Given how we're looking at digital storytelling in #ETMOOC, I wanted to share this with the class. Though it's not technically "digital" storytelling, I enjoyed this approach to telling a story and engaging with it and think that it could lend itself to digital stories in interesting ways. It's given me some ideas to think about, as I continue to develop storytelling as a tool, including the potential value of cartharsis in a story (especially for Classical myth!).
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Recreational Items from Unfortunate Events
The Hammer Museum in Westwood hosted an exhibition titled Recreational Items from Unfortunate Events that ended today. It was centered around a collection of piñatas that were made by Sarah Bay Williams and based on a number of "unfortunate events", and the piñatas were on display in the museum until today, when they were ceremoniously smashed apart. The bashing symbolized a catharsis, or a sort of letting go of attachment to the event each piñata was connected to.
Given how we're looking at digital storytelling in #ETMOOC, I wanted to share this with the class. Though it's not technically "digital" storytelling, I enjoyed this approach to telling a story and engaging with it and think that it could lend itself to digital stories in interesting ways. It's given me some ideas to think about, as I continue to develop storytelling as a tool, including the potential value of cartharsis in a story (especially for Classical myth!).
Given how we're looking at digital storytelling in #ETMOOC, I wanted to share this with the class. Though it's not technically "digital" storytelling, I enjoyed this approach to telling a story and engaging with it and think that it could lend itself to digital stories in interesting ways. It's given me some ideas to think about, as I continue to develop storytelling as a tool, including the potential value of cartharsis in a story (especially for Classical myth!).
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