunder 65 or Nine Inch Nails’ Head Like a Hole or Jane’s Addiction Stealing into Kiss, Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit into Alphabet Street, Nine Inch Nails’ Closer into Gett Off, and carrying an entire dance floor of hard core alt-indie rock /metal fans into an irresistible Prince funk groove. And it worked. Every time. Who could resist the pull of that bass? rhythm of the drum/percussion tracks? the vocals? the guitar?
I really really can’t believe he’s gone. What a giant giant loss. Having a little cry.
Ah.. Memories of DJ-ing… Pariah & Twilight Zone (Toronto 1980s)
Just stumbled on this ‘trace‘ of another life …
In an era before cellphones & digital cameras this is the only pic I can find of the Twilight Zone … some interior pics but none of our night…
I actually remember the night described below… I didn’t exactly through the Beasties out of the booth… didn’t let them spin though..
Nice mention of DJ-ing at Pariah here:
DJ-ing before the era of cellphones & digital cameras, there are almost no traces of Pariah, Twilight Zone, so many clubs I spun in. 1981-1994. L7 Rivoli, Dominos, Nuts & Bolts, The Dance Cave, RPM, Buddies & Bad Times Fetish Night, The Phoenix Side Bar, clubs, bars, speaks… Still have the vinyl though 🙂
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Update! there is ONE teeny clip from Pariah – no audio
Siobhan O’Flynn at the InnovaTV ’13 Conference
Published on Jan 29, 2013
Siobhan O’Flynn’s ‘Thank You Audience’ presentation at Innovatv’s Social TV conference in Toronto.
For more information:
www.innovatv.ca
True Detective Season 2: What a Disaster….
Watched the finale of True Detective Season 2 last night. Couldn’t quite believe it. Ham-fisted dramatic foreshadowing. Never ever have your characters do the ‘when we get to blah speech… you where the…. ‘ cuz then you KNOW they’re going to die.
So then those characters died…. for their sins???? Those characters survived & now they’re doing what??? Seriously??? Disaster. That script should have never ever left the writers’ room.