Our last get together was a fun, creative and a lively affair. We went over a few process items at the begining of our meeting and then arrived the majestic Lisa Phillip-Harbutt who thrilled us with some great perspectives on how to evoke description and context for story telling. Lisa suggested asking people to describe how parts of stories may taste, feel, the social implications, texture and messages left as a way of providing the story teller with a more full and rich form of expression. Lisa also suggested cultral mapping as a way of describing the events which lead to the story.
Of personal significants was Lisa's description of the continuousness of stories and how there is the experience the makes the story, the telling of the story, the impact of people hearing the story (also the impact for the person telling the story) and those people who choose to relate their experience of hearing that story. Lisa is FANTASTIC!!!!!
Lisa had some suggestions of how we could help with the sharing of stories such as giving people (groups) disposible cameras with themes like: 11am snapshots of your life, out my back door, what I see (disability or not), making the alphablet out of items in your house (can even make sentences. It was suggested to set a story theme before handing out cameras!
We were then treated to Luku, one really cool guy who has a fantastic approach to life and art. He called himself a fluppeteer (Flash puppetry) and showed us some of his great works of animated avatars (see our voki avatars down below). Luku was inspiring and a great presenter who evoked many thougths and possiblilties for our project.
Luku had also redeveloped one of the Photostories and included one of his flupavatars (I made that up just then) with some awesome results. It was a great way to view the story and have a character speaking (or lipsyncing). The flupavatars have different mouth shapes which are moved in sync with the words spoken. Luku has started by showing us a peice of his work which was displayed at Adelaide train station on the multil media screens. Wow it was unreal and a great way to introduce us to his incredibile abilities. For those who could not make it you really missed out big time.
Nicci will make the resources available somehow, sometime soonish so keep checking out the blog site.
Yours in creativity John McK
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