Believing is Seeing

Building Babylon / State of Separation – Production Diary 3

“Developing goals”
Foreword: It’s always good to have a soundtrack while working on things like this. Currently tucking into ‘Trouble’ by Ray LaMontagne. Check it out.
‘Start with a basic question – what story do you want to tell and why?’
I want to make a documentary about contemporary relationships with the earth and the steps we all [...]

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Building Babylon / State of Separation – Production Diary 2

Finally got my one pager down for this series. Plenty more to follow in the coming weeks. I have to work out all my storytelling tools and outline the potential structure of the series overall. The focus of the story has changed slightly. Rather than merely outlining our contemporary relationship with the earth, I [...]

Building the Platforms

What follows in the proceeding pages are my thoughts on what shape these platforms should / may / must take. For the purpose of my argument, I will be working on the basis that there are essentially 2 ways a person can live vis-à-vis the economic, political, social and cultural systems that surround him or [...]

The Potential of the Internet as a Platform for Human Culture and Society

Look at the massive potential that is being ignored. For the first time we have the chance to build an informed and involved electorate, the cornerstones of any healthy democracy. People can organise, network, make themselves heard and push for change. The reality of our way of life is that the majority of us are [...]

The Failings of the Internet as a Revolutionary Storytelling Platform

The ‘revolution’ (or rather the evolution) I always wished would come once the internet expanded had nothing to do with what cool new products or services it would make available to people. It was not just about ‘how do I create an application for people to organise a weekly cooking timetable online and sell advertising [...]

The Internet as a Storytelling Platform

The Internet, as we all should know by now, is beginning to show signs that it can break down those walls. The simple reason for this is that the platform (that device that links the storyteller and the audience) can be controlled by the storyteller. Unlike traditional media, the technology is open and affordable.
The logistics [...]

Storytelling in Our Way of Life

So how do we apply these thoughts to contemporary society? Our high culture (i.e. the culture that is seen or recorded, the one has the most influence, that will be remembered) is dominated by certain media, and these in turn are in the hands of certain people. It’s no major conspiracy. The expense of the [...]

Importance of Storytelling in Human Cultures

This thread deals with themes closely linked to an online project (potentially projects) I am working on with friends. The internet is bringing people together across the globe at an ideas level in a collaborative, community environment. So how should we use this tool to build healthy storytelling cultures, one of the cornerstones of humanity?
I [...]