Geo-located map apps are fun to make and fun for the audience to engage with. These storytelling tools have huge potential when the story is map-based. StoryMap can implement multimedia, text and interactivity along with location relevance. StoryMapJS is the brainchild of Northerwestern Univeristy Knight Lab and is a digital storyteller's dream. To demonstrate it's…
Continue reading ➞ Free Storytelling Tool Demonstrates Game of Thrones Map
Taken in the San Francisco Bay area over a period of a few years by talented man Simon Christen, these exquisite time lapse films track the earth on its diurnal and nocturnal turnings, normally so ineffable and unknowable because they occur so slowly. It's a macrocosm and a microcosm of pure thriving, living magic. It's…
Continue reading ➞ Living With Sonder: Life Above the Clouds
Be transported into a different reality. With these floating, untethered words and music that I’ve curated or stumbled upon accidentally. They are evocative and inspire deep escapism and magical voyages into the history of the world. Enjoy! There will be more Historic Jukebox to come! Instructions 1. Play Video. 2. Read Text. 3. Daydream. …
Continue reading ➞ Historic Jukebox: Pink Floyd & Haldor Laxness’ The Clock at Brekkukot
Now I can't take credit for this one, I found it here on Babbel, but it was just so so so amazing that I needed to share it with all of you bookworms. I've written about Vikings before and I also love that Vikings drama series on History, soon be coming into its third season,…
Continue reading ➞ How Old Norse Became English: A Viking Epic
This is so amazing. Thanks Art Lark for bringing this to my attention. I love Winnie the Pooh and to know that Michael Fassbender was in a movie about the inception of Winnie is a wonderful discovery. Who would want more from a movie experience than the incredibly visually appealing Michael Fassbender and also the…
http://wp.me/p41CQf-36w Content is in high demand, but how do you ensure you get the best quality on-brand content?
A key take-away at this year's Digital Cream in Sydney was about content. It's the buzzword of the past few years in digital marketing circles. The hunger for content pervades every business and it outpaces agencies' ability to create it. Key Take-away: The Challenge of Sourcing Commercial Content In order to meet demand for content, many…
Continue reading ➞ Content Is Big Business, The Challenge Is Knowing Who Can Create It
A playlist can have magical import upon your creative output. Here's some music styles that have helped me for writing, creating, sorting and doing the more mundane but necessary tasks in daily life. A few tips on selection 1. Seek out music that's unobtrusive and doesn't command all of your attention. It should overall be…
Continue reading ➞ How to find the right music for coding, writing or any other absorbing activity
A cheap shot? Maybe. Provocative? Without a doubt. Here's what somebody on the internet photoshopped into a image of Holocaust survivors. This comes from the deepest part of the internet, via 4CHAN directly to you. What are your thoughts? Now whether or not the curator of this image intended it to have a feminist reading, it's…
Continue reading ➞ This Photoshopped Image Is Red Hot Provocative and Powerful
You're rapidly running out of ideas for your blog and/or clients. Here are a couple of kooky fabulous ways to inject some juice back into your writing. Although bearing in mind that you may end up writing about strange and quirky factoids like I do! There's an art to thinking up new ideas for your…
Continue reading ➞ Five Wacky Content Writing and Ideation Tools That You Should Know About
Our digital world is swarming with recently made-up words like YOLO and SWAG, plus misappropriated words like 'awesome' to mean pretty much everything. This demands that literary types everywhere come out of the woodwork in protest! Here are some luscious and fulsome words to sprinkle liberally into your communications. Alternately you could wield these words as Gandalf would…
Continue reading ➞ 50 Beautiful Words To Sprinkle Into Communications
Street protests demanding urgent action on climate change have galvanised hundreds of thousands of people all over the world into action in 2,000 locations worldwide.In NYC, the People's Climate Change March took place on the streets ahead of the UN climate change summit in New York. Image Source Image Source In Manhattan, organisers that around…
Continue reading ➞ The Earth Only Lives Once: Climate Change Protests Happening Right Now
There's no cut and dry answer to this question. Infact, typing 'What makes a GIF into something great' into Google gives almost no search results, only instructional guides about how to make GIFs. We've already discussed Scorpion Daggers' great work. This has led me to writing something on what constitutes a great GIF. They visibly skip:…
Web Design and Print Design have historically become uncomfortable bed fellows. Although they jostle and seem at odds with one another, the two are inextricably connected. Master both of them and your business has the world as its proverbial oyster. So here are some juicy tid-bits to sink your teeth into. Join us as we…
Continue reading ➞ Design Elements for Print and Web: A Newbie’s Guide Part 1
This is just perfect for armchair travelers and people with incurable wanderlust. Take a step through this virtual door and be transported to some of the most curious, random and exotic locations in the world, all courtesy of Google Maps/ Google Earth. What a clever idea by this British door replacement company. Surely the marketing…
In about a week's time Scotland's people will be making a momentous decision for the country's future. The decision to cleave away from their historic neighbours and become an independent country, or to stay and be a part of Britain. There have been fiery debates between Tory minister Alaisdair Darling and First Minister Alex Salmond.…
Continue reading ➞ Scotland’s Momentous Decision on September 18th
In 1998, archaeologists in Andong City, South Korea to their amazement discovered the tomb of Eung-tae a man who lived in the 16th century. The mummified remains were a rare find for the time. Eung-tae was unusually tall, even by today's standards. He was 5''9 and well built with skin and beard still intact. "The…
Continue reading ➞ To Won’s Father: An Ancient Love Letter Rediscovered
Mono Sodium Glutamate was a buzz word from the 80's and 90's. It seemed that everyone had a story to tell about the after-effects of this flavour enhancing food additive. MSG used to be a dirty word, but it seems that in the past decade, the tide of scientific evidence has turned the other way.…
Continue reading ➞ MSG: What Australian and New Zealand Consumers Should Know
Last week I looked at how to console yourself when a pitch gets rejected by an editor. This week, I present the salve and solution. There are five components of a good pitch that will turn rejections into successes. 1. The Hook 2. The Pitch 3. The Body 4. The Credentials 5. The Close The Hook…
Continue reading ➞ Pitching Part 2: Five Components of An Irresistible Pitch
When Ferdinand Magellan discovered through exploration that the world was spherical not flat in the middle ages, it was considered laughable at the time. Although (surprise, surprise) humans regularly circumnavigate the globe without falling off the edge into a dark abyss. So here's another idea, albeit a slightly less revolutionary one – that the digital…
Continue reading ➞ Flat Digital Design: The Present and Future
