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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags firstperson & culture

November 2006

group hug // anonymous online confessions

by 9 others
like postsecrets but in prose; "type a note about a fault of your own, something you did or thought about and are not proud of"; filters out obvious lies, overtly vulgar, identifying specific others.

October 2006

Jeffrey Ruoff: Publications

major writer on visual ethnography has many of his essays online

I Photograph to Remember

Pedro Meyer's photoessay about his father's last days; a classic

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artist and teacher's web site; under "digital storytelling" are wonderful quicktime movies, often from South America or in Latino USA, with subtitles; an exemplar of documentaries on the Internet

TDR: "'You are here': the DNA of Performance"

essay by Diana Taylor about how traumatic events may be represented and possibly transmitted to those who did not experience them

Kate Bornstein's Blog for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws: The Voice Lesson

"Kate Bornstein in a slide show version of "The Voice Lesson," a trans-positive, feminist, funny look at how women are expected to talk." Makes good use of audio as unique medium for exposition of this content. Example of how audio slide show works.

September 2006

One sentence that relates something true

good for autobiographers, bloggers, screenwriters--folks who want to write pithy impactful accounts of their and others experiences.

One Sentence - True stories, told in one sentence.

Like one of my favorite sites, postsecrets, this has a kind of documentary wit that resides in brevity and style.

July 2006

Pew Internet - Bloggers Report, July 19 '06

Most bloggers are diarists and do not consider themselves reporting on news, politics, etc.; pdf file of complete report available here

BBC Cumbria - Digital Lives

important video autobiography project for UK television

MemoryMiner - Digital Storytelling Software - Software

"Photos as individual frames in an endless story board, allowing sound, video, documents and URLs added to each frame. "

Local Projects

designers of the installations for many important storytelling projects, most notably the StoryCorps booth; "an award-winning design studio that seeks to tell stories in public spaces, museums, and over the internet, often simultaneously."

Home-Maker // Jeanie Finlay

The housebound talk about artefacts collected over a lifetime that represent memories. The panoramic format echoes their enclosed worlds.

anecdotal city

interviews with Cardiff residents about memories of life there

StoryCorps - Interview Your Loved Ones

Go with a friend to a storybooth and have her interview so you can tell your story. On of the most important audio autobiography projects.

Audio documentary by Chuck Kleinhans

much radio documentary and many audio archives focus on first person narration

MemoryArchive - MemoryArchive

a free way to store your memories; many witness accounts of important historical moments

June 2006