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Storytelling on a writable web

Devise to Deliver 3 | #D2D3

17 February 2014

Philo van Kemenade @phivk

 This Talk 


 A working definition 


 Birth 


 Capability 


 Writable Web 

 Web-Native storytelling 




A way of enabling an experience
using the capability of the web
as a mechanism for narration
from the start of the authoring process



 Stories on the web 


 Stories Of THE WEB 



 Ben Moskowitz - A Well of Untapped Creative Possibility 




 we have always been storytellers 






 Lascaux cave paintings  by Adibu456 


 Our tools determine  

 
 how we  

 
 express ourselves 






 Birth 



 Hyper 

 Media 


 Text 


 Film 


 Video 

 the Complex    

 the Changing    

 the Indeterminate 


Let me introduce the word “hypertext” to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper.


 Theodor H. Nelson - A file system for the complex, the changing and the indeterminate (1965)

 Hyper Film 


Films, sound recordings, and video recordings are also linear strings, basically for mechanical reasons. But these, too, can now be arranged as non-linear systems—for instance, lattices—for editing purposes, or for display with different emphasis. [...] The hyperfilm—a browsable or vari-sequenced movie—is only one of the possible hypermedia that require our attention.


 Theodor H. Nelson - A file system for the complex, the changing and the indeterminate (1965)





 Capability 











 Interactive 


Alma - A Tale of Violence Web doc










 Connected 


Planet Take Out - Mapping Local Chinese Takeouts










 Participatory 


Do Not Touch - Crowd-sourced music video










 Dynamic 


takethislollipop.com - I Dare You 










 Immersive 


Kat Cizek - 1 Millionth Tower










 Open 












 Open 


The Cosmonaut - Open source film





 A writable web 






 Text Editors 







 Writing Code 






Hammurabi Code Photo  by Gabriele B



 Reality 



 Interface 

 between 

 & 


 Representation 







 Building Blocks 






Venus de Milo  by dm_meister






 Libraries & Frameworks 






 APIs 

 Building a community 

 of web-native storytellers 



 collaborating 

 making 

 sharing 








 Ultrasound Prototype 

 Making this work 


  1. I think I'm doing something then but will see. Looks great. Any reason for popcorn over zeega/storyplanet/klynt?

  2. popcorn.js = technology enabling creation of interfaces, zeega/sp/klynt = authoring tools for particular predesigned interfaces

  3. thanks for clearing that up. what filmmakers are most interested in - i think - are things that work. the techy stuff we leave to u!









 Authoring Tools 




 Collaborate 

Hi, there

As you might have noticed Storyplanet.com is currently down. The reason is that our servers and code have been taken hostage by two freelance developers who worked for us in the past. They claim we owe them quite a significant amount of money, and they wont reinstate Storyplanet.com unless we pay them. Unfortunately this is not an option, since we don’t respond to threats, and we wont pay for stuff that was never delivered.

I am extremely sorry for how this is affecting all of you out there who are taking part in our closed beta and supporting our idea.

We are currently working on what to do, and as a minimum get all the stories back up and running. However, there is no constructive dialogue with these people who are keeping our code hostage, so we can’t say when this crazy situation will be resolved.

Thanks for your understanding.
Bjarke Myrthu, Storyplanet founder & CEO

 Bjarke Myrthu from Storyplanet 19 Sep 2013










 Ultrasound Prototype 

 @phivk 

 popathon.org 

 storygami.co 








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