Class Procedures and Reminders
Project Stack. I've replied to all the projects in the stack turned in before 9PM on Sunday, and I'll finish up the Sunday assignments today and then move on to the projects from Monday. You can always check the stack to make sure I received your form.
Look for stories everywhere. Here's a tip: you can find storytelling ideas wherever you look! Everyday household objects, things you see walking around campus, foods you eat, snatches of other people's conversations: there are story ideas lurking everywhere, and the more you use your imagination to dream up stories, the easier it will be to write stories for this class every week. So, keep an eye and ear open for stories around you, and see what you find!
Blog stream. I always enjoy seeing the art that people include in their posts, and I noticed this amazing Ramayana panel in Rishikaa's reading notes post. Then I followed the link to the British Museum and found a close-up view that shows Ravana in his flying chariot... and everybody in Indian Epics knows about Ravana and that flying chariot now! Details at the British Museum.
For those of you who are writing stories today, here's something from Debbie Ridpath-Ohi: it's the endless up-and-down of writing. :-)
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Twitter stream. I'm sure everybody has seen the cat-lawyer video, so I wanted to share Legonium's Latin version: Feles non sum; I am not a cat.
I thought this was a brilliant cartoon from Liniers: Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. That's not exactly what Einstein said, but it is pretty close; here's what Einstein said: Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. (larger view)
Some of you in Indian Epics class have been looking at the Amar Chitra Katha comic books on Reserve in Bizzell; here's a quote from Amar Chitra Katha founder, Anant Pai, known in India as Uncle Pai:
And here's another tweet from Amar Chitra Katha about the storytelling tradition of the Indian Puranas: What Are The Puranas?
And if you're feeling stuck with writing, or with anything else, here's some advice from Grant Snider:
From Open Culture, I learned about this very cool video: The Animation That Changed Cinema.
And for another video, here's a lovely one from Maati Baani: Jao Priya.
February 11: Frank Herbert. Today marks the anniversary of the death of the science fiction writer Frank Herbert in 1986 (he was born in 1920). His novel, Dune, published in 1965, is one of the most popular science fiction novels ever written. Below is a cover for a paperback edition of Dune, showing one of the mighty sandworms.
And here's an interview with Frank Hebert in 1982, a few years before his death:
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